The first recorded Christmas in Northern Arizona north of the Gila River took place in 1853 at the foot of the snowy San Francisco Peaks where the city of Flagstaff is today. And, it was a wild and wooly affair.
The celebrants were members of the Army Corps of Topographical Engineers, their military escorts and helpers who were at the time, mapping a future transcortical highway and rail
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