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A colloquial reference to a grazing allotment near Chinle, Arizona, on the Navajo Reservation. Because of Chinle's proximity to Canyon de Chelly, a prominent system of canyons with enough water to support cottonwood stands, which is an anomaly in the red rock country of the Four Corners, many place names around Chinle are associated with cottonwoods.
"Cottonwood flats near Canyon de Chelly" by Fae is licensed under Public Domain.
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Linford, Laurance D.
2001 Tony Hillerman's Navajoland: Hideouts, Haunts, and Havens in the Joe Leaphorn
and Jim Chee Mysteries. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press.
New Mexico Geological Society, and H. L. James
1973 Guidebook of Monument Valley and Vicinity, Arizona and Utah: New Mexico
Geological Society Twenty-Fourth Field Conference, October 4-6, 1973. Socorro: The
Society.