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Show Did You Know... ARIZONA The Pony Express still gallops between Holbrook and Scottsdale. Every winter, during the annual Parada del Sol festival in Scottsdale, the Navajo County Hashknife Sheriff's Posse a group created as a team in 1953 relays bags of mail on horseback, calling itself the Hashknife Pouy Express. Each delivered letter is stamped with a special mark. search-and-resc- ue CALIFORNIA Left My Heart in Yerba but was the name for San that Not today, s, when it was still Francisco prior to the under Spanish rule. The change to San Francisco was made official by the citys first chief magistrate, Washington Bartlett, a relative of a signer of the Declaration of Independence, in 1846. Buena ? mid-1840- DA HO Eagle Island State Park near Eagle ,085) once was a (arm where state inmates worked, but now is home to abundant wildlife. I (pop. 1 1 Among the species thriving in the park are great blue herons, eagles, hawks, turkeys, beavers, muskrats, foxes, and weasels. N EVA DA Sheldon National Wildlife Refuge in the northwestern comer of the state is home to the pronghorn, an animal often mistaken for an g horns antelope. Pronghorn males, with that are shed after mating season, are about 3 feet tall and weigh 100 to 150 pounds. Females are a little smaller. The refuge is named for Charles Sheldon, who wrote about the pronghorn in the 1920s. foot-lon- OREGON Oregons state Capitol building is a topped by statue honoring early settlers. Created by Ulric Ellerhusen, the figure of an Oregon pioneer is cast in bronze, finished in gold leaf, weighs 8.5 tons, and is 23 feet tall. Capitol visitors can climb 121 steps from the fourth floor of the building to reach the statue. UTAH Wellsville (pop. 2,728) got its start when Mormon leader Brigham Young directed Peter Maughan to begin a settlement in the Cache Maughan immiValley in 1850. The English-bograted to the United States in 1841 at the urging of Young, who had been on a mission trip to England. Before being named Wellsville, the town m was called Maughans Fort. WASHINGTON Chocoholics visiting Boehms Candies in Issaquah (pop. 1 1,212) not Swiss only can see how the famous treats are made but can take in the Edelweiss Chalet, which contains paintings, statues, and a Swiss chapel. replica of a hand-dipp- 12th-centu- ry |