This book is comprised of events, travels, and journal entries of the author Geroge Wharton James to Arizona and New Mexico. The publisher Flannigan company, then used these works to create a fictionalized narrative that a group of young boys and girls from Chicago schools were chosen to make this journey to appeal to the intermediate and upper grades of school kids. The Publisher thought the new narrative would add charm and interest to the book and make it more readable. This was to the objection of the author. Photos throughout are of Indians of the region, traditions, ceremonies, and locations in the Arizona and New Mexico region around the 1900's