Arizona republican., 1920-11-18
ROAMED ARIZONA IN.
 EARLY DAYS, DR. MUNK .IS VISITING IN CITY

Plodding with the Franciscan mis- sionaries, Juan de la Asuncion and Marco de Niza, through the Arizona deserts nearly 300 years ago, watching the strange dances of the Yuma In dians. following the Spanish soldiery in their excusions from Sonora and California, peering into the remains of a forgotten civilization in the cliff dwellings of the north, sketching the thousand colors lin1ned on the precipi tous walls of the Grand Canyon, sit ting around the sacred camp fires of the Moki tribe and then following the stealthy Apache Tn the fastnesses of the south, journeying with the silver miners to Tombstone and helping to mould the adobe Tricks for the first houses in Tucson and Phoenix, five men met in the office of the state historian at the capitol building yesterday and linked the present with the past in a panorama of history that stretched from the eastern border of New Mex leo to the shores or the Pacific and from Montana to Chihuahua.
 The center of the group was Dr. P. A. Munk. historian. horticulturist and book collector, whose collection of Arizona includes more than 15,000 volumes and who has been an authority upon the southwestern United States for thirty years. With him were Col. James H. McClintock, state historian, whose History of Arizona ranks with the best state histories IT the land; Waldo Emerson Twitchell, the greatest living authority on New Mexico; Emry Copta, sculptor and authority on the Moki and Navajo Indians; end Walter Ingalls,, son of Adjt. Gen. Walter s. Ingalls,.
 This is one of Dr. Munk's regular excursions to Arizona. Since 1884 he has made trips into Arizona from Cali fornia every year, collecting data of the early history of the state. talking with it's pioneers, examining its nat ural wonders, and building up his knowledge of this part of the world until today 1t Is said to excel that of any other citizen of the southwest. Meeting with Twitchell, Copta, Me Clintock and Ingalls,. he Sent into ex- ecutive session with them yesterday in a conversation that began early in the afternoon and ended last evening at Colonel McClintock's long after men who have not so much to talk about were fast asleep.
 Dr. Munk's personal story alone is an interesting one. Born in Ohio in 1S47, he lived also for some time in Missouri and Kansas. In 1884 he and his brother U 1t~ developed a largo ranch near Wilcox Cochise county. Dr. Munk continued on to California, where he resumed the practice of medicine begun in the east but with his love of Arizona unabated Every year found him back here gath ering material for his books, looking | for old volumes on the southwest anc increasing his general stock of infor- nation In 1901 he began an intensive study of the northern part of the state | including the Grand Canyon, the north ern Indians, the Terrified Forest and the cliff dwellings. though he never | lost his interest in the state as whole It was impossible for a man to spend his life in this manner without wanting othersto know of lis discoveries and to enjoy the things that have pleased him. Tn 1900 he published his "Ari- zona Bibliography,' which was repub- lished in 1908 and 1914. In 1905 he completed Arizona Sketches" and fl 1916 he published volume Of musica compositions, which included work
 which he had prepared in his younl manhood His latest book, "Southwes | Sketches" is just off the press and tn
 first volumes are now on their wa,
 He has always retained his interes in his range in Cochise county and ha
 supplemented this by the establishment
 of an unique garden at Compton, Cal
 Here he has devoted himself to culti
 vating the floral ard arboreal life O
 the eastern states, and especially o
 those states in which he lived as boy
 thus bringing side by side the flora o
 the east and of California In thi
 garden he has also devoted space to tn
 cultivation of what he calls his ma
 teria medica garden" which is~give over to hundreds ot varieties of medici nal plants and herbs gathered from d parts of the world.
 During all the time that Dr. Nun has been in the west his library of Ari