Woodrow Wilson,
Proclamation 1318: Setting aside the Walnut Canyon National Monument…
(1915)
“ A PROCLAMATION Walnut Canyon National Monument, Ariz. Preamable. WHEREAS, certain prehistoric ruins of ancient cliff dwellings situated upon public lands of the United States, and located in what is commonly known as Walnut Canyon, about eight miles southeast of the city of Flagstaff, Arizona, are of great ethnologic, scientific, and educational interest, and it appears that the public interests would be promoted by reserving these relics of a vanished people, with as much land as may be necessary for the proper protection thereof, as a National Monument ”
