This book describes the prehistory and Native American peoples of the Patayan country, and area of western Arizona that can also be called the Kingman region in reference to its central town. If one were to draw a box around this portion of west central Arizona, it corners clockwise from the northwest would be the lower Grand Canyon, an unparalleled natural wonder; the town of Prescott, Victorian homes nestled in the piney woods of the first territorial capital; Lake Havasu along the Colorado River, home of the imported London Bridge; and Hoover Dam, a wonder of engineering.