This picture was taken about 1916, the exact location is unknown but looks like Northern Arizona. If it is a river it is possibly the Little Colorado somewhere east of Flagstaff, but it most likely a wash and not a river. The hills are like those east of the Grand Falls. In the lower left corner of the photo you can see a rope that was being used to pull the cars across the river. In another photo, showing the same process there is a large tractor being used to pull the cars, one at a time, across the wash.
Do you think Arizona road builders and drivers learned anything from these early experiences? Have you driven across the Salt River when there is water? The answer is not much. Arizona roads seem to close down for all sorts of reasons, lately for forest fires. I cannot count the times I have been in a long line of cars, waiting for some remote event to happen, usually clearing a traffic accident, but the experience is essentially the same and has been for the last hundred years or so.
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