Beautiful Mountain

Beautiful Mountain

Infobox Mountain
Name = Beautiful Mountain
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Elevation = convert|9388|ft|m|0|lk=on
Location = New Mexico, USA
Prominence = convert|1508|ft|m|0|lk=on
Coordinates = coord|36|28|N|109|0|W|type:mountain_region:US
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Beautiful Mountain (Navajo: Dzik'i Hózhóonii) is a mountain located on Navajo land in San Juan County, New Mexico, and is part of the Chuska mountain range.

Legend

Navajo legend includes "Beautiful Mountain" as the feet of a large mythic male figure, with the Chuska Mountains comprising the body, Chuska Peak as the head and the Carrizo Mountains as the legs. Shiprock is said to be either a medicine pouch or a bow carried by the figure. Laurance D. Linford, "Navajo Places: history, legend, landscape", University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City, 2000, ISBN 0-87840-623-2, p. 264-265.]

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External links

*cite web | url = http://www.peakbagger.com/peak.aspx?pid=3929 | title = Beautiful Mountain, New Mexico
publisher = peakbagger.com | accessdate = 2008-08-07


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