Painted Desert Inn not currently available at the inn. Hopi artist Fred Kabotie was engaged by Colter to paint the Inn's murals in 1947–48. Colter knew Kabotie from a previous collaboration at the Fred Harvey Hopi House in Grand Canyon National Park. Kabotie's work depicts aspects of Hopi life, including a journey through the Painted Desert to collect salt. Painted Desert Inn Painted Desert Inn is a lodge complex in Petrified Forest National Park, in Navajo County, eastern Arizona. It is located off of Interstate 40 and historic U.S. Route 66, overlooking the Painted Desert. The inn's lodge building and adobe guest cabins−"casitas"
USS U. S. Grant (AP-29) USS U. S. Grant (AP-29) USS "U. S. Grant" (AP-29) was a transport ship that saw service with the United States Navy in World War II. Originally a German ocean liner named Konig Wilhelm II, she was seized by the United States during the First World War and renamed "USS Madawaska" (ID-3011) in 1917 before being renamed USS "U. S. Grant" (AP-29) in 1922. "Konig Wilhelm II" was a steel-hulled screw steamer launched on 20 July 1907 at Stettin, Germany, by Vulcan Aktiengesellschaft. Built for the transatlantic passenger trade, "Konig Wilhelm II" operated between Hamburg, Germany, and Buenos Aires, Argentina,