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Dedication of St. Mary’s
In the photo above, Bishop Granjon of Tucson and most of his clergy plus a crowd of parishioners and politicians are gathered on the balcony under gray skies, probably following...
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The Constitutional Convention
In the second row near the center is the unmistakable hulk and balding pate of George W.P. Hunt, the convention president and the man who would become the state’s first...
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Trinidad Swilling
Trinidad Escalantes Swilling Shumaker was born in Hermosillo, Sonora, of Spanish parents. Her father, a sea captain from Cadiz named Ignatius Escalantes, and his wife, Petra Mejia, were shipwrecked off...
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Pipe Springs
The Blevins Killing
Wyatt Earp
Although millions of words have been written about Wyatt Earp, precious little is known about the man behind the myth. Tombstone aficionados will argue endlessly about which side of the...
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Jerome in the ’20s
Hanging precariously on the side of Mingus Mountain in the Black Hills, Jerome, today, is such a jumble of architectural peculiarities that it is unlike any other town in Arizona....
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Normal Headquarters
Luisa Ronstadt Espinel
This is Tucson pop star Linda Ronstadt’s great aunt in a publicity photo taken in the 1920s. Her stage name was Luisa Espinel. She was a national entertainer—a contralto who...
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Native American farmers deserve to be fully represented on state agriculture board
We typically celebrate Columbus Day with clichéd truisms: An adventurous European Christian explorer “discovered” a New World filled with a “strange people,” gold and silver, pungent spices and marvelous crops,...
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Tourist Overlook, Grand Canyon
Mary Colter was an employee of Santa Fe railway concessionaire Fred Harvey, whose Fred Harvey cars took visitors on driving tours along the canyon rim. She had previously designed Hermit’s...
