AZ Speaks Highlight: Erik Berg
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Rock Hounds and River Rats at the Arizona Museum of Natural History in Mesa on May 12th Erik Berg is an award-winning historian and writer with a special interest in […]
Father Kino: Journey to Discovery
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Through his many diaries and letters it is obvious that Father Kino was more than a missionary who worked among the Native Americans. While his name is often associated with […]
How Wild Was It? Crime and Justice in Arizona Territory
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Arizona’s territorial era has the reputation of being a violent and crime-ridden place with ineffective criminal justice institutions. This presentation provides an overview of crime and justice in Arizona Territory. […]
Desperado Trails: Outlaws on the Arizona Frontier
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Hang on to your hats as you ride the trails beside some of Arizona’s most wicked renegades during a time when massacres, mayhem and mischief ran rampant throughout Arizona Territory. […]
Fascinating Florence, AZ: Not Just a Prison Town
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Florence began as a small rural desert town. In 1875 a major silver strike and designation as Pinal County seat changed the character of the town. Despite the past tales […]
Along Old Route 66
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This presentation is based on segments from two television documentaries that were produced in Arizona and broadcast on public television stations and cable networks throughout the United States. Longtime residents […]
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles (and Stage Coaches and Boats, too): Women Travel in Arizona
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Arizona has some of the most stunning scenery in the world, but until recently, traveling over this terrain was quite an adventure. Meet women like army wife Martha Summerhayes, suffrage […]
Eloy’s Gun and Cotton Stories: Romanticizing the Real
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This presentation focuses on the lively and lawless days of Eloy, Arizona. Eloy might have had a reputation that rivaled that of Tombstone, with its killings, graft, good time houses, […]
Silver Images on Glass Plates: Early Photography in Arizona, 1850-1920
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Photographs have helped shape both historical and contemporary public perception of Arizona and the West. This program presents a chronological history and social development of photography in Territorial Arizona. Included […]
Native in a Strange Land: The Life of Mike Burns, Indian Scout and Autobiographer
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Mike Burns lived a long life in two worlds. Born in about 1862 into the Kwevkepaya (Yavapai) people, he was taken prisoner by U.S. soldiers after his family was massacred […]