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Set in Stone but Not in Meaning: Southwestern Indian Rock Art (Benson)

Cochise College Benson Campus 1025 State Route 90, Benson, United States

Ancient Indian pictographs (rock paintings) and petroglyphs (symbols carved or pecked on rocks) are claimed by some to be forms of writing for which meanings are known. However, are such claims supported by archaeology or by Native Americans themselves? Mr. Dart illustrates southwestern petroglyphs and pictographs, and discusses how even the same rock art symbol […]

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Arizona Place Names: Our Map and How It Got That Way – Benson

Cochise College Benson Campus 1025 State Route 90, Benson, United States

Place names are like fossil poetry. They afford a kind of folk history, a snapshot in time that enables us to read in them a record of important events, and reconstruct something of the members of a culture at the time they assigned names to the places they saw. The United States has over 3.5 […]

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Riding with the Duke: John Wayne in Arizona – Benson

Cochise College Benson Campus 1025 State Route 90, Benson, United States

John Wayne was born in Iowa and lived for most of his adult life in California. Yet, he spent many years exploring, living, and investing in Arizona, where he produced his own films, raised cattle, operated a game ranch, and was seemingly everywhere at once. Wayne remains an iconic presence in American popular culture. In […]

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Pens & Paintbrushes: The Legacies of Early Arizona Women in the Arts

Cochise College Benson Campus 1025 State Route 90, Benson, United States

This PowerPoint program explores the lives of 5 artists whose talents personify the beauty of the early western frontier. Hopi potter Nampeyo shaped clay vessels with an intricacy seldom duplicated today. Writer Sharlot Hall described images of Arizona’s past and preserved our history. Author Martha Summerhayes wrote of her adventures following her husband from one […]

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Chiricahua National Monument: One Landscape Steeped in Many Arizona Histories

Cochise College Benson Campus 1025 State Route 90, Benson, United States

Chiricahua National Monument in SE Arizona has never been known as a “Crown Jewel” in the Park System. Yet it is rich in natural and historical resources — an onion deep with cultural layers intimately connected to and dependent upon phantasmagorical rock formations and a small, well-watered valley. This cultural landscape contains stories of pre-contact […]

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Saving the Great American West:  The Story of George Bird Grinnell

Cochise College Benson Campus 1025 State Route 90, Benson, United States

The great West that George Bird Grinnell first encountered in 1870 as a 21-year-old man was shortly to disappear before his eyes.  Nobody was quicker to sense the desecration or was more eloquent in crusading against the poachers, the hide-hunters, and the disengaged U.S. Congress than George Bird Grinnell, the “Father of American Conservation.”  Grinnell […]

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