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  • Culture
    By Andrea Aker
    December 1, 2012
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    Gail Gardner: Arizona’s “Poet Lariat”

    On a cool summer afternoon during the year of our Bicentennial, a large crowd gathered in Payson for the Old Time Country Music Festival held each summer in that mountain community, nestled at the foot of the Arizona's Mogollon Rim. A parade of musicians, ranging from country rock to bluegrass to old-time fiddlers entertained the ...
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  • Buckey O'Neill
    Dose of History
    By Andrea Aker
    July 13, 2012
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    The Story of Buckey O’Neill: Arizona’s Happy Warrior

    Prescott is one of Arizona's most historically-conscious communities. Public-spirited citizens have worked long and hard to keep the rich cultural heritage alive. Standing in front of the old Yavapai County Courthouse is a bronze statue of a soldier on a spirited horse. This monument honors a group of young Arizonans who gallantly served their country ...
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  • Arizona's First Printing Press in Tubac, Tubac Presidio Museum
    CultureDose of History
    By Andrea Aker
    June 28, 2012
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    Those Bombastic Frontier Gazettes and Their Irrepressible Fighting Editors!

    Following that magnetic trail west and hot on the harbingering heels of fur trappers, prospectors, cowboys, merchants, politicians and preachers, were frontier fourth estaters armed with crude little hand presses and big-time dreams.
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  • Art
    By Andrea Aker
    April 20, 2012
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    Featured Artist: Cheryle Hoover Davis

    Once a month, Arizona Oddities features a Q&A with a talented Arizona artist who is influenced by our state’s people, places and history. This month, Cheryle hoover Davis shares her deep appreciation for the Arizona landscape and the inspiration behind her ceramic collection.
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  • Cowboy
    ArtNorthern Arizona
    By Andrea Aker
    October 9, 2011
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    Featured Arizona Artist: Megan Dean

    Once a month, Arizona Oddities is now featuring a Q&A with a talented Arizona artist who is influenced by our state's people, places and history. This month, Megan Dean shares her diverse array of work, latest inspirations and a soft spot for two Old West icons.
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  • ArtDose of History
    By Sam Lowe
    September 8, 2011
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    Sharlot Hall All Gussied Up in Copper

    PRESCOTT -- Copper has been an important element in Arizona's history for more than a century, but it usually goes into the creation of such utilitarian items as tubing, electrical wiring and computer parts. However, it took a different form in 1923, when Sharlot Hall went to Washington, D.C., wearing a copper dress. Hall, a longtime Arizona ...
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  • CultureDose of HistoryNorthern ArizonaSmall Town Scene
    By Andrea Aker
    April 25, 2011
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    The Story of Frank Murphy’s Impossible Railroad

    At the peak of its prosperity, the fabled Bradshaw Moun­tains of central Arizona produced a king's ransom in gold and silver. Towns and mines with picturesquely whimsical names like Bueno, Turkey Creek, Tiger, Tip Top, Oro Belle and Big Bug were peopled with boisterous devil-may-care miners aptly described as unmarried, unchurched and unwashed. Each community ...
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  • Dose of HistoryNorthern ArizonaSmall Town Scene
    By Andrea Aker
    March 9, 2011
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    Pauline Weaver: The Story of Prescott’s First Citizen

    When old Joe Walker, a big, strapping, ex-mountain man, and his party of prospectors arrived at Granite Creek in the Spring of 1863, another old mountain man, Pauline Weaver, was already camped there. The area where the future territorial capital city of Prescott would be founded was the stomping grounds of the Yavapai and Tonto ...
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  • Dose of History
    By Andrea Aker
    January 9, 2011
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    Origin of Old Arizona’s Railways

    The Southern Pacific railroad stretched its steel ribbons across Arizona in the late 1870s, reaching Tucson in March, 1880. The rail station nearest Phoenix was 35 miles to the south at Maricopa. From the beginning, local citizens began clamoring for a railroad. Despite the fact that thousands of miles of track were being laid across ...
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  • Northern ArizonaOnly in Arizona
    By Sam Lowe
    December 1, 2010
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    Mini-Planes in Prescott Featured in Guinness Book of World Records

    PRESCOTT -- The John W. Kalusa Miniature Aircraft Collection is a wonderful assortment of 5,829 model aircraft, all done to an exact scale of one-eighteenth of an inch to one foot. Each model is delicately painted, right down to the detailed markings characteristic of the actual aircraft. This required a steady hand because many of ...
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