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  • Dose of History
    By Andrea Aker
    September 24, 2012
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    The Story of Charles Poston: The “Father of Arizona”

    During the opening of new lands in the Oklahoma Territory in the early 1900s, those who entered legally— starting at the sound of the land agent's gunshot—were called Boomers. However, there were those who sneaked in early and staked out claims. These were called Sooners. Arizona, too, had a few Sooners. One of these was ...
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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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  • Odd ObservationsSouthern ArizonaValley of the Sun
    By Sam Lowe
    June 10, 2012
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    Big Chicks Stand Guard at Arizona Restaurants

    Arizona seems to attract giant roosters the way Hollywood attracts killer frogs and giant spiders. Nobody's sure why they flock here, but the big bad-boy chickens have clucked their way into such high profile positions as signage for restaurants, roadside attractions and front yard decor.
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  • Arizona's First Printing Press in Tubac, Tubac Presidio Museum
    CultureDose of HistorySouthern Arizona
    By Andrea Aker
    October 3, 2011
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    The Story of Arizona’s First Newspaper: The “Arizonian”

    TUBAC - More than 150 years ago – five decades before statehood – Arizona’s first newspaper hit the printing press in Tubac. At the time, Tubac was among the territory’s more active presidios with 400 residents. The Gadsden Purchase had just been ratified five years earlier...
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  • Dose of HistoryOdd ObservationsSouthern Arizona
    By Sam Lowe
    September 8, 2010
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    Does Tumacacori Hold Buried Treasure?

    According to those who search for buried treasure in Arizona, there's a fortune hidden beneath the floors of Tumacacori, the old mission near Tubac. The legends say that the church was once not only a place of worship, but also a mill and smelter for a gold and silver mining operation run by Jesuit missionaries ...
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