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    By Andrea Aker
    February 7, 2014
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    Featured Artist: Marty Le Messurier

    This month's Featured Artist Marty Le Messurier describes how the Native American culture has influenced her oil painting.
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  • Art
    By Andrea Aker
    February 15, 2013
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    Featured Artist: Pete the Miner

    About 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, sculptor Pete Incardona - aka Pete the Miner - shares his rocky path to becoming a bona fide artist.
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  • Gold Coins
    Dose of History
    By Andrea Aker
    February 5, 2013
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    The Story of J Goldwater & Bros: Commerce on the Colorado River

    "Gold!" The word spread like wildfire. The emotional pitch generated by that single cry sent normally sane men and women scurrying up hundreds of canyons and river beds to wash away nameless mountains—a shovel load at a time—over the riffles of a sluice box.
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  • Dose of HistoryWeather Talk
    By Andrea Aker
    October 27, 2011
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    Old Arizona’s Dick Wick Hall Puts Salome on the Map, Humors Travelers

    Some of the West's most colorful characters ended up in Arizona sooner or later. For some, it was the lure of the boom town bonanzas. Others found it a refuge from the restrictions of more established societies in the East. For DeForest Hall, it was the wide open spaces and the weather. He liked the ...
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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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    By Sam Lowe
    August 6, 2010
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    Wickenburg’s New Permanent Residents

    Seven new residents have moved (or been moved) into Wickenburg and they're permanent in the strictest sense of the word. They stand along the main thoroughfares as reminders of the city's heritage as one of the last vestiges of the Old West. They never move, never blink, never mind posing for tourist cameras. They can't ...
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  • Dose of HistoryNatural Surroundings
    By Sam Lowe
    September 8, 2009
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    Wickenburg’s Botanical Incarcerator

    Right in the middle of downtown Wickenburg, there's an old mesquite tree that folks around town say has been there longer than anyone can remember. Local historians who check into such things say it's more than 200 years old, and claim they have evidence to prove it. They also say it once served as the ...
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