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  • Odd ObservationsSouthern Arizona
    By Sam Lowe
    March 25, 2016
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    Yuma’s Bridge to Nowhere

    YUMA – The McPhaul Swinging Bridge is located about 18 miles north of Yuma on Highway 85. It was constructed by Yuma County and the state of Arizona in 1929 to allow travelers driving between Yuma and Quartzsite to cross the Gila River.
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  • Dose of HistorySouthern Arizona
    By Sam Lowe
    February 26, 2016
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    That Was One Big Sarah With a Dynamic Past

    YUMA – Sarah Bowman was a large woman. So large that she was nicknamed “the Great Western,” after a huge ocean-going steamship known throughout the country. She was a camp follower who hooked up with, and married, several soldiers so she could travel with the Army. After her first marriage, she became the first prostitute ...
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  • Food & Dining
    By Sam Lowe
    February 1, 2015
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    No Lettuce Cooking at Yuma Lettuce Days

    YUMA -- Chef Hosea Rosenberg of Boulder, Colo., will be the headline chef for Yuma Lettuce Days, scheduled Feb. 28-March 1, 2015 at the University of Arizona's Yuma Agricultural Center. Naturally, that poses the question: Is he really going to cook lettuce?
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  • Tucson Mural
    ArtSouthern Arizona
    By Andrea Aker
    January 28, 2013
    2767
    2

    11 Quirky Artistic Endeavors in Southern Arizona

    Southern Arizona has a rich culture and some very talented artists. Here are some of our favorite sculptures, murals and other artistic endeavors.
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  • Arizona State Map
    Dose of HistorySouthern Arizona
    By Andrea Aker
    January 3, 2013
    5047
    4

    How the Arizona/Mexico Border Came to Be

    In 1848, at the end of the Mexican War, Mexico gave up a huge hunk of territory including parts of what are now New Mexico, Arizona, California, Colorado, Utah and Nevada, plus its claim to Texas.The southern border of Arizona at the time was the Gila River.
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  • Cut out of Mayor Krieger
    Small Town SceneSouthern ArizonaWeather Talk
    By Sam Lowe
    August 7, 2012
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    Sunny Days Mean No Free Food in Yuma

    YUMA -- Down here, they're calling it a "wrap." But it's not the kind you eat. The city successfully has wrapped up a yearlong celebration of Arizona's 100th birthday by promising free food on every day the sun didn't shine between August 1, 2011, and July 31, 2012. And they made it without giving away ...
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  • Dose of HistorySouthern Arizona
    By Sam Lowe
    July 30, 2012
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    Yuma High School’s “Criminal” Past and Present

    YUMA -- The Yuma Territorial Prison was a key player in the drama of the Old West. For 33 years, it served as a place of incarceration, and some of those who stayed within its walls were indeed desperate men and women with few redeeming qualities. But the prison was closed in 1909 and the ...
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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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  • Dose of HistorySouthern Arizona
    By Sam Lowe
    February 20, 2012
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    Joe Boot: An Unsung Desperado from Old Arizona

    If Joe Boot had never met Pearl Hart, he might have lived an uneventful life as a miner and businessman. But they did meet, and they did plan a stagecoach robbery. They got caught, and the capture catapulted Pearl Hart into infamy but left Joe Boot totally ignored in the hulabaloo that followed.
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  • ArtNatural SurroundingsSmall Town SceneSouthern ArizonaWeather Talk
    By Sam Lowe
    September 14, 2011
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    Religious Oddities Damaged by the Elements

    Two Arizona sites listed as oddities have fallen victim to wind, rain and fire. The little church that Loren Pratt built to honor his late wife - the Mini Taj - was severely damaged by an Arizona thunderstorm. It stood in the open fields at Dome and welcomed visitors and curious passersby since 1996, but succumbed ...
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