| An Arizona Chronology: Statehood, 1913-1936 Volume 2 Contributor(s): Martin, Douglas D. (Author), Paylore, Patricia G. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0816535345 ISBN-13: 9780816535347 Publisher: University of Arizona Press OUR PRICE: $18.95 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - Southwest (az, Nm, Ok, Tx) - History | United States - 20th Century - History | United States - 19th Century |
| Series: Century Collection |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6" W x 8.9" (0.70 lbs) 208 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The lively role of the newspaper in "telling history's story" comes across in An Arizona Chronology, Volume Two, the continued selection by the late veteran journalist, Douglas D. Martin, of reported highlights in Arizona's first two and a half decades as a state. Here were the years in which Arizona's "bad men" virtually dropped out of sight, and the trigger-blast was displaced by the gavel-thumping sound of law and order as a Territory grew up and became a state. The problem of the Apache was no more, and the problem of water began to loom large. Depression and prohibition were the counter-themes. And Arizona's three C's--Copper, Cattle, and Cotton--were about to strike for their place in the national limelight. It was a time of conversion. The vital currents of frontier energy were turned into the channels of modern agriculture, finance, and urban growth. As this volume's editor, Patricia Paylore, points out, the transformation reaffirms Douglas Martin's view of Arizona history as the "persistence of the pioneer spirit of the nineteenth century" in terms of "the strength and optimism of a young people determined to take its place in the Union." |