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The Santa figure the public came to know and love was born, in part, in Tucson.
Tucson Weekly |
Jane Eppinga |
11-29-2012 |
History
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After 75 Years, the Mystery of Young Nature Writer Everett Ruess Has Likely Been Solvednew
Everett was last seen by a sheepherder near Escalante, Utah, on Nov. 19, 1934. Four months later, his burros were found southeast of Escalante in Davis Gulch, and in a nearby cave, where the wanderer made his last camp, searchers found his footprints and discarded food cans. But Everett himself had vanished. He was 20.
Tucson Weekly |
Leo W. Banks |
08-12-2009 |
History
The Strange Saga of Geronimo's Skullnew
Out there somewhere, lost for 146 years, there really is the head of a great Apache leader, taken in the most violent and ignominious means imaginable. With the exception of his family and a few historians, no one knows a thing about him.
Tucson Weekly |
Leo W. Banks |
06-11-2009 |
History
The Irish Orphan Abductionnew
A tale of race, religion and lawlessness in the turn-of-the-century Southwest.
Tucson Weekly |
Margaret Regan |
03-14-2007 |
History
Tags: history
A New Billy the Kid?new
The mad search for the bones of an American outlaw icon has come to Arizona.
Tucson Weekly |
Leo W. Banks |
04-12-2006 |
History
Tags: history
Fighting Under a Green Bannernew
History has nearly forgotten the story of the San Patricios, a battalion of U.S. Army deserters -- many of them Irish -- who fought for Mexico against the United States.
Tucson Weekly |
Margaret Regan |
03-17-2005 |
History
