Dentro del Museo Histórico de Arizona, al lado del campus de la Universidad de Arizona, se exhibe en vidrio una revolver Colt .45 color crema que los oficiales del museo dicen que le pertenecía a la leyenda de Tombstone, Wyatt Earp. No tan rápido, dicen unos coleccionistas de armas y el historiador preeminente de la…
Inside the Arizona History Museum beside the University of Arizona campus, held in a glass display, is a cream handled Colt .45 revolver that museum officials say once belonged to Tombstone legend Wyatt Earp. Not so fast, say some gun collectors and the pre-eminent historian of Tombstone history. Laraine Daly Jones, collections manager at the…
Robin Capin Rivera-Ashford knows how hard it was to grow up Jewish in the Grand Canyon State. “In my generation, I may have been the only one who had a bat mitzvah,” says Rivera-Ashford. She grew up in Nogales, a town originally named Isaacson after a Jewish immigrant who discovered the settlement in 1880. She…
There was no Selma march. No historical speech from Martin Luther King Jr. No rallies that drew national attention. But deep in Arizona’s past is a litany of stories about the roles African Americans played in the state’s history. With February being recognized as Black History Month, it is important to take time to recognize stories of great…
