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Building Your Western Library: Jim Turner

by | Mar 13, 2017 | Building Your Western Library, Western Books, Western Books & Movies

Jim Turner was the eighth generation living in the family’s Connecticut home until they moved to Tucson in 1951 because of his asthma. He has been teaching, presenting and writing for forty years. Turner earned his master’s degree in 1999 and began working as a historian for the Arizona Historical Society in 2001. Retiring in 2009 to write Arizona: A Celebration of the Grand Canyon State, he became an edito


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