Following Arizona’s Road to Statehood

It’s hard to believe, but it was here, off Interstate 40 at milepost 325—in the middle of nowhere—that Arizona’s road to statehood really began. I mean, on December 29, 1863, there was no town of Chambers. No Holbrook, and certainly not I-40. Just desert, and the group that stopped here probably couldn’t see much anyway on account of a raging snowstorm. Honest Abe Lincoln had signed the law in February that created the Territory of Arizona, separating it from New Mexico Territo