Frank Stilwell got himself shot full of holes, literally perforated from head to toe, outside the railroad depot in downtown Tucson, Arizona, in 1882. Now, rationality should tell us that this Western gun opera, one of many from those wild days, no longer deserves remembrance, and certainly shouldn’t play a part, no matter how small, in Tucson’s Rio Nuevo Project to reinvigorate downtown. But it does. Project managers, who’ve just completed a $7 million renovation of the old railroad


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