I typically encourage people to preserve properties, but four years ago, when True West asked my advice on nominating the Pinal City Cemetery to preserve it as a historic site, I advised the magazine not to bother. Cemeteries can be problematic. The National Register of Historic Places does not list graveyards; even if it did, the honorific designation would not prevent the public desecration going on at the site. This was a conundrum for the magazine and its new True West Preservation Socie


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