More Than a Museum

These days in Arizona, if you say Sharlot Hall, most think of the fine museum of that name in Prescott. However, Sharlot Hall was a real woman with a fine legacy. Sharlot was the first woman in the entire nation to hold a government­ paid job when she was named Arizona Territory's official historian in 1909. She was a writer and poet and is credited with saving Arizona's bacon when Congress passed the Hamilton bill in 1905—declaring that the territories of Arizona and New Mexico would come in