On the Trail of Old Arizona

One can hardly envision Tucson when J. Ross Browne saw it in the 1860s, “…a city of mud boxes, dingy and dilapidated, cracked and baked into a composite of mud and filth.” When Browne visited Tucson, it was the largest town in Arizona, made up of original settlers and those who had flocked to the “Old Pueblo” in the wake of the abandonment of military forts and the outbreak of hostilities with the Chiricahua Apache. Shortly before and after Mexico declared its independence, land