Mary Leighton is a scrapper when it comes to preserving our Western heritage. Let a developer threaten to bulldoze a historical building in order to accommodate a new Wal-Mart or another McDonald’s and Mary girds for a fight. This native of Maine didn’t really appreciate the West until she and her husband Charlie moved to Willcox, Arizona, in 1970. But when the Southern Pacific Railroad threatened to demolish Willcox’s old train station, Mary successfully fought to preserve it, even get
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