Arizona has found a particularly sweet way to commemorate its pioneer women—the Territorial Women's Rose Garden at the Sharlot Hall Museum in Prescott. Such a garden was first proposed in 1938 to remember the many women who toughed it out in the earliest days beside their fathers and husbands and brothers—women who helped bring civilization to a territory best known for Geronimo and the Shootout at the OK Corral. It wasn't until 1948 that the president of the Prescott Garden Club, Dorothy Mc


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