My favorite book is Michener's Centennial. I like an author who can draw you into history through family lines stretching over decades or, better, centuries. I even commissioned artist Detha Phillips from Sedona to do three big oil paintings of scenes from Centennial expressly for me back in the late 1970s. They are still among my favorite artwork.
I remember when Lake Havasu City was known officially just as Site Six and why. (The Army Air Force acquired it as an emergency landing during WW

May 2010
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Western Books & Movies
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- Fort Pierre, South Dakota
- William C. Porter
- Western Flair the Duke Would Appreciate
- Grape History on a Sunset Ride
- Top 10 Western Museums of 2010
- Great Guns in the Panhandle
- The Walls of a Prison Will Never Hold Me
- Depression-Era Treasure
- Tracking a Vendetta Rider
- As American as Apple Pie
- Mellow-Trauma
- Straws in the Wind
- Custer Portrait Shares a Hidden Story
- Centennial Celebration
- Can you tell me something about the Apache of southern Arizona?
- Can you tell me something about the comic book hero Kid Colt?