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Josephine Williams

Josephine Williams

Josephine Williams was born in the SandHills of Nebraska, went to nursing school in Chicago. She graduated from nursing school in 1903 just prior to...

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Cornish Miners in the West

Cornish Miners in the West

  Men who work where danger is a way of life have a tendency to embrace superstitions or habits that might seem strange to an outsider. For...

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A Case of Revenge?

A Case of Revenge?

Were the McLaury brothers avenged? 1881 was a bad year for Ft. Worth attorney Will McLaury. His wife had died. Then his brothers Frank and Tom were...

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Harry Goulding and His Monument

Harry Goulding and His Monument

The year was 1938 and the Navajo were in the deep depths of the Great Depression. Harry Goulding proprietor of Goulding’s Trading Post had the idea...

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Five-Syllable Henry

Five-Syllable Henry

Arizona has been blessed with a remarkable assemblage of U.S. Senators including Carl Hayden, Barry Goldwater, Ernest W. McFarland, Paul Fannin,...

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Arizona’s Shangri La

Arizona’s Shangri La

When one imagines pristine Arizona’s dry, desolate, sun-baked deserts in the 1850s it’s difficult to picture any of it as being a utopian Shangri La...

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