Drawing the line: the Mexican Boundary Survey, Part 3
February 1, 2008
Return to the boundary between the U.S. and Mexico, 1853. When we last left the boundary story, a stalemate had been created and no acceptable boundary line had been successfully surveyed from 1848, when the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed, until 5 years later. Political reasons for this abounded.
Trying to Draw the Line: The Mexican Boundary Survey, Part 2
December 1, 2007
John Russell Bartlett: the American representative to the Boundary Commission
The Boundary Surveys
November 1, 2007
So, how did we get the border that we now have with Mexico?
Masons in the Old West
October 10, 2007
In recent years, since the publication of Dan Brown’s book, Da Vinci Code, Masonry, also called Freemasonry or the Masons) is a fraternal organization that has become unduly associated in the minds of some people, with secret or even occult practices.
President Polk’s Little War
September 1, 2007
If you can’t identify this war, it is time to get up to speed because the heritage of this war is ever among us. It has not been that many generations since it brought the West into the United States of America.
Arivaca Small Mine Operators Association
August 1, 2007
If it were not for some recent local political issues, we may have forgotten all about the Arizona Small Mine Operators Association, but of course, supporting the mining industry is the reason it was created in the first place.
Barbara Stockwell’s 50 Years in Arivaca
July 1, 2007
It would be hard to imagine Arivaca without Barbara Stockwell. At least, I can’t. She first came here 50 years ago, on the Fourth of July 1957. Her parents, Bob and Mary Marshall, had come down to Arivaca to open a café. Barbara had just finished her freshman year at ASU in Tempe and came to visit them.
La Gitana
June 1, 2007
A milestone has passed. A Rubicon has been crossed. What could this be? What momentous occasion (besides the erection of the tower) has happened recently?
La Gitana Cantina has been sold! After 20 years in the hands of Jerry and Mary Beckham, there are new owners!