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The Bandit Queen

You would think that news of an Arizona stage coach robbery in the waning months of the 19th century would quickly fall out of the frontier news cycle. Yet this particular heist propelled the story of a young woman in her twenties onto the pages of newspapers and magazines across …

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Mr. Rural Arizona

If you enjoy driving Arizona’s scenic highways, you may often wonder why we honor certain people by naming roads after them, such as the Senator Hardt Highway. Read on, and you will wonder no more, at least about that one. August Valentine “Bill” Hardt was a champion of rural Arizona, …

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Matilda Moore 1836 – 1901

Local historian and researcher, Lee Ann Powers, provided this history on Matilda Moore who moved here with her husband and two children in 1878. A large white gravestone marks her final resting place in the old Globe Cemetery.  Here is the story of Matilda Jane Burnett Crampton Moore. She was …

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