The Kid’s fame has bred a confusing array of legends, but one of the clearest account comes from Dan Thrapp’s biography, Al Sieber, Chief of Scouts. Thrapp presents several versions of the Apache Kid story, offering insight into their accuracy. The Kid may have been born in Aravaipa Canyon in …
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United Jewelry: A Family Tradition in Globe, Arizona
In 1908 the future looked bright indeed for Globe, Arizona. With nearly 35 mines operating in the area, people were flocking to this mining town from far and wide. But for at least one young man, it was neither the mines nor the business opportunities in the area which brought Abe …
Read More »Hanging Memory of Globe by Yndia Roca Smalley Moore
“You have to ask me questions, or I can’t remember things.” That’s what Yndia Roca Smalley Moore told me after one of our first taping sessions. She was born in Tucson in 1902, but lived in Globe in its heyday, from 1905 until 1912. We began our Thursday afternoon oral …
Read More »The Mighty Vandals: take center stage at Herberger Theater
There are storied moments in history which shine light on those who made history and those who remember it. The 1951 basketball team made up of mostly Mexican kids from Bullion Plaza created a tidal wave of storied moments and led to one of the greatest basketball seasons ever. They …
Read More »The man who saved Besh Ba Gowah
According to a benchmark study done on travel and tourism in the Globe-Miami area, Besh-ba-Gowah ranks in the top ten attractions in the area, and it is estimated 45-50,000 people visit it each year. But if it hadn’t been for the intervention of a local Councilman, Louie Aguirre, in the …
Read More »The Paper Trail: Chinese Immigration
There are signs that they were here. Although in the blink of an eye you could miss the remains of the decaying mud adobe huts which sit along Pinal Creek. These, and the small Chinese cemetery which sits on the hill just outside of Globe are testament to some of …
Read More »Remembering Miami’s Keystone Motel
As Globe-Miami bordellos go, there were none as famous as Miami’s Keystone Motel which operated more-or-less in the open until it was shut down in 1962 after an unfortunate ad placed in the yellow pages from an over zealous manager brought it down. Miami historian and master story teller, John …
Read More »The ‘Viches : Stories from here. The Slavic experience
America rightfully comes by its nickname of “the great melting pot” largely because of towns like Globe and Miami. Especially around the turn of the last century, when mining bonanzas were erupting in this part of the world, people from dozens of countries on multiple continents made their way here …
Read More »Newspapers that died, and those that survived, in Globe
Globe has seen its share of publications come and go, and a few more that stayed.
Read More »The Tin Men of Cornwall
Tin was one of the first metals known to man, and the extraction of tin in Cornwall, England dates back to the Bronze Age, when tin was combined with copper to produce Bronze. The Tin industry supported the area from the 16th century to well into the 1800’s when tin …
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