Arizona |
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The Saturday Evening Post |
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Harper: New York, 1939 |
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Phoebe certainly stays busy in and around Tucson while Peter Muncie travels on, but she doesn't forget. The great Civil War creates only eddies away out here at Tucson, but of course these affect its inhabitants. Bandits, rustlers, mine speculators, Indians friendly or hostile, Mexicans, soldiers — Tucson increasingly is an important crossroads. Phoebe has encounters or adventures with all these, herself growing with the Territory, but her essential character is as solid and straightforward as the Arizona desert she comes to love. Clarence Budington Kelland is a smooth very writer, and takes care here to create an interesting, determined, and intelligent heroine. Arizona is an enjoyable novel. Phoebe Titus is a fine representative of the pioneering character, and of the spirit of the Western desert.
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© 2004 Robert Wilfred Franson |
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postcard description, reverse: Tucson, as it was in 1859, was reconstructed by Columbia Pictures in producing the picture Arizona, a story of Old Tucson, by Clarence Budington Kelland. About 1000 Tucsonians were employed as extras in the picture, some of whom portrayed their ancestors. The set comprised some 140 buildings, and has been preserved as a point of interest near Tucson. |
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