Journey Through Southern Arizona

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Discover how the quest for gold and silver in Southern Arizona created boom towns that attracted hard-living men and shady ladies. View the dusty streets of Tombstone where the Earp family fought the Clantons. Discover dude ranches where famous people dressed like their favourite movie-star cowboys and cowgirls, and enjoy humorous postcards made for early tourists. Follow the development of historic Tucson from adobe barrios to the modern-day city where Arizona s first university was built. Look inside the Yuma Territorial Prison (known as the Hell Hole ) where prisoners endured temperatures over 120 degrees and escape was unknown. Take a journey back into time as 295 colour images tell Southern Arizona's early history.