Welcome to this digital version of Jack Weadock's Dust of the Desert: Plain Tales of the Desert and the Border. Dust of the Desert was originally published in 1936 by D. Appleton-Century Company, Inc. This digital version was created using optical character recognition scanning from a copy of the 1963 edition published by Arizona Silhouettes. Jack Van Ryder's original illustrations, reproduced in the 1963 version, were scanned and edited for inclusion in this Web version.
A selection of books digitized from the critical checklist of Southwestern Americana.
Researcher Kieran McCarty's wrote of this region's heritage as being "firmly fixed in this period, though five different flags have waved over the land since colonial times." His research reports of the day-to-day life of the Spaniards after the founding of Tucson in 1775, the complexities of building a frontier mission church, and the role of Tucson's presidial soldiers during the war for Mexican independence.
from the manuscript in the Ronstadt Family archives
at Special Collections, The University of Arizona Library
Originally published for the Southwest Center at The University of Arizona in 1993
by The University of New Mexico Press
This website contains a digital version of the 1980 book, The South Corner of Time: Hopi, Navajo, Papago, Yaqui Tribal Literature. This book was previously published as Sun Tracks, An American Indian Literary Series.
Larry Evers, ed. The South Corner of Time.
Tucson, Ariz.: The University of Arizona Press, ©1980. All rights reserved.
In August 1998, members of the New American community participated in recording information about their lives and experiences in the former Soviet Union and in Tucson.
Edward Soza researched and wrote four manuscripts that appear here as e-texts. They record the history of Mexican American settlers in this region and include: Affidavits of Contest
An Historical Resume and Analysis
by
Henry F. Dobyns
Research Associate
Arizona State Museum
for
THE ARIZONA STATE PARKS BOARD
15 March 1959
Reformatted by Tubac Presidio State Historical Park
August 1995
A History Of The Tucson Street Railway (1897-1906)
by W. Eugene Caywood in collaboration with Keith Glaab
Outside of the Carbarn
In the late nineteenth century, Tucson was a growing town with a strong desire to project a metropolitan image.
One key to continued development was the establishment of dependable public transportation to move Tucsonans around their newly bustling city. This is the story of the first streetcar line: the horse-drawn Tucson Street Railway.
