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Lake Havasu City

By: Frederic B. Wildfang

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Founded in 1964 as a planned community, Lake Havasu City is nestled amid craggy desert peaks on the Colorado River in western Arizona. Perhaps best known as the American home of the famous London Bridge--moved to town, piece by piece, in 1971 and painstakingly reconstructed--Lake Havasu City was first home to natives of the Mohave and Chemehuevi tribes. Steamboats plying the waters of the Colorado, mining interests in the region, and the construction of Parker Dam, which resulted in the 45-mile-long Lake Havasu, all played important roles in the development of this unique community. Today, the city's more than 50,000 residents and 2.5 million annual visitors enjoy myriad recreational opportunities in this desert oasis, as well as a historical legacy unlike any other.

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0738530123

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9780738530123

DURANGO, COLORADO

By: Frederic B. Wildfang,Nik Kendzioski,Center of Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College

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DURANGO, COLORADO

By: Frederic B. Wildfang,Nik Kendzioski,Center of Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College

This collection presents a postcard tour of Durango and its environs and provides keen insight into the history and colorful character of this area, which has been a vibrant center of Southwestern Colorado for more than a century. A brief history of postcards as a convenient medium for sharing messages--and as a revolutionary departure from Victorian-era long letters--is included here as well. The Center of Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College is pleased to present these evocative images gathered by the indefatigable Nina Heald Webber.

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0738574376

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9780738574370

Prescott

By: Frederic B. Wildfang

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Prescott

By: Frederic B. Wildfang

In 1864, the beautiful park-like basin under Thumb Butte was surveyed, and the town that is now Prescott was laid out along Granite Creek where gold had been panned. Twice designated the capital of the newly established Territory of Arizona, Prescott suffered a devastating fire in July 1900 that destroyed the downtown district, but the blaze afforded the town's resilient citizens the opportunity to rebuild in more durable brick and stone. Since then, the mining and ranching opportunities, the cowboy-and-Indian lore, the commercial ventures, the salubrious climate, and the picturesque landscape have characterized Prescott as one of the most desirable and livable communities in the country. The city's dedication to preserving its unique heritage has resulted in more than 600 buildings being placed on the National Register of Historic Places, and the 1864 Governor's Mansion has been beautifully preserved as part of the Sharlot Hall Museum, which opened in 1927.

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0738548588

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9780738548586

Tempe

By: Frederic B. Wildfang,Linda Spears,Tempe History Museum

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Tempe

By: Frederic B. Wildfang,Linda Spears,Tempe History Museum

Charles Trumbull Hayden built the first canal on the south side of the Salt River in 1870. Soon after, he built a store, a flour mill, and a cable ferry across the river, and he started a town. Since then, Tempe has changed from a small farming community to a lively urban center. Moreover, Tempes residential growth has made it the seventh-largest town in Arizona. Author Frederic B. Wildfang documents the history. Photographer Linda Spears illustrates the changes.

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1439639795

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San Juan Skyway

By: Frederic B. Wildfang

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San Juan Skyway

By: Frederic B. Wildfang

The "scenic route" in southwestern Colorado means the San Juan Skyway, a 236-mile loop created by U.S. Routes 550 and 160 and State Routes 62 and 145. The Skyway wends through glacial valleys and over high passes between some of the most breathtaking, ice-sculpted peaks in the Rocky Mountains. Native Americans, pioneering mountain men, miners, and railroaders inhabited these slopes. Although the Skyway towns of Durango, Silverton, Ouray, Ridgway, Telluride, Rico, Dolores, and Cortez were first connected by wilderness trails and railways, the loop's final modern section of highway between Coal Bank and Molas Passes was completed in the 1940s. The rugged San Juan Mountains were the backdrop for exploits by Butch Cassidy and Wyatt Earp, but, as author Frederic B. Wildfang notes, the scenery is also "a syllabus for a course in geology.

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0738580287

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The Mundo of the Mundane

From Journals, 1959-1984

By: Frederic Wildfang

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The Mundo of the Mundane

From Journals, 1959-1984

By: Frederic Wildfang

These poems are part of a larger whole, gleaned from some 25 years of journal recordings. In the first three or four years of "serious" writing, I mostly wrote little hokku-like poems on little scrap pieces of paper I kept in my pockets and later recorded in my journals--desert breaths, sighs, groans with sexual-geographical overtones--jotted down while teaching school on a ranch in Arizona, hitch-hiking all over the Southwest, and trekking deep into the wilderness. Then, the first longer poems were actually juxtapositions of these little pieces--montages, compositions, jazz riffs and solos. It is important to note that none of these poems were composed in any rational, deliberate manner--never having attempted write a "conventional" poem with conventional rhyme, meter, etc. The things I write down are the spontaneous recordings of images, events, and ideas that make up the substance of daily experience, hence the title of this book. "...full of vivid imagery and imaginative language" (Arlene Rivera, Flume Press) "The worlds you create unravel with great beauty " (Nancy Goldfarb, 2002 Cleveland State University Poetry Center Prize.) "...astounding and gorgeous.... I like the earth-connected imagery...the sense of time and place" (Diane Frank, Blue Light Press) "I like the contemplative tone, the abundance of natural imagery... (Tom C. Hunley, Steel Toe Books) "We enjoyed the details...and the rambling, easy style...which fits the subject matter well" (Elise M. McHugh, West End Press)

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0595408443

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DURANGO, COLORADO

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Prescott

Tempe

Tempe

San Juan Skyway

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The Mundo of the Mundane

The Mundo of the Mundane

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