Category Water

Happy Birthday

February 20, 2019 · by · in About Writing, American West History, Arizona, Arizona statehood, Research, Theodore Roosevelt Dam, Water · 2 Comments

Patricia Grady Cox February 20, 2019   We celebrate the birthdays of Presidents Washington and Lincoln in February. Schools close, some of us get a day off from work, and the stores advertise big sales. Today I want to remember another big February birthday: The State of Arizona! When President Taft signed a Declaration of […]

WATER IN THE WEST – A MINI-INTRO

October 15, 2015 · by · in About Writing, American West History, Arizona, Arizona history, Living in the Past, Research, Water · 2 Comments

by Patricia Grady Cox October 14, 2015 With all the news about discovering running water on Mars and the drought in California, I thought it would be fun to provide a simplified history of the origins of water supplies in Arizona. The Arizona Territory, created in 1863, consisted primarily of prospectors and gold miners, various […]