Arizona

The Gadsden Purchase Treaty resolved a border dispute between the United States and Mexico following the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. It transferred a strip of land in present-day southern Arizona and New Mexico to the U.S. for $10 million, ensuring free passage through the Gulf of California and…

<p>Isolation ends for “the People of Peace”</p>

<p>Western miners, the hard-rock stiffs, were as tough and horny-handed a breed of men as any in the world.</p>

<p>Organizers held an old-fashioned cattle drive to commemorate the cowboy's role in winning the West, but, as they say, nostalgia ain't what it used to be.</p>

<p><span class="deck"> Fort Adobe</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">Arizona’s spare, seemingly depopulated landscape has in fact been teeming with travelers for four centuries.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Newcomers continue to challenge Arizona’s implacable desert.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">From law officer to murderer to Hollywood consultant: the strange career of a man who became myth</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A city where the desert is everywhere, where sprawl into magnificent desolation is the main industry, whose oldest building is still its most beautiful, whose surrounding mountains are its soul: <span class="typestyle"> Lawrence W. Cheek</span> explains why <em><span class="typestyle"> American Heritage</span>’s</em> Great American Place Award for the year 2000 goes to… </span></p>

<p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-619cd7a5-d1e7-3410-8328-514fc270be4e" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;">President James K. Polk expanded U.S. territory by a third by war-making and shrewd negotiating.</p>