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Arizona Sonoran News

Arizona Sonoran News

Student Newswire of The University of Arizona School of Journalism

Arizona Sonoran News

Documentary reveals Bisbee's dark past

Documentary reveals Bisbee’s dark past

Pablo Lopez October 3, 2018

Robert Greene takes audiences on a journey through one of labor history’s darkest moments in his documentary “Bisbee ’17.” Greene’s film, which premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival...

A sign in the Coronado National Forest Reserve, pointing the direction to the mail station. Photo by: Jordan Treece/ Arizona Sonora News

The miracle of Silas St. John and Arizona’s wild west

Jordan Treece March 21, 2018

He baked in the early morning sun in the Dragoon Springs area of southeast Arizona, tending his wounds from four nights earlier. A deep slice in one of his palms. A large gash cut in his thigh to...

Oldest saloon in Arizona receives a makeover

Oldest saloon in Arizona receives a makeover

Hannah Bloom October 18, 2017

Outside and patio dining is becoming a new amenity in Tombstone, Arizona. Kim Herrig, owner of the Crystal Palace Saloon has known since taking over the saloon in 2002 that this was the perfect...

Photo of the Dragoon Mountains, home of Cochise Stronghold (Photo by: Tombstone Epitaph).

Cochise: Arizona’s legendary Chiricahua Apache leader

Zach Pleeter November 19, 2015

Edward R. Sweeney’s fascination with Cochise began at 10 years of age.As a little boy, Sweeney says he read a biography about the tribe leader and became captivated by him as a warrior, man and leader...

A picture on display at the Arizona History Museum of two unidentified Chinese men in 1890. Courtesy of Arizona Historical Society.

The little-known history of Arizona’s Chinese

Zach Pleeter October 29, 2015

One insight struck Chia-Lin Pao Tao when she arrived in Tucson in 1976.She was most surprised by how few Asians she saw along with little, if any, marks of Chinese legacy in the area. Today, she knows...

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