Description: Join Marshall Trimble, state historian, storyteller, and native son, on the highways and back roads of Arizona, where a Grand Canyon's worth of facts and stories add up to a portrait of a state. Along the way meet Fathers Eusebio Kino and Francisco Garc�s, Ned Beale and his camels, Nellie Bush and her steamboats, Great Western Sara Bowman, and the Navajo code talkers. Find out why Why's called Why; where Arizona's Civil War battlefields are; what happens at the Zuni River Reservation, where no Zuni live; and much, much more. Visitors, newcomers, and long-time residents alike will enjoy this travel and history classic, now revised and updated.
Brief description: Marshall Trimble has taught Arizona and western history since 1972 and is head of the Southwest Studies cultural-historical program at Scottsdale Community College. Also a cowboy singer and poet, humorist, and best-selling author, Trimble is dedicated to bringing his native state�s history and folklore to life through print, performance, radio, and TV.