In 1856, two years after the Gadsden Purchase, Mexican troops left Tucson and were replaced by U.S. soldiers. The same year John Burt, born about 1829 in Vermont, built an adobe structure, a little ...
Blacksmithing was hot, sooty, physically demanding work, and that was fine with William Flores Jr. He dropped out of high school to work in his father's shop and stuck with it for more than eight ...