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Episode 198: Indian Detours
Episode 198
As tourism exploded across Arizona in the 1920s, everyone was suddenly interested in Amerindian culture, much to the benefit and detriment of the sta…
1 year, 5 months ago
Episode 197: Controlling the Grand Canyon
Episode 197
The Grand Canyon might be Arizona’s greatest asset for tourism. But between 1900 and 1926, one man tried every legal and extralegal means he could to…
1 year, 6 months ago
Episode 196: The Health Seekers
Episode 196
With no cure for their respiratory ailments, people flocked to dry, warm places like Arizona in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Some did find the hea…
1 year, 6 months ago
Episode 195: Building Up
Episode 195
By the end of the 1920s, there were plenty of new, exciting ways to get to Phoenix. But depending on if a person new to the city was a minority or no…
1 year, 6 months ago
Episode 194: Let's Do Away With the Desert
Episode 194
Phoenix saw phenomenal growth during the 1920s, with new homes and new neighborhoods rapidly expanding outward. Phoenicians also wanted to make sure …
1 year, 6 months ago
Episode 193: Of Economic Value
Episode 193
With the cotton boom happening across Arizona in the late 1910s and the early 1920s, the demand for cheap labor during the harvest season increased e…
1 year, 7 months ago
Episode 192: Queen Cotton
Episode 192
The demands of World War I included an insatiable hunger for cotton. Arizona farmers would cash in on this need, but they would wind up going a littl…
1 year, 7 months ago
Episode 191: The Balloon Buster
Episode 191
World War I may be one of America's more forgotten conflicts, but you don't have to look too hard to find Arizona's memorials to its famous, high-fly…
1 year, 8 months ago
Episode 190: The Power Cabin Shootout
Episode 190
In 1917, the U.S. went to war, and men and women across the country - including Arizona - jumped to do their part. However, when two brothers refused…
1 year, 8 months ago
Episode 189: The Battle of Ambos Nogales
Episode 189
In the waning years of the Mexican Revolution and after the outbreak of World War I, the international border with Mexico was transformed from the mo…
1 year, 8 months ago