Journal of the Southwest articles from September 2001

Journal of the Southwest archives from September 2001

Advertising the Southwest.
September 22, 2001... Between 1892 and the First World War, the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway produced a remarkable series of illustrated advertisements promoting travel across the Southwest to southern California. Characterized by an emphasis on Indian...

Cornell's field seminar in applied anthropology: social scientists and American Indians in the postwar Southwest.
September 22, 2001... As the Second World War ended, it appeared that new agricultural, medical, and mechanical technologies developed during this era would fundamentally alter people's lives on American Indian reservations. But if the war had reduced the insularity...

The tasks of Southwestern translation: Charles Lummis at Isleta Pueblo, 1888-1892.
September 22, 2001... Societies, like lives, contain their own interpretations. One has only to learn how to gain access to them. -- Clifford Geertz, The Interpretation of Cultures Between 1890 and 1900, Charles Fletcher Lummis published seven books about...

The straw that broke the camel's back: preservation of an urban mountain landscape.(Camelback Mountain in Phoenix, AZ)
September 22, 2001... Brooding, through the hazy distance, Listless, indolent, reclined, Head extended, drowsing, dreaming, `Gainst a turquoise sky outlined, Lies the Camelback, a mountain, Age-carved from the upthrust stone, In the semblance of a...

Economics, ideology, and the brick industry in Tucson.
September 22, 2001... In 1995, archaeologists excavated remnants of the Tucson Pressed Brick Company (TPBCo), a brickyard established in the late nineteenth century and operating in Tucson, Arizona, through 1974 (Diehl and Diehl 1996). A documentary and...

Flying with Ike.(Ike Russell, bush pilot)
September 22, 2001... The following three essays are excerpted from Backcountry Pilot: Flying Adventures with Ike Russell, edited by Southwest Center research associate Tom Bowen, and to be published early next year in the Southwest Center Series at...

Chasing birds in the Sierra Madre.
September 22, 2001... I first heard about Ike from Dick Felger. Dick and I were neighbors and lived in stone cottages near the mouth of Esperero Canyon outside Tucson at the foot of the Santa Catalina Mountains. We were talking about my research plans, and I told...

Lessons from the master.(flight lessons)
September 22, 2001... As a youngster growing up in Tucson in the 1950s, I always dreamed of flying my own airplane. I would ride my bicycle out to Ryan Field, a small airport west of town, or down Park Avenue to the edge of the big Tucson International Airport to...

Bringing the desert bighorn lamb home.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... Chuck Hanson and my husband Ike flew to Sonora to try to locate a desert bighorn lamb for the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, and they found one living in a rancher's house in Caborca. Unfortunately, Chuck didn't have time to follow up on their...

Death walks in the desert.(dangers of immigration)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... In the Spring 1999 issue of Journal of the Southwest, we published "The Killing Ground," John Annerino's photoessay on the perils of Mexican immigration across the Cabeza Prieta on the Sonora-Arizona border. The following, in...