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Discover how the quest for gold and silver in Southern Arizona created boom towns that attracted hard-living men and shady ladies. View the dusty streets of Tombstone where the Earp family fought the Clantons. Discover dude ranches where famous people dressed like their favorite movie-star cowboys and cowgirls, and enjoy humorous postcards made for early tourists. Follow the development of historic Tucson from adobe barrios to the modern-day city where Arizona’s first university was built. Look inside the Yuma Territorial Prison (known as the “Hell Hole”) where prisoners endured temperatures over 120 degrees and escape was unknown. Take a journey back into time as 295 color images tell Southern Arizona's early history.

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Yemen is the dark horse of the Middle East. Every so often it enters the headlines for one alarming reason or another—links with al-Qaeda, kidnapped Westerners, explosive population growth—then sinks into obscurity again. But, as Victoria Clark argues in this riveting book, we ignore Yemen at our peril. The poorest state in the Arab world, it is still dominated by its tribal makeup and has become a perfect breeding ground for insurgent and terrorist movements. Clark returns to the country where she was born to discover a perilously fragile state that deserves more of our understanding and attention. On a series of visits to Yemen between 2004 and 2009, she meets politicians, influential tribesmen, oil workers and jihadists as well as ordinary Yemenis. Untangling Yemen’s history before examining the country’s role in both al-Qaeda and the wider jihadist movement today, Clark presents a lively, clear, and up-to-date account of a little-known state whose chronic instability is increasingly engaging the general reader.

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Take a virtual tour of Northern Arizona. More than 300 postcards show the character and history of popular travel destinations like the 270 million-year-old Grand Canyon, the Painted Desert, Oak Creek Canyon, and the Petrified Forest. Experience the early Fred Harvey Hotels, explore Arizona's Route 66 towns and roadside attractions, and learn about the culture and history of Northern Arizona's Native Americans. Postcard collectors will also find this book a useful resource guide.

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