FORTY-FOURTH ANNUAL ARIZONA HISTORY CONVENTION

Convention Program

Convention Sponsors

THURSDAY, April 24

3:00 p.m.--5:00 p.m - Registration.
Location : Conference Center Lobby..

Booksellers set up.
Location: Ponderosa and Cottonwoods rooms.

6:00 p.m. No Host Bar. Location: Arizona Historical Society Museum in Papago Park, 1300 N. College Avenue, Tempe. Dr. Doug Kupel and Dr. Philip Vandermeer will autograph their new books, Fuel for Growth: Water and Arizona's Urban Environmentand Phoenix Rising: Making of a Desert Metropolis, 1940-2000 The books will be available for purchase.
6:30 p.m. Westerner's Dinner. Arizona Historical Society Museum in Pagago Park
Program: Patricia N. Limerick, University of Colorado, Boulder.

FRIDAY, April 25

8:00 a.m.--5:00 p.m. - Registration. Location: Conference Center Lobby.

Book Displays. Location: Ponderosa and Cottonwoods rooms.

8:15 a.m.-- Opening Ceremony.

8:30 a.m.--9:45 a.m.

Session 1: - Reclamation Panel. Plenary Session.
Location: Galleria A, B & C, Fiesta Inn.

• Panelists:
• Patricia N. Limerick, University of Colorado, Boulder;
• Donald J. Pisani, University of Oklahoma
• William D. Rowley, University of Nevada, Reno;
• Hal K. Rothman, University of Nevada, Las Vegas;
• Brit Storey, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Denver.

10:00 a.m.--11:15 a.m.

Session 2A: - Salt River Prophecies (or Lack Thereof): Varying Visions of the Salt River Valley. Location: Payson Room.

Chair: Scott Solliday, Mesa.

• Fred Andersen, "Droughts, Floods, and a Lack of Foresight: The Urbanizing Infrastructure of the Salt River Valley"
• Brenna Lissoway, "From Gutter to Green Space: The Transformation of the Salt River, 1966-2001"
• Vincent Smith Murray, "Hushientis: A River By Any Other Name"

Session 2B: - The Army and the Indian.
Location: Prescott Room.

Chair: Douglas C. McChristian, National Park Service

• Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh, "The `Camp Grant Massacre' in the Historical Imagination"
• Scott L. Stabler, "Moses to the Indians: O. O. Howard's Visit with Arizona's Natives and Their Visit with Him"
• David Work, "The Tenth Cavalry in Arizona, 1913-1919"

Session 2C: - Opportunity and Mayhem on the Mercantile Frontier.
Location: Palo Verde Room.

Chair: Pete Dimas, Phoenix College.

• Scott Fritz, "The Impact of Economic Change on the Anglo, Jewish, and Hispano Mercantile Communities in New Mexico and Arizona, 1865-1929"
• Frank M. Barrios, "Immigrant Business of Central Phoenix: Ramona City Block from 1920 to 1945
• Bob Ring, Al Ring, and Tallia Pfrimmer Cahoon, "The Ruby Mercantile Murders: Separating Fact from Myth"

Noon--1:30 p.m. - Arizona Historical Society Al Merito Luncheon.
Location: Galleria B & C.

2:00 p.m.--3:15 p.m.

Session 3A: - Settlement and Community Development.
Location: Payson Room.

Chair: William Broughton, Arizona Historical Society.

• Steve Rizley, "Out of the Frying Pan: The Settlement of Lehi, First Permanent Mormon Colony South of the Little Colorado"
• Douglas E. Kupel, "Present at the Creation: Art Green and the Development of Lake- based Tourism behind Glen Canyon Dam"
• Geta LeSeur, "Reconstructing Eloy: Cotton in One Hand, Gun in the Other"

Session 3B: - Arizona Grows Where Water Flows.
Location: Prescott Room.

Chair: Toni Rae Linenberger, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.

• George E. Hartz, III, "The First Step--Passing the Reclamation Act of 1902"
• Kathleen Noon, "James H. McClintock and the Building of Roosevelt Dam"
• Earl Zarbin, "Theodore Roosevelt Dam: A Retrospective"

Session 3C: - Three Looks into Scottsdale History.

Location: Palo Verde Room.

Chair: Richard Lynch, Phoenix.

• Joan Fudala, "Arizona Craftsmen's Center: Catalyst for Scottdale's Postwar Cultural Caché"
• William Jenkins, "Billboards: A Scottsdale Relic"
• Debbie Abele, "Preserving the West's Most Western Town: The Post-WWII Resources of Scottsdale"

3:30 p.m.--4:45 p.m.

Session 4A: - Public Utilities. Location:

Payson Room.

Chair: Andrew Honker, Arizona State University.

• Robert F. Palmquist, "Water for Tombstone"
• Chad R. Willis, "The Mesa Canal Company: `If They Made a Bad Bargain, Tell Them to Stick the Closer to It'"
• Mark E. Pry, "From Wells to Water Taps: The Story of Municipal Water in Tempe"
• Al Bates, "The Computer Age comes to Arizona: APS, Univac, and Me"

Session 4B: - Notable Women.
Location: Prescott Room.

Chair: Reba Wells Grandrud, Phoenix.

• Sarah L. Nucci, "Out West with Sharlot Hall"
• Paul J. Ferlazzo, "On the Trail of Willa Cather in Northern Arizona"
• Elisabeth F. Ruffner, "Stories Worth Telling: An Illustrated Lecture on the Remarkable Women of Arizona--66 to Date--Who have been inducted into the Arizona Women's Hall of Fame"

Session 4C: - Arizona Politics. Location:
Palo Verde Room.

Chair: Bill Phillips, Arizona State University.

• Janolyn Lo Vecchio, "A Woman's Place is in the House? The Congressional Race of Emma Guild vs. Carl Hayden"
• Jean Reynolds, "The United Farm Workers in Arizona and the Drive to Recall Governor Jack Williams"
• James McMillan, "Order Amidst Chaos? The U.S. Senate Majority Leadership of Ernest McFarland"

Session 4D: - Coordinating Committee for History in Arizona (CCHA). History and Place in Tempe.
Location: Tempe Historical Museum.

Chair: James Garrison, Arizona Historic Preservation Office.

• Joseph Nucci, "Historic Preservation in Tempe"
• Amy Douglass, "From the Depths to the Summit: Tempe's Archaeolgical Past"
• Scott Solliday, "North, South, East and West: The Sudden Rise of Suburban Tempe in the Mid-20th Century"

5:30 p.m.--7:30 p.m. Reception. Sponsored by Tempe Historical Society
Location: Tempe Historical Museum, southwest corner of Rural Road and Southern. No Host Cocktails.

SATURDAY, April 26

8:00 a.m.--Noon. - Registration.
Location: Conference Center Lobby.

Book Displays.
Location: Ponderosa and Cottonwoods rooms.

8:30 a.m.--9:45 a.m.

Session 5A: - Salt River Project Experiences.
Location: Payson Room.

Chair: Ken Evans, SRP Heritage.

• A. J. Pfister, "The Day the Stewart Mountain Dam Almost Failed"
• Karen Smith, "Rod McMullin"
• Catherine L. May, "Broadening the Scope: Putting Women in Place"

Session 5B: - Scripting Northern Arizona: The History of Tourism in Flagstaff's Buffalo Park, the San Francisco Peaks, and on River Trips in the Grand Canyon.
Location: Prescott Room.

Chair: Michael Amundson, Northern Arizona University.

• Victoria Beles, "Staging the West: A History of Flagstaff's Buffalo Park"
• Nelson Goranson, "A Thousand Men can look at a Mountain and See a Thousand Different Mountains: San Francisco Mountain, Wilderness, and Scripted Space"
• Jane Ward, "Charting a Course: Scripting the River Running Experience in the Grand Canyon"

Session 5C: - Public Health.
Location: Palo Verde Room.

Chair: Robert Kravetz, M.D., Phoenix.

• Robert A. Trennert, "Sage Memorial Hospital and the Nation's First All Indian School of Nursing"
• Sean Duffy, "Top Docs, Pharmacies, and the Early Arizona Drug Wars"
• Catherine H. Ellis, "Coping with Mentally Retarded Children: Three Case Histories in Northern Arizona's Mormon Communities"

10:00 a.m.--11:15 a.m.

Session 6A: - Arizona in the Cold War.
Location: Payson Room.

Chair: Chris Smith, Arizona State University.

• Mary Melcher, "Planning for Survival: Civil Defense and the Cold War in Arizona"
• Jason H. Gart, "From A-Bomb to U-2: Arizona's Cold War Secrets, 1948-1963"
• Heather D. Addis, "Beyond the Brochures: Nuclear Tourism in the U.S."

Session 6B: - San Pedro River History.
Location: Prescott Room.

Chair: Beau McClure, U.S. Bureau of Land Management.

• Diana Hadley, "Cattle and Drought on the San Pedro"
• Barbara Tellman, "Floods and Dams in the San Pedro Valley"
• Mike Speelman, "Sierra Vista: The Growth of a Town"

Session 6C: - Arizona Crossings.
Location: Palo Verde Room.

Chair: Andrew Wallace, Northern Arizona University.

• Lee J. Hanchett, Jr., "Crossing Arizona: From Zuni to Yuma with William Brisbane and James Collier"
• Richard D. Quartaroli, "The George Eastman-Grand Canyon Connections"
• Erik Berg, "The Eagle and the Anasazi: The Lindberghs 1929 Aerial Survey of Prehistoric Sites in Arizona and New Mexico"

Noon--1:30 a.m. - Luncheon.
Location: Galleria B & C.

2:00 p.m.-- 3:30 p.m.

Session 7A: - CCHA, History Meets Design: Creating the "Desert Cities" Exhibit.
Location: Arizona Historical Society Museum at Papago Park Auditorium.

Chair: Anne Woosley, Arizona Historical Society, and Noel Stowe, Arizona State University.

Panelists

• Mary Melcher
• Jean Reynolds
• Leslie Roe

Session 7B: - Friends of Arizona Archives (FAzA), STILL Hopeful After All These Years: Trying Again for Arizona's State Archives.
Location: Payson Room.

Chair: Cindy Myers, FAzA president.

• Doug Kupel, "We All Worked Hard: So What Went Wrong?"
• Melanie Sturgeon, "Still Troubled After All These Years!"
• Anna Johnson, "Is There Hope for the Future?"

2:00 p.m.-- 5:30 p.m - Field Trips

• Heritage Square Tour. Vans will leave the Fiesta Inn Resort at 2:00 p.m. for a tour of the Rossen House, St Mary's Basilica, the Arizona Science Center, and the Phoenix Museum of History and return at 5:00 p.m.
  Individuals who do not wish to take the van may drive their own vehicles. However, there will be a parking fee.

• Falcon Field Tour. Steve Hoza will guide the tour of the WWII airfield. The bus will leave the Fiesta Inn at 2:00 p.m. and return at 5:00 p.m. Seating is limited to 45 persons. Please register early.

6:30 p.m. - No-host cocktails.
Location: Galleria B & C.

7:00 p.m. - Awards Banquet.

SUNDAY, April 27

Field Trips:

SUNDAY, April 27 - Roosevelt Dam Tour. - Limited to 45 persons.

Convention attendees who wish to stay over on Sunday are invited to board shuttle buses for a tour of Roosevelt Dam. Box lunches will be provided. The buses leave the Fiesta Inn Resort at 9:00 a.m. and will return at 4:00 p.m. Limited to 45 persons.

Important: There will be a security check. Please include a photocopy of driver's license with your registration by March 20. Registrants must have a photo ID to board the bus.

Directions: Exit I-10 at Broadway Road eastbound to Priest Drive. Turn right on Priest. Or, exit Highway 202 at Priest Drive south to Broadway Road.

ACCOMMODATIONS:

Fiesta Inn Resort, 2100 S. Priest Drive, Tempe, Arizona 85282-1192. $90.00, plus tax, single or double. $10.00 for each extra person. Make reservations by April 7. (480) 967-1441, or 1-(800)-528-6481. www.fiestainnresort.com. Please identify yourself as attending the Arizona History Convention.

For information call Nancy Stonehouse or Bruce Dinges at (520) 628-5774. Or, visit the AHC website: www.arizonahistory.org

Directions: Exit I-10 at Broadway Road eastbound to Priest Drive. Turn right on Priest. Or, exit Highway 202 at Priest Drive south to Broadway Road. See Map