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(More customer reviews)My family is from this section of southwestern Arizona; arid, sparsely populated, beautiful purple mountains with a strong history of agriculture. Most people just drive through on the interstate and never imagine what lies beyond, including myself. I moved away during grade school, but visited my Grandparents often. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. I learned why some families came to settle here and how the canal systems that allow the farming came to exist. My grandparents were stranded on their way to California and found work in the area. They stayed and raised a family. My other grandparents were homesteaders and farmers in the 1950's. This filled in some gaps for my own family history. The author has included many wonderful pictures, maps and illustrations that help tell her story. If you are interested in homesteading, desert development, water rights, WWII prisoners-of-war or flying farmers, then this book is for you. A wonderful piece of personal history for all of us.
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Pioneer story of author's parents, beginning in 1925, as they pulled up mesquite trees with mules, leveled land with the same power, and helped to build one of the most successful irrigated agricultural areas in the United States.
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