March 16, 2019
“Purple Hill Pass, View Toward the North”, 1858, call #1988-1-9_s. (Möllhausen image/Courtesy Amon Carter Museum)
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Days Past: How Arizona Got on the Map — Part 22
Up the River With Joseph Christmas Ives
In January 1858, Lt. Joseph Ives set out from Yuma in the steamship Explorer to determine how far boats could go upriver on the mighty Colorado.
By Dave Lewis, Special to the Courier
March 16, 2019