Friends of the Library Lecture
The Friends of the R.H. Johnson Library lecture for December is titled Arizona Train, Stage, and Steamboat Adventures! and is presented by Historian Jim Turner.
Frontier Arizona was one of the last states to get a railroad, but the first steamboat navigated the Colorado River in 1852 when Arizona was still part of Mexico. Historian Jim Turner’s show includes lots of historic images, maps, and stories of stage and train robberies, including Pearl Hart, the feminist bandit.
Date: Wednesday Dec. 18
Time: 2 p.m.
Location: Palm Ridge Summit Hall
This is a free event. Free tickets can be picked up at the library checkout counter.
Arizona Historical Society’s beloved historian, Jim Turner, has worked with more than seventy local history museums. He co-authored the 4th-grade textbook The Arizona Story, and his pictorial history, Arizona: Celebration of the Grand Canyon State, was a 2012 Southwest Books of the Year selection. Turner moved to Tucson in 1951, earned an MA in U.S. history in 1999, and has been teaching Arizona history for 47 years. His numerous books include: The Mighty Colorado from the Glaciers to the Gulf (2016), Four Corners USA: Wonders of the American Southwest (2018), and Arizona: A History of the Grand Canyon State (2021). jimturnerhistorian.org