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  • Horses move in the light of sunset on an Eastern Arizona ranch. In Arizona and elsewhere, horses are an enduring symbol of Western culture.

    THE MANE COURSE

    Matt Jaffe

  • HE TOOK A TOLL

    HE TOOK A TOLL

    Kathy Montgomery

  • Clyde Tombaugh peers through a 6-inch telescope at the University of Kansas, where he earned bachelor's and master's degrees. This photo was made in 1936, six years after Tombaugh's discovery of Pluto at Flagstaff's Lowell Observatory.

    STARING INTO SPACE

    Kathy Montgomery

  • TREE CHEERS FOR ANDREW DOUGLASS

    TREE CHEERS FOR ANDREW DOUGLASS

    Morgan Sjogren

  • A tour group explores Speaker’s Rock, a platform at Chiricahua National Monument’s Massai Point, in the 1940s. The platform was built for the monument’s 1934 dedication and remains there today. | Spragge Family Collection

    ON THIS DAY IN ROCK HISTORY

    KATHY MONTGOMERY

  • CORPS VALUES

    CORPS VALUES

    Kathy Montgomery

  • THE END OF THE RAINBOW

    THE END OF THE RAINBOW

    Susan Sorg

  • Ruth Reinhold poses with an airplane in a photo likely from the mid-1930s. She had begun flying in 1933 and was on her way to a distinguished career as an aviator.

    AN ACE IN THE CROWD

    Matt Jaffe | Photographs: Arizona Historical Society

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