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Best Historical Observation To Keep Us HumbleThe Rantings of J. Ross Browne
STAFF PICK: J. Ross Browne, a wandering journalist, visited
Tucson in the late 1850s and had this to say: "Tucson was
a place of resort for traders, speculators, gamblers, horse thieves,
murderers and vagrant politicians. Men who were no longer permitted
to live in California found the climate of Tucson congenial to
their health. If the world were searched over I suppose there
could not be found so degraded a set of villains as then formed
the principal society of Tucson. Every man went armed to the teeth,
and street fights and bloody affrays were of daily occurrence.
It was literally a paradise of devils." And that was before the
indictment.
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