Jack Talks Lecture Series: Arizona's Ethnic History

The settlement and development of early Territorial Arizona here on this last frontier of the Old West is the story of not just a few, but many different ethnic peoples; and all of their efforts, persistence, yes, and “true grit” that helped in making this place where we live, what it is today, with its uniquely Southwestern Culture.

Arizona is historically a cattle ranching and mining state, and we are all familiar with the prominent role that Mexican and Texan ranchers and cowboys, played in our cattle ranching history; and the prominent role that Cornish, Slavic, and Eastern European miners, played in our mining history, but other ethnicities also played an important role in the  history and development of this land; and, here Jack gets to talk about three of them, the Jewish, Mormon, and Chinese pioneers, and their contributions to our state.  It is a fascinating story that most…