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description: Sharlot Mabridth Hall (1870-1943) When she was a child of twelve, Sharlot and her family moved to the Arizona Territory from Kansas.The Halls, a ranching and farming family, lived fairly isolated from daily contact with the wider world, spending little time in nearby Prescott.Hall received very little formal education, but learned literature and a love of the written word from her mother, Adeline. She began writing poetry at the age of eleven or twelve, expanding her writing to short stories and historical articles as she matured.Through the high quality of her writing, both prose and poetry, in her early thirties, she received a position as assistant editor of Out West magazine, a Los Angeles monthly publication of historian, anthropologist, and writer, Charles Lummis.By 1909, Hall was serving as Arizona's territorial historian; the first woman appointed to public office in the Arizona Territory. Two years later, while still at this post, the first edition of Cactus and Pine was published. It was during this same period that she began to see the need for a place to house and care for the artifacts, photographs, and written material that documented the early period of Arizona's history.Hall leased the "Governor's Mansion" in Prescott in 1928 and started a museum with her personal collection. From that small beginning the museum that bears her name grew to cover a city block. It contains historic houses, several log structures, exhibit buildings, various out-buildings, and a modern Museum Center. A continually growing collection of artifacts and archival material is preserved for research, exhibition, and for future generations to enjoy.SharlotHall was named to the Arizona Women's Hall of Fame in 1981; a fitting tribute to her contributions to the history and the literature of Arizona. OTHER BOOKS BY AUTHOR:Poems of a Ranch Woman 0-927579-03-0Sharlot Herself: Selected Writings of Sharlot Hall 0-927579-04-9Sharlot Hall on the Arizona Strip: A Diary of a Journey Through Northern Arizona in 1911 0-927579-08-1
language: English
title: Cactus and pine: Songs of the Southwest
titlecomplete: Cactus and pine: Songs of the Southwest
publisher: Sharlot Hall Museum Press