Arizona republican., 1920-08-20
LET THOSE WHO MADE HISTORY
 HERE TELL II!
Movement Is On To Guard
 For Future Mementoes of Glorious Past-Men Who Made Arizona's History
 May Tell It

In connection with a definite move ment throughout the United States to preserve for posterity every link which binds the history of the present to that of the past there also has arisen. in every section of the land, a demand that those parts of the country to which peculiar interest attaches because of some unlque place it holds in the annals of Today and Yesterday should make every effort to cherish and keep in- violate it's mementos. There has come about, then. the fact that during the last few years almost every state in the union has aroused itself to the necessity of guarding the past, not only because of the practical value of such course, nor even because of it's histor- ical value, but also because of the es- thetic and cultural worth which at taches to a right knowledge of those who have gone before.
 With respect to the foregoing, Ari yzona holds a secure place. Her history IS not only, in a superlative degree, the stirring story of the winning of an empire by the sturdy souls who tramped her hills and valleys and wide desert spaces in the days of the stage coach and the Apache, but that history smay be told by those who were present at the making of it, and who, indeed, were actors in the stirring drama which has made this state a land of romance for all the world. The pioneers of Ari- zona are living today. Their numbers Asre thinning. it is true, but there are fufficient left to make a goodly appear ance. They are present here in Phoe- 1ix. They are scattered along the bor- Ser from Yuma to the New Mexico line. They are in Prescott and Flagstaff. Tombstone. aptly called one of the ghost cities of the west, still harbors those who knew the Earp brothers in the hey-day of their fame, who danced in the Birdcage when it was an epitome of the wildcat life of the west, and who remember all the stirring scenes that marked the famous silver camp at the height of it's prosperity and it's wicked ness.
 Arizona History of Special Appeal
 The discovery and civilizing of every part of the United States. without doubt. have been the occasion of history making. The keenest interest must attach to the great story, from the landing of the Pilgrims at Ply mouth Rock to the tanning of the waters of the Salt river at the Roosevelt dam But the history of Arizona has a special appeal. It is not that it was written by men yet living, but rather that those men were Americans. They came oi no alien stock, these pioneers of the southwest. They were not refugees from oppression or seekers after new Utopias. They held no protests agcxns1 the established order of things. They
  ing. to a strange life where, because o1 their lack of experience, the odds were all against them. On the contrary they were freeSt of the free. In the majority of cases they had been born on the outskirts of the extending limits of civilization towards the west. They were imbued from childhood with the thoughts of obstacles to be overcome difficulties to be met-and wealth ant fame, perhaps, to be gathered by thoss f1rH f, roo r1fa ffar-fI Tl10S Ir7a de
 Adventure meant little to them. fo their lives were adventures. Deatl meant less to them, for they were use, to death. But they were restless folk and they did not like too many neigh bors. The world was big place, the, reasoned, so why remain where on might be hampered by his fellows Well, there is Arizona, they were told Arizona, with it's mountains of preciou minerals. it's vast plains, and the zes it gives to life, and so to Arizona the came They uncovered the mines The stocked the ranges. They saw the CT of the bad man." and they helped t bring that era to an end. They saw tn , coming of the hester, the advent ( barbed wire and the subsequent cuttin up of the open range. Then they sa' the greatest miracle of all-the makin of the desert to blossom as the ros They had fought the Apache over
 thousand trails. and they now see hil a peaceful ana useful member of sc ciety. They knew the dance hall whe they resounded with the jingling spurs on Spanish heels, when mike q drink was not to be asked for. ar when one wished to be polite diveste himself of his artillery before he le his fair partner to the floor for tl next waltz.
 But the Pioneers Remain
 Geronimo is gone, but the men WI sent him out of Arizona are still Twin
 The Apache Kid is dead. but those WI