Jumat, 18 Agustus 2017

The Road to Statehood, Southwest Style

Once comprising a single territory, Arizona and New Mexico diverged in many ways long before each became a state 100 years ago. The path to statehood for New Mexico and Arizona began decades before the territories were admitted into the Union as the 47th and 48th states in 1912. In the summer of 1856 William …

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