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Here are some Arizona heritage postage stamps you can use for wallpaper

Here are some Arizona heritage postage stamps you can use for wallpaper

If you’re looking for new wallpaper for your computer, Linn’s Stamp News, a magazine about stamp collecting, has some offerings. One that has a tie to the theme of this blog is “Legends of the West,” whose honorees with ties to heritage sites around Arizona include Buffalo Bill, Bat Masterson, John Fremont, Wyatt Earp, Nellie [...]

New repository for old records exciting destination for many

New repository for old records exciting destination for many

One type of tourism that doesn’t get a lot of mention is research.  It’s not just university historians that haunt the dusty back corners of old libraries looking for tidbits that most people don’t care about. Among the most avid, and most down-to-earth, users of archives are genealogists. And their upscale cousins, the biographers. There [...]