The Lamp in the Desert
328 pages, 6 x 9
72 halftones
Paperback
Release Date:10 Sep 2014
ISBN:9781941451021
The Lamp in the Desert
The Story of the University of Arizona
By Douglas D. Martin; Foreword by Ann Weaver Hart
The University of Arizona Press, Sentinel Peak Books
With six teachers, no books, and thirty-two students, Old Main opened its doors to the first pupils of the University of Arizona in 1891. A rugged beacon among the cacti, the campus emerged from a forty-acre donation from two gamblers and a saloonkeeper. The Lamp in the Desert is Douglas D. Martin’s history of the first seventy-five years of the University of Arizona. From early football wins by Coach McKale to the work of celebrated scholars, this is a story of the places and the people whose names are still visible reminders of the early innovators that helped to build a world-class institution.
The book has all the excitement of a November triumph in the stadium.’—The Arizona Daily Star
‘A remarkable account of a remarkable institution.’—Detroit Free Press
‘Almost like reading frontier fiction.’—San Diego Union
Newsman and historian Douglas D. Martin was a born story-teller. A typesetter at fifteen and later Pulitzer prize-winning reporter, he “retired” as managing editor of the Detroit Free Press in 1945, coming west to head the University of Arizona Department of Journalism. He wrote The Lamp in the Desert from a third-floor office in the campus library overlooking Tucson.
Foreword to the First Edition
Preface
Chapter 13 1863–1886
Chapter 2 1887–1893
Chapter 3 1893–1897
Chapter 4 1897–1905
Chapter 5 1905–1914
Chapter 6 1914–1922
Chapter 7 1922–1928
Chapter 8 1928–1937
Chapter 9 1937–1942
Chapter 10 1942–1947
Chapter 11 1947–1951
Chapter 12 1951–1959
Chapter 13 1959–1960
Appendix
Bibliography
Index
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