The Lamp in the Desert: The Story of the University of Arizona by Martin, Douglas D.

The Lamp in the Desert: The Story of the University of Arizona (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781941451021)

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The Lamp in the Desert: The Story of the University of Arizona by Martin, Douglas D.

The Lamp in the Desert: The Story of the University of Arizona

$25.00
The Lamp in the Desert: The Story of the University of Arizona by Martin, Douglas D.

The Lamp in the Desert: The Story of the University of Arizona

$25.00
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Douglas D. Martin
ISBN-10: 1941451020
ISBN-13: 9781941451021
Publisher: Sentinel Peak Books
Language: English
Published: 09/10/2014
Pages: 328
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.70d
By Douglas D. Martin
By Douglas D. Martin
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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.

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