Robert A Melikian: 2 books

Lord Darrell Duppa, along with his friend Jack Swilling, suggested the name �Phoenix� for the city he had cofounded because it described a city born from the ruins of a former civilization. Settled on the ancestral lands of the Hohokam Indians, Phoenix was thriving by the early 1920s when craftsmanship...

On the corner of Central Avenue and Monroe Street, in the center of downtown Phoenix, is the historic Hotel San Carlos. Local Native Americans once worshipped a god of learning in this same area, and so early white settlers chose the site for the city�s first school, the Little Adobe School, in 1873....