Encore for More Speakers Series - Arizona Trains, Stages, and Steamboats

Frontier Arizona was one of the last states to get a railroad, but the first steamboat navigated the Colorado River in 1852 when southern Arizona was still part of Mexico. Historian Jim Turner's show includes lots of historic images, maps, and stories of stage and train robberies, including Pearl Hart, the feminist bandit. 
Jim Turner earned his master's in U.S. History at the University of Arizona and worked as Historian for the Arizona Historical Society. He retired and became an author/editor for Rio Nueevo publishers where he authored six books and co-authored or edited a dozen more. He is working on two more books and recently created self-guided audio tours of historic downtown Tucson, Tombstone, and Old Town Scottsdale for an app called VoiceMap.