The Lamp in the Desert: The Story of the University of Arizona (Sentinel Peak Books) - Softcover

Martin, Douglas D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1941451020 ISBN 13: 9781941451021

Publisher: University of Arizona Press, 2015

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Newsman and historian Douglas D. Martin was a born story-teller. A typesetter at 15, 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 over-looking Tucson, USA.

President Ann Weaver Hart is the 21st President of the University of Arizona, USA a role she assumed in July 2012.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1941451020
• ISBN 13: 9781941451021
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 328