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Paperback Gila Bend Book

ISBN: 0738584754

ISBN13: 9780738584751

Gila Bend

(Part of the Images of America: Arizona Series)

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Named for its location on the bend of the Gila River, Gila Bend is an unusual community. It lies along a travel corridor used for centuries by American Indians, Catholic missionaries, American and French trappers, Spanish and Mexican settlers, military expeditions, and forty-niners. Beginning in the 1870s as a stage station, the town soon evolved into an important railroad changeover point in the 1880s. When the national highway system developed in...

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