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.
ISBN: | 9781941451021 |
Publication date: | 30th September 2014 |
Author: | Douglas D Martin |
Publisher: | Sentinel Peak Books an imprint of The University of Arizona Press |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 328 pages |
Series: | Sentinel Peak Books |
Genres: |
Education |