Why were settlements started in places like Vegas and Pheonix if they weren’t connected to a river that connected to the ocean like the Mississippi River for trade and had no viable farmland?
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Tucson Arizona is the longest continuously inhabited area in the continental U.S., people have been living there for 4,000 years uninterrupted.
Utah was mostly founded by Mormons after they were run out of many cities that they thought would be their Mecca. Arizona was largely founded due to all the rich minerals and metals found throughout the state. Most cities in Arizona were there before Arizona was even an actual state, built by miners.
Las Vegas literally means “the meadows”. it sits right next to the Colorado River and was an oasis flood plane in the middle of the Mohave desert before we built the Hoover Dam. Las Vegas was always a place for life specifically because of the river it is connected to.
There was this kid I grew up with; he was younger than me. Sorta looked up to me, you know. We did our first work together, worked our way out of the street. Things were good, we made the most of it. During Prohibition, we ran molasses into Canada… made a fortune, your father, too. As much as anyone, I loved him and trusted him. Later on he had an idea to build a city out of a desert stop-over for GI’s on the way to the West Coast. That kid’s name was Moe Greene, and the city he invented was Las Vegas. This was a great man, a man of vision and guts. And there isn’t even a plaque, or a signpost or a statue of him in that town! Someone put a bullet through his eye. No one knows who gave the order. When I heard it, I wasn’t angry; I knew Moe, I knew he was head-strong, talking loud, saying stupid things. So when he turned up dead, I let it go. And I said to myself, this is the business we’ve chosen; I didn’t ask who gave the order, because it had nothing to do with business!
There was this kid I grew up with; he was younger than me. Sorta looked up to me, you know. We did our first work together, worked our way out of the street. Things were good, we made the most of it. During Prohibition, we ran molasses into Canada… made a fortune, your father, too. As much as anyone, I loved him and trusted him. Later on he had an idea to build a city out of a desert stop-over for GI’s on the way to the West Coast. That kid’s name was Moe Greene, and the city he invented was Las Vegas. This was a great man, a man of vision and guts. And there isn’t even a plaque, or a signpost or a statue of him in that town! Someone put a bullet through his eye. No one knows who gave the order. When I heard it, I wasn’t angry; I knew Moe, I knew he was head-strong, talking loud, saying stupid things. So when he turned up dead, I let it go. And I said to myself, this is the business we’ve chosen; I didn’t ask who gave the order, because it had nothing to do with business!
I live in Vegas and we have Lake Mead, which is man-made but fed from the Colorado River. We also have snowy mountains on the north side that melts and fills our reserves
I live in Vegas and we have Lake Mead, which is man-made but fed from the Colorado River. We also have snowy mountains on the north side that melts and fills our reserves
There was this kid I grew up with; he was younger than me. Sorta looked up to me, you know. We did our first work together, worked our way out of the street. Things were good, we made the most of it. During Prohibition, we ran molasses into Canada… made a fortune, your father, too. As much as anyone, I loved him and trusted him. Later on he had an idea to build a city out of a desert stop-over for GI’s on the way to the West Coast. That kid’s name was Moe Greene, and the city he invented was Las Vegas. This was a great man, a man of vision and guts. And there isn’t even a plaque, or a signpost or a statue of him in that town! Someone put a bullet through his eye. No one knows who gave the order. When I heard it, I wasn’t angry; I knew Moe, I knew he was head-strong, talking loud, saying stupid things. So when he turned up dead, I let it go. And I said to myself, this is the business we’ve chosen; I didn’t ask who gave the order, because it had nothing to do with business!
I live in Vegas and we have Lake Mead, which is man-made but fed from the Colorado River. We also have snowy mountains on the north side that melts and fills our reserves
Phoenix sits in a river valley, that was settled by native Americans going back thousands of years. They dug irrigation canals to help them with farming in the area, since the area has an incredibly long growing season. Apparently the native Americans left around the 13 to 1400s following a very bad drought and subsequent flooding.
In the 1800s after the civil war, settlers came out west and set up mining towns in the hills around Phoenix. The largest of which is a town called Wickenberg. The city of Phoenix started out as a great place for goods and supplies for the miners.
They discovered these irrigation canals from the native Americans and turned the valley into farmland. As more people arrived, they began turning farmland into housing.
Many people don’t believe this, but Arizona is a massive farming state due to its warm climate. Even driving around Phoenix today you will find farms, more so as you reach the edge.
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