Founded in 1964 as a planned community, Lake Havasu City is nestled amid craggy desert peaks on the Colorado River in western Arizona. Perhaps best known as the American home of the famous London Bridge moved to town, piece by piece, in 1971 and painstakingly reconstructed Lake Havasu City was first home to natives of the Mohave and Chemehuevi tribes. Steamboats plying the waters of the Colorado, mining interests in the region, and the construction of Parker Dam, which resulted in the 45-mile-long Lake Havasu, all played important roles in the development of this unique community. Today, the city's more than 50,000 residents and 2.5 million annual visitors enjoy myriad recreational opportunities in this desert oasis, as well as a historical legacy unlike any other.
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Writer and historian Frederic B. Wildfang is a local developer and the founder and director of the Lake Havasu Film Festival. In this exciting new volume, he has assembled a fascinating collection of images drawn from the archives of the Lake Havasu City Historical Society, the Mohave County Historical Society, the Arizona Historical Society, the Cline Library at Northern Arizona University, and the Charles E. Young Research Library at the University of California, Los Angeles, as well as from private collections.
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Little did I know how my life would change back in 1967 when I spotted a copy of Time magazine someone had left on my news desk at Channel 9 in Denver. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lake Havasu City, Site Six, London Bridge, Lingenfelter Collection, Department of Special Collections, Fort Mohave, Liverpool Landing, Young Research Library, Nautical Inn, Chemehuevi Mountains, Fort Yuma, Havasu Hotel, Los Angeles, World War, Courtesy Cline Library, Metropolitan Water District, Parker Dam, Thompson Bay, Arnold Plaza, Chemehuevi Valley, Courtesy David Chavez, General Jesup, Gold Wing, Army Air Corps, City of London New!
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Little did I know how my life would change back in 1967 when I spotted a copy of Time magazine someone had left on my news desk at Channel 9 in Denver. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lake Havasu City, Site Six, London Bridge, Lingenfelter Collection, Department of Special Collections, Fort Mohave, Liverpool Landing, Young Research Library, Nautical Inn, Chemehuevi Mountains, Fort Yuma, Havasu Hotel, Los Angeles, World War, Courtesy Cline Library, Metropolitan Water District, Parker Dam, Thompson Bay, Arnold Plaza, Chemehuevi Valley, Courtesy David Chavez, General Jesup, Gold Wing, Army Air Corps, City of London New!
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- Grand Canyon (This beautiful world, v. 23) by Paul C. Johnson on page 120
- Vanished Arizona: Recollections of the Army Life of a New England Woman by Martha Summerhayes on page 31
- Great Basin: The Story Behind the Scenery by Michael L. Nicklas on page 16
- The Battle of Britain by Jon Lake on page 120
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