Salt River Valley (Geographic Keyword)

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The Swilling Legacy (1978)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Earl Zarbin.

Each year thousands of people come to the Salt River Valley, some to visit and some to live. They see a thriving, growing community. But like many who have spent most, or all, of their lives there, they don't know much about the Valley's origins or how it developed. The men and women who built the Valley were like today's people. They were trying to improve their own condition. In doing that, they contributed to the well-being of one another. Jack Swilling was one of them. Swilling...


Theodore Roosevelt Dam (1979)
DOCUMENT Full-Text U.S. Department of the Interior.

This brochure identifies the change of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation to the Water and Power Resources Service and summarizes the historical development of irrigation in Arizona's Salt River Valley and the contribution of the Roosevelt Dam to it.


Thompson_Salt River Valley_Body Treatment (2011)
DATASET M Scott Thompson.

This sample dataset presents data on the treatment of the body in the mortuary records of Pueblo Grande and the late Classic period cemetery at Pueblo Viejo. This sample includes all features/individuals from Pueblo Grande burial group 5 and a small set from other burial groups across the site. It contains data for all features/individuals at Pueblo Viejo. Note that this set also includes basic biological data such as age and sex information.


Thompson_Salt River Valley_Burial Facility (2011)
DATASET M Scott Thompson.

This sample dataset presents data on the construction and use of burial facilities at the Classic period site of Pueblo Grande and the late Classic cremation cemetery at Pueblo Viejo. The sample includes mortuary features from Pueblo Grande's burial group 5 and a small sample from other burial groups at the site. It includes all features from Pueblo Viejo.


Thompson_Salt River Valley_Metadata Tables_Variables and Variable States (2011)
DOCUMENT Full-Text M Scott Thompson.

This document contains metadata that accompanies the sample mortuary data sets from the Salt River Valley. The sample sets contain mortuary data from burial features at Pueblo Grande and at Pueblo Viejo.


Thompson_Salt River Valley_Mortuary Accompaniments
DATASET M Scott Thompson.

This sample dataset presents mortuary accompaniment data for mortuary features in burial group 5 and other burial groups at Pueblo Grande and for all mortuary features in the late Classic cemetery of Pueblo Viejo. In a separate tab, this dataset also contains a summary of burial accompaniment data for all features excavated as part of the Hohokam Expressway Project.


Thompson_Salt River Valley_Paper_A Preliminary Database of Hohokam Mortuary Practices in the Salt River Valley, Phoenix Basin, AZ (2011)
DOCUMENT Full-Text M Scott Thompson.

The large number of mortuary features identified in extensive excavations across the Phoenix Basin presents a unique opportunity and challenge for the creation of a regional data set. This paper presents a preliminary effort to construct a database of mortuary programs practiced at large Hohokam villages in the Salt River valley. It discusses the variables necessary to describe both Pre-Classic and Classic period mortuary remains documented at different settlements along...


Two Sides of the River: Salt River Valley Canals, 1867-1902 (2017)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Earl Zarbin.

Now, and into the foreseeable future, most water brought into the Salt River Valley, home to Phoenix — the nation’s sixth most populous city in 2017 — and other growing communities, is used for urban purposes. To the visionaries who passed this desert area in the 1800s, their predictions of a future metropolis were more than fulfilled. The most significant event in the transformation from desert to home to America’s 12th-largest metropolitan area with more than 4.5 million people was the...


W.J. and The Valley: The Story of W.J. Murphy and His Part in Developing the Salt River Valley in Arizona (1975)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Merwin L. Murphy.

Among the papers left by William John Murphy and his wife, Laura Fulwiler Murphy, were some 500 letters and other papers. Ralph Murphy recalling on his own memory, wrote a book that he hoped to get published through commercial channels. The author's agent that he dealt with insisted that his manuscript was too dull and urged him to make it more dramatic. This he attempted in a revision which he called W. J., which never got beyond the manuscript form. There is a store of information about W....


The White Man's Friend (1974)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Lloyd Allison.

Under the premise of "Give us our water and we will take care of ourselves," the book includes two chapters surrounding the irrigation practices of the Pima-Maricopa Indians from the mid-19th century to the present. The first chapter discusses the early irrigation practices of the Pima-Maricopa Indians and their history within the Gila and Salt River valleys supplemented with information from excavation and government documentation. Using this information, the second chapter lists a series of...


Working For Community: The Yaqui Indians at the Salt River Project (1996)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Leah S. Glaser.

After fifty years of service,Juan Martinez retired from the Salt River Project on June 20, 1968. From the age of seven­teen, Martinez had worked alongside hundreds of other Yaqui In­dians maintaining the Salt River Valley’s irrigation system. For much of that time, he lived and raised his family in a company-owned labor camp—one of the largest Yaqui settlements in Ari­zona. At the camp, corporate interests cultivated the Indian com­munity in a mutually beneficial arrangement that supported the...


The Yaquis of Scottsdale, Arizona: Family, Indomitable Spirit, Generosity (2002)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Katelyn Roessel

This book is a glimpse at the visual and narrative history of the Yaqui Indians, who came to Scottsdale to work for the Salt River Valley Water Users Association (SRVWUA) in the early 1900s. It is the stories of their descendants who chose to remain in Scottsdale as an independent Yaqui community when the Salt River Project closed its company labor camps. It begins with a real life example of the Yaquis' escape from Mexico as refugees, which spanned the period 1886 to 1927. It tells of their...