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Sahuarita is situated along I-19 south of Tucson and along the Santa Cruz River.
It is believed that the Sahuarita area has been inhabited over 11,000 years. First to come were the elephant hunters, who hunted in the dense Arizona forests and along numerous lakes and streams for the huge elephant-like mammoth. The Hohokam lived in the area between 300-1500 A.D. They were followed by Pima Indians (the Tohono O’odham ‘desert people’). The O’odham, who lived in the area after 1500, greeted the Spanish in 1726 who called them the Papago (bean eaters). Mexico claimed the Sahuarita area during the 1821 Mexican War of Independence; and it was bought by the United States under the 1853 Gadsden Purchase.
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When Vibrations Cease
It is a fiction based on a true story about two teenagers who met at a boot camp in the Army Air Corps in the early 1940s. They became friends and decided to head off to a pilot training school in Marana, Arizona. It’s about the experiences they shared in training and the crash that almost took their lives.