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Another great AZAgenda report. A bit of Norton family history to add. Hunt married one of my thousands of cousins. She and their child are buried with him in the mini-pyramid in Papago Park. Being the descendant of a byzantine horde of Mormon pioneer polygamists means that I get to claim [or have to admit] "cousin" status with a remarkable chunk of the Western States' population.

Our family historians tag Hunt with a bit of a notorious history before first moving to Arizona post Civil-War. (Escaping his home town while he could, as some put it.) Born to a family of slavers? Post Civil War atrocities? A previous wife divorced or abandoned? Life in the wild and lawless mountains of what's now Eastern Arizona and Western New Mexico?

I think that the part that's safe to conclude is that surviving the Civil War was almost as hard as surviving the post-Civil War era. If you want to read some of that history, familysearch.org is a treasure trove of historical news reports, journals, photos and diaries.

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Really great, especially after listening to the Fontes v Finchem debate last night.

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Great story! Thank you for sharing

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Fantastic! Love this story

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Terrific reporting of history. Elections are always controversial given the stakes and issues. As the Romans would say sic erat omne

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Thanks for this bit of history! Will we ever learn from our past?

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What great historical reporting. Thanks!

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