Southern Arizona: Lives that Shaped the Frontier Experience

"Ordinary" women in the southern part of Arizona in the early 20th century: the life shaping cutting-edge experience Some historians believe that the role of women in Arizona state in the early 20th century is passive, maternal, family, etc. Loyalty to marriage who thinks that it is centered on typical values ​​of their travels Their trip to the western part is also unwilling and the border life is depicted as an unpleasant struggle. For example, Christian Fisher said "border conditions tend to strengthen the traditional role of women and do not open new possibilities to them" (Fisher, 46).

Arizona is known for its desert basins and mountain ranges in the southern part of the province and has abundant plant scenery such as cactus. The terrain of this area is formed by prehistoric volcanic activity, followed by cooling and accompanying sedimentation. The climate is abnormally hot in summer and calm in winter. This state is known for the North Central Plateau covered with pine trees in the Colorado Plateau (see Arizona Mountains Forest). Like other states in the southwestern United States, Arizona has abundant mountains and plateaus. Despite state drought, 27% of Arizona is forest, comparable to modern France and Germany. The world's largest yellow pine forest is in Arizona

South Arizona is known for the hot summer and calm winter desert climate. In northern Arizona there are pine, Douglas fir, spruce tree, Colorado Plateau, several mountains (such as the San Francisco Mountain Range), a moderate summer temperature and a deep valley with great snowfall in winter. There are ski resorts in Flagstaff, Alps mountains, Tucson area. In addition to the Grand Canyon National Park, there are several national forests, national parks and national monuments.

Most of the northern part of the state is in the Great Basin, in the hot summer in summer, in the gentle desert in the winter. Occasionally, water from the Arizona monsoon can cause summer thunderstorms; the Pacific storm can cover the area with snow. On June 29, 1994, the state recorded a maximum temperature of 125 ° F in the labor forest (605 feet or 184 meters above sea level). The coldest recorded temperature was -52 ° F (-47 ° C) set in San Jacinto in 1972 in the northeast part of the state.