Douglas D. Martin

Newsman and historian Douglas D. Martin was a born story-teller. A typesetter at fifteen and later Pulitzer prize-winning reporter, he “retired” as managing editor of the Detroit Free Press in 1945, coming west to head the University of Arizona Department of Journalism. He wrote The Lamp in the Desert from a third-floor office in the campus library overlooking Tucson.
An Arizona Chronology An Arizona Chronology
An Arizona Chronology

An Arizona Chronology

The Territorial Years, 1846–1912

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An Arizona Chronology An Arizona Chronology
An Arizona Chronology

An Arizona Chronology

Statehood, 1913–1936

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The Lamp in the Desert The Lamp in the Desert
The Lamp in the Desert

The Lamp in the Desert

The Story of the University of Arizona

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