The Lamp in the Desert

Download or read book The Lamp in the Desert written by Douglas D. Martin and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2014-09-10 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With six teachers, no books, and thirty-two students, Old Main opened its doors to the first pupils of the University of Arizona in 1891. A rugged beacon among the cacti, the campus emerged from a forty-acre donation from two gamblers and a saloonkeeper. The Lamp in the Desert is Douglas D. Martin’s history of the first seventy-five years of the University of Arizona. From early football wins by Coach McKale to the work of celebrated scholars, this is a story of the places and the people whose names are still visible reminders of the early innovators that helped to build a world-class institution.