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- ↑ Arizona: a panoramic history of a frontier State; Trimble, Marshall; Doubleday; 1977; p. 337
- ↑ Sierra Vista: Young City with a Past; Jackson Price, Ethel; Arcadia Publishing; 2003; p. 67.
- ↑ Reportage on Naco bomber Patrick Murphy
- ↑ Our Wall; Bowden, Charles; National Geographic; May, 2007.
- ↑ "Tracks and Trails″, Sounds, tucsoncitizen.com; 21-12-2000