17,394
edits
Changes
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Line 6:
Line 6: − + − + + + +
no edit summary
Tucson became an nationally famous winter tourist site during the 1920s. Troubled by economic stagnation, the Chamber of Commerce, the Tucson Sunshine-Climate Club, and the Arizona Polo Association did market surveys and inaugurated magnet events, like La Fiesta de los Vaqueros; they even built tourist facilities, like El Conquistador Hotel. The efforts were successful and tourism became a mainstay of the economy by 1930, and remains so into the 21st century.<ref>Alex Jay Kimmelman, "Luring the Tourist to Tucson: Civic Promotion During the 1920s," ''Journal of Arizona History'' 1987 28(2): 135-154</ref>
Tucson became an nationally famous winter tourist site during the 1920s. Troubled by economic stagnation, the Chamber of Commerce, the Tucson Sunshine-Climate Club, and the Arizona Polo Association did market surveys and inaugurated magnet events, like La Fiesta de los Vaqueros; they even built tourist facilities, like El Conquistador Hotel. The efforts were successful and tourism became a mainstay of the economy by 1930, and remains so into the 21st century.<ref>Alex Jay Kimmelman, "Luring the Tourist to Tucson: Civic Promotion During the 1920s," ''Journal of Arizona History'' 1987 28(2): 135-154</ref>
==Chinese==
Chinese and Mexican merchants and farmers transcended racial differences to form 'guanxi,' kith relations of friendship and trust. Chinese leased land from Mexicans, operated grocery stores, and aided compatriots attempting to enter the United States from Mexico after the Mexican Revolution in 1910. Chinese merchants supplied General John Pershing's army in its expedition against Pancho Villa. Successful Chinese in Tucson led a viable community based on social integration, friendship, and kinship.<ref> Grace Peña Delgado, "Of Kith and Kin: Land, Leases, and 'Guanxi' in Tucson's Chinese and Mexican Communities, 1880s-1920s," ''Journal of Arizona History'' 2005 46(1): 33-54, </ref>
==Further reading==
* Logan, Michael F. ''Desert Cities: The Environmental History of Phoenix and Tucson.'' (2006). 240 pp.
* Sheridan, Thomas E. ''Los Tucsonenses: The Mexican Community in Tucson, 1854-1941.'' (1986). 327 pp.
[[Category:Arizona]]
[[Category:Arizona]]
====references====
====references====