It Seems Like Only Yesterday

Bob Lenon came to Yuma as a first-grader in 1914 only two years after Arizona became the last of the contiguous 48 states to join the union. He remembers vividly the transformation of that primitive land with dirt roads and tire tracks where Interstate Highways stand today.</p><p>Bob grew up listening to tales of his neighbors--old prospectors and miners. Inspired by them he became a mining engineer and an intrinsic part of the process by which copper gold and other metals were extracted from Arizona rock. In his 90 years of residence in Arizona he has witnessed many changes and in fact he mapped a lot of them!</p><p>In this first of two volumes he describes how his family came from their ancestral home in Scotland to Pennsylvania Iowa Nebraska and finally Arizona. Then in detail he recalls the Yuma he knew as a boy--a town of a few thousand souls with many stories to tell. Now he is ready to tell his own.</p>