Ring's reflections: First founders: Los Tucsonenses
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Estevan Ochoa was born in 1831 in Chihuahua, Mexico, and came to Tucson in 1860. He was the most respected of the Arizona traders. He left Tucson rather than swear allegiance to the Confederacy during the Civil War.
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