July 4, 1776, marked the beginning of the American experiment, but it was just another hot summer day in the small, Indigenous village that would give rise to Tucson.
Henry Brean
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Henry joined the Star in 2019 after 25 years at Nevada newspapers. A Tucson native, he graduated from Amphi and earned a journalism degree from the University of Missouri. He wrote about the environment for the Las Vegas Review-Journal for 16 years.
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