Big Jim: Rivers are different here
A small collection of stories about what passes for a river in Southern Arizona and what swims in them.
(5) updates to this series since Updated
Let’s start with a river – The Santa Cruz River. We have to start there, because that’s where human settlement in this area started.
Jokes are a part of any culture’s folklore and can serve as a kind of salve or ointment that we can slather over the raw places in our consciousness.
It all began when the Sonoran Desert started drying up, to become what it is today.
Big Jim discusses how one goes about catching the legendary sand trout.
Jim recalls a time when the sand trout hooked a sucker.
One day in July, 1937, Howard O. Welty, a hard-working young reporter for the Tucson Citizen, found himself frustrated by the lack of interest…
Revisit a couple of Jim Griffith's stories on the harvesting of saguaro fruit.