ARIZONA CITIZEN, Tucson, Pima County, A.T. [Arizona Territory] July 3, 1875  

* Very rare old Western publication

Many years ago we had a reasonable inventory of this title, but today this issue is among our last.
A nice assortment of news articles and ads. The back page has a full column: "Letter From Col. Hodge - Description of the Country About San Carlos and on the Way to Camp Apache".
Four pages, never bound nor trimmed, some minor margin tears, good condition.

Background: The Arizona Citizen, published in Tucson, Arizona Territory, was one of the territory’s earliest and most influential English-language newspapers, first issued on October 15, 1870, by John Wasson, a former territorial surveyor general, at a time when Tucson was transitioning from a frontier settlement into a regional center; initially a weekly paper, it promoted civic development, territorial politics, mining interests, railroads, and settlement, and it became known for its strong editorial voice in support of modernization and American governance in southern Arizona, later passing under the ownership of John P. Clum, a former Indian agent and mayor of Tombstone, who expanded its reach and helped launch a daily edition in the late 1870s; by the 1880s it was published as the Arizona Daily Citizen, providing comprehensive coverage of territorial affairs and national news, and in 1901 it was renamed the Tucson Citizen, under which title it continued for more than a century, making the Arizona Citizen the direct ancestor of what became Arizona’s longest-running newspaper and a key primary source for the political, social, and economic history of territorial Arizona.