{"title":"Sam Lowe","description":"Sam Lowe was born on the plains of North Dakota, where he began his newspaper career as a delivery boy for the Kensal Times. He migrated to \"warm and snowless\" Arizona in 1969, where he has written for a variety of newspapers, establishing \"The Lowe Road\" series, featuring unusual people, places, and things across Arizona. Compilations of his work have appeared in book form. Named Humor Columnist of the Year by the National Society of Newspaper Columnists, Lowe continues \"The Lowe Road\" for the Arizona Republic, as well as contributing stories to Arizona Highways, Arizona Highroads, and other state publications. He is also the author of GPP's You Know You're in Arizona. Sam Lowe lives in Phoenix.","products":[{"product_id":"arizona-curiosities-quirky-characters-roadside-oddities-other-offbeat-stuff-paperback","title":"Arizona Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities \u0026 Other Offbeat Stuff - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eSaguaro cacti, desert landscapes, and the Grand Canyon may stand out as prominent Arizona features, but this scorching state is also home to bizarre places, personalities, events, and phenomena. These unique and quirky aspects are humorously displayed in \u003ci\u003eArizona Curiosities, \u003c\/i\u003ea cross between a wacky news gazette, an almanac, and a humorous travel guide.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eYour round-trip ticket to the wildest, wackiest, most outrageous people, places, and things the Grand Canyon State has to offer!Whether you're a born-and-raised Arizonan, a recent transplant, or just passing through, Arizona Curiosities will have you laughing out loud as Sam Lowe takes you on a rollicking tour of the strangest sides of the Grand Canyon State. Stop to see the world's largest kokopelli at Camp Verde--it's thirty-two feet tall, painted bright yellow, and perched on a six-foot base, so you probably won't miss it. Mosey into Castle Dome City, once bigger than Yuma, now one mighty fine ghost town. Feed the ostriches at Rooster Cogburn's Ostrich Ranch. Yes, there really is a Rooster Cogburn!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51366085034207,"sku":"9780762769605","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/6gaJMsfrdW9780762769605.webp?v=1789080837"},{"product_id":"arizona-myths-and-legends-the-true-stories-behind-historys-mysteries-paperback","title":"Arizona Myths and Legends: The True Stories Behind History's Mysteries - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eArizona Myths and Legends explores unusual phenomena, strange events, and mysteries in Arizona's history. From strange Grand Canyon deaths, to ghosts at the Hotel Vendome, and the last stagecoach robbery, settle in to learn all the scintillating and unsettling details of the Grand Canyon State's mysterious history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eFourteen mind-boggling tales from The Grand Canyon State According to legend, sometime in the late 1860s or early 1870s a number of Apaches threw themselves off a 2,000-foot cliff in an attempt to escape certain death at the hands of the US military. Since this story is neither included in any military records nor comes up in any written or oral Apache history, did anything like it ever happen? Where did the legend of Apache Leap originate? During the spring of 1883, a woman on a sheep ranch was trampled to death--apparently by a large, red camel. Were the hoof prints indeed those of a camel that had been abandoned to the desert after a failed experiment to introduce them as military beasts of burden? Or was this the work of the Red Ghost, a huge red beast said to roam the desert with a zombie-like rider? Are there really untold riches in hidden gold and carefully guarded (or lost) mines throughout Arizona? Since 1870, about forty people have either disappeared or been found dead in and around the suspected location of a lost gold mine in the Superstition Mountains. Legends abound of caches of gold buried throughout the desert by greedy prospectors, fleeing bandits, and even exiled Spanish Jesuit missionaries. From a haunted historic hotel to the last stagecoach robbery in the United States, Arizona Myths \u0026amp; Legends makes history fun and pulls back the curtain on some of The Grand Canyon State's most fascinating and compelling stories. Sam Lowe has lived in and been writing about Arizona for the past forty-five years. He is the author of Speaking Ill of the Dead: Jerks in Arizona History, Speaking Ill of the Dead: Jerks in New Mexico History, Arizona Curiosities, New Mexico Curiosities, Southwest Curiosities, and You Know You're in Arizona, all for Globe Pequot. He and his wife, Lyn, live in Phoenix.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51367062208735,"sku":"9781493023042","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/YoXm0QD08E9781493023042.webp?v=1789102289"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/sam-lowe.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}