Can, as balanced as i can, i get to do something fundamentally creative and say this is what i think happened. We begin our look with author david berman and his book arizonas seventerm governor george hunt. If youre going to write a history for arizona and you want to tell it, you cant ignore george hunt because he was so much involved in everything that went on from 1890 to the 1930s and the new deal. A lot of reforms and the right to the water from the Colorado River. He was at the center of everything. George hunt was born in a place called huntsville, missouri, named after his grandfather. And he was in a part of missouri that was settled largely by the upper south. Tennessee and north carolina. His family came from that area. And he was raised on a farm which was devastated terribly by the civil war and raised in poverty, really, and had a tough time subsistence farming. They had to live on what they grew. Had little education. And more than willing to do with his life and decide