Kyle Paoletta

Yeah, I mean, I think part of it is very much having grown up in New Mexico and then lived and worked on the East Coast in New York and Boston for the better part of two decades. And what happens when you're from the Southwest and you spend a lot of time, especially in the people in the rest of the country know about the place you're from.

Yeah, I mean, I think part of it is very much having grown up in New Mexico and then lived and worked on the East Coast in New York and Boston for the better part of two decades. And what happens when you're from the Southwest and you spend a lot of time, especially in the people in the rest of the country know about the place you're from.

Yeah, I mean, I think part of it is very much having grown up in New Mexico and then lived and worked on the East Coast in New York and Boston for the better part of two decades. And what happens when you're from the Southwest and you spend a lot of time, especially in the people in the rest of the country know about the place you're from.

And the sort of broad generalities that, you know, maybe someone's visited the Grand Canyon. Maybe they went to Santa Fe once. They have a grandparent or an uncle who retired to Phoenix. There's sort of like these touchstones that people have. But there's also this broad ignorance that stems from, I think, what you were talking about a little bit in the intro of this

And the sort of broad generalities that, you know, maybe someone's visited the Grand Canyon. Maybe they went to Santa Fe once. They have a grandparent or an uncle who retired to Phoenix. There's sort of like these touchstones that people have. But there's also this broad ignorance that stems from, I think, what you were talking about a little bit in the intro of this

And the sort of broad generalities that, you know, maybe someone's visited the Grand Canyon. Maybe they went to Santa Fe once. They have a grandparent or an uncle who retired to Phoenix. There's sort of like these touchstones that people have. But there's also this broad ignorance that stems from, I think, what you were talking about a little bit in the intro of this

this sense of the Southwest as a very kind of foreboding, unwelcoming geography that how could people live there? How can there be those cities there? And so I think part of what made me really want to kind of return home in a way and have a deeper engagement with the history of the region was really wanting to both explain the Southwest to the rest of the country and help people understand

this sense of the Southwest as a very kind of foreboding, unwelcoming geography that how could people live there? How can there be those cities there? And so I think part of what made me really want to kind of return home in a way and have a deeper engagement with the history of the region was really wanting to both explain the Southwest to the rest of the country and help people understand

this sense of the Southwest as a very kind of foreboding, unwelcoming geography that how could people live there? How can there be those cities there? And so I think part of what made me really want to kind of return home in a way and have a deeper engagement with the history of the region was really wanting to both explain the Southwest to the rest of the country and help people understand

the process through which all that land that was incorporated into the country through the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, how it was integrated into the country, as well as to kind of help the Southwest understand itself. Because I think so many people I grew up with are pretty new to the region.

the process through which all that land that was incorporated into the country through the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, how it was integrated into the country, as well as to kind of help the Southwest understand itself. Because I think so many people I grew up with are pretty new to the region.

the process through which all that land that was incorporated into the country through the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, how it was integrated into the country, as well as to kind of help the Southwest understand itself. Because I think so many people I grew up with are pretty new to the region.

I mean, my grandmother's family first came there in the 1910s, but plenty of people moved to Las Vegas last year and have no real sense of the history of this place that is you know, some of the fastest growing part of the country still.

I mean, my grandmother's family first came there in the 1910s, but plenty of people moved to Las Vegas last year and have no real sense of the history of this place that is you know, some of the fastest growing part of the country still.

I mean, my grandmother's family first came there in the 1910s, but plenty of people moved to Las Vegas last year and have no real sense of the history of this place that is you know, some of the fastest growing part of the country still.

Yeah, I mean, I think it's an excellent question. And as I've talked about the book, I think Phoenix's emergence as an enormous metropolis is something that continually surprises people.

Yeah, I mean, I think it's an excellent question. And as I've talked about the book, I think Phoenix's emergence as an enormous metropolis is something that continually surprises people.

Yeah, I mean, I think it's an excellent question. And as I've talked about the book, I think Phoenix's emergence as an enormous metropolis is something that continually surprises people.

And certainly when it surpassed Philadelphia as the fifth largest city in the country, I think that was like a watershed moment for a lot of Americans of like, wait a second, like, Phoenix is better than Philadelphia? How did that happen? Yeah. So I think the story really starts with the ancestral Sonoran peoples who first lived along the Salt River in what's now central Arizona.

And certainly when it surpassed Philadelphia as the fifth largest city in the country, I think that was like a watershed moment for a lot of Americans of like, wait a second, like, Phoenix is better than Philadelphia? How did that happen? Yeah. So I think the story really starts with the ancestral Sonoran peoples who first lived along the Salt River in what's now central Arizona.