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Johnny Yuma by:Johnny Cash

Territorial Prison
Yuma
Arizona USA

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Guard Tower

Cell Block	Between 1876 and 1909, this penitentiary housed many of Arizona's most dangerous criminals. Famed in literature, movies and television, the remains of the prison are now an Arizona State Park. The cells, main gate and guard tower have endured as grim reminders of frontier justice.
Main Gate

Map of Prison

Yuma
city, seat of Yuma County, extreme southwestern Arizona,
on the Colorado River; incorporated as a city 1914.
A U.S. Marine Corps air station is nearby.
Of interest in Yuma are the Yuma Quartermaster Depot (1863) and a prison (1876), which was used until 1909.
The community was known as Colorado City and Arizona City
before being renamed Yuma,
for the Yuma people, in 1873.
Population 54,900+.

Arizona
A state of the southwest United States on the Mexican border.
It was admitted as the 48th state in 1912.
First explored by the Spanish in 1539,
the area was acquired by the United States
in 1848 through the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
Phoenix is the capital and the largest city.
Population, 3,677,900+.

Updated 08-08-04

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