The Other Arizona, Redux

Montezuma never accepted the reservation system and continued to practice medicine in Chicago, but he also fought tirelessly for Indian land and water rights, realizing that without a land base, Native American societies would wither and die. Deputy sheriffs still had to break up fights and lob tear gas into bars, but the crowds were outsiders rather than Tonto Basin residents. Phoenix had engulfed the agricultural communities of the Salt River Valley, and now it was urbanizing the forest towns by turning them into summer extensions of itself.