For five-hundred word summaries of some of the key people, places, and things that have shaped the history of Organ Pipe and its surroundings, click on the entries below.
Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge
Devil’s Highway (El Camino del Diablo)
Beyond America's Best Idea: Constructing and Contesting Borders in the Nation's Most Dangerous Park
- Home
- A-Z
- Altar, Sonora
- Antiquities Act of 1906
- Bates Well Ranch
- BORSTAR
- Bull Pasture
- Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge
- Cafe Justo
- Devil’s Highway (El Camino del Diablo)
- Eggle, Kris
- Fences
- Goldwater Range
- Gray Family
- Grazing Capacity
- Hia Ced O’odham
- Historic Sites
- Hohokam Culture
- Kino, Father Eusebio
- No More Deaths
- Operation Desert Safeguard
- Operation Gatekeeper
- Operation Hold the Line
- Organ Pipe Cactus
- Orosco Family
- Pupfish
- Quitobaquito Springs
- Regan, Margaret
- Rescue Beacons (“Panic Poles”)
- Saguaro Cactus
- Shadow Wolves
- Sonoran Desert National Monument
- Sonoran Desert National Park
- Sonoran Desert Pronghorn
- Tohono O’odham
- Victoria Mine
- Virtual Fence
- About
- Border
- A Borderless Future? The Necessity of Territorialization and Entropy in the Physical World
- History of Smuggling
- History of the Border Fence
- Human Rights Violations
- Immigration Today
- Moving Away from Walls: the Future of Border Manifestation in the American Southwest
- The Environmental Consequences of a Border
- History and People
- Characters of the Borderlands
- Historical Preservation Efforts
- Prehistory
- First Encounters: Spaniards and Native Americans, 1540-1848
- Native Americans 1848-1916
- North America 1848-1916 Overview
- American Newcomers
- Ranching in Southern Arizona to 1937
- Ranching 1937 – 1978
- Tohono O’odham: 1916 – Present
- Maps
- Nature
- Park
- Current Management Issues
- Founding
- History of the National Park Service
- National Monument vs. National Security
- Neighboring Land Parcels
- Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument: How it Fits into the Larger National Park Narrative
- Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument: Is it Really America’s Best Idea?
- Park History: 1937-1976
- Park History: 1976-Present
- Visitor Experiences
- Photo Gallery
- Quitobaquito, December 2013
- Sources and Links
- Timeline
National Border, National Park: A History of Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument 