Salt River Valley
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Oct 10, 2026
Tail DraggerHOST
And then there was Frank Luke.
Tail DraggerHOST
Luke was born in Phoenix in 1897, sixth of nine children, son of a German immigrant who had built a life in Arizona's Salt River Valley.
Tail DraggerHOST
Frank grew up in the desert heat in mining and ranching country in a landscape that was unforgiving of weakness and did not much care about the rules you brought in from somewhere else.
Tail DraggerHOST
He was strong, fast, absolutely fearless in the physical sense, and constitutionally indifferent to being told what he could not do.
John A. JenkinsGUEST
Phoenix is something of a frontier town.
William RehnquistSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
As I came out of the mountains to the northeast and descended to the Salt River Valley, I saw a thermometer on a bank which registered 110 degrees.
John A. JenkinsGUEST
The streets emanating, uh, out of the main part of town are still unpaved.
Ramtin ArabloueiHOST
Rehnquist joined a small private practice.