Calabasas : a true story
Once a ghost town, Calabasas is today part of Rio Rico, a Southeastern Arizona community of approximately 18,000 residents located about eight miles north of Nogales. With its fascinating history, Calabasas was once a post office, a Papago Indian village, a Mexican garrison, a U.S. Military base, a mining camp, and a farming community, before becoming a railroad stop that was determined to become the gateway to Mexico. The Hotel Santa Rita was supposedly the finest hotel between San Francisco and Denver. Unfortunately, Nogales took over as the gateway to Mexico and Calabasas declined into little more than deserted buildings and a few stray dogs. And now, author Alma Ready snatches Calabasas from obscurity in this little book. She makes the town, the people and the history all come alive again
Print Book, English, 1976
Alto Press, Nogales, Ariz., 1976