JOURNAL OF THE
SOUTHWEST
Volume 61, Number 2
Summer 2019
Edited by
Joseph Carleton Wilder
THE SOUTHWEST CENTER
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA
TUCSON
Associate Editor
Jeffrey M. Banister
Production
Manuscript Editing: Debra Makay
Design & Typography: Alene Randklev
West Press, Tucson, AZ
Cover Design: Christine Hubbard
Editorial Advisors
Larry Evers
University of Arizona
Jacques Galinier
CNRS, Université de Paris X
Curtis M. Hinsley
Northern Arizona University
Mario Materassi
Università degli Studi di Firenze
Martin Padget
University of Wales, Aberystwyth
Sylvia Rodriguez
University of New Mexico
Thomas E. Sheridan
University of Arizona
Charles Tatum
University of Arizona
Francisco Manzo Taylor
Hermosillo, Sonora
Raymond H. Thompson
University of Arizona
Journal of the Southwest is published in association with the Consortium for Southwest Studies: Austin College, Colorado College, Fort Lewis College, Southern Methodist University, Texas State University, University of Arizona, University of New Mexico, and University of Texas at Arlington.
Contents
Volume 61, Number 2, Summer 2019
Loyal Loner:
The Life of Ronald L. Ives, Southwest Geographer
Bill Broyles
Introduction
223
1: Restless Child
229
2: A College as Big as All Outdoors
264
3: Soldier with a Notebook
280
4: Back on Campus
292
5: Technician in a Trench Coat
298
6: Professor in a Jeep
322
7: Out of a Job
338
8: Looking Back
358
Author’s Note
396
Acknowledgements
397
Timeline for Ronald Lorenz Ives
397
Notes
400
Sources
418
Bibliography
423
Ronald L. Ives Southwest Bibliography
425
Ronald L. Ives. (Photo by Gordon “Scotty” Snow, August 1934. Courtesy Arizona Historical Society – Tucson, Ives Collection, MS-983, photo book 13, no. 2990)
LOYAL LONER:
THE LIFE OF
RONALD L. IVES,
SOUTHWEST GEOGRAPHER
by Bill Broyles
It was almost as if life to him was a science.
—Father Charles W. Polzer
