By Mick Woodcock
In 1863, Christmas was new to the list of celebrations for most people in the United States. Popularized in part by the drawings of Santa Claus and Christmas done by Thomas Nast for Harpers Weekly magazine, much of the tradition as we know it today was in place by the time of the founding of Prescott. That Christmas was remembered and recorded by a number of people. No doubt the fact that this was the formation year of the Territory of Arizona had much to do with that.
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