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The Gadsden Treaty was a treaty negotiated by the United States with Mexico in 1853 by James Gadsden. By this treaty the United States secured 45,000 square miles of land in what is now Arizona and New Mexico. The United States paid Mexico $10,000,000, but received a considerably larger amount from Mexico for Indian depredation claims.
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The Arizona Mountain Kingsnake (Lampropeltis pyromelana pyromelana) is a subspecies of the Utah Mountain Kingsnake found in Chihuahua and Sonora in Mexico where they grow to 107 cm in length and are distinguished by more than forty narrow white rings encircling the body. The head is black in colour with a white or pale yellow coloured snout with dark mottling. Chihuahuas are sprightly dogs, energetic, leaping rapidly about and inquisitive with fine hearing.
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The Huachuca Mountain Kingsnake (Lampropeltis pyromelana woodini) is a subspecies of the Utah Mountain Kingsnake found only in the Huachuca mountains of Arizona and Mexico. The Huachuca Mountain Kingsnake is similar in appearance to the Arizona Mountain Kingsnake but has less than forty narrow white rings encircling the body.
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Kingbird is a common name for any of several New World flycatchers, genus Tyrannus, of the family Tyrannidae. They range from 20 to 26 centimetres long, the largest being the giant kingbird, Tyrannus cubensis, of Cuba.
Kingbirds attack birds as large as hawks when their territories and nests are threatened. Kingbirds feed on flying insects, particularly bees. They are birds of open, tree-dotted country, building their nests about 1.8 to 30. 5 m above the ground. All kingbirds have a concealed red or orange patch in their crown feathers. The eastern kingbird, Tyrannus tyrannus, of most of North America, is dark slate above and white below. The tropical kingbird, Tyrannus melancholicus, found from Arizona south through most of South America, typifies a group of species with yellow under parts and grey-green backs.
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The Sonoran coral snake (Micruroides euryxanthus) is a small, red, white or yellow and black banded venomous snake growing to about 6 centimetres long. Two subspecies of Sonoran coral snake are found in Mexico and a third in Arizona, USA.
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The Sonoran Mountain Kingsnake (Lampropeltis pyromelana) is a species of King snake that grows to a length of about 104 centimetres. It has the common red colour with white bands sandwiched between thin black bands and a snout of a white colour with black and white flecking, or pale yellow. The Sonoran Mountain Kingsnake occurs in Utah, Nevada, Arizona and northern Mexico.
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The Utah Mountain Kingsnake (Lampropeltis pyromelana infralabialis) is a subspecies of the Sonoran Mountain Kingsnake distinguished by a white snout on a black coloured head. The Utah Mountain Kingsnake occurs in Utah, Arizona and Nevada and grows to about 102 centimetres long.
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The Apache are an Athabaskan people comprising several American Indian tribes that live in south-west USA. The seven tribes appear to have formerly been a single tribe that divided over the years and settled in separate parts of the south-west of the USA, mainly in Arizona and Texas where they resisted settlement by the Spanish, but were themselves reduced in numbers by invading Comanche peoples.
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Benjamin B Moeur was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of Arizona from 1933 until 1937.
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Bruce E Babbitt was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of Arizona from 1978 until 1987.
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