Adobe Corral of the Westerners

05/20/2026

ADOBE CORRAL ROUND-UP


May 2026


Date: Tuesday, May 26, 2026
Time 5:30 p.m. (place your order)
Place: Pinnacle Peak Steakhouse, 6541 East Tanque Verde Road (Trail Dust Town)
Reservations: For reservations, contact Theresa Hackney: please call or send text to 520-609-8614 or send email to [email protected] by Monday, May 18.

Reservations are still necessary so that Pinnacle Peak will know how many tables to set up and how many servers to assign to us.

Please arrive by 5:30 so you can put in your order and so we can be served dinner by 6:15. Each of us will be responsible for paying his or her own bill, just as with any restaurant meal.

Bring Guests!


PROGRAM
Our speaker this month is Doug Hocking, whose talk will be “The Butterfield Overland Mail across Chiricahua Apache Country.” In 1858 the Butterfield Overland Mail carried the first transcontinental post from St. Louis (and Memphis) to San Francisco in under 25 days. Through most of this period, the Chiricahua Apache offered little resistance. Raiding increased dramatically in 1861 as the United States began to rend itself apart and the people of the region were faced with confusion and difficult choices. Still, the mail often went through despite raids by Confederates, Mexicans, and Apaches.

Spur Award-winning author Doug Hocking has completed advanced studies in American history, ethnology, and historical archaeology. Raised on the Jicarilla Apache Reservation, Doug retired from the U.S. Army after serving in Military Intelligence and as an officer in Armored Cavalry. He is the author of many award-winning books of Southwest history, including Southwest Train Robberies (2023); Terror on the Santa Fe Trail (2019), a history of the Jicarilla tribe; Tom Jeffords, Friend of Cochise (2017); and Black Legend (2018), about an 1861 Incident at Apache Pass said to have started the Chiricahua War. He has won the Spur Award, the Will Rogers Medallion, the Co-founders’ Award for Best History, and the Danielson for best presentation. His website can be reached at https://doughocking.com/.

DINNER
Each member will order off the Pinnacle Peak menu (www.pinnaclepeaktucson.com/menu/). You may order a full meal, an appetizer, salad, or even just dessert and coffee. Cost depends on what you order. Drinks may be ordered from the bar. Payment is to Pinnacle Peak, the same as with any restaurant meal.



Please send Round-up editor Jim Corrick ([email protected]; 520-321-0314; or 4402 East Cooper Circle, Tucson, AZ 85711-4260), corral-related news (editor reserves the right to decide what will run).

Also notify Jim about e-mail or address changes so that he can keep the membership roster up to date and so that you receive your Round-up each month.

Dinner Menu Welcome to Tucson’s steakhouse, Pinnacle Peak! We have been serving the good people of Tucson since 1962. Family-owned and locally operated, Pinnacle Peak takes great pride in serving real Western food in an authentic Old West atmosphere. Over the decades, we have become famous for ser...

04/16/2026

ADOBE CORRAL ROUND-UP


April 2026


Date: Tuesday, April 28, 2026
Time 5:30 p.m. (place your order)
Place: Pinnacle Peak Steakhouse, 6541 East Tanque Verde Road (Trail Dust Town)
Reservations: For reservations, contact Theresa Hackney: please call or send text to 520-609-8614 or send email to [email protected] by Monday, April 20.

Reservations are still necessary so that Pinnacle Peak will know how many tables to set up and how many servers to assign to us.

Please arrive by 5:30 so you can put in your order and so we can be served dinner by 6:15. Each of us will be responsible for paying his or her own bill, just as with any restaurant meal.

Bring Guests!


PROGRAM
Our speaker this month is Adobe Corral member Jennifer Jenkins, whose talk will be “Screening Americans: Cinema and Citizenship at War Relocation Authority Camps in Arizona, 1942–46.” In this talk Jennifer will examine what kinds of films were shown at Gila and Poston Japanese incarceration camps, and what agenda those programs served. Titles and genres of films suggest that cinema may have been used not merely for leisure and crowd control, but for indoctrination and reinforcement of perceived American values of the time. Screening Americans seeks to uncover the untold social and cultural history of highly-controlled cinema spectatorship in the lives of Americans sequestered in the U.S. Southwest during WWII. This topic is part of a larger book project.

Jennifer Jenkins is Professor and Director of the Southwest Center at the University of Arizona. Her research is dedicated to the history of vernacular cinema and cinemagoing in the US-Mexico borderlands in the 20th century.



DINNER
Each member will order off the Pinnacle Peak menu (www.pinnaclepeaktucson.com/menu/). You may order a full meal, an appetizer, salad, or even just dessert and coffee. Cost depends on what you order. Drinks may be ordered from the bar. Payment is to Pinnacle Peak, the same as with any restaurant meal.



Please send Round-up editor Jim Corrick ([email protected]; 520-321-0314; or 4402 East Cooper Circle, Tucson, AZ 85711-4260), corral-related news (editor reserves the right to decide what will run).

Also notify Jim about e-mail or address changes so that he can keep the membership roster up to date and so that you receive your Round-up each month.

Dinner Menu Welcome to Tucson’s steakhouse, Pinnacle Peak! We have been serving the good people of Tucson since 1962. Family-owned and locally operated, Pinnacle Peak takes great pride in serving real Western food in an authentic Old West atmosphere. Over the decades, we have become famous for ser...

03/16/2026

ADOBE CORRAL ROUND-UP


March 2026


Date: Tuesday, March 31, 2026
Time 5:30 p.m. (place your order)
Place: Pinnacle Peak Steakhouse, 6541 East Tanque Verde Road (Trail Dust Town)
Reservations: For reservations, contact Theresa Hackney: please call or send text to 520-609-8614 or send email to [email protected] by Monday, March 23.

Reservations are still necessary so that Pinnacle Peak will know how many tables to set up and how many servers to assign to us.

Please arrive by 5:30 so you can put in your order and so we can be served dinner by 6:15. Each of us will be responsible for paying his or her own bill, just as with any restaurant meal.

Bring Guests!


PROGRAM
Our speaker this month is Jim Turner, whose talk will be “Apache History and Culture.” On March 25, 1886, Geronimo said to General George Crook, "Once I moved about like the wind. Now I surrender to you and that is all.” This talk examines the history of the Apache from military records, diaries, leading scholars, and even Geronimo’s 1906 autobiography. It also describes Apache spiritual beliefs, ceremonies, and folkways.

Jim Turner earned his master’s in U.S. History at the University of Arizona and worked as Historian for the Arizona Historical Society for eight years, during which time he worked with more than 70 local museums across the state. He retired and became an author/editor for Rio Nuevo publishers, where he authored six books and co-authored or edited a dozen more. He created self-guided audio tours of historic downtown Tucson, Tombstone, and Old Town Scottsdale for a GPS-directed app called VoiceMap. His website can be reached at https://www.jimturnerhistorian.org.


DINNER
Each member will order off the Pinnacle Peak menu (www.pinnaclepeaktucson.com/menu/). You may order a full meal, an appetizer, salad, or even just dessert and coffee. Cost depends on what you order. Drinks may be ordered from the bar. Payment is to Pinnacle Peak, the same as with any restaurant meal.



Please send Round-up editor Jim Corrick ([email protected]; 520-321-0314; or 4402 East Cooper Circle, Tucson, AZ 85711-4260), corral-related news (editor reserves the right to decide what will run).

Also notify Jim about e-mail or address changes so that he can keep the membership roster up to date and so that you receive your Round-up each month.

Dinner Menu Welcome to Tucson’s steakhouse, Pinnacle Peak! We have been serving the good people of Tucson since 1962. Family-owned and locally operated, Pinnacle Peak takes great pride in serving real Western food in an authentic Old West atmosphere. Over the decades, we have become famous for ser...

03/16/2026

ADOBE CORRAL ROUND-UP


March 2026


Date: Tuesday, March 31, 2026
Time 5:30 p.m. (place your order)
Place: Pinnacle Peak Steakhouse, 6541 East Tanque Verde Road (Trail Dust Town)
Reservations: For reservations, contact Theresa Hackney: please call or send text to 520-609-8614 or send email to [email protected] by Monday, March 23.

Reservations are still necessary so that Pinnacle Peak will know how many tables to set up and how many servers to assign to us.

Please arrive by 5:30 so you can put in your order and so we can be served dinner by 6:15. Each of us will be responsible for paying his or her own bill, just as with any restaurant meal.

Bring Guests!


PROGRAM
Our speaker this month is Jim Turner, whose talk will be “Apache History and Culture.” On March 25, 1886, Geronimo said to General George Crook, "Once I moved about like the wind. Now I surrender to you and that is all.” This talk examines the history of the Apache from military records, diaries, leading scholars, and even Geronimo’s 1906 autobiography. It also describes Apache spiritual beliefs, ceremonies, and folkways.

Jim Turner earned his master’s in U.S. History at the University of Arizona and worked as Historian for the Arizona Historical Society for eight years, during which time he worked with more than 70 local museums across the state. He retired and became an author/editor for Rio Nuevo publishers, where he authored six books and co-authored or edited a dozen more. He created self-guided audio tours of historic downtown Tucson, Tombstone, and Old Town Scottsdale for a GPS-directed app called VoiceMap. His website can be reached at https://www.jimturnerhistorian.org.


DINNER
Each member will order off the Pinnacle Peak menu (www.pinnaclepeaktucson.com/menu/). You may order a full meal, an appetizer, salad, or even just dessert and coffee. Cost depends on what you order. Drinks may be ordered from the bar. Payment is to Pinnacle Peak, the same as with any restaurant meal.

Dinner Menu Welcome to Tucson’s steakhouse, Pinnacle Peak! We have been serving the good people of Tucson since 1962. Family-owned and locally operated, Pinnacle Peak takes great pride in serving real Western food in an authentic Old West atmosphere. Over the decades, we have become famous for ser...

02/09/2026

ADOBE CORRAL ROUND-UP


February 2026


Date: Tuesday, February 24, 2026
Time 5:30 p.m. (place your order)
Place: Pinnacle Peak Steakhouse, 6541 East Tanque Verde Road (Trail Dust Town)
Reservations: For reservations, contact Theresa Hackney: please call or send text to 520-609-8614 or send email to [email protected] by Monday, February 16.

Reservations are still necessary so that Pinnacle Peak will know how many tables to set up and how many servers to assign to us.

Please arrive by 5:30 so you can put in your order and so we can be served dinner by 6:15. Each of us will be responsible for paying his or her own bill, just as with any restaurant meal.

Bring Guests!


PROGRAM
Our speaker this month is Jacquelyn Kasper, whose talk will be "Sarah Herring Sorin: Arizona's Trailblazing Lawyer." Born in 1861, Sarah Herring Sorin was Arizona's first woman attorney and the first woman to try a case in front of the United States Supreme Court unassisted by a male attorney.

Jacquelyn Kasper is a retired law librarian from the University of Arizona College of Law. She is a graduate of Kansas Wesleyan University (B.A.), USC (M.S.L.S.), and UA (J.D.). Her research interests are Arizonan legal history and women's legal history.


DINNER
Each member will order off the Pinnacle Peak menu (www.pinnaclepeaktucson.com/menu/). You may order a full meal, an appetizer, salad, or even just dessert and coffee. Cost depends on what you order. Drinks may be ordered from the bar. Payment is to Pinnacle Peak, the same as with any restaurant meal.



Please send Round-up editor Jim Corrick ([email protected]; 520-321-0314; or 4402 East Cooper Circle, Tucson, AZ 85711-4260), corral-related news (editor reserves the right to decide what will run).

Also notify Jim about e-mail or address changes so that he can keep the membership roster up to date and so that you receive your Round-up each month.

Dinner Menu Welcome to Tucson’s steakhouse, Pinnacle Peak! We have been serving the good people of Tucson since 1962. Family-owned and locally operated, Pinnacle Peak takes great pride in serving real Western food in an authentic Old West atmosphere. Over the decades, we have become famous for ser...

01/28/2026

Nancy Sosa’s talk on Tombstone.

01/16/2026

ADOBE CORRAL ROUND-UP


January 2026


Date: Tuesday, January 27, 2026
Time 5:30 p.m. (place your order)
Place: Pinnacle Peak Steakhouse, 6541 East Tanque Verde Road (Trail Dust Town)
Reservations: For reservations, contact Theresa Hackney: please call or send text to 520-609-8614 or send email to [email protected] by Monday, January 19.

Reservations are still necessary so that Pinnacle Peak will know how many tables to set up and how many servers to assign to us.

Please arrive by 5:30 so you can put in your order and so we can be served dinner by 6:15. Each of us will be responsible for paying his or her own bill, just as with any restaurant meal.

Bring Guests!


PROGRAM
Our speaker this month is corral member Nancy Sosa, whose talk is “To Walk Where They Fell, Becoming Too Tough To Die.” Nancy will explain how Tombstone rose from the dust of gunfights and flooded mines to be reborn as THE legendary tourist destination of the once Wild West.

Nancy Sosa is a 6th generation Tombstone descendant. She is an author and independent historical researcher, specializing in Tombstone, Cochise County, and Territorial Arizona.


DINNER
Each member will order off the Pinnacle Peak menu (www.pinnaclepeaktucson.com/menu/). You may order a full meal, an appetizer, salad, or even just dessert and coffee. Cost depends on what you order. Drinks may be ordered from the bar. Payment is to Pinnacle Peak, the same as with any restaurant meal.

Adobe Corral Election:

The Adobe Corral will hold its election of officers at theJanuary 27 meeting. The candidates are:

Sheriff: Gil Storms

Recorder of Marks and Brands: Jim Corrick

Keeper of the Chips: Kathleen Halstead

Chuck Wagon Boss: Theresa Hackney


Please send Round-up editor Jim Corrick ([email protected]; 520-321-0314; or 4402 East Cooper Circle, Tucson, AZ 85711-4260), corral-related news (editor reserves the right to decide what will run).

Also notify Jim about e-mail or address changes so that he can keep the membership roster up to date and so that you receive your Round-up each month.

Dinner Menu Welcome to Tucson’s steakhouse, Pinnacle Peak! We have been serving the good people of Tucson since 1962. Family-owned and locally operated, Pinnacle Peak takes great pride in serving real Western food in an authentic Old West atmosphere. Over the decades, we have become famous for ser...

11/29/2025

CALL FOR PAPERS
Tombstone Territory Rendezvous Annual Symposium
October 20-26, 2026

Tombstone Territory Rendezvous (TTR) invites proposals for papers to be presented at its 16th annual Symposium, October 20-26, 2026. All symposium sessions will be held in Schieffelin Hall, Tombstone’s historic, public meeting house.

The topic for our 2026 symposium is “Gunbattle on Fremont Street: The ‘O.K. Corral’ Gunfight, from Questionable Justice to Legendary Heroes.” Individual presentation and panel proposals should relate to this topic. However, many variations on the topic are possible, from new research on the gunfight itself and the participants to events that led up to the gunfight, the court hearing that followed and those who took part in it, the supporters of both sides that emerged before and after the gunfight, the continuing conflict between the Earps and “cowboys” that unfolded after the gunfight, the political implications of the gunfight, and the gunfight’s portrayal in newspaper accounts, movies, and TV shows. Scholarship about the gunfight has an interesting history of its own and also might be the subject of presentations.

We invite proposals for individual presentations and panels. Sessions for individual presentations will be 45 minutes long (35 minutes for a presentation and 10 minutes for questions). Panels will be 90 minutes long and should have no more than three presenters and a moderator. Panelists can decide how they want to allocate their time. Presenters who are unable to make the trip to Tombstone may give their presentations via Zoom. If you would like to do this, please let us know in your proposal.

The due date for proposals is May 1, 2026. Proposals will be evaluated by the Program Committee in the order they are received. Presenters will be notified of acceptance by Friday June 12, 2026. Proposals should contain the following information.

A. Presenters
• Presenter’s name
• Street address or PO Box
• Telephone
• E-mail address
B. Proposal Content
• Proposal is for
___ Individual presentation
___ Panel
___ Other type of presentation with special time request
• Presenter’s name or the name of each panelist and moderator
• Title of the individual presentation or of the panel and each presentation in the panel
• Brief biographical statement for each presenter and moderator
• Brief abstract or summary of each presentation, not to exceed one page

Please send proposals to Gil Storms, TTR Symposium Program Chair, [email protected].

11/17/2025

ADOBE CORRAL ROUND-UP


December 2025


Date: Tuesday, December 2, 2025
Time 5:30 p.m. (place your order)
Place: Pinnacle Peak Steakhouse, 6541 East Tanque Verde Road (Trail Dust Town)
Reservations: For reservations, contact Theresa Hackney: please call or send text to 520-609-8614 or send email to [email protected] by Monday, November 24.

Reservations are still necessary so that Pinnacle Peak will know how many tables to set up and how many servers to assign to us.

Please arrive by 5:30 so you can put in your order and so we can be served dinner by 6:15. Each of us will be responsible for paying his or her own bill, just as with any restaurant meal.

Bring Guests!


PROGRAM
Our speaker this month is Katya Peterson, whose talk will be about the career of Tucson icon Cele Peterson. For decades, Cele’s store in downtown Tucson was special when downtown was the only place to shop. Cele was not only important to the Tucson fashion scene, but also well known for her philanthropy and her contributions to Tucson’s history. She continued working for Tucson even past her 100th birthday.

Katya Peterson is Cele’s daughter and will share stories of her mother’s many activities and contributions over the years.


DINNER
Each member will order off the Pinnacle Peak menu (www.pinnaclepeaktucson.com/menu/). You may order a full meal, an appetizer, salad, or even just dessert and coffee. Cost depends on what you order. Drinks may be ordered from the bar. Payment is to Pinnacle Peak, the same as with any restaurant meal.

Annual Dues (2025–26): It is time to pay membership dues for 2025–26: $25.00 for a single member or $45.00 for a couple living at the same address. You may bring a check to the September meeting, or you may send a check for dues to our treasurer, Kathleen Halstead, 1817 N. Wrightstown Place, Tucson, AZ 85715. Make checks payable to the Adobe Corral. Thank you.


Please send Round-up editor Jim Corrick ([email protected]; 520-321-0314; or 4402 East Cooper Circle, Tucson, AZ 85711-4260), corral-related news (editor reserves the right to decide what will run).

Also notify Jim about e-mail or address changes so that he can keep the membership roster up to date and so that you receive your Round-up each month.

Dinner Menu Welcome to Tucson’s steakhouse, Pinnacle Peak! We have been serving the good people of Tucson since 1962. Family-owned and locally operated, Pinnacle Peak takes great pride in serving real Western food in an authentic Old West atmosphere. Over the decades, we have become famous for ser...

09/10/2025

ADOBE CORRAL ROUND-UP


Septenber 2025


Date: Tuesday, September 30, 2025
Time 5:30 p.m. (place your order)
Place: Pinnacle Peak Steakhouse, 6541 East Tanque Verde Road (Trail Dust Town)
Reservations: For reservations, contact Theresa Hackney: please call or send text to 520-609-8614 or send email to [email protected] by Monday, September 22.

Reservations are still necessary so that Pinnacle Peak will know how many tables to set up and how many servers to assign to us.

Please arrive by 5:30 so you can put in your order and so we can be served dinner by 6:15. Each of us will be responsible for paying his or her own bill, just as with any restaurant meal.

Bring Guests!


PROGRAM
Our speaker this month is Carolyn Niethammer, whose talk will be “Turning Fact Into Fiction: Another Way to Approach History.” Carolyn is a journalist and nonfiction writer, who after nine books on food and Native American women, amused herself by writing two historical novels. The Piano Player (Wild Oats, 2014) is set in 1880s Tombstone and 1889 Gold Rush Alaska and includes both historical and fictional characters. Leaping ahead a century, Carolyn’s latest novel, Everything We Thought We Knew (Booklocker.com, 2025), takes place on an Arizona commune in the 1970s, a time and movement that reverberates today in the phrases we use and the food we eat. The catch phrase is s*x, drugs and rock ‘n roll, but it’s also antiwar protests, men returning from Vietnam, and the quest to remake society in a less corporate mode.

Carolyn is especially proud of her award-winning book A Desert Feast: Celebrating Tucson’s Culinary History (University of Arizona Press, 2020), a 4,000-year history of food in the Santa Cruz Valley and an explanation of why Tucson was named a UNESCO City of Gastronomy.


DINNER
Each member will order off the Pinnacle Peak menu (www.pinnaclepeaktucson.com/menu/). You may order a full meal, an appetizer, salad, or even just dessert and coffee. Cost depends on what you order. Drinks may be ordered from the bar. Payment is to Pinnacle Peak, the same as with any restaurant meal.



Annual Dues (2025–26): It is time to pay membership dues for 2025–26: $25.00 for a single member or $45.00 for a couple living at the same address. You may bring a check to the September meeting, or you may send a check for dues to our treasurer, Kathleen Halstead, 1817 N. Wrightstown Place, Tucson, AZ 85715. Make checks payable to the Adobe Corral. Thank you.


Please send Round-up editor Jim Corrick ([email protected]; 520-321-0314; or 4402 East Cooper Circle, Tucson, AZ 85711-4260), corral-related news (editor reserves the right to decide what will run).

Also notify Jim about e-mail or address changes so that he can keep the membership roster up to date and so that you receive your Round-up each month.

Dinner Menu Welcome to Tucson’s steakhouse, Pinnacle Peak! We have been serving the good people of Tucson since 1962. Family-owned and locally operated, Pinnacle Peak takes great pride in serving real Western food in an authentic Old West atmosphere. Over the decades, we have become famous for ser...