Email Author Michael Kiefer

2000 Stories by Michael Kiefer

• One Man's Meat

  published June 15, 2000

  Arizona State University anthropology professor Christy Turner, well-known for his thoughts on cannibalism among the Anasazi Indians, is himself... More >>

• Road Warrior

  published June 8, 2000

  In 1989, Erik Barnes bought a derelict ranch off U.S. Route 93 somewhere north of Wickenburg and south of the middle of nowhere. He'd made his... More >>

• Perpetual Heat

  published May 25, 2000

  On game day, Randy Johnson's face has more sharp angles than a Picasso painting. He's built like the Fahrvergnugen man, sticklike arms and... More >>

• Range Wars

  published April 20, 2000

  "I defy anyone to say this landscape has been harmed by grazing," says Peter Warren as he drives State Route 83 south toward Sonoita. Warren... More >>

• Habla Di, Habla Da, Strife Goes On

  published March 23, 2000

  When Tucson attorney William Morris died of a heart attack on March 11, he left behind a lawsuit that promises to be as divisive as the school... More >>

• Cold Shoulder

  published March 16, 2000

  Governor Jane Dee Hull says she's not interested in a proposal by Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt to federalize nearly 200,000 acres of state... More >>

• Spelunk, Spelunk, Fizz, Fizz

  published March 16, 2000

  As an employee of the Arizona State Parks Department, Matt Chew first entered Kartchner Caverns through a shaft drilled for access to the southern... More >>

• Babbitt's Secret Growth-Control Plan

  published March 2, 2000

  Two weeks ago, Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt slipped into Phoenix to talk to Governor Jane Dee Hull about a land trade proposal that... More >>

• Wolfing Down Beef

  published February 10, 2000

  When the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service released the eight wolves of the Gavilan pack as part of its Mexican gray wolf reintroduction experiment... More >>

• An ID Ahead of Its Time

  published January 27, 2000

  In 1994, a drifter named Scott Gilbert married Bob Hartle's ailing mother. Gilbert took out a mortgage on his new wife's home, emptied her bank... More >>

• The Art of Ordeal

  published January 13, 2000

  Ken Krusensterna knew he was in trouble the moment he knocked on the front door of Gabriela Leyva's house and it swung open from his touch. She... More >>