Adobe Corral of the Westerners

10/12/2026

ADOBE CORRAL ROUND-UP


October 2026


Date: Tuesday, October 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, October 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
This month’s speaker is Chris Novak, whose talk will be “Collaborative Archeological Findings of the Coronado's 1540–1541 Expedition into Arizona and Kansas.” He will describe the origins of the Rio Rico Historical Society and Museum and its involvement with the village of Calabasas and the Arizona Corondo Project.

Chris Novak received his B.S. in geology from the University of Arizona and then did field work in Alaska, Canada, and South America as an exploration geologist. After retirement, he moved back to southern Arizona and bought a home in Rio Rico. He joined the Rio Rico Historical Society and conducted very popular geology/history tours of the area. He became museum curator and docent trainer and coordinator and then was elected museum president this year. Currently he is volunteering as resident geologist on Dr. Deni Seymour’s quest to discover Francisco Vásquez de Coronado’s expedition route through Santa Cruz County in 1540–1542 and elsewhere.

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 (2026–27): It is time to pay membership dues for 2026–27: $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...

09/22/2026

09/21/2026

Just a quick reminder about the Adobe Corral’s September meeting, with dinner reservations due by tomorrow, Monday, September 21.


Date: Tuesday, September 29, 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 21.


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!

Speaker

This month’s speaker is Adobe Corral member Jan Cleere, whose talk will be “The Bold, Brave, Gutsy Women of Arizona’s Past.”


Annual Dues (2026–27): It is time to pay membership dues for 2026–27: $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.

06/16/2026

ADOBE CORRAL ROUND-UP


June 2026


Date: Tuesday, June 30, 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, June 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
This month’s speaker is Adobe Corral sheriff Gil Storms, whose talk is “Tombstone's Forgotten Era, 1890–1910." What happened to Tombstone, AT, when the silver mining boom of 1879–1886 ended? Gil’s talk will explain why the silver mines closed; what happened to the mining camp when silver mining ended; how Tombstone recovered and had a second mining boom; and how that, too, ended.

Gil Storms has a Ph.D. in English and taught at Miami University (Ohio) for 30 years. He is the author of Reconnaissance in Sonora: Charles D. Poston’s Exploration of Mexico and the Gadsden Purchase and Raphael Pumpelly’s Arizona: The Frontier Adventures of a Young Mining Engineer, which was a finalist for a Western Writers of America Spur Award and won an Independent Press Award for best book of nonfiction history in 2024. His articles have appeared in The Journal of Arizona History, the Wild West History Association Journal, and Desert Tracks. His article “Raphael Pumpelly Travels the Devil’s Highway” won a WWHA award for Best Historical/Scholarly Article in 2022, and his presentation on “Raphael Pumpelly and the Apaches” won a TTR Award for Best Presentation, 2021. He is a member of the TTR Board of Governors.


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]; 520-548-3415 (text or call) 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...

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...