Early Yuma< br /> At the end of the 19th century, outlaws opined they would rather kill themselves than be taken alive to certain slow-boiled death in the caldron of Yuma's territorial prison. But the residents looked at the prison as the finest structure in town. This photographic history is a salute to the pioneering men and women, the Quechan, Spanish, Mexican, and Anglos who looked past the arid landscape to envision a thriving river port. Softbound, 129 pages. $19.95