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5 unusual facts about Littlefield


Littlefield, Arizona

Littlefield and neighboring Beaver Dam have the distinction of being the only towns in Arizona along I-15.

Virgin River

The river then flows across the northwestern corner of Arizona through the Virgin River Gorge and past the towns of Beaver Dam and Littlefield.

Virgin River Gorge

The Virgin River Gorge, located between St. George, Utah, and Littlefield, Arizona, is a long canyon that has been carved out by the Virgin River in northwest Arizona.

Virgin spinedace

The Virgin spinedance is also found in Mohave County, Arizona, in the lower Beaver Dam Wash to its confluence with the Virgin River at Littlefield.

Yellow Knolls

Yellow Knolls is approximately 15-mi northeast of Littlefield-Beaver Dam, Arizona in the northeast of the Virgin Valley, and about 20-mi southwest of St. George, Utah.


Brent Littlefield

Littlefield grew up in Winn, a small town in Penobscot County, Maine, where he spent a great deal of time in and around paper mills, where his father worked.

Carson Beckett

Paul McGillion's first role in the Stargate franchise was playing the young Dr. Ernest Littlefield in the early Stargate SG-1 episode "The Torment of Tantalus" in 1997.

He is portrayed by Scottish-born Canadian actor Paul McGillion, who previously played Dr. Ernest Littlefield in the first season of SG-1.

Dick Littlefield

Richard Bernard "Dick" Littlefield (March 18, 1926 – November 20, 1997) was an American left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for nine teams between 1950 and 1958.

Ferdinand von Schill

Sam Mustafa, The Long Ride of Major von Schill (Rowman & Littlefield, 2008)

George W. Littlefield

Works on Littlefield include David B. Gracy, II, George Washington Littlefield: A Biography in Business (Ph.D. dissertation; Texas Tech University, 1971) and J. Evetts Haley's George W. Littlefield, Texan (1943; through the University of Oklahoma Press in Norman, Oklahoma).

He believed that the UT textbooks were too Northern-focused; so in 1914, he established the "Littlefield Fund for Southern History" to amass the archival sources which the historian Eugene C. Barker told him were needed to obtain a more accurate writing of history.

Littlefield Unified School District

With enrollment steadily climbing, the governing board of the district enlisted the assistance of the newly established Arizona School Facilities Board to assist in the construction of a new school across the Interstate 15 freeway, and in 1996, then-Arizona governor Fife Symington arrived at the Littlefield School with a $3 million check to the district.

Martha Wentworth

Having had a long radio career since the early 1920s, listeners recognised her as The Wintergreen Witch on The Cinnamon Bear radio program (1937), Annie Wood and Mrs. Littlefield on Crime Classics (1953), Ma Danields on The Gallant Heart (1944), as well several semi-regular roles on Broadway Is My Beat, On Stage, The Abbott and Costello Show.

Sandy Montenegro Littlefield

Sandy established the Sandy Montenegro-Littlefield Fellowship at Harvard Business School.

Sign Post Forest

Littlefield and her fellow actors performed the piece for travelers who were likewise stranded in Watson Lake by the mudslides.

University Press

University Press of America, an academic book publisher, part of the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group

Yvonne Littlefield

Littlefield later was divorced from Betts and married John Nicks.


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