Robert Nelson Author Robert Nelson is an award-winning Phoenix journalist whose own family first settled in Arizona City, later Yuma, in 1869. His greatgreat-uncle, John Dorrington, owned and edited the Yuma Sentinel for 30 years while serving four times in the teritorial legislature. Nelson, who wrote this book with assistance from the Arizona Historical Society and the Arizona Historical Foundation, is also working on a book about Dorrington and the family's ideological roots in the pre-Civil War abolitionist movement. Read More Read Less