Granddaughter works to save Barry Goldwater photo collection

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — In Alison Goldwater Ross' earliest memories of her grandfather Barry Goldwater, there's always a 35mm camera hanging from his neck.

The senator photographed more than 15,000 images of Arizona's landscapes and Native Americans over his lifetime. Twenty years after Goldwater's death, Ross wants to preserve the Republican icon's photographs, with some newly digitized images showcased this month in Arizona Highways magazine and next month at Western Spirit: Scottsdale's Museum of the West.

The project was launched after Ross discussed her grandfather's work with her uncle Michael Goldwater, the family historian since the senator died in 1998 at the age of 89.