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Dispatches from the Fort Apache Scout
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 182

Dispatches from the Fort Apache Scout

"The book continues efforts to bridge Ndee (Apache) and non-Indian ideas about what happened in the past and why history matters today. It stakes out a common ground for understanding the earliest relations between very different groups: Apache, Spanish, Mexican, and American"--Provided by publisher.

Encyclopedia of Frontier Biography: A-F
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 554

Encyclopedia of Frontier Biography: A-F

Includes biographical information on 4,500 individuals associated with the frontier

Desert Lawmen
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 428

Desert Lawmen

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1996-03-01
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  • Publisher: UNM Press

Elected for two-year terms, frontier sheriffs were the principal peace-keepers in counties that were often larger than New England states. As officers of the court, they defended settlers and protected their property from the ever-present violence on the frontier. Their duties ranged from tracking down stagecoach robbers and serving court warrants to locking up drunks and quelling domestic disputes.The reality of their job embraced such mandane duties as being jail keepers, tax collectors, quarantine inspectors, court-appointed executioners, and dogcatchers.

Growing Up with the Country
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 372

Growing Up with the Country

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1989
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  • Publisher: UNM Press

This illustrated study shows how frontier life shaped children's character.

In the Owl's Eye
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 248

In the Owl's Eye

1885 Tucson, in the United States Arizona Territory, was the up and coming town in the American Southwest. In the Owl's Eye is about the abduction from Tucson, and brutal murder of a man and a woman whose bodies are dumped on the Barking Saguaros Ranch. Sam Patlock, the owner of the ranch, and his ranch foreman become embroiled in finding thesolution to the murder. The identity of the murdered woman sets the Tucson community up in arms, putting pressure on law enforcement to find a quick solution to the murder. The political implications of the murder set the prosecutor off on the goal of advancing his career. With the wrong man accused of the murder, and both Sam Patlock and the sheriff realizing his innocence, Sam and the Sheriff must find the killer and prove the wrongly accused man's innocence.

And Die in the West
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 484

And Die in the West

The gunfight at the O.K. Corral has excited the imaginations of Western enthusiasts ever since that chilly October afternoon in 1881 when Doc Holliday and the three fighting Earps strode along a Tombstone, Arizona, street to confront the Clanton and McLaury brothers. When they met, Billy Clanton and the two McLaurys were shot to death; the popular image of the Wild West was reinforced; and fuel was provided for countless arguments over the characters, motives, and actions of those involved. And Die in the West presents the first fully detailed, objective narrative of the celebrated gunfight, of the tensions leading up to it, and the bitter, bloody events that followed. Paula Mitchell Marks places the events surrounding the gunfight against a larger backdrop of a booming Tombstone and the fluid, frontier environment of greed, factions and violence. In the process, Marks strips away many of the myths associated with the famous gunfight and of the West in general.

Remarkable Arizona Women
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 215

Remarkable Arizona Women

Moving portraits of seventeen independent women who helped make Arizona what it is today Remarkable Arizona Women profiles the lives of seventeen of the state’s most fascinating figures—women from across Arizona, from many different backgrounds, and from various walks of life. Read about Sister Mary Fidelia McMahon, designer of a thriving Tucson hospital; Sharlot Mabridth Hall, poet and territorial historian;Pearl Hart, the original lady bandit; and Polingaysi Qöyawayma, a Hopi educator of thousands of young people. With enduring strength and compassion, these remarkable women broke through social, cultural, or political barriers to make contributions to society that still have an impact today. The third edition features new biographies of Laura Kerman, the Tohono O’odham seed saver; Sara Plummer Lemmon, nineteenth-century botanist and artist; and Ayra Hammonds Hackett, the only African American female newspaper owner in Arizona—and one of very few in the entire country. Each of these women demonstrated an independence of spirit that is as inspiring now as it was then. Read about their extraordinary lives in this captivating collection of biographies.

Cochise
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 529

Cochise

When it acquired New Mexico and Arizona, the United States inherited the territory of a people who had been a thorn in side of Mexico since 1821 and Spain before that. Known collectively as Apaches, these Indians lived in diverse, widely scattered groups with many names—Mescaleros, Chiricahuas, and Jicarillas, to name but three. Much has been written about them and their leaders, such as Geronimo, Juh, Nana, Victorio, and Mangas Coloradas, but no one wrote extensively about the greatest leader of them all: Cochise. Now, however, Edwin R. Sweeney has remedied this deficiency with his definitive biography. Cochise, a Chiricahua, was said to be the most resourceful, most brutal, most feared A...

Tam Blake & Co
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 309

Tam Blake & Co

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-04
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  • Publisher: OTCEditions

In 1540 Tam Blake, mercenary and adventurer, became the first recorded Scot in the New World. Since then, American-Scots have played an important part in all areas of American history, even among the Indian nations. This volume highlights the special qualities and heritage they have imparted to the world's most-powerful nation.

More Than Petticoats: Remarkable Arizona Women
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 179

More Than Petticoats: Remarkable Arizona Women

How did Arizona become the amazing state that it is today you may wonder? More than Petticoats: Remarkable Arizona Women recognizes the women who shaped "The Grand Canyon State." Female teachers, writers, entrepreneurs, and artists from across the state are illuminated through short biographies and archival photographs and paintings.