"Covers so many subjects—Indian relations, the Mexican War, boundary problems, the Gadsden Purchase, ranching, architecture, local politics, and much more—that no brief notice could possibly summarize this huge and well-researched book."—Southwest Review "An encyclopedic and exemplary work. . . . Officer's book will undoubtedly become a landmark in Arizona's ...
Features of the current edition include: 120 pages of text in paperback sixe format with two authentic maps. Fully indexed! The text of every article exactly as it orginally appeared. Size 5.5" x 8.5" Two Maps included: Territory of Arizona 1883. One Page. Outline Map of the Field of Operations aganst Hostile Chiricahua Indians. Two Pages.
Tour Northern Arizona through 374 vintage postcards and other color images. See the Grand Canyon, the White Mountain lakes, Oak Creek Canyon, and the Petrified Forest, the home of Navajo Native Americans. The ever changing beauty of the 270-million-year-old Grand Canyon and the surrounding areas is featured. Postcard collectors will find this book a valuabe resource of this region's cards.
In this carefully researched study, Ball shows that few southwestern sheriffs were genuine gunmen. Wielding firearms with nerve and determination in the line of duty, however, was expected of them by their constituents.
In the spring of 1916, an unknown photographer captured the heart of Prescott, Arizona. For decades the fruits of that labor, a collection of glass plate negatives, lay largely forgotten in the local opera house and theater. Now, an historic western town comes to life as it once was, through images of the town's business district as found on those photographic plates. Step into a soda fountain, a ...