Faraway Ranch Special History Study, Chiricahua National Monument

Faraway Ranch Special History Study, Chiricahua National Monument
Author: Elizabeth Wegman-French
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Total Pages: 228
Release: 2006
Genre: Chiricahua National Monument (Ariz.)
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The history of Faraway Ranch and the Erickson-Riggs family is a rich and complex story. However, if viewed simplistically as we often have, the Faraway Ranch story is one more tale of Western settlement. Two Swedidh immigrants, one a soldier and the other an officer's family servant, meet at a frontier military post, fall in love and decide to homestead along the banks of Bonita Creek in the Chiricahua Mountains.... (from the introduction).