The Story Of Arizona
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Author | : Thomas E. Sheridan |
Publisher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780816515158 |
Thomas E. Sheridan has spent a lifetime in Arizona, "living off it and seeking refuge from it." He knows firsthand its canyons, forests, and deserts; he has seen its cities exploding with new growth; and, like many other people, he sometimes fears for its future. In this book, Sheridan sets forth new ideas about what a history should be. Arizona: A History explores the ways in which Native Americans, Hispanics, and Anglos have inhabited and exploited Arizona from the pursuit of the Naco mammoth 11,000 years ago to the financial adventurism of Charles Keating and others today. It also examines how perceptions of Arizona have changed, creating new constituencies of tourists, environmentalists, and outside business interests to challenge the dominance of ranchers, mining companies, and farmers who used to control the state. Sheridan emphasizes the crucial role of the federal government in Arizona's development throughout the book. As Sheridan writes about the past, his eyes are on the inevitable change and compromise of the present and future. He balances the gains and losses as global forces interact more and more with local cultural and environmental factors.
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Publisher | : Gibbs Smith |
Total Pages | : 439 |
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ISBN | : 1423625951 |
Author | : Will Henry Robinson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 486 |
Release | : 1919 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : Jim Turner |
Publisher | : Gibbs Smith |
Total Pages | : 339 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1423607422 |
"From geological origins and ancient peoples to high-tech industries and world-class golf resorts; from Spanish missions and mining boomtowns to ranching, tourism, and Navajo Code Talkers; from Monument Valley to the Tonto Basin to the Mexican border ... all celebrate the beauty of this majestic state!"--Back cover.
Author | : Ken Lamberton |
Publisher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 2015-02-19 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 0816528926 |
It seemed like a simple plan—visit fifty-two places in fifty-two weeks. But for author Ken Lamberton, a forty-five-year veteran of life in the Sonoran Desert, the entertaining results were anything but easy. In Chasing Arizona, Lamberton takes readers on a yearlong, twenty-thousand-mile joyride across Arizona during its centennial, racking up more than two hundred points of interest along the way. Lamberton chases the four corners of Arizona, attempts every county, every reservation, and every national monument and state park, from the smallest community to the largest city. He drives his Kia Rio through the longest tunnels and across the highest suspension bridges, hikes the hottest deserts, and climbs the tallest mountain, all while visiting the people, places, and treasures that make Arizona great. In the vivid, lyrical, often humorous prose the author is known for, each destination weaves together stories of history, nature, and people, along with entertaining side adventures and excursions. Maps and forty-four of the author’s detailed pencil drawings illustrate the journey. Chasing Arizona is unlike any book of its kind. It is an adventure story, a tale of Arizona, a road-warrior narrative. It is a quest to see and experience as much of Arizona as possible. Through intimate portrayals of people and place, readers deeply experience the Grand Canyon State and at the same time celebrate what makes Arizona a wonderful place to visit and live.
Author | : Marshall Trimble |
Publisher | : Doubleday Books |
Total Pages | : 472 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : History |
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Tells the history of the land and its people: the outlaws and prospectors, Apache and Navajo, cowboys and cattle rustlers, Mormons and Spanish who lived and died on Arizona soil.
Author | : Sidney Randolph De Long |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1905 |
Genre | : Arizona |
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Traces the settlement of the Arizona territory by the United States, from the Gadsden Purchase until the early 20th century, with descriptions of the geographies and economies of each county.
Author | : Chip Colwell |
Publisher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2015-09-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0816532656 |
Winner of a National Council on Public History Book Award On April 30, 1871, an unlikely group of Anglo-Americans, Mexican Americans, and Tohono O’odham Indians massacred more than a hundred Apache men, women, and children who had surrendered to the U.S. Army at Camp Grant, near Tucson, Arizona. Thirty or more Apache children were stolen and either kept in Tucson homes or sold into slavery in Mexico. Planned and perpetrated by some of the most prominent men in Arizona’s territorial era, this organized slaughter has become a kind of “phantom history” lurking beneath the Southwest’s official history, strangely present and absent at the same time. Seeking to uncover the mislaid past, this powerful book begins by listening to those voices in the historical record that have long been silenced and disregarded. Massacre at Camp Grant fashions a multivocal narrative, interweaving the documentary record, Apache narratives, historical texts, and ethnographic research to provide new insights into the atrocity. Thus drawing from a range of sources, it demonstrates the ways in which painful histories continue to live on in the collective memories of the communities in which they occurred. Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh begins with the premise that every account of the past is suffused with cultural, historical, and political characteristics. By paying attention to all of these aspects of a contested event, he provides a nuanced interpretation of the cultural forces behind the massacre, illuminates how history becomes an instrument of politics, and contemplates why we must study events we might prefer to forget.
Author | : Daniel J. Herman |
Publisher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 2012-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0816529396 |
Concerned with the Yavapai Indians (immigrants to Arizona in the 1100s from California) and the Dilzhe'e or Tonto Apache (who arrived in the 1500s from Canada) and coexisted in the Verde Valley and Tonto Basin below the Mogollon Rim and were conquered in the 1860s, which is where the discussion begins.
Author | : Stephanie Michelle Whittlesey |
Publisher | : Statistical Research |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781879442948 |
This book tells the story of water control and its impact on human history in Arizona as we understand it from Central Arizona Project archaeology.