Joseph Reddeford Walker And The Arizona Adventure
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Joseph Reddeford Walker And The Arizona Adventure
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Author : Daniel Ellis Conner
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2016-02
Joseph Reddeford Walker And The Arizona Adventure written by Daniel Ellis Conner and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Joseph Reddeford Walker looms large in the lore of the early West. From the Missouri to the San Joaquin, from the Gila to the Yellowstone, Walker spent more than thirty years—from the 1830s to the Civil War—trapping beaver in the Rockies, bartering with the Crow, Ute, Cheyenne, Arapahoe, and Shoshone Indians, droving cattle and horses, and guiding emigrants and explorers. Walker was associated with Captain Bonneville in the fur trade from 1832 to 1835, but we have only an incomplete account these years in Washington Irving’s, The Adventures of Captain Bonneville and Zenas Leonards, Narrative. But the twist of fate that threw Daniel Ellis Conner into Walker’s party, en route from Colorado to explore Arizona in 1861, affords us several hundred manuscript pages, Conner’s four-year travel diary, relating his hair-raising adventures with this great mountain man. Joseph Reddeford Walker and the Arizona Adventure offers a superb chapter in the history of the West. Included are tales of the early Apache wars in New Mexico and Arizona; “The Betrayal of Mangas Coloradas,” with Conner’s eyewitness account of the Apache chief’s death; the emigrant trains to California; early settlement; mining operations, in “The Perils of Prospecting,” and countless episodes of action and violence that make fictional accounts pale in comparison.
The Walker Party The Revised Story
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Author : Pieter Burggraaf
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2015-03-30
The Walker Party The Revised Story written by Pieter Burggraaf and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-30 with categories.
For over 150 years the accepted story about the Walker party's 1861-1863 expedition through the Southwest was based on a handwritten manuscript by D. E. Conner, a member and assumed historian of the party. The manuscript was published posthumously in 1956 as Joseph Reddeford Walker and the Arizona Adventure. Long thought to be based on notes taken while underway, detailed research reveals that much of what Conner wrote was based on embellished writing and a generous dose of hindsight bias using observations written by others who were in the Southwest before the Walker party. The Walker Party, The Revised Story is a fresh look at the party's formation in California and route into New Mexico Territory, and an analysis of the adventures of these rugged men, including their: * Flight from advancing Confederate troops in New Mexico Territory; * Return to Santa Fe once the territorial capital was back under Union control; * Obtaining passports to travel in the territory; * Encounters with Apaches along the Rio Grande; * Stops at forts Craig, McLane, and West; * Questionable involvement in the capture and death of Apache chief Mangas Coloradas; * Prospecting for reported "sands freighted with gold" near the headwaters of the Gila River; * Passage by San Xavier del Bac and through Tucson; * Approach to and encampment at Maricopa Wells among the Pimas and Maricopas; and * Route to and up the Hassayampa River and discovery of gold in central Arizona Territory. Why is "The Revised Story" an important book? Joseph Reddeford Walker and the Arizona Adventure by D. E. Conner is long out of print and largely unavailable, even at the finest libraries. However, assumed facts from Conner's book have been widely quoted in many histories about the 1860s Southwest. These quotes have not always been consistent with what Conner wrote, aside from questioning whether Conner was right in the first place. Certain key episodes that Conner wrote about, particularly the capture of Apache chief Mangas Coloradas and the details of the Walker party's ascent of what would become the Hassayampa River, both of which Conner seemingly made up to a large extent, have been perpetuated in the works of some highly acclaimed historians. The Walker Party, The Revised Story is an important book because it is transformative. It sets the records straight and corrects widely used incorrect details. Book format: A quality paperback, 274 pages with a comfortable font size, 14 custom maps with detailed captions, an extensive bibliography, and an image of a mid-1800s painting spread across the front and back covers illustrating the period view north from the Pima-Maricopa villages, the view that the men of the Walker party would have seen in 1863.
Shadows At Dawn
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Author : Karl Jacoby
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2009-11-24
Shadows At Dawn written by Karl Jacoby and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-11-24 with History categories.
A masterful reconstruction of one of the worst Indian massacres in American history In April 1871, a group of Americans, Mexicans, and Tohono O?odham Indians surrounded an Apache village at dawn and murdered nearly 150 men, women, and children in their sleep. In the past century the attack, which came to be known as the Camp Grant Massacre, has largely faded from memory. Now, drawing on oral histories, contemporary newspaper reports, and the participants? own accounts, prize-winning author Karl Jacoby brings this perplexing incident and tumultuous era to life to paint a sweeping panorama of the American Southwest?a world far more complex, diverse, and morally ambiguous than the traditional portrayals of the Old West.
The Three Cornered War
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Author : Megan Kate Nelson
language : en
Publisher: Scribner
Release Date : 2021-02-16
The Three Cornered War written by Megan Kate Nelson and has been published by Scribner this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-16 with History categories.
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History A dramatic, riveting, and “fresh look at a region typically obscured in accounts of the Civil War. American history buffs will relish this entertaining and eye-opening portrait” (Publishers Weekly). Megan Kate Nelson “expands our understanding of how the Civil War affected Indigenous peoples and helped to shape the nation” (Library Journal, starred review), reframing the era as one of national conflict—involving not just the North and South, but also the West. Against the backdrop of this larger series of battles, Nelson introduces nine individuals: John R. Baylor, a Texas legislator who established the Confederate Territory of Arizona; Louisa Hawkins Canby, a Union Army wife who nursed Confederate soldiers back to health in Santa Fe; James Carleton, a professional soldier who engineered campaigns against Navajos and Apaches; Kit Carson, a famous frontiersman who led a regiment of volunteers against the Texans, Navajos, Kiowas, and Comanches; Juanita, a Navajo weaver who resisted Union campaigns against her people; Bill Davidson, a soldier who fought in all of the Confederacy’s major battles in New Mexico; Alonzo Ickis, an Iowa-born gold miner who fought on the side of the Union; John Clark, a friend of Abraham Lincoln’s who embraced the Republican vision for the West as New Mexico’s surveyor-general; and Mangas Coloradas, a revered Chiricahua Apache chief who worked to expand Apache territory in Arizona. As we learn how these nine charismatic individuals fought for self-determination and control of the region, we also see the importance of individual actions in the midst of a larger military conflict. Based on letters and diaries, military records and oral histories, and photographs and maps from the time, “this history of invasions, battles, and forced migration shapes the United States to this day—and has never been told so well” (Pulitzer Prize–winning author T.J. Stiles).
My Arizona Adventures
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Author : Al Bates
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2004-02-26
My Arizona Adventures written by Al Bates and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-02-26 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
My Arizona Adventures is the true first-person account of an authentic American pioneer. When Tom Sanders came to Arizonas central highlands there was nothing there; there were no roads, no towns, no law, and no protection from marauding Indians. There was nothing there but opportunities for the strong, resolute and lucky. The year was 1863, Arizona had just become a separate Territory and its vast central interior was the last unknown area of the United States. That changed when a party of adventurers led by the legendary Joseph R. Walker found gold at the headwaters of the Hassayampa River and a new gold rush was underway. One of the early arrivals was young Tom Sanders who turned 18 shortly after his arrival at the new diggings. In the next six decades Tom was a miner, farmer, freighter and rancher while Arizona evolved from wilderness territory to 48th state. Tom was a gifted storyteller. His descriptions of the difficulties and challenges of freighting over the primitive roads between the isolated communities of Arizona Territory are understated but vivid and add much to our understanding of the frontier economy.
Rebels In The Rockies
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Author : Walter Earl Pittman
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2014-07-15
Rebels In The Rockies written by Walter Earl Pittman and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-15 with History categories.
The Civil War in 1861 found Southerners a minority throughout the West. Early efforts to create military forces were quickly suppressed. Many returned to the South to fight while others remained where they were, forming a potentially disloyal population. Underground movements existed throughout the war in Colorado, California, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona and even Idaho. Repeatedly betrayed and overwhelmed by Union forces and without communications with the South, these groups were ineffective. In southern New Mexico, Southerners, who were the majority, aligned themselves with the Confederacy. Four small companies of irregulars, one Hispanic, fought (effectively) as part of the abortive Confederate invasion force of 1861-2. The most famous of these, the "Brigands," were close in function to a modern special forces unit. In 1862 the Brigands were sent into Colorado to join up with a secret army of 600-1,000 men massing there, but were betrayed. Returning to Texas, the Brigands and the other irregulars were used for special operations in the West throughout the War; they also fought in the Louisiana-Arkansas campaigns of 1863-4.
The Bible On The Lost Dutchman Gold Mine And Jacob Waltz
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Author : Helen Corbin
language : en
Publisher: American Traveler Press
Release Date : 2002
The Bible On The Lost Dutchman Gold Mine And Jacob Waltz written by Helen Corbin and has been published by American Traveler Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with History categories.
The first book in history that documents Waltz from birth to the grave. This landmark text offers historical proof, such as ship manifests and German translations of his infamous directions to the mine, and all major speculations that have occurred in the hundreds of books published in the 111 years following Waltz's death.
Coolidge Dam Pinal County Arizona
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Author : David M. Introcaso
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986
Coolidge Dam Pinal County Arizona written by David M. Introcaso and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Coolidge Dam (Ariz.) categories.
Westering Man
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Author : Bil Gilbert
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 1985
Westering Man written by Bil Gilbert and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with History categories.
Reprint. Originally published: New York: Atheneum, 1983.
Arizona
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Author : Thomas E. Sheridan
language : en
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Release Date : 1995
Arizona written by Thomas E. Sheridan and has been published by University of Arizona Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with History categories.
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.