Arizona cavalcade; the turbulent times.
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New York,
Hastings House
[1962]
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Table of Contents:
- Arizona Cavalcade. Grand old Arizona ; Old settlers vs. new comers ; What's a Hassayamper? ; Arizonan-Arizonian ; Tale of Arizona
- Shrine of Christendom ; San Xavier del Bac
- Turbulent times. Battle of Apache Pass ; Battle of Skull Valley ; Battle of the caves ; Hopi Snake Dance ; Legend of the cliff dwellers ; Mound of death ; A little unwritten history ; Tragedies of early days. Barney Martin murders ; The Gribble murders ; Major Doran gets a pardon
- Settlements- mountain, river, desert towns. Prescott. "The gold of that land is good" ; Prescott, 1864 ; Prescott, 1867 ; Prescott fire, 1900
- Yuma. Colorado city ; How Poston founded 'Yuma" ; Arizona City ; Only a dream ; Yuma ; Arrival of the railroad ; Yuma flood ; Lawlessness in Yuma ; Not one conviction ; Escaping criminals ; Yuma prison
- Phoenix. Sabre slasher ; Civic pride ; A hard town to take ; "Growing pains" ; Social Phoenix ; Fiesta de San Juan ; Phoenix, future capital city ; First silk hat in Phoenix
- Death of an era. Goddess of chance weeps ; The tiger is dying! ; Globe says 'good-bye" ; "Tin-horn gamblers" ; Famous Arizona saloons ; Rossi's and the fashion ; Passing the "palace" ; Algernon "Babe" Dove
- Treasure hunt. The happy-go-lucky Arizonan ; Lost Dutchman in Yavapai? ; Lost gunsight mine ; Pegleg Mine ; Ghostly sentinels ; Yaeger, his gold, his death ; Gold nugget dream ; Lost nigger Ben found? ; Haunted mine ; Lost Bonanza ; Silver King Mine ; Lost Cabin Mine ; Mine with the iron door ; Citadel of the Grand Canyon ; Royal treasure? ; Prospecting trip.