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THE LURE OF
OLDE ARIZONA
(Hardcover - 1 Mar 2011)
Robert D. Morritt
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This book presents to the reader
an in-depth history of Arizona from the Paleographical  era,
Also of Spanish American influence and later the Territorial period prior to
Statehood. Within these pages the author also examines the early roots of the
indigenous people, and gives contemporary accounts of early settlers.
Also contained within are
descriptions of the earliest Arizonians. From nomadic ‘hunters', the first
villages. The Pueblo people, the Hopi and other indigenous peoples. and of
the earliest explorers of the Conquistador era and early Spanish missionaries.
Contemporary anecdotes from ‘The
Old West’ give the reader an insight of the perils of travel in the 19th
Century. True accounts of Apache hostilities (as experienced by the Oatman
emigrant family and the massacre of settlers at Clear Creek, near the Verde
River in northern Arizona. together with a view of the territorial era
leading up to the Civil War and
pre-Statehood .
Included
is an overview of the introduction of cattle into Arizona, the Settlers,
Apache leaders, gunfighters and descriptions of prominent people in a
territory help create a land worthy to earn the right of Statehood.
Several authentic, first-hand eyewitnesses (such as Geronimo’s account of the
Apache Wars.)
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