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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.)