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Excavations at Snaketown
"[Gladwin] accomplished, from the 1920's on, a series of fundamentally important studies of the prehistoric cultures of the region from Texas to California. None of these surveys …
Food, Fiber, and the Arid Lands
From the Foreword The world s dramatic awakening to the impact of ecology on the quality of human life, and a new awareness of the potential for exploitation of the desert …
Forging the Copper Collar
Bisbee, Arizona...July 12, 1917...6:30 a.m.... Just after dawn, two thousand armed vigilantes took to the streets of this remote Arizona mining town to round up members and …
Friar Bringas Reports to the King
When Friar Diego Bringas penned his 1796-97 report on conditions in northwestern New Spain, he was imbued with an enthusiastic drive for reform. Hoping to gain the King of Spain's …
Friars, Soldiers, and Reformers
The Franciscan mission San Jose de Tumacacori and the perennially undermanned presidio Tubac become John L. Kessell's windows on the Arizona-Sonora frontier in this colorful …
Grenville Goodwin Among the Western Apache
Grenville Goodwin was one of the leading field anthropologists during a crucial period in American Indian research the 1930s. His letters from the field provide original source …
Impounded People
This important final report of the War Relocation Authority, written in 1946 now released in book form, describes the growth and changes in the community life and how attitudes of …
John Spring's Arizona
John Spring, a Swiss volunteer wounded in Civil War action, was sent to Arizona with the Regular Army of 1866 and became the most versatile and articulate of frontier reporters. A …
John Xántus
John Xantus was a bit of a charlatan; of that there is little doubt. He lied about his exploits, joined the U.S. Army under an assumed name, and managed to alienate most of the …
Letters from the Southwest
Life and Labor on the Border
For thousands of Mexican laborers, life among the United States border represents an opportunity both to earn wages and to gain access to consumer goods; for anthropologist Josiah …
Mission of Sorrows
The Mission of Guevavi on the Santa Cruz River in what is now southern Arizona served as a focal point of Jesuit missionary endeavor among the Pima Indians on New Spain's far …