Beautiful, Cruel Country

Name: Beautiful, Cruel Country
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ISBN: 9780816511945

ISBN-10: 0816511942

ISBN-13: 9780816511945

Edition: 1990 (Reprint)

Authors: Eva Antonia Wilbur-Cruce, Michael McCurdy

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Arizona's Arivaca Valleylies only a short distance from the Mexican border and is a rugged land in which to put down stakes. When Arizona Territory was America's last frontier, this area was homesteaded by Anglo and Mexican settlers alike, who often displaced the Indian population that had lived there for centuries. This frontier way of life, which prevailed as recently as the beginning of the twentieth century, is now recollected in vivid detail by an octogenarian who spent her girlhood in this beautiful, cruel country. Eva Antonia Wilbur inherited a unique affinity for the land. Granddaughter of a Harvard-educated physician who came to the Territory in the 1860s, she was the firstborn…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 1990
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Publication date: 5/1/1990
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.87" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English