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Series
Canseco-Keck history volume no. 6
Publisher
Texas A & M University Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Author
Publisher
TwoDot
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"The first full-length biography of the Western legend Tom Jeffords, immortalized by Jimmy Stewart in 1950's Broken Arrow. This book tells the true story of a man who headed West drawn by the lure of the Pike's Peak Gold Rush in 1858; made a life for himself over a decade as he scouted for the army, prospected, became a business man; then learned the Apache language and rode alone into Cochise's camp in order to negotiate peaceful passage for his...
Author
Publisher
Rio Grande Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"On Christmas Day, 1880, a young doctor from Madison, Indiana arrived at Keams Canyon, Arizona to be the physician at the Moqui [Hopi] Pueblo Indian Agency. From early in 1881 until the summer of 1888, Jeremiah Sullivan lived on the Hopi First Mesa, practicing medicine, participating in the social and ceremonial life of the community, and recording songs and narratives. Soon dismissed as agency physician, arrested, threatened with expulsion by military...