The great Arizona orphan abduction / Linda Gordon.
The great Arizona orphan abduction / Linda Gordon.
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Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1999.
Date
1999.
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N305.8009791/1
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English
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Physical content
xii, 416 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents
October 2, 1904, Night: North Clifton, Arizona -- September 25, 1904: Grand Central Station, New York City -- Ch. 1. King Copper -- October 1, 1904, 6:30 P.M.: Clifton Railroad Station -- Ch. 2. Mexicans Come to the Mines -- October 1, 1904, around 7:30 P.M.: Sacred Heart Church, Clifton -- Ch. 3. T...
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Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1999.
Place of Publication
Massachusetts
Date Published
1999.
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Summary
"In 1904, New York nuns brought forty Irish orphans to a remote Arizona mining camp, to be placed with Catholic families. The Catholic families were Mexican, as was the majority of the population. Soon the town's Anglos, furious at this "interracial" transgression, formed a vigilante squad that kidnapped the children and nearly lynched the nuns and...
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The great Arizona orphan abduction / Linda Gordon.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-404) and index.
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N305.8009791/1
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74VvgrQwLEjA
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ISBN
0674360419 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780674360419 :
0674360419 :
9780674360419 (cloth : alk. paper)
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305.800979151
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991012312759702626
