Hispanic Arizona, 1536-1856 / James E. Officer

Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 462 pages, 23cm, illustrations. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-434) and index. English. Contents: List of Illustrations -- Prologue; 1. Myth and Reality in the Upper Pimeria; When, Where, and How It Began; Hispanic Place Names in Arizona ; Architectural Influences ; Ranching, Farming, and Mining ; Politics in the Pimeria Alta ; Women in the Pimeria Alta ; Contacts with New Mexico and California ; Religion in the Pimeria Alta -- 2. Early Exploration and Settlement ; Jesuit Entries from the South ; Bolas de Plata ; Indian Troubles ; The Hectic Decade of the 1760s ; The Expulsion of the Jesuits ; The Founding of Tucson -- 3. The Provincias Internas of New Spain ; The Yuma Disaster -- A New Indian Policy for the Frontier Life Settles Down ; New Mission Construction ; Uneasiness Prevails at Century's End -- 4. The Last Years of Spanish Rule ; More Early Land Grants ; Arizona and the Independence Movement ; Changes in Command -- 5. The Sonoran Frontier After Independence ; Arizona Under Mexican Rule ; Anglo-Americans in Arizona ; The Arizona Land Grants ; Politics in the State of Occidence ; The Tucson Fields -- 6. Sonora Becomes a Separate State ; Sonora's 1831 Census ; Appeals for a Major Offensive ; Problems with the Papagos -- 7. Power Struggles Leave the Frontier Helpless; A Peace Treaty for the Pinals Politics and Papagos ; The Frontier Situation Grows More Desperate; Abandonment of the Land Grants -- 8. Sonoran Politics and Indian Affairs ; New Difficulties in the Papagueria ; The Urrea-Gandara Feud Heats Up ; Controlling the Indians ; Comaduran in the Eye of the Whirlwind ; The Condition of the Missions in 1843 ; A New Campaign Against the Apaches -- 9. Urrea Wins in Sonora, Gandara in Mexico City; Events on the Frontier ; Colonel Elias Invades Chihuahua ; Urrea Back in Power -- 10. No Matter How Bad, Things Can Always Get Worse ; Comaduran on the March Again ; Political Turmoil Continues War! -- 11. The War Years, 1847-1848 ; Gandara Becomes Sonora's Constitutional Governor ; Massacre in the Sierra de las Mestenas ; Graham's Trek Through Pimeria Alta ; The Sonoran Census of 1848 ; Teodoro Ramirez, First Citizen of Tucson ; The Tribulations of Captain Comaduran -- 12. The Yanqui Forty-Niners ; Gandara and Elias Disagree ; Tucson's Isolation Breaks Down ; Yankee Arrogance Causes Problems ; Apache Attacks Continue -- 13. California Sours for Sonorans ; The Foreign Miners' Act ; The Colorado Crossing ; Tucson Under Attack ; Cholera Provides a New Threat ; Tubac Becomes a Military Colony Determining the Boundary -- 14. The End of Mexican Rule ; The Boundary Commission Visits Tucson ; The French Threaten ; More Squabbles Over Land ; The Gadsden Purchase Treaty ; Preparing for the Change of Command ; Departure of the Mexican Troops -- 15. Epilogue; Population and Land ; The Fate of the Haciendas ; Familiar Faces in New Surroundings ; Apaches! ; The Acculturation Process ; Appendix A. The Elias Family of Arizona and Sonora: A Genealogical Essay ; Descendancy of Francisco Elias Gonzalez de Zayas ; Descendancy of Fernando Elias Gonzalez. Subjects: Geschichte 1536-1856. Hispanic Americans Arizona History. Hispanic Americans Arizona ; Genealogy. Spanish Americans Arizona History. Spanish Americans Arizona Genealogy. Am�ricains d'origine espagnole Arizona Histoire. Am�ricains d'origine espagnole Arizona G�n�alogies. Am�ricains d'origine latino-am�ricaine Arizona Histoire. Am�ricains d'origine latino-am�ricaine Arizona ; G�n�alogies. Spanish Americans. Hispanic Americans. Kolonialismus. Hispanic Americans Arizona History. Hispanic Americans Arizona Genealogy. Am�ricains d'origine espagnole Arizona Histoire. Am�ricains d'origine espagnole Arizona G�n�alogies. Hispanic Americans. Kolonialismus. Arizona History.Arizona ; Genealogy. Arizona Genealogy. Arizona Histoire. Arizona G�n�alogies. Arizona ; G�n�alogies. Arizona.