Zeckendorfs and Steinfelds: Merchant Princes of the American Southwest

by Bettina O’Neil Lyons.

From their arrival in Santa Fe in 1853 with the earliest American occupation to the close of Steinfeld’s department store in downtown Tucson in the 1890s, the history of the Zeckendorf and Steinfeld families is intertwined with the economic development of the Southwest. In this detailed portrayal, Bettina O’Neil Lyons delves into family documents, archival records, and published sources to chronicle 130 years of mercantile enterprise through the eyes of a remarkable group of men and women who lay the business foundations and set the social tone of Arizona and New Mexico for much of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Forty photographs, many published here for the first time, chronicle the lives and times of the Zeckendorfs and Steinfelds.

 

 

 

6 1/8" by 9 1/4" hard-cover
ISBN 978-0-910037-49-5
416 pages. Illus., notes, biblio., index.
Publication date: November, 2008.
Price: $24.95

Images of America: Early Tucson

by Anne I. Woosley, Arizona Historical Society.

Tucson is a history of time and a river. The roots of prehistoric habitation run deep along the Santa Cruz River, reaching back thousands of years. Later the river attracted 17th-century Spanish explorers, who brought military government, the church, and colonists to establish the northern outpost of their New World empire. Later still, American westward expansion drew new settlers to the place called Tucson. Today Tucson is a bustling multicultural community of more than one million residents. These images from the photographic archives of the Arizona Historical Society tell the stories of individuals and cultures that transformed a 19th-century frontier village into a 20th-century desert city.

Author Bio: Anne I. Woosley is the executive director of the Arizona Historical Society. She received her undergraduate degree in history from UC Santa Cruz, a graduate degree in archaeology from Cambridge University, in England, and her doctorate in archaeology from UCLA. Her research interests and publications include prehistoric settlement, regional interactions, and subsistence practices of cultures in the American Southwest and West Asia. She serves on state and national committees promoting public history programs and historic preservation.

6 1/2" by 9 1/4" Soft-cover
ISBN 978-0-7385-5646-8
128 pages. Illus., notes, biblio., index.
Publication date: November, 2008.
Price: $21.99

Sometimes the Blues: The Letters and Diaries of Frank Hammon, A Lonely Frontiersman in Globe and Phoenix, 1882-1889

by Susan Clardy. Foreword by Don Dedera

Frank Hammon was among the flood of educated young men who came west in the late-1800s seeking adventure and fortune, but found only hardship, tragedy, and backbreaking work. Unlike many of his fellows, Hammon wrote down his thoughts and daily routines in letters and a diary. In her engaging book, Hammon’s great granddaughter fills in his life in the bustling mining town of Globe and the Phoenix farming community. She paints a vivid picture Hammon’s world, including colorful characters such as the Apache Kid, scout Al Sieber, and future governor George W. P. Hunt. Miner, lawman, rancher, and swimming pool operator, Frank Hammon was a frontier Everyman. His diaries and letters, supplemented by Susan Clardy’s meticulous research, uncover the lives of ordinary men and women struggling to survive in territorial Arizona.

 

 

7″ x 10″ hard-cover.
ISBN 0-910037-47-7
328 pages. Map, illus., notes, bibliography, index.
Publication date: April 2007
Price: $39.95

Mickey Free: Apache Captive, Interpreter, and Indian Scout

by Allan Radbourne

WINNER!  Western History Association Robert M. Utley Award; American Association for State and Local History Award of Merit.

On January 27, 1861, an Apache raiding party attacked John Ward’s ranch in the Sonoita Valley of southeastern Arizona and carried off Ward’s thirteen-year-old stepson, Felix Telles.
 
Thus began a remarkable odyssey. A young Mexican American boy was transformed into an Apache warrior and eventually served as Indian Scout for the U.S. Army. Nicknamed “Mickey Free,” after a popular fictional character, he moved effortlessly between three cultures and became a major participant in the Southwest Indian conflicts.

In this thoughtful and engaging biography, Allan Radbourne employs three decades of research in archival records, printed sources, and Apache oral tradition to tell the story of Mickey Free and the Indian Scouts who played hitherto unappreciated roles in the Apache wars of the 1870s and 1880s and the application of reservation policy.

 

6 ¼” by 9 ¼” hardcover
ISBN 0-910037-46-9
328 pages, maps, illus., notes, biblio., index.
Price: $34.95

Museum Monograph 12

Provincias Internas: Continuing Frontiers. Proceedings of a Symposium Held at Phoenix College, March 28, 2003

edited by Pete Dimas.

In a series of provocative essays, five scholars reflect on themes of continuity from colonial times to the present across the multi-ethnic and multi-cultural southwestern borderland. Participants and topics include: Alfredo Jiménez, University of Seville, “Space, Time, Peoples: Continuities in the Great Spanish North from Its Beginnings to the Present; Susan M. Needs, Northern Arizona University, “Missions as Transactional and Transitional Crossroads: A Case Study from Nueva Vizcaya”; Hartman H. Lowmawaima, Arizona State Museum, “The Hopi Documentary History Project: A Progress Report”; Philip R. VanderMeer, Arizona State University, “Postwar Phoenix: Intentional Change and Essential Continuities”; and Edward Escobar, Arizona State University, “Drawing the Thin Blue Line: Chicano-Police Relations since World War II.”

 

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ISBN 978-0-910037-48-8
144 pages
2007
Price: $24.95 soft-cover
(520) 617-1167

The Tohono O'odham and Pimeria Alta

by Allan J. McIntyre, Arizona Historical Society.

The Tohono O'odham have lived in southern Arizona's Sonoran Desert for millennia. Formerly known as the Papago, the people, acting as a nation in 1986, voted to change the colonial applied name, Papago, to their true name, Tohono O'odham, a name literally meaning "desert people." Living within a region the Spanish termed Pimeria Alta, the Tohono O'odham, from the time of Spanish Jesuit Kino's first missionary efforts in the late 1680s, have been witness to numerous governmental, philosophical, and religious intrusions. Yet throughout, they have adapted and survived. Today the Tohono O'odham Nation occupies the second largest land reserve in the , covering more than 2.8 million acres. The images in this volume date largely between 1870 and 1950, a period that documents great change in Tohono O'odham traditions, culture, and identity.

Author Bio: Author Allan J. McIntyre is a historian and an art dealer specializing in the American Southwest prior to 1950. As an archaeologist and a museum collections manager for over 25 years, McIntyre became interested in Tohono O'odham history in attempting to understand connections with their prehistoric ancestors, the Hohokam. The photographs and illustrations used in this volume derive almost exclusively from the extensive archives of the Arizona Historical Society, Southern Division, in Tucson, Arizona.

Tucson Newspaper Article

ISBN 0-738556335 128 pages.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Available at the Arizona History Museum's Store
Tucson Arizona
Price $19.99
(520) 617-1167

The AHS Book Fair
The Arizona Historical Society hosts the annual Holiday Book Fair on a Friday and Saturday in early December. This fundraiser features more than two dozen local and regional authors who chat with readers and autograph books, which are discounted 20%. The Book Fair highlights recent Arizona Historical Society publications as well as those of the University of Arizona Press, Rio Nuevo Press, and other southwestern publishers.
The Book Fair is part of the Southwest Literature Project co-sponsored by the Arizona Historical Society, the Tucson-Pima Public Library, the Friends of the Tucson-Pima Public Library, and the Arizona Humanities Council. 

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