Captive Arizona, 1851-1900

by Victoria Smith and Victoria Smith

Book Overview

Captivity was endemic in Arizona from the end of the Mexican-American War through its statehood in 1912. The practice crossed cultures: Native Americans, Mexican Americans, Mexicans, and whites kidnapped and held one another captive. Victoria Smith's narrative history of the practice of taking captives in early Arizona shows how this phenomenon held Arizonans of all races in uneasy bondage that chafed social relations during the era. It also maps...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803210906
• ISBN13: 9780803210905
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.6" x 8.5"