The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction / / Linda Gordon.
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 s...
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| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Cast of Principal Characters
- October 2, 1904, Night North Clifton, Arizona
- September 25, 1904 Grand Central Station, New York City
- Chapter 1. King Copper
- October 1, 1904, 6:30 P.M. Clifton Railroad Station
- Chapter 2. Mexicans Come to the Mines
- October 1, 1904, around 7:30 P.M. Sacred Heart Church, Clifton
- Chapter 3. The Priest in the Mexican Camp
- October 2, 1904, Afternoon Morenci Square and Clifton Library Hall
- Chapter 4. The Mexican Mothers and the Mexican Town
- October 2, 1904, Evening: The Hills of Clifton
- Chapter 5. The Anglo Mothers and the Company Town
- October 2, 1904, Night Clifton Hotel
- Chapter 6. The Strike
- October 3-4, 1904 Clifton Drugstore and Library Hall, Morenci Hotel
- Chapter 7. Vigilantism
- January 1905 Courtroom of the Arizona Territorial Supreme Court, Phoenix
- Chapter 8. Family and Race
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index