History of Arizona

Arizona – The name is significant. Its derivation is uncertain; all that is known of it is that in the latter part of the seventeenth century it was given to a range of mountains across the border in Northern Sonora, in what was then known as Pimeria Alta, and there-after was applied to the territory now embraced within the boundaries of the “Baby State.” Its history is in two parts: One, the story of a vanished race, who left behind them a record of achievement in cavate dwellings, the ruins of pueblos, fortifications, abandoned irrigation canals, and hieroglyphics on the Painted Rocks, which, it is claimed, antedate the conquest of England by William the Conqueror, and record the activities of a civilized, cultivated and refined people, who converted the desert into gardens, causing its waste places to contribute to their comfort and happiness; scientists, for thirty or forty years, have been studying these records. The other, beginning with the Spanish explorers of the 16th century, and the successive governments under the Spanish, Mexican and American flags, is the narrative of the building up of a great prosperous commonwealth, the redemption of an empire from savagery to civilization. This history, as it proceeds, will deal with historic facts in historic times, and the prehistoric records, the story of a lost race, revealed by modern scientists and archaeologists.

• Volume I
  • Early Spanish Explorations
  • Early Spanish Explorers and Indians
  • Spanish Explorers and Explorations
  • Spanish Exploration continues in the Territories
  • Early Spanish Missions and Missionaries
  • Missions, Missionaries and Military Annals
  • Santa Fe Trail
  • Conquest of California by Fremont and Sloat
  • War with Mexico
  • Negations for the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
    • Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
  • Boundary Commission Survey
    • Treaty with Mexico
  • Indian Troubles Begin
    • Trouble with the Apache
  • Early American Occupation
  • Indian Raids and Outrages
  • Surveys for Railroads and other Purposes
  • Early Mines and Mining
  • The Navajos
  • Early Settlements and First Attempts at Organization of the Territory
  • Crabb Massacre
  • Early Days in Arizona
  • Explorations for Wagon Roads – Camels
• Volume II
  • Arizona State Lines and Navigation
  • The Yuma, Cocopah and Maricopa Indians
  • Arizona Mining History
  • Confederate and Federal Occupation
  • Labors of the California Column
  • California Column Drives out the Hostiles
  • Indian Raids and Treaties
  • Navajo Attacks, Surrender and Reservations
  • Explorations along the Beale Road
  • Arizona Biographies
  • Formation of Mining Districts
  • Creation of Arizona Territory
• Volume III
• Volume IV
• Volume V
• Volume VI
• Volume VII
• Volume VIII

Notes About Book: Source: History Of Arizona Volume 1 – 8, By Thomas Edwin Farish, 1915 – 1920, Printed and Published by Direction of the Second Legislature of the State of Arizona, A. D. Notes about Online Publication: This manuscript has been ocr’d and heavily edited. Many of the Native American words have been reproduced as clearly as online publication will allow us, but not all are exactly the way they were in the original work. The structure of this manuscript has been changed to allow better online presentation.