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
- Boundary Commission Survey
- Indian Troubles Begin
- 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 Stage 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.
