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Arizona's deadliest gunfight : draft resistance and tragedy at the Power Cabin, 1918 /

Title
Arizona's deadliest gunfight : draft resistance and tragedy at the Power Cabin, 1918 / Heidi J. Osselaer.
Author
Osselaer, Heidi J., 1958-
Publication
  • Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2018]
  • ©2018

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Power (Family : Ariz.)
Description
xviii, 294 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
Summary
"Delves into the background and historical context of the shootout in 1918, likely the deadliest armed resistance to draft evasion during World War I, between Jeff Power's family and sheriff Frank McBride and his deputies at a remote mining cabin in in Keilberg Canyon"--
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-277) and index.
Contents
Origins -- Texas hill country -- New Mexico territory -- Frontier honor -- Aravaipa Canyon -- The Gila Valley -- The abandoned mines -- The Great War -- Shootout at dawn -- On the run -- Captured -- On trial -- The big house on the Gila -- Clemency -- Redemption.
ISBN
  • 9780806160016
  • 0806160012
LCCN
2017043089
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library