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Pioneer portraits : selected vignettes
- Title
- Pioneer portraits : selected vignettes / by Frank C. Lockwood ; introduction by John Bret Harte.
- Author
- Lockwood, Frank C. (Frank Cummins), 1864-1948
- Publication
- Tucson, Arizona : University of Arizona Press, [1968]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | F810 .L845 1968 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Bret Harte, John
- Description
- 240 pages : portraits; 20 cm
- Summary
- Pete Kitchen came to Arizona in 1854 to farm broad, rich acres south of Tucson. Those were the days of bloody Apache terrorism--a man had to be more handy with a gun than a plow to hold land in Apache country. But indomitable Pete and his fiery wife Doña Rosa were more than up to the challenge. He was the only settler whom the Apaches could not dislodge. They maid raid after raid, and shot his pigs so full of arrows that they looked like "walking pin-cushions." They killed or drove off his bravest neighbors; they killed his herder and they slaughtered his stepson but Pete Kitchen fought on undaunted. His name struck terror to every Apache heart; and, at last, finding that he was too tough a nut to crack, they passed him by. Author Frank Lockwood considered Pete "a man of no ordinary caliber...a man of mark and originality." He was one of the men Lockwood wanted people to know about and appreciate. Lockwood strove to popularize and dramatize the colorful past of Arizona, and his way of doing this was to introduce the characters in words-- "to tell the truth and at the same time make the truth interesting." He succeeded. The fourteen personalities selected for inclusion in the volume are but a sampling of a legion of individuals whom Lockwood admired and wrote. Each vignette has been chosen because it has a distinctive contribution to make. Henry C. Hooker, for example, contrasts sharply with rough-and-ready Pete Kitchen. Hooker was a wealthy rancher, famed for his hospitality. Everyone who approached his Sierra Bonita Ranch found shelter and good cheer. Lockwood writes that at one time the fame of the Hooker ranch rivaled that of the Grand Canyon. German-born Charlie Meyer was a different king of pioneer. His contribution was civic : for years he served Tucson as Justice of the Peace. These are the kinds of men Frank Lockwood wanted the rest of us to know. He introduces us to fourteen standouts in this volume -- Book jacket.
- Seven of the sketches appeared originally in Life in old Tucson, 1854-1864.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- collective biographies.
- Biographies.
- History.
- Note
- Seven of the sketches appeared originally in Life in old Tucson. 1854-1864.
- Contents
- Louis J.F. Jaeger.--Pete Kitchin.--John B. Allen.--Samuel Hughes.--Elias G. Pennington and family.--Charles H. Meyer.--Estevan Ochoa.--Edward Everett Ayer.--A.P.K. Safford.--John Lorenzo Hubbell.--Henry C. Hooker.--Ed Schieffelin.--John Hance.--George W.P. Hunt.
- LCCN
- 67030670
- OCLC
- ocm00960922
- 960922
- SCSB-305365
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library