The great Arizona orphan abduction
Linda Gordon
- Resource Type:
- E-Book
- Edition:
- First Harvard University Press pbk. edition
- Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Harvard University Press, 2001
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- Summary:
- 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' Anglos, furious at this "interracial" transgression, formed a vigilante squad that kidnapped the children and nearly lynched the nuns and the local priest. The Catholic Church sued to get its wards back, but all the courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, ruled in favor of the vigilantes. -- Publisher's website.
- Table of Contents:
- Ch. 1. King copper
- Ch. 2. Mexicans come to the mines
- Ch. 3. The priest in the Mexican camp
- Ch. 4. The Mexican mothers and the Mexican town
- Ch. 5. The Anglo mothers and the company town
- Ch. 6. The strike
- Ch. 7. Vigilantism
- Ch. 8. Family and race.
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- Languages:
- English
- Language Notes:
- Item content: English
- Other Related Resources:
- Print version: Great Arizona orphan abduction [by Gordon, L.] (First Harvard University Press pbk. edition — ISBN 0674360419; OCLC Number 46602482)
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- General Notes:
- Originally published: 1999.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-404) and index.
Description based on: Print version record. - Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 416 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps, portraits
- Digital Characteristics:
- text file
- Call Numbers:
- F819.C55 G67 2001eb
- ISBNs:
- 9780674061712 (electronic bk.)
0674061713 (electronic bk.)
0674360419 [Invalid]
9780674360419 [Invalid]
067400535X [Invalid]
9780674005358 [Invalid] - OCLC Numbers:
- 893439467