The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction

Linda Gordon

  • Winner of the Bancroft Prize in American History and Diplomacy from Columbia University
  • One of Two Finalists in the Willa Cather Literary Awards, Sponsored by Women Writing the West
  • Winner of the American Historical Association's 2000 Albert J. Beveridge Award

Preface

Cast of Principal Characters

October 2, 1904, Night: North Clifton, Arizona

September 25, 1904: Grand Central Station, New York City

1. King Copper
October 1, 1904, 6:30 p.m.: Clifton Railroad Station

2. Mexicans Come to the Mines
October 1, 1904, around 7:30 p.m.: Sacred Heart Church, Clifton

3. The Priest in the Mexican Camp
October 2, 1904, Afternoon: Morenci Square and Clifton Library Hall

4. The Mexican Mothers and the Mexican Town
October 2, 1904, Evening: The Hills of Clifton

5. The Anglo Mothers and the Company Town
October 2, 1904, Night: Clifton Hotel

6. The Strike
October 3-4, 1904: Clifton Drugstore and Library Hall, Morenci Hotel

7. Vigilantism
January 1905: Courtroom of the Arizona Territorial Supreme Court, Phoenix

8. Family and Race

Epilogue

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

Maps
Sonoran Highlands Mining Region in 1903
Old Clifton and Morenci

  • Cover: The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction

Linda Gordon is Professor of History at New York University. She is the author of the now classic history of birth control in America, Woman's Body, Woman's Right, and of Heroes of Their Own Lives: The Politics and History of Family Violence, winner of the Joan Kelly Prize for the best book in women's history.