Captain Harry Wheeler

Author : Bill O'Neal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1571680640

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Captain Harry Wheeler by Bill O'Neal Pdf

Captain Harry Wheeler was a Captain of the Arizona Rangers, Sheriff of Cochise County, Cavalry sergeant and World War I army captain. Intensely dedicated to duty and service, Harry Wheeler carved out a notable career as a Western lawman and soldier. His turbulent life was punctuated with fatal shootouts and personal tragedy. After Wheeler's beloved Ranger company was discontinued in 1909, this nemesis of lawbreakers repeatedly won election as sheriff, operating out of historic Tombstone and conduction the controversial Bisbee Deportation. Although in his forties when the United States entered World War I, the patriotic Wheeler eagerly traded his badge for an army commission. In this first biography of Harry Wheeler, the author provides never before published details about a remarkable Westerner from America's final frontier.

Author : Antonia Casta_eda
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2007-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780803259867

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Gender on the Borderlands by Antonia Casta_eda Pdf

"Both noted and new scholars reweave the fabric of collective, family, and individual history with a legacy of agency and activism in the borderlands in these twenty-one original selections. Contributors explore themes of homeland, sexuality, language, violence, colonialism, and political resistance within the most recent frameworks of Chicana/Chicano inquiry. Art as social critique, culture as a human right, labor activism, racial plurality, Indigenous knowledge, and strategies of decolonization all vitalize these selections edited by one of the country's most respected historians of the borderlands, Antonia Castaneda.

Author : Katherine Benton-Cohen
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674060531

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Borderline Americans by Katherine Benton-Cohen Pdf

ÒAre you an American, or are you not?Ó This was the question Harry Wheeler, sheriff of Cochise County, Arizona, used to choose his targets in one of the most remarkable vigilante actions ever carried out on U.S. soil. And this is the question at the heart of Katherine Benton-CohenÕs provocative history, which ties that seemingly remote corner of the country to one of AmericaÕs central concerns: the historical creation of racial boundaries. It was in Cochise County that the Earps and Clantons fought, Geronimo surrendered, and Wheeler led the infamous Bisbee Deportation, and it is where private militias patrol for undocumented migrants today. These dramatic events animate the rich story of the Arizona borderlands, where people of nearly every nationalityÑdrawn by ÒfreeÓ land or by jobs in the copper minesÑgrappled with questions of race and national identity. Benton-Cohen explores the daily lives and shifting racial boundaries between groups as disparate as Apache resistance fighters, Chinese merchants, Mexican-American homesteaders, Midwestern dry farmers, Mormon polygamists, Serbian miners, New York mine managers, and Anglo women reformers. Racial categories once blurry grew sharper as industrial mining dominated the region. Ideas about home, family, work and wages, manhood and womanhood all shaped how people thought about race. Mexicans were legally white, but were they suitable marriage partners for ÒAmericansÓ? Why were Italian miners described as living Òas no white man canÓ? By showing the multiple possibilities for racial meanings in America, Benton-CohenÕs insightful and informative work challenges our assumptions about race and national identity.

Author : Christopher Capozzola
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199830961

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Uncle Sam Wants You by Christopher Capozzola Pdf

Based on a rich array of sources that capture the voices of both political leaders and ordinary Americans, Uncle Sam Wants You offers a vivid and provocative new interpretation of American political history, revealing how the tensions of mass mobilization during World War I led to a significant increase in power for the federal government. Christopher Capozzola shows how, when the war began, Americans at first mobilized society by stressing duty, obligation, and responsibility over rights and freedoms. But the heated temper of war quickly unleashed coercion on an unprecedented scale, making wartime America the scene of some of the nation's most serious political violence, including notorious episodes of outright mob violence. To solve this problem, Americans turned over increasing amounts of power to the federal government. In the end, whether they were some of the four million men drafted under the Selective Service Act or the tens of millions of home-front volunteers, Americans of the World War I era created a new American state, and new ways of being American citizens.

Author : Robert Houston
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780816519392

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Bisbee '17 by Robert Houston Pdf

Bisbee, Arizona, queen of the western copper camps, 1917. The protagonists in a bitter strike: the Wobblies (the IWW), the toughest union in the history of the West; and Harry Wheeler, the last of the two-gun sheriffs. In this class-war western, they face each other down in the streets of Bisbee, pitting a general strike against the largest posse ever assembled. Based on a true story, Bisbee '17 vividly re-creates a West of miners and copper magnates, bindlestiffs and scissorbills, army officers, private detectives, and determined revolutionaries. Against this backdrop runs the story of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, strike organizer from the East, caught between the worlds of her ex-husbandÑthe Bisbee strike leaderÑand her new lover, an Italian anarchist from New York. As the tumultuous weeks of the strike unfold, she struggles to sort out what she really feels about both of them, and about the West itself.

Author : Norman K. Hunt
Publisher : Cowboy Miner Productions
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1931725217

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The Killing of Chester Bartell by Norman K. Hunt Pdf

An account of the seven-year legal ordeal following the 1917 shooting of a hostile neighbor by the Hunt brothers, New Mexico ranchers.

Author : Laurence J Yadon
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781455615612

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Arizona Gunfighters by Laurence J Yadon Pdf

Author : M. David DeSoucy
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 0738548316

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Arizona Rangers by M. David DeSoucy Pdf

Established in 1901, the Arizona Rangers have protected and served the citizenry for over 107 years. Though the initial organization was short lived, lasting only until 1909, the company--with an authorized strength of just 26 men--became the scourge of outlaws within the Arizona Territory and along the Mexican border where, like today, criminal activity was prevalent. In 1957, the Arizona Rangers were reestablished, and for the 50 years since, these modern rangers have continued the tradition of service that was established by their territorial predecessors. Today's Arizona Rangers are officially recognized by state legislation as a volunteer civilian law enforcement auxiliary. In keeping with their motto, "Few But Proud Then and Now," they assist numerous law enforcement agencies and help keep the peace within their communities and state.

Author : Chuck Hornung
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476608716

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Fullerton's Rangers by Chuck Hornung Pdf

In 1890, the U.S. government declared the frontier settled, and the “Wild West” was history. In the territory of New Mexico, however, crime still knew no limit and the gun was the final answer to all problems. Aiming to help New Mexico achieve statehood, its leaders decided they needed a mounted police force like those that had tamed Texas and Arizona. This book describes the birth of the New Mexico Mounted Police in 1905 and tells the stories of the members of the original Mounties, starting with their first captain, John F. Fullerton. Information drawn from personal interviews with ranger family members (many of whom provided photographs), Fullerton’s personal papers and official Mounted Police records brings a wealth of detail to this story from New Mexico’s rich history. Fred Lambert, the last surviving member of the territorial rangers, provides a foreword.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Women's studies
ISBN : IND:30000144527409

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Frontiers by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1108 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UCAL:B5140260

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Riots, Civil and Criminal Disorders by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 838 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Executive departments
ISBN : UCAL:B3566528

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Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Government Operations by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1008 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105117861489

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Investigation of Mexican Affairs by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations Pdf

Author : Larry D. Ball
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826317001

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Desert Lawmen by Larry D. Ball Pdf

In this carefully researched study, Ball shows that few southwestern sheriffs were genuine gunmen. Wielding firearms with nerve and determination in the line of duty, however, was expected of them by their constituents.

Author : Samuel K. Dolan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442246706

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Cowboys and Gangsters by Samuel K. Dolan Pdf

Even after WWI had ended, the region of Arizona, New Mexico, and West Texas stubbornly refused to be tamed. It was still a place where frontier gunfights still broke out at an alarming rate. Utilizing official records, newspaper accounts, and oral histories, Cowboys and Gangsters tells the story of the untamed “Wild West” of the Prohibition-era of the 1920s and early 1930s and introduces a rogues’ gallery of sixgun-packing western gunfighters and lawmen. Told through the lens of the accounts of a handful of Texas Rangers and Federal Agents, this book covers a unique and action-packed era in American history. It’s a story that connects the horse and saddle days of the Old West, with the high-octane decade of the Roaring Twenties.