Tucson : University of Arizona Press, Date: 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 462 pages, 23cm, illustrations. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-434) and index. English. Contents: List of Illustrations -- Prologue; 1. Myth and Reality in the Upper Pimeria; When, Where, and How It Began; Hispanic Place Names in Arizona ; Architectural Influences ; Ranching, Farming, and Mining ; Politics in the Pimeria Alta ; Women in the Pimeria Alta ; Contacts with New Mexico and California ; Religion in the Pimeria Alta -- 2. Early Exploration and Settlement ; Jesuit Entries from the South ; Bolas de Plata ; Indian Troubles ; The Hectic Decade of the 1760s ; The Expulsion of the Jesuits ; The Founding of Tucson -- 3. The Provincias Internas of New Spain ; The Yuma Disaster -- A New Indian Policy for the Frontier Life Settles Down ; New Mission Construction ; Uneasiness Prevails at Century's End -- 4. The Last Years of Spanish Rule ; More Early Land Grants ; Arizona and the Independence Movement ; Changes in Command -- 5. The Sonoran Frontier After Independence ; Arizona Under Mexican Rule ; Anglo-Americans in Arizona ; The Arizona Land Grants ; Politics in the State of Occidence ; The Tucson Fields -- 6. Sonora Becomes a Separate State ; Sonora's 1831 Census ; Appeals ...

Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.: University of Arizona Press ,, Date: 1990. Hardcover. As New/as new. 462 pp. illus., maps. Author traces the roots of Southern Arizona and Northern Sonora. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1990. University of Arizona Press , ISBN 0816509816 9780816509812 [US]