Early Yuma; a Graphic History of Life on the American Nile
by Crowe, Rosalie and Sideny B. Brinckerhoff
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About This Item
(Flagstaff, Arizona; 1976)): Northland Press. First Edition. Octavo. Frontispiece, 135 pages. Signed by both authors. Yuma is known as a hot desert town at the junction of the Gila and Colorado Rivers, which is also the conjunction of Arizona, California, and Mexico. As can be imagined, it had a lurid frontier history, with Indians, soldiers, missionaries, boundary surveyors, gold-seekers, river rats and, finally, those who were willing to settle were small shops and the ferryboat and steamboat operators who saw it only as a strong economic activity for people who would pass through not settle down there. The marvelous black-white photographs, with accompanying pungent commentary, are rich in detail of horse-drawn conveyances and contraptions, paddle-wheel steamboats, locomotives, domestic adobe and the early shops including the hotel which had a huge sign: Free Board on any day the sun doesn't shine. A fine copy in very good dust jacket with one small edge tear to rear panel, some light rubbing along the edges and front panel.
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- Bookseller
- Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 031382
- Title
- Early Yuma; a Graphic History of Life on the American Nile
- Author
- Crowe, Rosalie and Sideny B. Brinckerhoff
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Northland Press
- Place of Publication
- (Flagstaff, Arizona; 1976))
- Bookseller catalogs
- Western Americana; Arizona;
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