Founding a Wilderness Capital: Prescott, A.T.1864

Description

Author: Henson, Pauline

Publisher: Northland Press

Pub Date: 1965

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair.  Binding tight.  No tears, bends or folds.  Without dust jacket.  Warm gift inscription opposite title page.  Includes one fold-out map of Prescott area.  Embossed front board.  Very light edge and corner wear.  With the exception of the gift inscription this appears unused.

Notes:  Prescott was the first capital of Arizona Territory.  Gold was found in the Prescott area in 1863, and the town was founded near Fort Whipple, to secure Arizona’s mineral resources for the Union during the Civil War.  It was named as the capital in 1864. lost the title to Tucson in 1867, regained the title in 1877, but lost it again in 1889.  To Phoenix.  From the library of the late archaeologists Bob and Florence Lister, Florence’s gift inscription to Bob.