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Showing posts with label racism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label racism. Show all posts
November 22, 2020

The Chinese Den of Iniquity

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  No one knows what the business was actually named. A Sanborn-Perris mapmaker identified it only as “Chinese” in 1895.  This writer might h...
September 25, 2016

1863: Hot-Head Miners Murder 20 Yavapai

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The earliest episodes of Indian conflicts in Yavapai Country were not recorded in newspapers at first. Quite simply, there weren't ...
June 4, 2016

The True Victims of "Bloody Basin" Were the Yavapai

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There are many stories surrounding how "Bloody Basin" got its name. Some say that it's from a mass slaughter of sheep du...
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January 19, 2016

Back When Prescott Was "Opium Central"

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There is no doubt that, like many other Wild West towns, opium made its first appearance in Prescott with the influx of the Chinese popul...
January 6, 2016

The Jack-the-Ripper of Yavapai County?

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To the Anglos, Indian-killer John B. Townsend was a celebrated hero. To the Native Americans, he was equally an antihero. This account ...
June 22, 2015

1866: Mexican Volunteers Fight the Battle of Five Caves

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Fort Whipple The Buffalo Soldiers were not the only segregated minority group fighting in the Indian Wars.  Companies E and F of the Ar...
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April 4, 2015

Skull Valley Earned Its Gruesome Name Twice

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It would be a strong statement to say that a piece of land is "cursed,"; something this author would rather avoid.  Yet it see...
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March 17, 2015

The Death of Mangas Colorado: "The Greatest Wrong Ever Done to the Indians"

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Mangas Colorado was an important Apache warrior/leader who fiercely fought to protect his people's land from encroaching Mexicans and ...