The great Arizona orphan abduction /
Author / Creator: | Gordon, Linda. |
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Edition: | First Harvard University Press pbk. edition. |
Imprint: | Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Harvard University Press, 2001. |
Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 416 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps, portraits |
Language: | English |
Subject: | |
Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11238042 |
Summary: | In 1904, New York nuns brought forty Irish orphans to a remote Arizona mining camp, to be placed with Catholic families. The Catholic families were Mexican, as was the majority of the population. Soon the town's Anglos, furious at this "interracial" transgression, formed a vigilante squad that kidnapped the children and nearly lynched the nuns and the local priest. The Catholic Church sued to get its wards back, but all the courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, ruled in favor of the vigilantes. |
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Item Description: | Originally published: 1999. |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 416 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps, portraits |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-404) and index. |
ISBN: | 9780674061712 0674061713 0674360419 9780674360419 067400535X 9780674005358 |