Research Materials

Through Our Parents' Eyes is fortunate to have the participation of scholars such as Dr. Lawrence Evers, chair of the UA Department of English; Dr. Joseph Wilder, Director of the UA Southwest Center; Bruce Dingus, director of publications at the Arizona Historical Society's and Dr. James S. Griffith, prolific author, speaker, folkorist and retired director of the UA's Southwest Folklore Center. Through their commitment to scholarship and research, as well as the authors who have given permission to include their research on this website, we are able to include these valuable resources to readers dispersed across the Internet.

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E-Texts -- Articles

Journal of the Southwest articles

Hiakim: The Yaqui Homeland, v. 34, 1 (Spring 1992)
This special issue brings forward historical and cultural events with photographs from the 1940s and 1980s.

The Elders' Truth: A Yaqui Sermon v. 35, 3 (Autumn 1993)
Miki Maaso's WAA YO'ORA LUTU'URIA, presented in Yaqui with a transcribed, translated and annotated version in English by Felipe S. Molina and Larry Evers.

The Journal of Arizona History articles

Byrkit, James W. "The I. W. W. in Wartime Arizona." The Journal of Arizona History. 18.2 (1977): 149-170.

Dorich, Thomas J. "This is a Tough Place to Work: Industrial Relations in the Jerome Mines, 1900-1922." The Journal of Arizona History. 38.3 (1997): 233-256.

Eppinga, Jane. "Henry O. Flipper in the Court of Private Land Claims: The Arizona Career of West Point's First Black Graduate." The Journal of Arizona History. 36.1 (1995): 33-54.

Fong, Lawrence M. "Sojourners and Settlers: The Chinese Experience in Arizona." The Journal of Arizona History, 21.3 (1980):1 -30.
A look at the experience of Chinese pioneers who settled in Arizona in the context of the diverse economic, political and social climate they encountered.

Hu-Dehart, Evelyn. "Immigrants to a Developing Society: the Chinese in Northern Mexico, 1875-1932." The Journal of Arizona History, 21.3 (1980): 49- 86.
Describes the contributions made by the Chinese in Mexico. Hu-Dehart shows that in the first quarter of the twentieth century, they had become an important social and economic group in northern Mexico. But by the late twenties and early thirties thousands were expelled from Mexico largely ending their social and economic presence.

Lee, Katie. "Gail Gardner and the Sierry Petes." The Journal of Arizona History, 15.3 (Summer 1977): 209-222.

Lyons, Bettina. "Mr. Steinfeld Is In Sole Control: The Celebrated Case of Louis Zeckendorf vs. Albert Steinfeld and the Silver Bell Copper Company." The Journal of Arizona History, 41.2 (2000): 149-180.
Lyons article describes the details of a celebrated legal battle between Albert Steinfeld and Louis Zeckendorf. It provides a window into the personal and business affairs of a pioneer Jewish merchant family in southern Arizona.

McBride, James D. "Gaining a Foothold In the Paradise of Capitalism: The Western Federation of Miners and The Unionization of Bisbee." Journal of Arizona History, 23.3 (1982): 299-316.

Overstreet, Daphne. "On Strike! The 1917 Walkout at Globe, Arizona." The Journal of Arizona History, 18.2 (1977): 197-218.

Park, Joseph F. "The 1903 'Mexican Affair' at Clifton." The Journal of Arizona History, 18.2 (1977): 119-148.

Pugsley, Andrea."'AS I KILL THIS CHICKEN SO May I BE PUNISHED IF I TELL AN UNTRUTH' Chinese Opposition to Legal Discrimination in Arizona Territory." The Journal of Arizona History, 44.2 (2003): 170-190.
An examination of the many legal hurdles the Chinese in Arizona faced in the 19th century and their efforts to use the justice system to challenge them.

Reisdorfer, Kathryn. "CHARLEY HONG, RACISM, AND THE POWER OF THE PRESS IN JEROME, ARIZONA TERRITORY, 1909." The Journal of Arizona History, 44.2 (2003): 133-146.
A review exposing racial tensions in the waning days of the mining frontier, in Jerome, Arizona.

Santiago, Mark. "Eighteenth-Century Military Policy In Northern New Spain: A Review Essay." The Journal of Arizona History, 37.3 (1996): 283- 290.

Underhill, Karen J. "I REMEMBER Depression-Era Students at Arizona State Teachers College."
The Journal of Arizona History, 37.2 (1996): 163- 180.

Walz, Eric. "THE ISSEI COMMUNITY IN MARICOPA COUNTY: Development and Persistence in the Valley of the Sun, 1900-1940." The Journal of Arizona History, 38.1 (1997): 1-22.

Wang, Wensheng. "The First Chinese In Tucson: New Evidence on a Puzzling Question." The Journal of Arizona History, 43.3 (2002): 369-380.
An interesting article researching details of the early Chinese presence in the Old Pueblo.

Watson, Fred. "Still on Strike: Recollections of a Bisbee Deportee." The Journal of Arizona History, 18.2 (1977): 171-184.

Wilson, Marjorie Haines. "Governor Hunt, the 'Beast' and the Miners." The Journal of Arizona History, 15.2 (1974): 119-138.

Other

Powell, Lawrence Clark. "Heart of the Southwest: A Selective Bibliography of Novels, Stories and Tales Laid in Arizona and New Mexico & Adjacent Land." Originally published in 1959 by Dawson's Book Shop; printed by Saul & Lillian Marks at The Plantin Press, Los Angeles.

E-Texts -- Books

Books By Edward Soza
Edward Soza researched and wrote four manuscripts that appear here as e-texts. They record the history of Mexican American settlers in this region and include: Affidavits of Contest
Vis-À -Vis Arizona Hispanic Homesteaders 1880-1908, Compiled and Edited General Land Office Correspondence; Hispanic Homesteaders in Arizona 1870 - 1908 Under The Homestead Act of May 20, 1862 And Other Public Land Acts; Mexican Homesteaders in the San Pedro River Valley
and the The Homestead Act of 1862 1870-1908; and Arizona Pictorial Biography: Antonio Campa Soza 1845-1915.

Borderman: The Memoirs of Federico José María Ronstadt
The reminiscences of Fred Ronstadt, one of the founders of the Ronstadt family of Tucson. Before his death in December of 1954, Fred Ronstadt penciled his memoirs in cursive script on the face and backs of sheets of Ronstadt Company stationery. They detail much of his life and times in warm, yet straightforward, prose, including his childhood and youthful activities in Sonora, Mexico, and in neighboring Baja California. These are a part of our Mexican and American heritage

Desert Documentary: The Spanish Years, 1767 - 1821
Researcher Kieran McCarty's wrote of this region's heritage as being "firmly fixed in this period, though five different flags have waved over the land since colonial times." His research reports of the day-to-day life of the Spaniards after the founding of Tucson in 1775, the complexities of building a frontier mission church, and the role of Tucson's presidial soldiers during the war for Mexican independence.

Heritage: The Story of St. Mary's Hospital 1880-1980
Written by Leo G. Bryne and Sister Alberta Cammack, Heritage is interesting not only for its historical overview of the Carondelet Sisters' role at St. Mary's for over 100 years but also for readers interested in the history of medicine. The changes and growth of a major teaching hospital and of hospital services in general are well presented.

Hooves and Grooves: A History of the Tucson Street Railway
In the late nineteenth century, Tucson was a growing town with a strong desire to project a metropolitan image. One key to continued development was the establishment of dependable public transportation to move Tucsonans around their newly bustling city. This is the story of the first streetcar line: the horse-drawn Tucson Street Railway. This is an online version of the history written by W. Eugene Caywood in collaboration with Keith Glaab.

The Impact of the Frontier On a Jewish Family: The Bibos
Researched and written by Floyd S. Fierman, it recounts the Bibo's experiences as merchants in New Mexico in the second half of the 19th century.

The Negro of Tucson, Past and Present
The full-text of a thesis written by James Walter Yancy in 1933, illustrated with images from Yancy's original photographs.

The St. Marys I Knew
Written by Sister Aloysia Ames, is a history of St. Mary's School of Nursing and Sister M. J. Berchmans Hartrich's account of the journey she and three other nuns made from St. Louis to Tucson in 1876.

The South Corner of Time is a digital version of the 1980 book, The South Corner of Time: Hopi, Navajo, Papago, Yaqui Tribal Literature, Larry Evers, ed.

Trailtones: The African American Heritage of Arizona
Tucsonan Gloria L. Smith's bibliographic and photographic survey of African American heritage in Arizona. Ms. Smith draws her research from the territorial papers of many states with relationships to Arizona during the 19th and 20th centuries.

Trek of the Seven Sisters
Trek of the Seven Sisters is a booklet sized publication of the original diary of Sister Monica Corrigan, one of the seven Carondelet Sisters who made the hazardous journey from San Diego to Tucson in May of 1870.

Tubac Through Four Centuries: An Historical Resume and Analysis
The definitive history written by Henry F. Dobyns about the southern Arizona town of Tubac, beginning with aboriginal Piman society until it was an abandoned Mexican fort in the 19th century.

UA Library's Books of the Southwest
A selection of books digitized from the critical checklist of Southwestern Americana.

Book Chapters

Griffith, James S. "The Mormon Cowboy:" An Arizona Cowboy Song and its Community
from Chapter 6 in: A Shared Space: Folklife in the Arizona-Sonora Borderlands. Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 1995.