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1 online resource (288 pages) |
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His wife dead, Elisa Green Pennington gathered up his brood of twelve young children in 1857 and left Texas for California, the promised land. The Penningtons could not have imagined what the untamed frontier had in store for them. After a difficult trek across West Texas and New Mexico, they were forced by sicknesses and circumstances to settle in the newly claimed Gadsden Purchase - present-day southern Arizona - where members of the clan and their descendants would remain into Arizona's statehood years. At the heart of this saga is Larcena Pennington Page Scott, who is witness a. |
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Preface and Acknowledgments; Part I: INDEPENDENT AND UNSUBDUED; 1. Capture; 2. The Penningtons; 3. Woman of Courage; 4. Rough Times on the Border; 5. Murders and Marriages; Part II: LEAN AND HARD AND HUNGRY; 6. Lonely Graves; 7. The Great Exodus; 8. Fisher Scott; 9. Nomads of War; 10. A Shattered Family; 11. New Love, New Life; 12. Mary Page; 13. "Toward the Western Shore"; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Pennington family.
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Pennington family. |
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Pioneers -- Arizona -- Biography.
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Pioneers. |
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Arizona. |
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Biographies.
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Frontier and pioneer life -- Arizona.
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Arizona -- Biography.
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Frontier and pioneer life. |
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General. |
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Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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Print version: Roberts, Virginia. With Their Own Blood : A Saga of Southwestern Pioneers. College Station : TCU Press, ©2013 9780875652283 |
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9780875655291 (electronic book) |
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0875655297 (electronic book) |
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