ALLISON ORRUM: RAGS, RICHES, RAGS AGAIN

        Allison Orrum was a comely lass when she emigrated from Scotland to America in the 1850s.  She had married to a Mormon named Steve Hunter.  They had both been converted to the church while in Scotland, but both desired to join the saints in American, so they sailed as soon as possible.  Hunter was … Continue reading ALLISON ORRUM: RAGS, RICHES, RAGS AGAIN

APACHES: THE PROUDEST AMERICANS

  Descriptions of life in Arizona during the late 1700s and the mid-1850s were all written by white settlers who moved into the territory from the eastern states of America.  It was natural, I suppose, that the new occupants of the western lands feared the Native Americans they encountered.  In Arizona, descriptions of “Indians” almost … Continue reading APACHES: THE PROUDEST AMERICANS