
A vivid work based on a lifetime of learning about a remote mining
area east of the Colorado River, Pioneer Women, Miners
and Thieves is a collection of portraits of enterprising people whose stories have never been told. In the late 1800s, prospectors and pioneers poured into this part of the Arizona Territory. When the ore was gone, the mining camps faded into ghost towns. All that remained was the exquisite desert and a handful of intractable people
determined to live audacious lives in splendid isolation.
Long before HBO’s Deadwood became America’s most popular
mining camp, Cactus Kelli wrote about mining towns Harrisburg and Harqua Hala. With personal experience as her guide,
she writes of people she knew or heard tales about while she was
growing up in the McMullen Valley.
Ms. Kelly has informed her work with extensive research. A poet at heart, she writes with an awareness that, sculpting memories is a natural phenomenon used to soften the realities that can sear our souls.
Details
- Publication Date
- Jan 30, 2008
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780615196169
- Category
- History
- Copyright
- All Rights Reserved - Standard Copyright License
- Contributors
- By (author): Cactus Kelli
Specifications
- Pages
- 66
- Binding Type
- Paperback Perfect Bound
- Interior Color
- Black & White
- Dimensions
- US Trade (6 x 9 in / 152 x 229 mm)