 s stupidity and ignorance probably cost five thousand American lives and the destruction of hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of property.  History of Arizona - Stran 32avtor: Thomas Edwin Farish - 1915Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | James Joseph Fitzgerrell - 1905 - 186 strani
...I St. Louis, Mo., Aug .19, 1904. A tornado here today resulted in one death and 50 persons injured and the destruction of hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of property. Raton, NM, Aug. 19, 1904. Passengers on No. 2 on the Santa Fe road passed through a snowstorm in coming... | |
 | American Academy of Political and Social Science - 1911 - 346 strani
...A passenger train was "side swiped" by a loaded freight train causing the loss of several precious lives and the destruction of hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of property. I was one of the first to arrive on the awful scene, a scene which will ever live in my memory. The... | |
 | Thomas Edwin Farish - 1915 - 392 strani
...Sonoita with his Mexican mistress and her son, whom Ward had adopted, when the Indians came down on his ranch during his absence, drove off his stock, and...Asia" gives a very succinct account of the capture of Oochise and his escape, the conditions in that part of Arizona when the Federal troops were withdrawn,... | |
 | 1923 - 368 strani
...out the federal troops. The United States sued for and obtained an injunction. After the loss of many lives and the destruction of hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of property, order was at last restored. Eugene V. Debs and his immediate associates, directing the strike, were... | |
 | Dan L. Thrapp - 1975 - 462 strani
...and it has been charged that the series of blunders which loosed Cochise upon the whites eventually cost "five thousand American lives and the destruction of hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of property."35 No traveler, no settler, no miner, no small party of soldiers, no small community was... | |
 | David Roberts - 1994 - 376 strani
...warfare between Cochise and the Arizona Territory, one of the state's first historians claimed, "Bascom's stupidity and ignorance probably cost five thousand...hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of property." That death tally is undoubtedly too high. The historian's summation, moreover, epitomizes an old myth:... | |
 | Peter Cozzens - 2001 - 732 strani
...in a decadelong orgy of violence. Historian Thomas Parish calculated that Cochise's fury eventually cost "five thousand American lives and the destruction...hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of property." Indian agent John P. Clum asserted that the US government spent $38 million between 1862 and 1871 in... | |
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