Arizona: The Land of Sunshine and Silver, Health and Prosperity, the Place for Ideal Homes

Arizona: The Land of Sunshine and Silver, Health and Prosperity, the Place for Ideal Homes
by John A. Black
Adopted by
Kurt and Cameron Rupprecht
in honor of James K. Ballinger
on June 15, 2017
Cover of Arizona: The Land of Sunshine and Silver

Arizona : the land of sunshine and silver, health and prosperity, the place for ideal homes

By John A. Black. Phoenix, Ariz: Republican Book and Job Print, c1890.

In 1890, Arizona Territory had its own Commissioner of Immigration, John A. Black, who wrote this piece to extol the virtues and resources of the territory. In his profile of Cochise County, for example, he says, “In the last six years the County has been entirely redeemed from the wild reputation it before bore as a region terrorized by Apaches and equally wild cowboys… The petulant pop of the pistol is no longer heard, and, while the excitement of the boom days of yore may be missed… there remains the solid enterprise and the substantial progress that marks the thrifty community and invites with assurance the immigrant.” Our book’s cover was signed by Charles D. Poston, who served as Superintendent of Indian Affairs in Arizona Territory and the territory’s first delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives.

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