Frontier Days In The Southwest. Pioneer Days In Old Arizona.

JENNIE PARKS RINGGOLD

Publication: The Naylor Company, 1952, San Antonio

First edition. 8vo. Cloth, map on endpapers, ix [1], 197 pp., preface, illustrated, index. A story told by the daughter of a family of Texans who in 1879, migrated by wagon train from Mills County to New Mexico and later into southwestern Arizona. Six Guns 1859 says, "An interesting book of reminiscences about the Southwest when it was wild. The author repeats the legend that Billy the Kid killed the blacksmith alleged to have insulted his mother and has a mention of many of the Arizona outlaws, giving the Apache Kid quite a bit of space. She speaks highly of Johnny Ringo and says that 'he loomed far above the opposing gang of outlaws--the Earps, Doc Holliday and the Curly Bill faction in Tombstone's early days." There is much on ranching, Indians, Indian battles, mines, the strike at Morenci, etc. Fine in price-clipped dust jacket.