With Their Own Blood. A Saga Of Southwestern Pioneers.

VIRGINIA CULIN ROBERTS

Publication: Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 1992,

First edition. 8vo. Signed on the title page by the author. Two-tone cloth, maps on endpapers, xvi, 286 pp., frontis., preface, acknowledgments, illustrated, plates, portraits, epilogue, notes, bibliography, index. After his wife died, Elias Green Pennington gathered up his twelve children in 1857 and left Texas for California. After a difficult trek across West Texas and New Mexico they were forced to settle in southern Arizona, where members of the family and their descendants would remain into Arizona's statehood years. At the heart of this saga is Larcena Pennington Page Scott, who witnesses the killing of her loved ones, was captured by the Apaches and held in captivity, and her miraculous escape from her captors. She lived well into the twentieth century and tells her story. Much material on the Apaches and Apache Wars. As new, unread copy in dust jacket.

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