Arizona republican., 1915-11-08
STATES STORY
| IS COMMENDED
Favorable Comment Made
by Coast Papers on First
Two Volumes of Arizona
History by Thomas Ed
win Parish

|
| come in for a great deal of Favorable
comment from different parts of tn
| country. orders for the first tw,
volumes of the work have alread,
| been received from far eastern points
The Los Angeles Times says of it
| History of Arizona from the per
| of Thomas Edwin Parish, Arizon;
historian, has just made its appear.
ance. 1t is an interesting and won
derful compilation.
This is nearly as exclusively Pa.
cific Coast work as the one reviewed
recently on the mission history OF
California. Arizona partakes of al
The glamour of adventure, is Just as
redolent of romance and as full u
sensational episodes as California L;
C :c1s the same period in which ire
spanish Conquistadores coming u;
from Mexico carried European Chris
tlan civilization to this ultima Thule
not only of the western hemisphere
but of the world OF trat period.
No attempt at rhetoric is made
by Mr. Parish. There are fewer adj
jectiveS in the two volumes of his
history of Arizona than could easily
be found in any similar work eXtant
His achievement is, however, none
the less useful, and little if any less
interesting. He has produced what
seems to be careful compilation of
the facts couched in plain, idfomatic
English that will prove a storehouse
for after generations, whose writer's
will no doubt expand upon the work
of the present author. There is no
attempt made in the book to emulate
Macaulay in his history of England
or DR.. Arnold of Rugby in his his
tory of Rome. While not so volum-
nous as Mommasen's history of
Rome. covering as it does a shorter
period and less space upon the earth.
it is more like that colossal work
than any other we recall at the mo-
mcnt.
Few historians have ever come
within miles of DIR. Arnold in his his
tory of Rome or Macaulay in his
history of England. In those two
works is brought out all the romance
of the histories they relate written
in language that makes almost prose
poetry.
Mr.. Farish's work does not COM
pare either with Hittell's history of
California, for that careful, laboriou5
compiler rendered a service to the
State that no other person has rem
dered to any other State in the
Union.
The work is pretty well illus
trated, and the first picture in the
first volume portrays Tucson. Ari-
IONA, as it existed as a walled town.
the only one ever built in the United
States The author says: Tucson
is first mentioned in 1863 as
rancheria vista of Bac which had
been for the most part abandoned.
In the last years of Jesuit control,
however, it had 333 Indians, more or
less under the control of the mis-
sionaries Reyes in his report of
1772 describes San Jose de Tucson as
the vista of Bac without church or
padres house on a fertile site where
a large number of Gentle Christian
registered but estimated
at over 200 families-were congre-
gated
There is a dispute as to which
town is the oldest in the United
States, st. Augustine or Tucson. Il
has been the general opinion for
some time past that the Arizona
town is older than the Florida city.
I'm the first chapters of this book
appear the names of many people
afterward well known in California.
For example William Wolfskill, Ben
ia min d. Wilson and a number of
others.
Mr. Farish's history comes down
as far as the COS and covers the at
tempt of the southern Confederacy
in the Civil War to get possession
IF the territory.
"The work is we'll indexed in each
volume separately, making it much
more useful and convenient to the
student
The Los Angeles Tribune:
Reading more like romance than
but giving a clear, concise
md accurate description of the
events in what is now the baby
state from 1923 to 1868, the first two
volumes of Farish's history have APP
Deared and will be followed at in
.ervals by others until the story of
Arizona is complete from the time
If the earliest Spanish explorations
o the present day.
This fine work is published by
direction of the second legislature
If the state during it's session in the
Early part of the present year and
s the result of many years of pa
lent and painstaking research on
he part of the author.
No state in the union has more
thrilling history than Arizona. It's
pages are filled with adventures
more daring than any conceived in
lotion: it's men have mastered dan
gers and difficulties undreamed Of
n other regions. but out of the bar
EN- and forbidding desert they have
.arved a commonwealth vast as an
empire of wondrous richness, beauty |
md fertility.
Volumes have been written of ArI-
ona most of them pure fiction, but |
t has been the authors pleasure as
veil as task to winnow the wheat |
rom the chaff. The two volumes at !
land attest that he has succeeded |
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