Anton Mazzanovich

Anton Mazzanovich also spelled Antonije Mašanović (1860-1934) was an American soldier and author of real stories of the Wild West. Zane Grey and Louis L'Amour are perhaps the most popular authors of literature of the American Old West, though unlike the two, Mazzanovich wrote from the perspective of a participant, an eyewitness and a connoisseur of the Wild West having personal knowledge of the individuals he wrote about. Mazzanovich books can be classified as historical narratives or memoirs as opposed to novels.https://speccoll.library.arizona.edu/collections/papers-anton-mazzanovichhttps://www.proquest.com/openview/31845554646e556e1b566f0cb35778c5/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=1818256. The Mazzanovich papers are archived at the Arizona Historical Society, South Arizona Division in Tucson, Arizona. https://snaccooperative.org/vocab_administrator/resources/7406612
==Biography==
Anton Mazzanovich was born in Lesina, then part of Austria-Hungary now Hvar (town), Croatiahttps://www.thenmusa.org/soldier-profile/pvt-anton-mazzanovich-2/. The population of his homeland was steadily declining as the youth was forced into the military to fight in foreign wars and the young Mazzanovich family decided to emigrate from Habsburg Austria to the United States of America in 1868https://www.arizonahistoricalsociety.org/wp-content/upLoads/library_Mazzanovich-Anton.pdf. After running away from home, he enlisted in the U.S. Army without his parents' knowledge when he was not yet in his teens but his father was able to return him home once he found where Anton was stationed. Anton eventually got his way and joined the famed U.S. 6th Cavalry Regiment and was posted at Fort Lowell in Tucson, Arizona|Tucson in 1881. He was a participant in the Apache Wars. His career in the military enriched him with so many experiences that he later wrote about them in books. He wrote about Gold Rush Postal Inspector John Clumhttps://postalmuseum.si.edu/exhibition/as-precious-as-gold-stories-from-the-gold-rush/john-philip-clum-gold-rush-postalwhom he had known in Arizona while in the military and other well-known people from out West such as Geronimo, Tom Hornhttps://www.jstor.org/stable/41697075, Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, Judge Hamilton Calhoun McComas, Kate Elderhttps://www.google.ca/books/edition/According_to_Kate/bnSlDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Anton+Mazzanovich%22+-wikipedia&pg=PA147&printsec=frontcover, Billy the Kidhttps://www.google.ca/books/edition/Eyewitnesses_to_the_Indian_Wars_1865_189/4ty3DAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Anton+Mazzanovich&pg=PT938&printsec=frontcoverand othershttps://www.arizonahistoricalsociety.org/wp-content/upLoads/library_Mazzanovich-Anton.pdf.
He also had a stint as an actor in the very early Hollywood silent films. His younger brothers Max became a stage designer implicated in a Chicago 1902 theatre fire and Lawrence (Mazzanovich) became a well-known American artisthttps://www.askart.com/artist/Lawrence_Mazzanovich/115898/Lawrence_Mazzanovich.aspx
Anton Mazzanovich was married to Caroline G. Minethttps://www.findagrave.com/memorial/27660739/caroline-g-mazzanovich
He died on 31 July 1934 and was buried in Arizona.https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/29902693/anton-mazzanovich
==Works==
* Tracking Geronimo (1923)
* The Truth About Tom Horne
* Killing of Judge and Mrs. McComashttps://repository.arizona.edu/handle/10150/623375
* Story of a Medicine Man's Medalhttps://www.google.ca/books/edition/Early_Danish_Pioneers_Southern_Arizona_T/VbX1AwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Anton+Mazzanovich%22+-wikipedia&pg=PA6&printsec=frontcover
* Geronimo Campaignhttps://www.eacourier.com/lifestyle/did-you-know-the-bodies-were-missing/article_cd0c8338-9b6b-11e4-9740-0f8a8672b187.html
* A Snipe Hunt in Arizona
* When the Comet Hit Tucson in 1881
* Letter of John P. Clum
* Lieutenant Charles B. Gatewoodhttps://repository.arizona.edu/handle/10150/623398
* The Southwest Frontierhttps://www.google.ca/books/edition/Arizona_in_Literature/fojzrgINTzMC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Anton+Mazzanovich%22+-wikipedia&pg=PA406&printsec=frontcover
==Literature==
* Chris Enss: "According to Kate: The Legendary Life of Big Nose Kate"https://www.google.ca/books/edition/According_to_Kate/bnSlDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Anton+Mazzanovich&pg=PA147&printsec=frontcover
* Peter Cozzens: "Eyewitness to the Indian Wars, 1865-1890"https://www.google.ca/books/edition/Eyewitnesses_to_the_Indian_Wars_1865_189/4ty3DAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Anton+Mazzanovich&pg=PT938&printsec=frontcover
* Chris Cozzone, Jim Boggio: "Boxing in New Mexico, 1868-1940"https://www.google.ca/books/edition/Boxing_in_New_Mexico_1868_1940/DohRlGBDVgcC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Anton+Mazzanovich%22+-wikipedia&pg=PA18&printsec=frontcover
* David Grassé: "The Bisbee Massacre: Murder and retribution in the Arizona Territory"https://www.google.ca/books/edition/The_Bisbee_Massacre/kJaSDgAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Anton+Mazzanovich%22+-wikipedia&pg=PA55&printsec=frontcover
* Ramon Frederick Adams: "Six-Guns and Saddle Leather"https://www.google.ca/books/edition/Six_Guns_and_Saddle_Leather/GlH9AqkCu0oC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Anton+Mazzanovich%22+-wikipedia&pg=PA433&printsec=frontcover
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