• About
• Look-Ups
• AOL Users

ARIZONA HISTORY — HISTORY OF ARIZONA — ALL EIGHT VOLUMES AVAILABLE!

History of Arizona, Volumes I-VIII:
by Thomas Edwin Farish, Arizona Historian
Dated: 1915–1918

History of Arizona—The name is significant. Its derivation is uncertain; all that is known of it is that in the latter part of the seventeenth century it was given to a range of mountains across the border in Northern Sonora, in what was then known as Pimeria Alta, and thereafter was applied to the territory now embraced within the boundaries of the "Baby State."

Its history is in two parts: One, the story of a vanished race, who left behind them a record of achievement in cavate dwellings, the ruins of pueblos, fortifications, abandoned irrigation canals, and hieroglyphics on the Painted Rocks, which, it is claimed, antedate the conquest of England by William the Conqueror, and record the activities of a civilized, cultivated and refined people, who converted the desert into gardens, causing its waste places to contribute to their comfort and happiness; scientists, for thirty or forty years, have been studying these records. The other, beginning with the Spanish explorers of the 16th century, and the successive governments under the Spanish, Mexican and American flags, in the narrative of the building up of a great prosperous commonwealth, the redemption of an empire from savagery to civilization.

The history as it proceeds, will deal with historic facts in historic times, and the prehistoric records, the story of a lost race, revealed by modern scientists and archaeologists. This is a great set for the Arizona history buff or genealogist! Click here to see a searchable list of primary individuals, events, etc. listed in Volume I, Volume II, Volume III, Volume IV, Volume V, Volume VI, Volume VII, Volume VIII.

Each eBook volume is 5.5" x 8.5", and each volume is between 325-392 pages, and all volumes are delivered on one CD-ROM. Browse FREE samples below for more details.

BROWSE SAMPLES:
(Note: To enable faster downloading, some of the sample PDF files have been compressed to a lower resolution than what is provided on the CD-ROM.)

Volume I: Table of Contents (PDF, 664K), Chapters 1 and 2 (PDF, 763K), Index (PDF, 1.78MB)
Volume II: Table of Contents (PDF, 810K), Chapter 3 (PDF, 843K), Index (PDF, 1.33MB)
Volume III: Table of Contents (PDF, 649K), Chapter 11 (PDF, 919K), Index (PDF, 816K)
Volume IV: Table of Contents (PDF, 793K), Chapter 2 (PDF, 626K), Index (PDF, 1.11MB)
Volume V: Table of Contents (PDF, 2.15MB), Chapter 8 (PDF, 1.68MB), Index (PDF, 1.79MB)
Volume VI: Table of Contents (PDF, 465K), Chapter 1 (PDF, 1.49MB), Index (PDF, 1.12MB)
Volume VII: Table of Contents (PDF, 322K), Chapter 1 (PDF, 1.16MB), Index (PDF, 169K)
Volume VIII: Table of Contents (PDF, 639K), Chapter 2 (PDF, 442K), Index (PDF, 899K)