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Arizona Gold Gangster Charles P. Stanton

Truth & Legend in Yavapai’s Dark Days

By: Parker Anderson,Arizona State Historian

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Arizona Gold Gangster Charles P. Stanton

Truth & Legend in Yavapai’s Dark Days

By: Parker Anderson,Arizona State Historian

For generations, Arizonans have been fascinated with the story of Charles P. Stanton. The alleged crime boss and mass murderer oversaw a reign of terror in the small mining town that bore his name. Driven by greed, he stole ore, swindled mines away from their owners and bribed his way out of justice. Those who crossed him usually ended up dead. But are the legends actually true? Relying on original source material, including court documents and newspapers, Arizona historian Parker Anderson reveals the true story of Stanton for the first time and broaches the possibility that the mysterious Irish Lord may not have been guilty of the terrible crimes that folklore has attributed to him.

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128

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Arcadia Publishing

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1439669538

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9781439669532

The Early History of Heaven

By: J. Edward Wright Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible and Early Judaism University of Arizona

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The Early History of Heaven

By: J. Edward Wright Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible and Early Judaism University of Arizona

When we think of "heaven," we generally conjure up positive, blissful images. Heaven is, after all, where God is and where good people go after death to receive their reward. But how and why did Western cultures come to imagine the heavenly realm in such terms? Why is heaven usually thought to be "up there," far beyond the visible sky? And what is the source of the idea that the post mortem abode of the righteous is in this heavenly realm with God? Seeking to discover the roots of these familiar notions, this volume traces the backgrounds, origin, and development of early Jewish and Christian speculation about the heavenly realm -- where it is, what it looks like, and who its inhabitants are. Wright begins his study with an examination of the beliefs of ancient Israel's neighbors Egypt and Mesopotamia, reconstructing the intellectual context in which the earliest biblical images of heaven arose. A detailed analysis of the Hebrew biblical texts themselves then reveals that the Israelites were deeply influenced by images drawn from the surrounding cultures. Wright goes on to examine Persian and Greco-Roman beliefs, thus setting the stage for his consideration of early Jewish and Christian images, which he shows to have been formed in the struggle to integrate traditional biblical imagery with the newer Hellenistic ideas about the cosmos. In a final chapter Wright offers a brief survey of how later Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions envisioned the heavenly realms. Accessible to a wide range of readers, this provocative book will interest anyone who is curious about the origins of this extraordinarily pervasive and influential idea.

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338

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0198029810

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9780198029816

Skirting Traditions

Arizona Women Writers and Journalists, 1912-2012

By: Arizona Press Women

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Skirting Traditions

Arizona Women Writers and Journalists, 1912-2012

By: Arizona Press Women

These short biographies of twenty-eight female writers and journalists from Arizona span the one hundred years since Arizona became the forty-eighty state in the Union. They capture the emotions, the monumental and often overlooked events, and the prioneering spirit of women whose lives are now part of Arizona history" -- Cover p. [4].

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310

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Wheatmark, Inc.

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1604945974

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9781604945973

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Arizona Gold Gangster Charles P. Stanton

Arizona Gold Gangster Charles P. Stanton

The Early History of Heaven

The Early History of Heaven

Skirting Traditions

Skirting Traditions

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