The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction by Linda Gordon

The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction

Linda Gordon

432 pages first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction historical history race emotional informative reflective slow-paced
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In 1904, New York nuns brought forty Irish orphans to a remote Arizona mining camp, to be placed with Catholic families. The Catholic families were Mexican, as was the majority of the population. Soon the town's Anglos, furious at this "interracia...

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