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I, Jack Swilling

2012-01-04 Fiction
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Release : 2012-01-04
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis I, Jack Swilling by : John Myers Myers

Download or read book I, Jack Swilling written by John Myers Myers. This book was released on 2012-01-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yesterday I was delirious, and the day before that, or several before that. Tonight, though, I seem to be aware of everything I’ve ever known . . . . It’s dark, double dark because of the mist that August steams from the Colorado. Yet I can see almost very place I’ve ever been . . . All the men I liked are having drinks with me or yarning around campfires scattered from the Appalachians to the Pacific Coast. All the enemies I’ve fought are visible beyond the muxxles of guns or the points of knives . . . All of the women I’ve wigwamed with, including the two who demanded the law’s blessing, are either smiling or showing they wished they never met me . . . But I could never really belong to civilization, for once I hand helped to create it, I yearned for a place on which it hadn’t laid an ordering hand.

Jack Swilling

2007 Arizona
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Release : 2007
Genre : Arizona
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Book Rating : 650/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Jack Swilling by : Albert R. Bates

Download or read book Jack Swilling written by Albert R. Bates. This book was released on 2007. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John W. (Jack) Swilling, the founder of Phoenix, is also "the most lied about man" in the history of Arizona Territory. His reputation was fatally injured when he was wrongfully accused of stagecoach robbery and died in Yuma County Jail before he could have a trial.

Tragic Jack

2007 History
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Release : 2007
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 519/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Tragic Jack by : R. Michael Wilson

Download or read book Tragic Jack written by R. Michael Wilson. This book was released on 2007. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the remarkable story of John William "Jack" Swilling, an Arizona pioneer who established mines, built roads and laid out cities, until he was falsely accused of a stagecoach robbery.

I, Jack Swilling, Founder of Phoenix, Arizona

1961 Arizona
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Release : 1961
Genre : Arizona
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Book Synopsis I, Jack Swilling, Founder of Phoenix, Arizona by : John Myers Myers

Download or read book I, Jack Swilling, Founder of Phoenix, Arizona written by John Myers Myers. This book was released on 1961. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Glimpses of Phoenix

2013-05-01 History
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Release : 2013-05-01
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 649/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Glimpses of Phoenix by : David William Foster

Download or read book Glimpses of Phoenix written by David William Foster. This book was released on 2013-05-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of the self-image of Phoenix is that the city has no history and that anything of importance happened yesterday. Also that Phoenix, the Arizona state capital, is a "clean" city (despite a past of police corruption and social oppression). The "real" Phoenix, easygoing, sun-drenched, a place of ever-expanding development and economic growth, guarantees, it is said, an enviable lifestyle, low taxes, and unfettered personal freedom and opportunity. Little of this is true. Phoenix has been described as one of the least sustainable cities in the country. This sixth largest urban area of the United States has an alarmingly superficial and tourism-oriented discourse among its leaders. This book examines a series of narrative works (novels, theater, chronicles, investigative reporting, personal accounts, editorial cartooning, even a children's television program) that question this discourse in a frequently stinging fashion. The works examined are anchored in a critical understanding of the dominant urban myths of Greater Phoenix, and an awareness of how all the newness, modernity and fun-in-the-sun mentality mask a uniquely dystopian human experience.

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