Description
By Stanley C. Brown; copyright 2015; Paperback. 294 pages. Sequel to The Immigrant.
Guiseppe Bellini, his wife Ana Maria, and their one-year-old son, Juan, leave Tucson, Arizona Territory in 1861 to escape the lawless atmosphere of that frontier town. They travel to the central mountains of Arizona to take up their lives among the Tonto Apache people. This is a sequel to Stan Brown’s previous book, “The Immigrant,” in which Seppe, as Guiseppe is called, saved the life of the Tonto’s head man, Del-che-ae. In turn the chief invited them to live among the Apaches in a beautiful river canyon under the Mogollon Rim. Unknown to the Bellini Family, Arizona was on the threshold of a bloody war in which the white settlers vowed to eliminate all Indians from the territory. This gripping and historically accurate story tells how a frontier family sought to bridge the cultural gap between Native Americans and Euro-Americans as they became swept up in the saga of Arizona’s early years. It is a story of faith and hope and love, lived between the families of two irreconcilable cultures.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
Chapter 1 Woolsey’s Raiders Summer 1864
Chapter 2 Friends And Enemies, Early August 1864
Chapter 3 The Dream Fulfilled, Late August 1864
Chapter 4 A Surprise Visit, September 1864
Chapter 5 Del-Che-Ae’s Stronghold, 1865
Chapter 6 The Month of Big Harvest, September 1866
Chapter 7 The Camp of Deather, October 1866
Chapter 8 Being Made the Fool, Late October 1866
Chapter 9 A Child is Born, November 1866
Chapter 10 The Road to Reno, 1867
Chapter 11 The Declaration of War, Winter 1868
Chapter 12 Growing Threats, April 1868
Chapter 13 Gifts of the Elk, June to november 1868
Chapter 14 Another Grave in Paradise, December 1868 to December 1869
Chapter 15 Hostilities Escalate, 1870
Chapter 16 The Army Comes Very Close, Autumn 1871
Chapter 17 Welcomes and Farewells, Winter 1871-1872
Chapter 18 Mountain Top Experiences, March – July 1873
Chapter 19 The Awful News, August 1873 – August 1874
Chapter 20 Changing Times, September 1874 to February 1875
Chapter 21 The Long March, March 1875
Addendum Epilogue
