详细书目
| 附加的形体格式: | Online version: Maguire, Don, 1852-1933. Gila monsters and red-eyed rattlesnakes. Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, 1997 (OCoLC)607895758 |
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| 提及的人: | Don Maguire |
| 材料类型: | 传记, 政府刊物, 州政府或者省政府刊物 |
| 文件类型: | 书 |
| 所有的著者/提供者: |
Don Maguire; Gary Topping |
| ISBN: | 0874805376 9780874805376 |
| OCLC号码: | 36017179 |
| 描述: | xviii, 245 p. : maps ; 24 cm. |
| 责任: | edited by Gary Topping. |
摘要:
It was Maguire's genius to recognize a brief window of opportunity for trading in the Southwest. He realized that Arizona's mining districts - and those of a good part of Nevada and eastern California - were well populated, yet poorly supplied. And he saw that the barrier presented by hostile Indians, while still significant, had lowered enough to admit with reasonable risk a cautious and well-armed party of traders. This opportunity would only last a few years, for the railroads also perceived the economic potential of the region and were moving in.
But Maguire was much more than just an entrepreneur with an eye for the main chance. He obviously enjoyed cutting profitable deals, but he also considered himself a student and used his trading as a way to help facilitate and pay for archaeological and anthropological investigations. Above all, though, Maguire is an eloquent and entertaining reporter. Colorful expressions, unsentimental assessments of the people encountered, the toils and dangers of the journey with its lurking bandits and "red-eyed rattlesnakes," and the joys of a warm campfire on a starry Arizona night all emerge memorably from Maguire's pen. His unwavering sense of humor is a constant source of delight.

