Riders on the Orphan Train: The Arizona Story – Wilcox

Elsie S. Hogan Community Library 100 N. Curtis Ave., Wilcox, AZ, United States

“The Orphan Trains – Arizona’s Hidden History” will be presented at six libraries: Winslow, Prescott, Douglas, Fountain Hills, Wilcox and Prescott Valley. The program is designed to inform, entertain, and engage audiences of all ages and to tell the story of about this little-known chapter of the largest child migration in American and Arizona history […]

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The Life and Times of Tom Jeffords, Friend of Cochise

Elsie S. Hogan Community Library 100 N. Curtis Ave., Wilcox, AZ, United States

Tom Jeffords grew up in Ashtabula, OH, without much education and was promoted to lake captain in his early twenties. The lure of making his fortune called Tom west to the Pike’s Peak Gold Rush, the San Juan Rush and to the Colorado River. He scouted and was dispatch rider for the Army during the […]

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