Linda Gordon is Professor of History at New York University. She is the author of the now-classic history of birth control in America, Woman’s Body, Woman’s Right, and of Heroes of Their Own Lives: The Politics and History of Family Violence, winner of the American Historical Association’s Joan Kelly Prize for the best book in women’s history.

In her gripping book, The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction, Linda Gordon has written a model study of the creation and maintenance of race relations that manages to capture both the breathless sensationalism of the era's tabloids and the complexity of social status, shifting racial codes and the multiple uses of sex roles in social action...Gordon divides her story into six scenes, most of them devoted to some portion of the four days when the orphans' arrival engulfed Clifton-Morenci in a near riot followed by a mass kidnapping. Spliced between each scene is the history--long-term and proximate--of the towns' sociocultural landscape. It is an ingenious narrative device that enables her to reconstitute the distinct social structures of the area while rendering a taut journalistic account of the unfolding drama...The magnificence of her achievement [is] her masterly assembly of historical detail and acute sensitivity to the intricacies of human relations as mediated by power, prejudice and the passing of time.

• * Preface * Cast of Principal Characters * October 2, 1904, Night, North Clifton, Arizona * September 25, 1904: Grand Central Station, New York City *1. King Copper October 1, 1904, 6:30 p.m.: Clifton Railroad Station *2. Mexicans Come to the Mines October 1, 1904, around 7:30 p.m.: Sacred Heart Church, Clifton *3. The Priest in the Mexican Camp October 2, 1904, Afternoon: Morenci Square and Clifton Library Hall *4. The Mexican Mothers and the Mexican Town October 2, 1904, Evening: The Hills of Clifton *5. The Anglo Mothers and the Company Town October 2, 1904, Night: Clifton Hotel *6. The Strike October 3--4, 1904: Clifton Drugstore and Library Hall, Morenci Hotel *7. Vigilantism January 1905: Courtroom of the Arizona Territorial Supreme Court, Phoenix *8. Family and Race * Epilogue * Notes * Acknowledgments * Index * Maps * Sonoran Highlands Mining Region in 1903 * Old Clifton and Morenci

Linda Gordon is Professor of History at New York University. She is the author of the now-classic history of birth control in America, Woman’s Body, Woman’s Right, and of Heroes of Their Own Lives: The Politics and History of Family Violence, winner of the American Historical Association’s Joan Kelly Prize for the best book in women’s history.

In her gripping book, The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction, Linda Gordon has written a model study of the creation and maintenance of race relations that manages to capture both the breathless sensationalism of the era's tabloids and the complexity of social status, shifting racial codes and the multiple uses of sex roles in social action...Gordon divides her story into six scenes, most of them devoted to some portion of the four days when the orphans' arrival engulfed Clifton-Morenci in a near riot followed by a mass kidnapping. Spliced between each scene is the history--long-term and proximate--of the towns' sociocultural landscape. It is an ingenious narrative device that enables her to reconstitute the distinct social structures of the area while rendering a taut journalistic account of the unfolding drama...The magnificence of her achievement [is] her masterly assembly of historical detail and acute sensitivity to the intricacies of human relations as mediated by power, prejudice and the passing of time.

• * Preface * Cast of Principal Characters * October 2, 1904, Night, North Clifton, Arizona * September 25, 1904: Grand Central Station, New York City *1. King Copper October 1, 1904, 6:30 p.m.: Clifton Railroad Station *2. Mexicans Come to the Mines October 1, 1904, around 7:30 p.m.: Sacred Heart Church, Clifton *3. The Priest in the Mexican Camp October 2, 1904, Afternoon: Morenci Square and Clifton Library Hall *4. The Mexican Mothers and the Mexican Town October 2, 1904, Evening: The Hills of Clifton *5. The Anglo Mothers and the Company Town October 2, 1904, Night: Clifton Hotel *6. The Strike October 3--4, 1904: Clifton Drugstore and Library Hall, Morenci Hotel *7. Vigilantism January 1905: Courtroom of the Arizona Territorial Supreme Court, Phoenix *8. Family and Race * Epilogue * Notes * Acknowledgments * Index * Maps * Sonoran Highlands Mining Region in 1903 * Old Clifton and Morenci

Linda Gordon is Professor of History at New York University. She is the author of the now-classic history of birth control in America, Woman’s Body, Woman’s Right, and of Heroes of Their Own Lives: The Politics and History of Family Violence, winner of the American Historical Association’s Joan Kelly Prize for the best book in women’s history.

In her gripping book, The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction, Linda Gordon has written a model study of the creation and maintenance of race relations that manages to capture both the breathless sensationalism of the era's tabloids and the complexity of social status, shifting racial codes and the multiple uses of sex roles in social action...Gordon divides her story into six scenes, most of them devoted to some portion of the four days when the orphans' arrival engulfed Clifton-Morenci in a near riot followed by a mass kidnapping. Spliced between each scene is the history--long-term and proximate--of the towns' sociocultural landscape. It is an ingenious narrative device that enables her to reconstitute the distinct social structures of the area while rendering a taut journalistic account of the unfolding drama...The magnificence of her achievement [is] her masterly assembly of historical detail and acute sensitivity to the intricacies of human relations as mediated by power, prejudice and the passing of time.

• * Preface * Cast of Principal Characters * October 2, 1904, Night, North Clifton, Arizona * September 25, 1904: Grand Central Station, New York City *1. King Copper October 1, 1904, 6:30 p.m.: Clifton Railroad Station *2. Mexicans Come to the Mines October 1, 1904, around 7:30 p.m.: Sacred Heart Church, Clifton *3. The Priest in the Mexican Camp October 2, 1904, Afternoon: Morenci Square and Clifton Library Hall *4. The Mexican Mothers and the Mexican Town October 2, 1904, Evening: The Hills of Clifton *5. The Anglo Mothers and the Company Town October 2, 1904, Night: Clifton Hotel *6. The Strike October 3--4, 1904: Clifton Drugstore and Library Hall, Morenci Hotel *7. Vigilantism January 1905: Courtroom of the Arizona Territorial Supreme Court, Phoenix *8. Family and Race * Epilogue * Notes * Acknowledgments * Index * Maps * Sonoran Highlands Mining Region in 1903 * Old Clifton and Morenci