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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Arizona, (search)
e United States probably visited Arizona in......1824 All Arizona north of the river Gila is included in cession by Mexico to United States by treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo......Feb. 2, 1848 First American settlers were persons on their way to California, who stopped on the Gila to engage in stock-raising......1849 Gadsden purchase brought to the United States all of Arizona south of the Gila......Dec. 30, 1853 Act of Congress organizing the Territory......Feb. 24, 1863 Gov. John N. Goodwin, in camp at Navajo Springs, formally organizes the territorial government and fixes its temporary seat near Fort Whipple......Dec. 29, 1863 First territorial legislature adopts a mining law and the so-called Howell code of general laws; sits......Sept. 26–Nov. 10, 1864 Tueson made the capital by a majority of one vote......1867 Arizona a military district by order of General Halleck......October, 1867 Act to establish public schools in the Territory and a board of educatio
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Yankee Doodle, (search)
s a writer of that time) was the capital piece in the band of music at Castle William. The change in the spelling of the word Yankey was not yet made. Trumbull, in his McFingal, uses the original orthography. While the British were yet in Boston, after the arrival of Washington at Cambridge in the summer of 1775, some poet among them wrote the following piece in derision of the New England troops. It is the original Yankee Doodle song: Father and I went down to camp, Along with Captain Goodwin, Where we see the men and boys As thick as hasty-puddina. There was Captain Washington Upon a slapping stallion, A giving orders to his men: I guess there was a million. And then the feathers on his hat, They looked so tarnal finea, I wanted pockily to get, To give to my Jemima. And then they had a swampina gun, As large as log of maple, On a deuced little cart— A load for father's cattle. And every time they fired it off It took a horn of powder; It made a noise like father's gun, O