The Private Journal of
George Whitwell Parsons
edited and transcribed by
Carl Chafin
Unfortunately this book is now out of print.
Contents
| George
Parsons and His Famous Diary
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13
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| "Met the Notorious Pete Spence" —June 1882 |
17
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| "Surprised Several Parties of Girls in Eve’s Costume" —July 1882 |
19
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| "Hang the Life. We Want Money." —August 1882 |
33
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| "How I Long for a Legitimate Business" — September 1882 |
43
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| "Let Her Rip, Georgie Old Boy" —October 1882 |
55
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| "The Kid has Gone to Hell" —November 1882 |
67
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| "Kaleidoscopic in the Extreme" —December 1882 |
74
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| "The Day of Reckoning is at Hand" —January 1883 |
83
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| "Wish I Could Never Leave Her Again" —February 1883 |
89
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| "Am Afraid She’s Not the Girl I Thought" —March 1883 |
99
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| "I Don’t Propose to Venture My Scalp Yet Awhile" —April 1883 |
109
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| "It’s a Good Thing to be on Good Terms with the Powerful in the Land" —May 1883 |
117
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| "Frank [Leslie] Gave Me Some Private Information" —June 1883 |
123
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| "The Glorious 4th" —July 1883 |
131
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| "Ladies Could Vote" —August 1883 |
137
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| "For First Time Used Telephone" —September 1883 |
144
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| "Stage Driver Filled Him Full, Seeing He was a Tenderfoot" —October 1883 |
151
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| "Will Start General Mining Agency with Maurice [Clark]" —November 1883 |
157
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| "Terrible News from Bisbee This Morning" —December 1883 |
161
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| "Weight, 144 lbs. Height, 5 feet, 8 inches." —January 1884 |
166
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| "Hanging in a.m. and Dance in p.m. Good Combination" —February 1884 |
172
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| "People have Gone Crazy Over Her" —March 1884 |
179
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| "Things Frightfully Quiet" —April 1884 |
188
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| "Be in Readiness and Have Weapons in Order" —May 1884 |
195
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| "Betting on Flies the Newest Thing" —June 1884 |
203
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| "There is No Rest for Bad Men" —July 1884 |
209
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| "I Have Great Hopes for the Future" —August 1884 |
215
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| "There’ll Be Another Killing Before Long" —September 1884 |
221
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| "A Wild-Looking One He is" —October 1884 |
226
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| "Mexico is Good Enough for Me Now" —November 1884 |
233
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| "So That is the Grand Windup" —December 1884 |
238
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| "I Shall Stay with It Though to the Bitter End" — January 1885 |
244
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| "I Have a Host of Warm Friends Here" —February 1885 |
250
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| "Nice Fellow Socially, But Not a Bit of Business About Him" —March 1885 |
255
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| "The Tombstone Public Library Opened Tonight" —April 1885 |
261
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| "What a Struggle with Fierce Passion" —May 1885 |
267
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| "Human Nature is Indeed Weak and Rascally" —June 1885 |
273
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| "We Listen to the Finest Music in the U.S. Army" —July 1885 |
281
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| "Am 35 Today and Don’t Feel Very Proud" —August 1885 |
288
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| "Goodbye, Old Son. You were Your Own Worst Enemy." —September 1885 |
294
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| "I Learned…that More Apaches had Left the Reservation" —October 1885 |
299
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| "Nothing But Hard Times Since Coming to Arizona" —November 1885 |
307
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| "Adios, Año Viejo. [Farewell, Old Year.]" —December 1885 |
312
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| "Was Glad to Find a Dead Skunk" —January 1886 |
318
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| "The Only One Who Can Rustle Coin Out of the Faithful" —February 1886 |
325
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| "Indians were Made Drunk by C.[harley] Tribolet….He Should Meet His God Quickly." —March 1886 |
331
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| "Good Pictures of Geronimo and His Cutthroats by [C. S.] Fly" —April 1886 |
337
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| "The Devil is Foreclosing His Mortgage [on Tombstone]" —May 1886 |
345
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| "Lots of Idle Tongues as Well as Hands Now" —June 1886 |
356
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| "A Young Cyclone Struck Us…Partially Unroofing Court House" —July 1886 |
368
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| "Looks as Though Grass Would Begin to Grow in Streets" —August 1886 |
375
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| "California Only Place for Me Now" —September 1886 |
382
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| "Doc G.[oodfellow] has More Cheek Than Any Other Man in Town" —October 1886 |
389
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| "Water Froze in My Room Tonight" —November 1886 |
395
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| "I am Elected to Spend Christmas in this God-Forsaken Part of the World" —December 1886 |
402
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| "Am Again in California, Old California" —January 1887 |
412
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| "Walked Streets Unable to Get a Bed in Any Hotel" —February 1887 |
420
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| "Constantly Meeting…Tombstoners" —March 1887 |
426
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Published by
our friends at Cochise Classics
Softcover, 5½" x 8½",
three illustrations,
complete and unabridged, 432 pages
This book is currently out of print.
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