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Summary:  Author who arrived as a youth in the 1880s and spent his life prospecting, mining, and exploring the Black Range, Mogollon Mountains, and Gila Country of Grant County.
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Grant County1880s
cited from Black Range Tales: Chronicling Sixty Years of Life and Adventure in the Southwest (1936)
A classic collection of sixty years of southwestern storytelling by James A. McKenna, who arrived as a youth in the 1880s and spent his life prospecting, mining, and exploring the Black Range, Mogollon Mountains, and Gila Country of Grant County. His tales cover lost mines (the A…
Grant County1880s
cited from Black Range Tales: Chronicling Sixty Years of Life and Adventure in the Southwest (1936)
A classic collection of sixty years of southwestern storytelling by James A. McKenna, who arrived as a youth in the 1880s and spent his life prospecting, mining, and exploring the Black Range, Mogollon Mountains, and Gila Country of Grant County. His tales cover lost mines (the A…

explored

cited from Black Range Tales: Chronicling Sixty Years of Life and Adventure in the Southwest (1936)
A classic collection of sixty years of southwestern storytelling by James A. McKenna, who arrived as a youth in the 1880s and spent his life prospecting, mining, and exploring the Black Range, Mogollon Mountains, and Gila Country of Grant County. His tales cover lost mines (the A…
cited from Black Range Tales: Chronicling Sixty Years of Life and Adventure in the Southwest (1936)
A classic collection of sixty years of southwestern storytelling by James A. McKenna, who arrived as a youth in the 1880s and spent his life prospecting, mining, and exploring the Black Range, Mogollon Mountains, and Gila Country of Grant County. His tales cover lost mines (the A…
cited from Black Range Tales: Chronicling Sixty Years of Life and Adventure in the Southwest (1936)
A classic collection of sixty years of southwestern storytelling by James A. McKenna, who arrived as a youth in the 1880s and spent his life prospecting, mining, and exploring the Black Range, Mogollon Mountains, and Gila Country of Grant County. His tales cover lost mines (the A…
cited from Black Range Tales: Chronicling Sixty Years of Life and Adventure in the Southwest (1936)
A classic collection of sixty years of southwestern storytelling by James A. McKenna, who arrived as a youth in the 1880s and spent his life prospecting, mining, and exploring the Black Range, Mogollon Mountains, and Gila Country of Grant County. His tales cover lost mines (the A…
cited from Black Range Tales: Chronicling Sixty Years of Life and Adventure in the Southwest (1936)
A classic collection of sixty years of southwestern storytelling by James A. McKenna, who arrived as a youth in the 1880s and spent his life prospecting, mining, and exploring the Black Range, Mogollon Mountains, and Gila Country of Grant County. His tales cover lost mines (the A…
cited from Black Range Tales: Chronicling Sixty Years of Life and Adventure in the Southwest (1936)
A classic collection of sixty years of southwestern storytelling by James A. McKenna, who arrived as a youth in the 1880s and spent his life prospecting, mining, and exploring the Black Range, Mogollon Mountains, and Gila Country of Grant County. His tales cover lost mines (the A…

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prospector
cited from Black Range Tales: Chronicling Sixty Years of Life and Adventure in the Southwest (1936)
A classic collection of sixty years of southwestern storytelling by James A. McKenna, who arrived as a youth in the 1880s and spent his life prospecting, mining, and exploring the Black Range, Mogollon Mountains, and Gila Country of Grant County. His tales cover lost mines (the A…
miner
cited from Black Range Tales: Chronicling Sixty Years of Life and Adventure in the Southwest (1936)
A classic collection of sixty years of southwestern storytelling by James A. McKenna, who arrived as a youth in the 1880s and spent his life prospecting, mining, and exploring the Black Range, Mogollon Mountains, and Gila Country of Grant County. His tales cover lost mines (the A…
explorer
cited from Black Range Tales: Chronicling Sixty Years of Life and Adventure in the Southwest (1936)
A classic collection of sixty years of southwestern storytelling by James A. McKenna, who arrived as a youth in the 1880s and spent his life prospecting, mining, and exploring the Black Range, Mogollon Mountains, and Gila Country of Grant County. His tales cover lost mines (the A…

wrote

stories about lost mines
cited from Black Range Tales: Chronicling Sixty Years of Life and Adventure in the Southwest (1936)
A classic collection of sixty years of southwestern storytelling by James A. McKenna, who arrived as a youth in the 1880s and spent his life prospecting, mining, and exploring the Black Range, Mogollon Mountains, and Gila Country of Grant County. His tales cover lost mines (the A…
stories about Apache encounters
cited from Black Range Tales: Chronicling Sixty Years of Life and Adventure in the Southwest (1936)
A classic collection of sixty years of southwestern storytelling by James A. McKenna, who arrived as a youth in the 1880s and spent his life prospecting, mining, and exploring the Black Range, Mogollon Mountains, and Gila Country of Grant County. His tales cover lost mines (the A…
stories about mining camp life
cited from Black Range Tales: Chronicling Sixty Years of Life and Adventure in the Southwest (1936)
A classic collection of sixty years of southwestern storytelling by James A. McKenna, who arrived as a youth in the 1880s and spent his life prospecting, mining, and exploring the Black Range, Mogollon Mountains, and Gila Country of Grant County. His tales cover lost mines (the A…

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cited from Black Range Tales: Chronicling Sixty Years of Life and Adventure in the Southwest (1936)
A classic collection of sixty years of southwestern storytelling by James A. McKenna, who arrived as a youth in the 1880s and spent his life prospecting, mining, and exploring the Black Range, Mogollon Mountains, and Gila Country of Grant County. His tales cover lost mines (the A…
cited from Black Range Tales: Chronicling Sixty Years of Life and Adventure in the Southwest (1936)
A classic collection of sixty years of southwestern storytelling by James A. McKenna, who arrived as a youth in the 1880s and spent his life prospecting, mining, and exploring the Black Range, Mogollon Mountains, and Gila Country of Grant County. His tales cover lost mines (the A…
cited from Black Range Tales: Chronicling Sixty Years of Life and Adventure in the Southwest (1936)
A classic collection of sixty years of southwestern storytelling by James A. McKenna, who arrived as a youth in the 1880s and spent his life prospecting, mining, and exploring the Black Range, Mogollon Mountains, and Gila Country of Grant County. His tales cover lost mines (the A…
cited from Black Range Tales: Chronicling Sixty Years of Life and Adventure in the Southwest (1936)
A classic collection of sixty years of southwestern storytelling by James A. McKenna, who arrived as a youth in the 1880s and spent his life prospecting, mining, and exploring the Black Range, Mogollon Mountains, and Gila Country of Grant County. His tales cover lost mines (the A…
cited from Black Range Tales: Chronicling Sixty Years of Life and Adventure in the Southwest (1936)
A classic collection of sixty years of southwestern storytelling by James A. McKenna, who arrived as a youth in the 1880s and spent his life prospecting, mining, and exploring the Black Range, Mogollon Mountains, and Gila Country of Grant County. His tales cover lost mines (the A…

Sources (2)

Black Range Tales: Chronicling Sixty Years of Life and Adventure in the Southwest

McKenna, James A. 'Uncle Jimmie · 1936 · book · public_domain · details

Black Range Tales: Chronicling Sixty Years of Life and Adventure in the Southwest

McKenna, James A. 'Uncle Jimmie · 1936 · book · public_domain · details

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