Hysterical Journey To Historic Places
December 1st 2012 JOHN PAGE
John Hempstead Page landed in Arizona in the spring of 1857. He was among a party of Henry Crabb’s Filibusters. The filibusters were California gun thugs who were promised land in Mexico if they agreed to back Pesquiera’s bid for the governorship of Sonora. As it turned out Pesquiera rose to power without having need for his imported gunmen. When Crabb and his army arrived
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