Tumbleweed Underworld: Morphine and Mayhem in the Arizona Territory. – Eduardo Pagan, 2 Fridays at 9:00 a.m. beginning Oct 30 in Hopi.
$10.00
Two Fridays at 9:00 a.m., October 30 and November 6 in Hopi.
Presenter: Eduardo Obregon Pagan is the Bob Stump Endowed Professor of History at Arizona State University. He is the author of Valley of the Guns: The Pleasant Valley War and the Trauma of Violence.
From 2007 to 2011, Pagan co-hosted History Detectives on PBS.
Description
This is the fascinating untold story of Georgie Clifford, a victim of an Old West underworld of prostitution and narcotics, who was convicted of murder for giving a lethal dose of morphine to a client and ended up in the Yuma Territorial Prison. Unrestricted opiates, sex trafficking, and addiction were widespread, part of the global story of opium and its derivatives and the beginnings of the pharmaceutical industry. The story begins in the small mining town of Clifton, AZ where Georgie was raped by her mother’s boyfriend before fleeing into the bowels of brothels, mining camps and logging towns and into deeper dependency.
