Reclaiming Patagonia History: PEOPLE

CAPTAIN JAMES HENRY TEVIS

Arizona Pioneer and Confederate Soldier

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What? you might ask ... sometimes historical truth is stranger than fiction, as your blogger would like to bring your attention.

Just one chapter in this man's life places him at Fort Buchanan, now wiped off the map but a military outpost before the Civil War about six miles northeast of Patagonia on the Scenic Patagonia-Sonoita Highway today.

You won't see it there now, but we'll plan to commemorate that milestone in local history in one of the proposed locations for the Heritage Tile Mural Project that your local working group is planning for the Arizona Centennial Heritage Project 2009 . . . bringing what's "hidden" in history echoing and thundering and silenced down the centuries here to reveal the people, places, and progress that bring us where we are today - where we want to go in the future and what legacy we want to leave for future generations.

If you join us and pitch in to uncover and reveal history, we'll get it "shovel-ready" - a paradise it's not, for sure.

A biography of Capt. James H. Trevis, titled "Arizona in the '50's", Revised Edition, edited by Betty Barr and Dr. William J. Kelly, published 2007 by BrockingJ Books is available at Mariposa Books & more ..., or you can contact the author for additional copies online http://www.brockinjbooks.com/