Angela Hutchinson Hammer: Arizona's Pioneer Newspaperwoman
by Betty Hammer JoyUniversity of Arizona Press
2005
Paperback: 216 pages
ISBN-10: 0816523576
ISBN-13: 978-0816523573
$17.95
Synopsis
With her marriage dissolved and desperate to find a way to feed her children, Angela Hutchinson Hammer bought a handpress, some ink, and type fonts and began printing the Wickenburg Miner in 1905. The purchase placed Angela squarely in the forefront of power struggles during Arizona's early days of statehood. A true daughter of the West, Angela, born in a tiny mining hamlet in Nevada, came to the Territory of Arizona at the age of twelve.
Betty Hammer Joy weaves together the lively story of her grandmother's life by drawing upon Angela's writing, newspaper archives, and family recollections. Her book recounts the stories Angela told of growing up in mining camps, teaching in territorial schools, courtship, marriage, and a twenty-eight-year career in publishing and printing. During this time, Angela raised three sons, ran for public office before women in the nation had the right to vote, served as Immigration Commissioner in Pinal County, homesteaded, and matured into an activist for populist agendas and water conservation. Although Angela's independent papers brought personal hardship and little if any financial reward, after her death in 1952, she was inducted as the first woman into the Arizona Newspaper Hall of Fame and also into the Arizona Women's Hall of Fame.
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From Angela Hutchinson Hammer: Arizona’s Pioneer Newspaperwoman by Better E. Hammer Joy. © 2005 The Arizona Board of Regents. Reprinted by permission of the University of Arizona Press.
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“This is a good, positive story....Joy [provides] glimpses into the daily life of Arizona.”--Journal of the West
About the author
Betty Hammer Joy grew up in Casa Grande and now lives in the foothills of the Mingus Mountain Range in Dewey-Humboldt.
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