"Orick Jackson blithely recounts the ghastly tale of a campaign of annihilation against Arizona's original indigenous inhabitants, known as Woolsey's First Expedition." - Radicals in the Barrio (2018)
"Orick Jackson dismissed the Mexican influence in Tucson and praised Prescott and Yavapai County as 'the cradle of Arizona,' laying out a cultural division between southern Arizona and its more conservative central and northern parts that still exist today." - State Out of the Union: Arizona and the Final Showdown Over the American Dream (2012)
"Orick Jackson...said that while Townsend killed fifteen Indians, the soldiers hadn't killed any, which 'incensed General Crook.'" - Al Sieber: Chief of Scouts (2012)
"An interesting history it is of the Southwest, by Orick Jackson." -Stockton Daily Evening Record, June 20, 1908
In 1908, Orick Jackson (1861-1920) published a pioneer history of Arizona titled "The White Conquest of Arizona: History of the Pioneers."
In introducing his book, Jackson writes:
"Prescott and Yavapai county are the cradle of Arizona. It was here that...the first white man's expedition was attracted. Of the members of that expedition, only a very few remain....Appreciating how invaluable the events of the earlier days will set on the equilibrium of the present, an effort will be made in these chronicles to recall some of the noteworthy happenings of the earlier days, the period, in short, attending the combat when the Apache contested every inch of the land invaded, when whites fought whites, when the earth was seething in all the fury of a cataclysm..."
