Zeckendorfs and Steinfelds, Merchant Princes of the American Southwest

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401 pp., index, bibliography, endnotes, epilog, photographs. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR with no inscriptions. Laid in is a 1906 canceled check written on the Southern Arizona Bank & Trust Company to Albert Steinfeld, the nephew of William Zeckendorf, and is signed by him on the reverse. From their arrival in Santa Fe in 1853 with the earliest American occupation to the close of Steinfeld's department store in downtown Tucson in the 1980s, the history of the Zeckendorf and Steinfeld families is intertwined with the economic development of the Southwest. In this detailed portrayal, the author delves into the family documents, archival records, and published sources to chronicle 130 years of a remarkable group of men and women who lay the business foundations and set the social tone of Arizona and New Mexico for much of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This book is not only a family history but a history of Tucson, Arizona.a fascinating read. It is reported the first edition of this book of 1200 copies, sold out and a second printing has been authorized. COLLECTOR QUALITY. N° de ref. del artículo 003668KM

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