Eduardo Obregon Pagan

Eduardo Obregón Pagán is the Bob Stump Endowed Professor of History at Arizona State University. He is author of "Tumbleweed Underworld: A Saga of Morphine and Mayhem in the Arizona Territory" and "Valley of the Guns: The Pleasant Valley War and the Trauma of Violence." From 2007 to 2011, Pagán co-hosted History Detectives on PBS.

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Communities: Arizona Author, Hispanic or Latinx, Indigenous or Native American, Mixed Race

Books:

Tumbleweed Underworld

A Saga of Morphine and Mayhem in the Arizona Territory
History / Biography
University of Oklahoma Press
February 2026
ISBN 9780806196480
Hardcover, 0 pages

The story of Georgie Clifford, a woman caught in America's first opioid epidemic, who navigates trauma, addiction, and imprisonment before finding redemption in 1890s Arizona Territory.

Valley of the Guns

The Pleasant Valley War and the Trauma of Violence
History / Biography
University of Oklahoma Press
September 2025
ISBN 9780806196350
Paperback, 312 pages

Historical analysis of the Pleasant Valley War explores how geography, Apache raids, and resource conflicts led to deadly violence between settlers in 1880s Arizona.