Share adventurous journeys of the Southwest–join me in the past and present…
“A timely and inspirational true story that needs to be retold!”
“A reassuring, uplifting must read for anyone dispirited about drawing lines and the building of walls.”
“Their 1852 journey tells of the challenges and choices we face today when transcending artificial boundaries that keep us apart.”
John Russell Bartlett Head of the US Boundary Survey Commission
Nancy Valentine
J.R Bartlett and the Captive Girl is available through Barnes and Noble and Nook
A coming of age story about Inez Gonzales–captured by Apaches, sold to traders, rescued by
John Russell Bartlett
Stuck in quicksand along Sonoita Creek
I’m available for book clubs, readings, historical presentations…
300 Years of Tubac Times & J.R Bartlett and the Captive Girl are also available upon request from Nancy and Tubac Historical Society, Tubac Presidio State Historic Park, and Santa Cruz Chili & Spice Company
Bartlett illustrated flora, faouna and terrain of unknown lands of today’s Arizona, New Mexico and Sonora, Mexico
Historic Lowe House
Old Town Tubac, AZ
Historic Gomez House where the ghost of Inez has been seen!
John Russell Bartlett in his later years when Secretary of State for Rhode Island
Bartlett sketched Inez in this image which is now part of the cover of the book J.R. Bartlett and the Captive Girl
Nancy Valentine 