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  1. The Truth About Bisbee

    The Truth About Bisbee was written by Samuel Morse and gives an account of the deportation of over 1,100 mining workers and I.W.W. sympathizers from Bisbee to Columbus, NM on July 12, 1917. The collection contains a typescript account compiled from legal ...

    castanoe - 2020-10-15 18:04

  2. Reporters' Transcript of Proceedings, 1935

    The collection contains a carbon reporters' transcript of proceedings at the District Court for the State of Arizona of the case Phelps Dodge Corporation (plaintiff) vs. Frank Luke, et al. (defendants), Equity No. 222, on Nov. 5-15, 1935. The case ...

    castanoe - 2020-10-30 10:55

  3. Bisbee Deportation Legal Papers and Exhibits

    The city of Bisbee, AZ was considered a boom town with its economy heavily controlled by the local mining companies in 1917. Union activity grew and the Industrial Workers of the World (I.W.W.) actively recruited miners in the area and in June of 1917 ...

    castanoe - 2021-07-16 09:25

  4. Selim Maurice Franklin Papers

    The bulk of the collection consists of legal papers and financial records relating to mining companies, cattle companies, land grants, railroads, public utilities, banks, bankruptcies, estates, and property, mostly in Arizona. Similar material is also ...

    castanoe - 2022-07-01 15:41

  5. Lewis W. Douglas Papers

    Correspondence, congressional bills, speeches, articles, financial records, clippings, diaries, reminiscences, photographs of family members from 1897 to 1964, wills, and estate records relating to Lewis's family and his extensive activities in ...

    castanoe - 2023-04-07 15:08