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  1. Blazer Family Papers

    Dr. Joseph Hoy Blazer was a New Mexican pioneer, dentist, merchant, and sawmill owner on the Tularosa River, within what became the Mescalero Apache Indian Reservation. Blazers's daughter, Emma, married Dr. John Howard Thompson, who was a physician ...

    castanoe - 2021-01-11 11:42

  2. Donald M. Powell Papers

    The collection contains typescript of a holograph, notes, maps and transcripts used for the new edition of  Notes of Travel Through the Territory of Arizona: being an account of the trip made by General George Stoneman and others in the autumn of 1870, by ...

    castanoe - 2021-05-28 11:25

  3. Affidavit: the Route Followed by Fray Marcos de Niza Which Led to the Discovery of Arizona

    Typescript (carbon) affadavit eight pages, citing, in part, from de Niza's 1539 "Relacion". Accompanied by Fray Marcos de Niza Monument Association brochure. ...

    castanoe - 2021-06-07 09:50

  4. Report of the Charles L. Bernheimer Expeditions

    Charles Leopold Bernheimer (1864-1944) was an author and traveler. This collection consists of photocopy reports of his expeditions sponsored by the American Museum of Natural History. There is a daily journal describing camps, travel conditions, and ...

    castanoe - 2021-06-07 14:42

  5. Manuscripts of John L. Riggs

    John L. Riggs was a local historian and author working in Mohave County, AZ. The collection includes holograph articles concerning Mohave County, its history, the Walapai Indians, turquoise mines, the Silver Hill Massacre, and the killing of the Luke ...

    castanoe - 2021-06-07 14:51

  6. Papers of the Hein family

    The Hagedorn family was a German family who emigrated to the United States in the 1880s. One branch of the family settled in Brooklyn, NY and began a hotel business while the other half settled in Skull Valley, AZ and purchased part interest in the ...

    castanoe - 2022-02-28 10:49

  7. Six Shooter's Who's Who

    Guy J. Giffen was a California author and local historian. In this collection is an unpublished typescript of Giffen's bibliography of western badmen and peace officers active from 1865 through the 1890s. The typescript lists 362 outlaws/peace ...

    castanoe - 2022-03-07 14:33

  8. Mormons in Arizona

    Historical sketches, minutes of meetings, letters, journals, diaries, and autobiographical sketches including histories written by R.E. Porter and George S. Tanner relating to Mormon settlements in Arizona, chiefly at Joseph City and other points along ...

    castanoe - 2022-03-17 12:46

  9. Papers Relating to His [Thomas Edwin Farish] History of Arizona

    The collection presents typescripts, in the form of eight volume notebooks, by Arizona historian Thomas Edwin Farish that pertain to his history of the state of Arizona. The title pages of volumes 1-4 and 7 were inscribed by the author to Governor G.W.P. ...

    castanoe - 2022-03-25 10:40

  10. Comments by James Hancock on Walter Noble Burns' Book Tombstone

    James Hancock lived in Tombstone at the time of the O.K. Corral gunfight, a 30-second shootout between lawmen and outlaws known as the Cowboys on October 26, 1881. Notes indicate Hancock's comments were written in Paradise, AZ on March 30 and 31, ...

    castanoe - 2022-03-25 10:41

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