| | 82 | Author: | Tiernan, B. | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | B. Tiernan letter
1900 ead | | | | Date(s): | 1900 | | | | Abstract: | Holograph letter written to Harvey Whitehill, Sheriff of Grant Co., New Mexico, dated March 26, 1900. It was sent from Tiernan's office
in Galveston, Texas. The letter recounts his 1880 arrival in the Territory of New Mexico and his first meeting with Sheriff Whitehill. It also
relates their encounter with Victorio's band of Apaches on Copper Creek, northwest of Silver City, and their subsequent rescue by the 6th
Cavalry regiment under Captain Madden, and the 9th regiment under Colonel Hatch. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Apache Indians -- Wars -- Personal narratives. | Indians of North America -- Wars -- 1866-1895 -- Personal narratives. | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 86 | Author: | Johnson, Rich | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | Rich Johnson Papers
1935-1986 ead | | | | Date(s): | 1935-1986 | | | | Abstract: | The Rich Johnson Papers contain diaries, notes, correspondence, memoranda, speeches, articles, press releases, newsclippings, bills, study reports, seminar texts, audio tapes, and subject files dating from 1935 to 1986. The bulk of the material dates from 1961 to 1984 and documents the efforts of a state level organization to obtain the passage of federal legislation to authorize, fund, and build a large reclamation project. It also shows attempts to fairly administer and allocate the products of that project. | | | | Repository: | Arizona State University Library. Greater Arizona Collection | | | | Subjects: | Indians of North America -- Arizona. | Water -- Arizona. | Water resources development -- Arizona. | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 88 | Author: | Ward, Albert E.
Fontana, Bernard L. | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | Albert Ward papers, 1953-2009 ead | | | | Date(s): | 1953-2009 | | | | Abstract: | This collection consists of research materials relating to
Albert E. Ward's archeological work in New Mexico. A majority of the collection
references "Site 48," a ruin that Ward excavated in New Mexico. Site 48's authenticity
was later called into question, leading to several legal battles in which Ward
participated, claiming that the site was authentic and his evidence was proof of a
Spanish-Indian residential fort. Materials include correspondence, maps, reports, notes,
and research files. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Archaeology | Archaeology -- Southwest, New -- History | Excavations (Archaeology) -- Southwest, New | Indians of North America -- Southwest, New -- Antiquities | Historic sites -- New Mexico | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 89 | Author: | Martin, George Castor, 1885- | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | Who Were the Big Bend Basket-Makers?
1939 ead | | | | Date(s): | 1939 | | | | Abstract: | Typescript about the archaeology of early native peoples in the southwest region of Texas and across the border into Coahuila, Mexico. Martin
describes a culture, also referred to as Toboso, that he has named the Big Bend Basket-Makers, because of similarities with the Basket Makers
of Arizona and New Mexico. He discusses linguistic groups and migrations, as well as diagnostic traits related to skull shape, textiles, baskets,
cloud-blowers, and projectile points. Photographs of a map and projectile points are attached. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Indians of Mexico -- Mexico -- Coahuila (State) -- Antiquities. | Indians of North America -- Texas -- Antiquities. | Projectile points -- Texas -- Photographs. | Toboso Indians. | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 92 | Author: | Russell, Robert Parke. | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | Russell's La Paz County: a Historical Anthology in Four Volumes
1986 ead | | | | Date(s): | 1986 | | | | Abstract: | La Paz County was created in 1983 from Yuma County, Ariz. This collection contains a typescript compilation, 4 vols.,
of newspaper and magazine articles concerning La Paz County, Ariz.; chiefly published in the Arizona Sentinel from 1850-1911.
Vol. 4 contains name and subject indexes. Topics include mines and mining, army, postal service, Native Americans, transportation,
and freighting. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Indians of North America -- Arizona -- La Paz County -- History. | Mines and mineral resources -- Arizona -- La Paz County -- History. | Postal service -- Arizona -- History. | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 98 | Author: | Vélez de Escalante, Silvestre, -1792. | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | Derrotero de los Padres Fray Francisco Atanacio Domínguez, and Fr. Silvestre Vélez, de Escalante, en sus exploraciónes, desde las missiones de Zuñy del Nuevo Mexico, hasta las ymmediaciones de Monte Rey de California
1776-1777 ead | | | | Date(s): | 1776-1777 | | | | Abstract: | Vélez de Escalante, better known as Escalante, was a Spanish Franciscan missionary sent to New Mexico in 1774;
he was the recorder of this 1776 expedition. Domínguez, a Mexican Franciscan priest, was his ecclesiastical superior
and leader of the expedition. Collection includes eighteenth-century copy of the diary kept by Vélez de Escalante
on his expedition with Dominguez through the four corners area of the American Southwest, July 29, 1776 to Jan. 2, 1777. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Explorers -- New Spain. | Indians of North America -- Southwest, New -- History -- 18th century -- Sources. | Pueblo Indians -- History -- 18th century -- Sources. | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 99 | Author: | Corbusier, William Henry, 1844-1930. | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | Record of William Henry Corbusier, Colonel, U.S. Army Retired,
1924 ead | | | | Date(s): | 1924 | | | | Abstract: | Typescript of biographical account and reminiscences about
events at posts while serving as surgeon, 1872-1875, and 1884-1888.
Includes information about the health conditions of Native Americans
and soldiers at the Verde River Indian Agency, San Carlos Apache
Indian Agency, and Camp Verde in Arizona. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Frontier and pioneer life -- Arizona. | Indians of North America -- Medical care -- Arizona -- History. | Physicians -- Arizona -- History. | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
|
Arizona Archives Online