AZ 029
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Collection Summary | |
| Creator: | Blake, William Edgar, |
| Collection Name: | The Land of Mañana, |
| Dates: | 1883 |
| Physical Description: | 1 item (191 leaves); 30 cm. |
| Abstract: | Holograph of a journal depicting a train trip through the southwest and Mexico in 1883. |
| Collection Number: | AZ 029 |
| Repository: |
University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections University of Arizona PO Box 210055 Tucson, AZ 85721-0055 Phone: 520-621-6423 Fax: 520-621-9733 URL: http://speccoll.library.arizona.edu/ |
William Edgar Blake was born in Morning Sun, Ohio on June 27, 1844. Blake and his family moved to Iowa in 1845. He attended Monmouth College in Illinois, and went on to study law at Iowa State University earning his law degree in 1869. Blake was also a Civil War vetran serving with the Company C, First Iowa calvary.
In 1869 Blake and his wife Sarah Lucretia Hurd, moved to Burlington, Iowa where he practiced law until his death in 1915.
Holograph manuscript consists of a journal of a railway trip through New Mexico, Arizona, and, chiefly, northern Mexico in 1883.
Restricted; patron must use microfilm, no. 573, due to fragile condition of originals.
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The Land of Mañana (AZ 029). Special Collections, University of Arizona Libraries.