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Willson, Roscoe- 1 of 49 Arizona Historical Foundation, www.ahfweb.org , 480-965-3283 ROSCOE WILLSON COLLECTION-MSS 46 Records: 48 boxes, 21 binders, 20 cu. ft., 1879-1976 Biographical Information Roscoe G. Willson was born in Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota, the son of a country newspaper editor. He finished high school at 16 and worked on his father’s newspaper, which he later published for a year. After three years of wandering over Mexico, working on railroad construction and on coffee and rubber plantations, Wilson came to Arizona in 1902 and worked at Crown King. He did some prospecting before joining the newly organized US. Forest Service in 1905. He put in 14 years with the forest service, resigning in 1919 to run sheep and work in oil fields. In 1924, Willson and his wife Maude opened the Arizona Specialty Company. He sold the business in 1945 to retire. He then he began writing for the Sunday edition of the Arizona Republic in 1947 and continued doing so until his death August 25, 1976 at the age of 97. Scope and Content The Roscoe Willson Collection consists of 27 boxes and 21 binders of correspondence, clippings and manuscript material on Arizona and Western history, most of which was used in Willson’s “Arizona Days and Ways” newspaper column. There is also biographical information on Willson, some business records, personal correspondence and diaries. Inventory Box l Folder 1 Biographical material on Roscoe and Maude Wilson Folder 2 Wil;son’s job descriptions Folder 3 Willson’s businesses Folder 4 Stock certificates Folder 5 Papers related to Willson’s job in Mexico Folder 6 DeWald correspondence re: column Folder 7 Correspondence, personal 1940 - 1959 Folder 8 Correspondence, personal 1960 - 1970 Folder 9 Fan Mail Folder 10 Illustrations in conjunction with Willson’s works Folder 11 Memorabilia Folder 12 Memorabilia

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ROSCOE WILLSON COLLECTION-MSS 46 Records: 48 boxes, 21 binders, 20 cu. ft., 1879-1976

Biographical Information Roscoe G. Willson was born in Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota, the son of a country newspaper editor. He finished high school at 16 and worked on his father’s newspaper, which he later published for a year. After three years of wandering over Mexico, working on railroad construction and on coffee and rubber plantations, Wilson came to Arizona in 1902 and worked at Crown King. He did some prospecting before joining the newly organized US. Forest Service in 1905. He put in 14 years with the forest service, resigning in 1919 to run sheep and work in oil fields. In 1924, Willson and his wife Maude opened the Arizona Specialty Company. He sold the business in 1945 to retire. He then he began writing for the Sunday edition of the Arizona Republic in 1947 and continued doing so until his death August 25, 1976 at the age of 97.

Scope and Content The Roscoe Willson Collection consists of 27 boxes and 21 binders of correspondence, clippings and manuscript material on Arizona and Western history, most of which was used in Willson’s “Arizona Days and Ways” newspaper column. There is also biographical information on Willson, some business records, personal correspondence and diaries.

Inventory Box l Folder 1 Biographical material on Roscoe and Maude Wilson Folder 2 Wil;son’s job descriptions Folder 3 Willson’s businesses Folder 4 Stock certificates Folder 5 Papers related to Willson’s job in Mexico Folder 6 DeWald correspondence re: column Folder 7 Correspondence, personal 1940 - 1959 Folder 8 Correspondence, personal 1960 - 1970 Folder 9 Fan Mail Folder 10 Illustrations in conjunction with Willson’s works Folder 11 Memorabilia Folder 12 Memorabilia

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Box 2 Diaries, 1933-1959 (incomplete) Box 3 Diaries, 1960-1970 (excluding 1966) Box 4 Cancelled checks, bank statements. etc (1923 - Box 5 Manuscripts and printed materials Notebook 1 Report on Santa Pita Copper Co. Mines by Theo. H.M. Crampton, June

1929 Notebook 2 Rich Hill Consolidated Gold Mining Co. Notebook 3 Air Archeological Survey of Rankoweap Canyon, Grand Canyon National

Park, by Douglas W. Schwartz Folder 4 Articles by and about Murray E. Bemis Folder 5 Various pamphlets concerning Arizona Folder 6 Information booklets on the Chloride Mining District Folder 7 The Cananea Herald, April 4, 1903 Folder 8 Bank Notes by Paul Hughes Box 6 Correspondence/Biographical Info. (A-D) Folder 1 Aguirre Family Folder 2 Ali Hadji (Hi-Jolly) Folder 3 Akers, Charlie Folder 4 Anderson, Tom Folder 5 Apache Kid Folder 6 Atkinson. George Folder 7 Aubrey, Feliz Folder 8 Azul, Chief Culo Folder 9 Adams, D.E. Adams, Jeff Andersons Folder 10 Barnes, Will C. Folder 11 Barney, James Folder 12 Barney Martin Massacre Folder 13 Beauchamp, Clara Folder 14 Billy the Kid Folder 15 Bolton, Herbert Folder 16 Bronco Bill Folder 17 Brown, Finn

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Folder 18 General - Ba Babbitt, Charles J. Baird, S.M. Bark, Jim Baron of Arizona Bartlett, John R. Bascom, Lt. Folder 19 General - Be-Br Beale, Lt. Blevins, Andy Cooper Boulder Bob Bourke, Captain John E. Bouse, D.L. Bowie, James Bradshaw, Ike Folder 20 Cameron, Cohn Folder 21 Cartwright, Hansford Folder 22 Cavaness, Matt Cavaness Family Folder 23 Childs, Tom Folder 24 Cleator, Jimmie Folder 25 Colley, Marguerite Folder 26 Coronado Folder 27 Coronado Memorial Folder 28 Crawford, Captain Jack Folder 29 General - C Cash, James Chung Fi Clanton, Ike Clantons of Tonto, Arizona Clauser, Francis Cline, Christian Colton, H.S. Cook, Charles Folder 30 Delbridge, Claude Folder 31 Dillard, George Folder 32 Doll Murders Folder 33 Dubois, Dan Folder 34 Duncan, George “Tap” Taplan Folder 35 Dunning, Charles Folder 36 General - D Dake, Marshall Crowley P. Dee, Peter 1956 Dilda, D.W. Donnely Camp Donner Party

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Box 6 Continued Dove, Donald Box 7 Correspondence/Biographical Info. (E-K) Folder 1 Earp, Wyatt Folder 2 Ehrenberg, Herman Folder 3 Ellison, Jesse W. Folder 4 Emory, Lt. Col. W. Folder 5 General - E Espejo Esser, Billy Esser, Charles Folder 6 Fannin, Captain James Folder 7 Fourr, William Folder S General - F Fairfield, Lovelace Finley, S.L. Fisher, Vardis Frasier Brothers Fremont, John C. Folder 9 Genung, Daniel Genung, May Genungs of Peoples Valley Folder 10 Geronimo Folder 11 Girand, John Folder 12 Glanton, John C. Folder 13 Greene, Ysabel (Governor) Folder 14 Greenway, John C. Folder 15 Grey, Zane Folder 16 Grindell Expedition Folder 17 General - G Gardiner, John Garrett, John Gass, Octavious Gilbert, Rub in Girdner, James W. Folder 18 Hall, Dick Wick Folder 19 Harrington, George P. Folder 20 Haught. Sam Folder 21 Hayhurst, Sam Folder 22 Heap, John Henry Folder 23 Heath, James (Slim Jim) Folder 24 Horn, Tom Folder 25 Howard, Charles (Bear)

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Box 7 Continued Folder 26 General - Ha-Hi Halder man Killing Hamilton. Tom Harris, Charles W. Hayden, Sallie Hayes, Jess G. Hedgepeth, J.D. Hendrix, Guy Henson, Pauline Heron Family Hickey, “Old Man Hill, Florence M. Patterson Folder 27 General - Ho-Hu Hoey, William H. Hodge, Frederick W. Hooker, Colonel Horrell, Ed Houck, Jim Housholder, Vic Hughes, Marion Hunt, George W.P. Folder 28 Indian Family Folder 29 Johnson, Hiram Leroy Folder 30 Jones, Charles Jesse (Buffalo Jones) Folder 31 General - J Jabonero, El James, Jesse Jeffords, Thomas Junior, E.S. (Black Jack) Folder 32 Kearney, Stephen Watts Folder 33 Kidder, Jeff Folder 34 Kino, Eusebio Francisco Folder 35 Kitt, Edith Folder 36 General - K Kenton, S.W. Kibbe-Hilipot Killing King, Frank King of Arizona Kirby, Lee Kirkland, William H. Kitchen, Pete Kosterlitzki, Colonel Emilio Kutchie, Van

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Box 8 Correspondence/Biographical Info. (L-P) Folder 1 Lamberth, Richard J. Folder 2 Laskowsky, John H. Folder 3 LeSueur, Frank & Gus Gibbons Folder 4 Leverich, Mary E. Folder 5 Lily, Ben Folder 6 Lincoln, CL. Folder 7 Lincoln-Glanton Massacre Folder 8 Little, Stephen Folder 9 Lockwood, Griffin Folder 10 Loring, George E. Folder 11 Loring Massacre Folder 12 McComas Family Folder 13 McKay, Alex Folder 14 McKittrick, Captain W. Folder 15 Martinez, Julio Folder 16 Martinez, Manuel Folder 17 Masterson Family Folder 18 Matilda, Mary Folder 19 Maxwell, Lorenzo Folder 20 Meadows, “Old Man” Folder 21 Miller, John Folder 22 Mills, Sarah McNeil Folder 23 Monihan, Josephine Folder 24 Montezuma Folder 25 Moore, W.W. Folder 26 Moore, Yndia Folder 27 Mosen, Frank Folder 28 Muluenon, W.J. Folder 29 Murphy, W.J. Folder 30 Natives of Arizona Folder 31 Nelson, Preston H. Folder 32 Noon, Arthur Folder 33 Noon, Fred Folder 34 Oatman Party Massacre Folder 35 Oblasser, Father Bonaventure Folder 36 Otero Family Folder 37 Owen, James P. Folder 38 Owens, Commodore Perry Folder 39 Pablo, Juan Folder 40 Page, Arthur Folder 41 Page, John H. Folder 42 Pancho Villa Folder 43 Peck, Marguerite Folder 44 Phillips, George

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Box 8 Continued Folder 45 Pickett, Bill Folder 46 Pickett, Tom Folder 47 Platten, Fred Folder 48 Poston, Charles D. Folder 49 Powers, Fred Folder 50 General - P Parker, Jim Pattie, James Ohio Penningtons Pipkin, Dan Piskorski, Joseph Pius, Pierce Franklin (Reckless Kid) Plunkett-Kennedy Murder Pooler. George Porter, J.N. Price Killing Pumpelly, Rafael Box 9 Correspondence/Biographical Info. (R-Z) Folder 1 Ramsey, John Folder 2 Reavis, Elisha Folder 3 Reynolds, Glen Folder 4 Roberts, Paul Folder 5 Rockfellow, John A. Folder 6 General - R Redfield Gang Redondo Family Riggs, Barney K. Robinson, Grace Elizabeth Roderick, F.H. Romney, George Roseberry, Neils Joseph Ruffner, George Ryan. Bill Folder 7 Sieber, Al Folder 8 Simms, Colonel James T. Folder 9 Smith Gang Folder 10 General - Sc-So Schmerler, Henrietta Scott, Dave Shannsey Shute, Walter Simpson, John & Nelson

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Box 9 Continued Folder 10 Slaughter, John H. Smith, Senator Mark Folder 11 General - Sp-Sw Spangler, Gaylord Spence, Pete Spencer, Charles Stemmer, Charles C. Stillwell, Judge W. Stockbridge Stott, Scott & Wilson Hanging Suppiger, A.E. Swilling, Jack Folder 12 Tewksbury-Graham Feud Tewksbury, John Folder 13 Thorne, D.C. Folder 14 General - T Tenney, Nathan Teresa, Santa Thompson, “Gassy” Tipton, W. I. Townsend, John Townsend Killing Tong Killing Tritle, Harry (Governor) Folder 15 Urrea. Teresa Folder 16 Ussery, King Folder 17 Vail, Walter Veil, Charles Henry Folder 18 Wagner, Oscar Folder 19 Walker Party Folder 20 Waltzer, Jacob Folder 21 Warner. Jonathan Trumbull Folder 22 Weaver, Pauline Folder 23 Weinburger, Judge Jacob Folder 24 Wentworth. John W. Folder 25 Wheeler, Harry Folder 26 White, James Folder 27 Willson, Roscoe Folder 28 Wood, Elizabeth L. Folder 29 Woodruff Folder 30 General - Wa-Wh Wager, Roy Walker, Dr. John D. Wallace, Benjamin Franklin

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Box 9 Continued Folder 30 Walters, William (Bronco Bill) Watkins, Captain Wentworth, George C. Whipple, Lt. Folder 31 General - Wi-Wo Wilcox, George Williams, Jack Williams, John Wills, Thomas Nelson Wolf, Jim Wolfe, Hewitt Woodson Brothers Folder 32 Zent Family (Wild Bill) Box 10 Correspondence by Subject (A-B) Folder 1 Adams House Adams Lost Gold Mines Folder 2 Ajo Mining District Alturas Pass American National Association Animal Care Folder 3 Apaches Folder 4 Apache Leap Apache Pass Apache Tear Drops Folder 5 Arbuckle Coffee Agua Fria River Folder 6 Arivaca Folder 7 Arizona Apology Day Arizona Boundries Arizona City Arizona Counties Arizona Cowbells Folder 8 Arizona Eastern Railway Arizona Fleet Arizona Forest Rangers Folder 9 Arizona Historical Society Folder Folder 10 Arizona History Arizona Place Names Arizona Ranch Folder 11 Arizona Rangers Folder 12 Arizona Rangers During the Morenci Strike

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Box 10 Continued Folder 13 Arizona Sheriffs Arizona Strip Artifacts Folder 14 Ash Tray Aspey Ranch Folder 15 Baboquivari Climb Battle on the Gila Beatitudes Bears Folder 16 Bees Bell Canyon Killings Benson-Nogales Railroad Folder 17 Big Horn Sheep Folder 18 Birds Bisbee Bisbee Massacre Folder 19 Bisbee Mines Bishop Palace Folder 20 Black Canyon Stage Route Blacksmiths Bloody Basin Blue Bird Mine Folder 21 Blues Country Book Publishing Folder 22 Books Folder 23 Border Mines Border Patrol Boston Party Bouse Wash Land Swindle Folder 24 Bradshaw City Bronco Canyon Buckeye, AZ Folder 25 Buffalo Buffalo Soldiers Bullock Railroad - Thunderbird Ranch Folder 26 Bulls Folder 27 Bureau of Indian Affairs Burros Butterfield Stage Buzzards Box 11 Correspondence by Subject: C-H Folder 1 Cactus California Historical Society

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Box 11 Continued Folder 1 Camelback Mountain Folder 2 Camels Folder 3 Cameron & Berry’s Copper Camp (Caves) Camp Riggs Camp Stephen D. Little Folder 4 Canaigre Plant Cananea Riot Canyon DeChelly Canyon Diablo Train Robberies Folder 5 Cattle Brands Cattle men Cave Creek Folder 6 Cemeteries Centipedes Ceremonial Caves Folder 7 Chase Creek Cherry Creek Chinese Chiricarna Cattle Company Folder 8 Cholla Placers Christmas, Arizona Chrystal Cave Clifton Strike Folder 9 Coke Ovens Colorado City Colorado River Commonwealth Mine Folder 10 Cooley Ranch Cooling Inventions Compass Covered Well Region Cowboy Songs Folder 11 Crown King Folder 12 Dakota Territory Del Pasco Mine Desert Animals Desert Survival Folder 13 Devils Canyon Diamond Swindle Distillation by American Indians Douglas, AZ Folder 14 Drum Barracks Duncan Duppa Home Folder 15 Earthquake

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Box 11 Continued Folder 16 Ferry (first) Firearms First National Bank of Arizona Flagstaff, AZ Folder 17 Florence, AZ Flowers in Arizona Folk Legends Forest Rangers at Green King Folder 18 Fort Apache Fort McDowell Fort Misery Fort Mohave Folder 19 Gambling Ghost Towns Gladiator Den Gillette, Arizona Folder 20 Gillette Stage Robberies Globe Gold on the Desert” Gold Prospecting Folder 21 Governors of Arizona Grand Canyon Graveyard Marker Greenlee Marker Folder 22 Ground Glyphs Ground Glyph of Camel Grab-Stake Club Guasimas Battle (Bucky ONeil) Folder 23 Gunfights Gunfights of 1904 at Quartzsite Folder 24 Halley’s Comet Harquahala Mountains Folder 25 Harquahala Observatory Folder 26 Hashknife Outfit Folder 27 Heard Museum Hellings Mill Hell’s Canyon Hidden Valley Folder 28 Hohokams Holbrook, Arizona Horses, Wild Folder 29 Huachucas Humboldt, Arizona Humor, Western

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Box 12 Correspondence by Subject: 1-0 Folder 1 Imperial Valley, California Indian Outlaws Indian Raid in Bear Valley Indians, General Folder 2 Indian Schools Iron Door Iron King Smelter Mine Irrigation, Prehistoric Folder 3 Jerome Justices Folder 4 Kimberly, Arizona Kofa Game Range Kofa Palms Folder 5 Land Laws Legislative History Lehi, Arizona Linotype Folder 6 Lost Dutchman Mine Folder 7 Lost Mines Lowell Observatory Lakeville, Arizona Luz de Tierra Incognita Lynx Creek Folder 8 McCabe, Arizona McMillenville, Arizona Malaria Mammoth, Arizona Folder 9 Maps Maricopa County Maricopa County Mine Records Maricopa Indians Folder 10 Maricopa Wells Markers Maxton Town Arizona Mazatzah Mountains Folder 11 Medicine Medicine Snows Menager Dam Mexican Revolution Folder 12 Mexico Middleton, Arizona Miners Folder 13 Mines, old

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Box 12 Continued Folder 14 Mining Camps Mining Rights Mining Shares Mogollon Rim Folder 15 Mohave County Montezuma’s Cave Morenci, Arizona Morenci Bank Hold-Up Folder 16 Morenci Strike Mormons Mount Floyd Mount Lemon Folder 17 Mount Peele Mount Wasson Mountain Shadow Massacre (Utah) Mountain Men Folder 18 Navajos Nelson, Arizona New River Station Folder 19 “No Place For Angels” Folder 20 Nogales, Arizona Nogales Camp Nogales People Northern Arizona Pioneers Picnic Northern Arizona Reform School Folder 21 Oak Creek Stage Station Murder Oasis Oatman Observatory on Mount Tarquahala Folder 22 Oklahoma City Cowboy Hall of Fame Old Missions Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument Folder 23 Origin of Arizona’s Name Folder 24 Oro Belle Mine Oro-Blanca-Arivaca Ostriches and Ostrich Farms Outlaws in Arizona Folder 25 OW Ranch OX Ranch Box 13 Correspondence by Subject : P-S Folder 1 Pah-Ute County Papagos Patagonia

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Box 12 Continued Folder 1 Parker’s Robbery Folder 2 Pay Dirt Payson Apaches Pearce, Arizona Pearce Mercantile Trade Dollar Folder 3 Peeples Valley Petrified Forest Petroglyphs Phoenix Folder 4 Phoenix Street Railway Picacho Pass Picacho Peak (Civil War) Pickett Post Mountain Folder 5 Pima Indians Pimeria Alta Historical Society Pinal, Arizona Pinacates Folder 6 Pioneer, Arizona Pioneer Cattlemen Pioneer Picnic Photos Pipe Springs Piskorski Canyon Folder 7 Placeritas Placer Mining Planet Town Plank Road Folder 8 Pleasant Valley War Plugged Nickels Pocket Creek Folder 9 Poems Folder 10 Post Offices and Postmasters Prehistoric Arizona Prescott, Arizona Prescott & Arizona Central Railroad Folder 11 Prescott’s Court House Pre-Territorial Days Prospecting Providence, Arizona Folder 12 Providence Canyon Pyle’s Bunion Derby Folder 13 Q Ranch Quartzite Country Quijotoa

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Box 12 Continued Folder 14 Railroads Ranches Rancho la Arizona Rangers Battle the Smiths Folder 15 Ray, Arizona Ray Woodchopper Killing Reata Pass Recipes (Old Timers) Folder 16 Red Mountain Reunion, Pines & Pioneers, 1957 Robberies Robbery of El Tigre Mine Folder 17 Rock Houses Rodeo Parade Roosevelt Dam Roosevelt Town Rough Riders Flag Folder 18 S.H. Mountain St. John’s Mission Salome, Arizona Salome Gold Strike Folder 19 Salt River San Xavier del Bac Santa Cruz County Santa Fe Railway Company Folder 20 Seligman. Arizona Seri Indians Show Low, Arizona Show Low Creek Folder 21 Sierra Strellas Silver Mines Folder 22 Skeleton Canyon Skull Cave Skull Valley Snake Dance Snakes Folder 23 Songs Southern Pacific Spanish Names Speakers Springerville, Arizona Folder 24 Stage Stations and Coaches Statues at Gateway Steam Boating

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Box 12 Continued Folder 24 Steward Mountain (also Dam) Stoneman Road Folder 25 Strawberry Street Car System Sulphur Springs Valley Sunnyslope, Arizona Folder 26 Superstitions Survey Party of 1915 Sycamore Creek Box 14 Correspondence by Subject: T-Z Folder 1 Tank Fountains Tenhachape Pass Terminus Thunderbird Ranch Folder 2 Tip Top Mine Tokens Tombstone Tonto Basin Rim Folder 3 Tonto National Forest Tonto Natural Bridge Trails for Hiking Train Robberies Folder 4 Treasures Trees Tuba City, Arizona Folder 5 Tucson Meteorites Folder 6 Tumacacori National Monument TV & Radio Requests Tuttle Ranch Killing Tyson Stage Station Folder 7 U.S. Army Reserve Center Uvalde Sierra UVX Mine Folder 8 Valley National Bank Booklet Vekol Mine Verde Salt Mine Folder 9 Vicksburg, Arizona Vigilantes “Villas Raid on Columbus” Vulture Mine Folder 10 Wagon Routes Walker Region Walnut Grove, Arizona Walnut Grove Dam (Break)

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Box 14 Continued Folder 11 Water Users Association Wells Fargo Robbery & Lost Safe “Wham” Robbery Folder 12 White House Hotel White House Letters White Tank Mountains Folder 13 Wickenburg, Arizona Wickenburg Massacre Winslow, Arizona Folder 14 Witch Well Ranch Woolsey Peak Range Yaqui Villages Folder 15 Yarnell, Arizona Yavapai County Yuma. Arizona Folder 16 Zorrillo

Boxes 15-22 Manuscripts

Boxes 15-22 contain miscellaneous manuscript material dated 1948-1974 on Arizona history, including “Arizona Days and Ways”, columns written for the Arizona Stockman, travel articles for the Arizona Republic, (Detailed listing of manuscript titles follows)

Boxes 23-26 Newspaper Clippings

Boxes 23-26 contain “Arizona Days and Ways” clippings collected by Roscoe Willson from 1941-1976, Box 23 Newspaper Clippings, 1941-1959 (incomplete) Box 24 Newspaper Clippings, 1960-1969 (incomplete) Box 25 Newspaper Clippings, 1970-1973 (incomplete) Box 26 Newspaper Clippings, 1974-1976 (incomplete)

Box 27 Miscellaneous

Etching reproductions, Christmas cards, religious drawings and miscellaneous newspaper clippings.

Binders 1-21 Newspaper Clippings

Binders 1-21 contain an incomplete collection of “Arizona Days and Ways” columns, from 1947- 1968.

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“ARIZONA DAYS AND WAYS”

NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS FMMSS 46 BOX 28-BOX 47 NOVEMBER 2, 1947 TO DECEMBER 26, 1948 BOX 28/1 1. BULLET HOLE IN DOOR SAVED BILLY PERTP~JE FROM MURDER CHARGE. 11-247 2. GUN-SHY HORSE AIDS INDIAN SAVE RIDER IN RUGGED PINALS. 11-947 BOX 28/2 3. MYSTERIES OF SETI’LERS’ INDIAN SCARE IN ‘87 SOLVED BY OLD-TIMER. 11-16-47 4. GUNS ARE DRAWN WHEN ‘GHOSTLY’ VISITORS SPEAKS. 11-23-47 BOX 28/3 5. SCENIC PARADISE OFFERED BY MANY STATES MOUNTIANS. 12-747 6. PREHISTORIC VALLEY TRIBES FORCED OUT BY WATER SHORTAGE. 12- 14-47 BOX 28/4 7. MINERAL PROSPECTING IS SPORT, SOMETIMES TURNS UP ‘JACKPOT’. 12- 1-47 8. DESERT PROSPECTOR SAVED FROM DEATH BY BURRO’S ‘SMELLER’. 12- 28-47 BOX 28/5 9. ARIZONA, SONORA STATES HAVE MUCH IN COMMON; COLOR AITRACTS TOURISTS. 1-4-48 10. HIGHEST YTJMA COUNTY PEAKS HOLD SECRET OF LOST OBSERVATORY. 1-1148 BOX 28/6 11. INDIAN CONTINUES SLOW TO TAKE UP WHITE MAN’S LIFE. 1-18-48 12. VIOLENCE OF EARLY DAYS TYPIFIED BY NOGALES SHOOTJNGS 1-25-48 BOX 28/7 13. ARIZONA’S NAME BASED ON ‘SMALL WATER’ AREA OUTSIDE PRESENT STATE. 2-148 14. DUTCH FRANK FINDS LATELY THAT WIFE REALLY WORTH KEEP. 2-8-48 BOX 28/8 15. DESERVS PLANT LIFE GIVES ARIZONA MAIN SYMBOLS OF APPEAL. 2-15- 48 16. SEGEANT JEFF KIDDER, TERRITOTIAL RANGER, KILLED IN NACO BATTLE. 2-2248 BOX 28/9 17. ANOTHER LOST MINE OF STATE IS HIDDEN I DESOLATE AREA. 2-29-48 18. RARE SIGHTS OFFERED ON VISIT TO DESERT IN SOUTH OF STATE. 3-7-48 BOX 28/10 19. PRACTICLE JOKERS GIVE CHUNG Fl BIG MAJORITY FOR JUSTICE OF PEACE. 3-1448 20. RAINFALL SPROUTS CROP OF BEAUTIFULL FLOWERS ON DESERT, MOUNTAINS. 3-2848 BOX 28/11 21. POCKETS OF GOLD FIND REVIVES MEMORIES OF PAST ‘RICHES’ STORIES. 3-2848 22. STORY OF HORSETHIEF BASIN IN BRADSHAW MOUNTIANS ECALLED. 4- 4-48

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BOX 28/12 23. SHOOTING OF WELSHER RESULTS IN JAILBREAK, SHARP DESERT GUNFIGHT. 4-11-48 24. DESERT BIGHORN SHEEP SO RARE FEW BELIEVE TALES CONCERNING THEM. 4-848 BOX 28/13 25. EARLY ARIZONA MURDER, MANHUNT ON HORSEBACK, LYNCHING ARE DESCRIBED. 4-2548 26. MOUNT GRAHAM BULLION IS ONE MORE FRUITLESS ARIZONA TREASURE HUNT. 5-2-48 BOX 28/14 27. CARD CHEAT RETURNS TO RANCH LIFE. 5-948 28. RICH ORES LIE IN MALAPAI OF ARID HILLS. 5-16-48 BOX 28/15 29. DESERT DEATH STORIES RECOUNTED AS WARNING TO BYWAY ADVENTURERS. 5-2348 30. ARIZONA LOST CHANCES TO GET DEEP WATER PORT ON GULF 100 YEARS AGO. 5-3048 BOX 28/16 31. FAMED HARQUAHALA GOLD MINE YIELDS MILLIONS; HISTORIC MERGER TOLD. 6-648 33. RISE OF ‘OSTRICH BOOM’ IN VALLEY. SUBSEQUENT COLLAPSE ARE RECOUNTED. 6-1348 BOX 28/17 33. LEAD, ROPES CUT CAREERS OF RON=BBERS. 6-2048 34. SCORPION TOP KILLER AMOUNG STATE PESTS. 6-2748 BOX 28/18 35. STATE NAME FIRST MEANT OTHER AREA. 7-4-48 36. FOUR DIE IN FIGHT TO SIEZE TWO MEN AS DRAFT EVADERS. 7-11-48 BOX 28/19 37. BILL WILLIAMS STORY TOLD ON ARIZONA MAP. 7-18-48 38. CLUE TO RICH MINE BURIED WITH WIMPY’. 7-2548 BOX 28/20 39. PRIDE GOETH BEFORE FALL FROM BRONC. 8-148 40. VICTIMS APPREHEND ROBBERS, ARE KILLED TAKING THEM IN. BOX 28/21 41. LYNX CREEK PLACER IS RESULT OF JOE WALKER’S EXPLORATION. 8-15- 48 42. APACHE SCALP BOUNTY AIDS OUTLAW GANG. 8-22-48 BOX 28/22 43. SPRINGERVILLE NAMED FOR SHORT-TIMER; EARLY RESIDENTS OVERLOOKED. 8-29-48 44. HOMESTEADING ALONG GILLA IN LATE SO’S TOLD.9-5-48 BOX 28/23 45. EARLY ARIZONA CHARACTERS WAS OLD GRIZZLY, MINING PIONEER AT WALNUT GROVE. 9-1248 46. CAMP VERDE MURDERS OF ‘99 NEVER AVENGED. 9-1948 BOX 28/24 47. EARLY TRIBES SURVIVED ON DESERT YIELD. 9-2648 48. CRIME TRAIL IS ENDED BY HANGING SIX. 10-3 48 BOX 28/25 49. NORD RANCH TRUE OASIS AMID DESERT. 10-1048 50. EARP-CLANTON FRACAS IS WIDELY PUBLICIZED. 10-1748 BOX 28/26 51. ARMY AIDE’S WIFE TELLS OF FORT LIFE. 10-2448 52. RAIL HOLDUP IS BUNGLED BY COWBOYS. 10-3148

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BOX 28/27 53. RAPID CHANGE IN LIVING PATI’ERN IN ARIZONA IS MOURNED BY OLD- TIMERS. 11-748 54. LE’ITER REVEALS NEW FACTS ON MASSACRE BY INDIANS AT COLORADO RIVER FERRY. 11-1448 BOX 28/28 55. BLOOD FLOWS AS WORKERS SEEK RAISE. 11-2148 56. EARLY APACHE HISTORY TELLS OF RAIDS, KILLING. 11-2848 BOX 28/29 57. ROMANCE CLIMAXES LEGENDARY CANYON BANDIT CHASE. 12-5-48 58. OUTLAWS CAST DRUNK IN CHIEF ROLE FOR QUICJKIE FUNERAL. 12-12- 48 BOX 28/30 59. MINING CAMV5 YULE PARTY IS ENLIVENED BY SHOOTING FRACAS. 12- 12-48 60. SOLITARY, BREATH-TAKING VISTAS AWAIT TRAVELERS WHO SHUNS PAVED ROAD. 12-26-48 JANUARY 2, 1949 TO DECEMBER 18, 1949 BOX 29/1 1. INGENIOUS DYNAMITE PLOT RIDS CAMP OF WORTHLESS COOK. 1-249 2. RAIDING APACHE TOOK FEARFUL TOLL OF EARLY SE1TLERS. 1-949 3. BILLY BREAKENRIDGE ARRESTS GUNMAN PAIR IN BLOODY BAFFLE. 1- 16-49 BOX 29/2 4. SHEER JOY OF GLOD WU’NT SENT OLD TIME PROSPECTORS ON TRIAL. 1- 23-49 5. BURIAL OF THE CIMMARRON KID. 1-3049 6. FAST JUSTICE BY WESTERN LAW AVENGES DUAL KILLING BY EASTERN TRIUMVIRATE. 2-1349 7. NE’ER-DO-WELL’S BRUTAL SLAYING OF DEPUTY ENDS IN HIS CAPTURE, KILLING. 2-13-49 BOX 29/3 8. ARIZONA’S ONLY WILD PALMS CREATE CURIOUS SCENERY IN SECTION OF KOFA MOUNTIANS. 7. NE’ER-DO-WELL’S BRUTAL SLAYING OF DEPUTY ENDS IN HIS CAPTURE, KILLING. 2-1349 BOX 29/3 8. ARIZONA’S ONLY WILD PALMS CREATE CURIOUS SCENERY IN SECTION OF KOFA MOUNTIANS. 2-2049 9. TERRIBLE OUTRAGES WERE PERPETRATED AGAINST INDIANS IN EARLY PIONERR DAYS. 2-2749 10. DEMIJOUNS ADD ZEST TO EARLY- DAY VOTING. 3-649 BOX 29/4 11. STATS MOST HEINOUS CRIME STILL UNSOVED. 3--1349 12. RA1TLER VICTIM SHOWS UP THREE YEARS LATER. 33-2049 13. BRUTAL TRIPLE MURDER IS AGONY TO SURVIVOR. 3-27-49 BOX 29/5 14. STAMP-MILL LULLABY KEPT MINERS ASLEEP. 4-349 15. UNKNOWN MOTIVE LIES IN ILL-FATED MISSION. 4-1049 16. COWS IS ODD CRI1TERS WHEN TRYING TO THINK. 4-1749 BOX 29/6 17. MOLE ON CHIN GIVES KILLER, ROBBER AWAY. 4-2449 18. FRONTIER JUDGE MADE HIS OWN JURISDICTION. 5-149 19. MANY CHANGES WROUGHT BY ARIZONA IN 50 YEARS. 5-849

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BOX 29/7 20. PEAK CONQUEROR MAKES LAST TRIP. 5-15-49 21. BURRO-MAN PROSPECTORS ARE PRACTICALLY EXTINCT. 5-22-49 22. IRASCIBLE PAIR KILL TWO OVER DELAY AT MEALTIME. 5-29-49 BOX 29/8 23. APACHES NARROWLY MISS ANNIHILLATION IN CANYON. 6-5-49 24. CATTLE, SHEEP TROUBLES BLAZE IN TONTO RESERVE. 6- 12-49 25. ZOOT-SUTT FORERUNNER JUST MISSES HANGING. 6-1949 BOX 29/9 26. VANISHED BULLOCK RAIL LINE WAS FREE AND EASY. 6-2649 27. AVALANCHE OF ROCKS FAILS TO FAZE PRESCOTT MINER 7-3-49 28. ANTI-BUG HABITS PREVAIL FROM OLD TIMERS IN STATE. 7- 1049 BOX 29/10 29. TENDERFOOT OS NEARLY BEATEN BY DESERT SUN. 7-1749 30. FABULOUS GOLDFIELD SAPS MAN POWER FROM ARIZONA. 7-24 49 31. DROWNING OF TWO SMALL GIRLS GOES INSOLVED. 7-31-49 BOX 29/11 32. YARNELL PROVES ARIZONA PIONEERING SPIRIT LIVES. 8-749 33. ROBBERY ATTEMPT RESULTS IN BLOODY DUAL MURDER 8-1549 34. RAILROAD ROBBERY FAILS; GUNMAN GIVES POSSE SLIP. 8-2 149 BOX 29/12 35. TRAIN ROBBERY ATTEMPT RESULTS IN BLOODY DUAL MURDER 8-15-49 36. WRITER LAMENTS PASSING OF DON PANCHO MONROY. 9449 37. PIONEERS ENDURED GREAT HARDSHEP FOR SILVER. 9-1149 BOX 29/13 38. BADMAN RUNS A COURSE; BAD TO WORSE TO DEAD. 9-1849 39. CLARKDALE BANK ROBBERY SOVED IN SHORT ORDER. 40. STATE’S WORST DISASTER WIPES OUT WORK CAMP. 10-249 BOX 29/14 41. PROSPECTOR FINDS SELF BADLY BESTED BY CHINESES. 10-949 42. NAVAJO WERE HARRASSED BY PRANKS OF WHITE MEN. 10-16-49 43. STATE’S OLD-TIME CI-IINECE HAD NO CINCH IN LIVING. 10-2349 BOX 29/15 44. ONE PASSENGER SURVIVED WIKENBURG MASSACRE. 10-3349 45. MASSACRE PERPETRATORS NNEVER COUGHT; MORE DIE. 11-649 46. FLASH FLOODS ON DESERT PLAY DANGEROUS TRICKS. 11-1349 BOX 29/16 47. ARIZONA’S ONLY WOMAN BANDIT WAS SEEDY GAL. 11-20-49 48. ONCE-RICH SILVER MINE NOW ABANDONED IN RUINS. 11-2749 49. FREINDSHIP NEARLY FOULED BY GARLIC FLAVORED BEANS. 12449 BOX 29/17 50. GOVERNOR ASKS U.S. AID IN SUPPRESSING OUTLAWS. 12-11-29 51. CHINESE SWEAR ON DEAD HEN; COURT IN DISORDER. 12-18-49 52. FAMILY OF FERGUS WHITE PIONEER ON MINNEHA FLAT. 11-2549 JANUARY 1,1950 TODECEMBER31, 1950 BOX3O/1 1. OATMAN FAMILY ATTACKED ON YUMA ROAD IN 1851. 1-1-50 2. OLIVE OATMAN RELEASED FROM INDIAN CAPTIVITY. 1-8-50 3. BELLE’S PURSE 15 TAKEN AS DOG AND CAT DO BATTLE. 1-15-50 BOX 30/2 4. PARTY EXPLORES COLORADO RIVER NAVIGATION ON 1857. 1-22-50 5. INTRPID POWELL FINISHES EXPLORATION OF COLORADO. 1-29-50 6. BILL PICKETT, FARO DEALER, BETTER MAN THEN PATRON. 2-5-50

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BOX 30/3 7. STATE OWS NAME TO ANCIENT INDIAN SE1TLTEMENT NEAR NOGALES. 2-12-50 8. MEXICAN BENDIT RAIDS OF EARLY 20’S RECALLED. 2-26-50 9. PEARSON KILLERS OF 20’S CAUGHT, ESCAPE, RECAPTURED. 2-26-50 BOX 30/4 10. HOBO’S LOVE FOR PIPPY ANCHOR IN STORMY LIFE. 3-5-50 11. FAMED LOST COUNTRY COST ARIZONA RANKING OF FOURTH AMONG STATES. 3-12-50 12. ARIZONA’S ‘PARLAMENT’ DIEL PROVES FATAL TIE. 5-19-50 BOX 30/5 13. OLD STEAMBOAT LOG CITIES SHIPPING TRAILS ON RIVER 5-26-50 14. APACHE KID TURNED BAD AFTER INDIAN SCOUT LIFE. 4-2-50 15. APACHE KID STARTS REIGN OF TERROR IN TERRITORY. 4-9-5 0 BOX 30/6 16. STORY OF APACHE KID’S GUNFIRE DEATH RELATED. 4-16-50 17. ROUNDUP OF WILD STEERS TUCKERS PRAIRIE COWBOY. 4-23-50 18. TERRITORY DAYS RECALL TRAILS EFFECT ON AUTOS. 4-30-50 BOX 30/7 19. EVERYTHING THAT GLITTERS IS NOT WORTH INVESTMENT. 5-7-50 20. APACHE HORSE STEALING ALMOST LEADS TO BATTLE. 5-14-50 21. TUCSON CITIZENS GROUP AVENGES BRUTAL MURDERS. 5-21-50 BOX 30/8 22. BATTLE OF BIG DRY WASH CLIMAXES SCOUT’S CAREER. 5-28-50 23. NEEDS AND AMBITIONS YIELD RAIL WAY BONDS. 64-50 24. WINDY BILL’S ACTIONS SPEAK STILL LOUDER. 6-11-50 BOX 3019 25. INDIAN ATTACK BLA?~4ED FOR FIRST CANYON TRIP. 6-18-50 26. BRONCHO BILL HOLDUPS RECALLED BY PIONEER. 6-25-50 27. STATE’S OLD ARMY POST REPLACED BY AIR FIELDS. 7-2-50 BOX 30/10 28. CAMP GRANT MASSACRE CALLED EARLY STATE’S MOST BRUTAL TRAGEDY. 7-9-50 29. ANOTHER TENDERFOOT BITES ON ANCIENT GAG. 7-16-50 30. OLD TOME JURYMAN TAKES WHISKY SHOT TO CLEAR CONFUSING INDICTMENT. 7-23-50 BOX 30/11 31. FAMED INDIAN FIGHTER SPARES APACHE BABIES. 7-30-50 32. PROSPECTOR LETS BURRO TAKE FIRST FRINK AT RIVER. 3-6-50 33. BACK ROAD AUTO TOURS LURED HOOSIER DOCTOR ON WINTER VISITS TO ARIZONA. 8-13-50 BOX 30/12 34. PIONEER JOINS MEXICAN FIGHT TO ESCAPE DEATH. 8-20-50 35. SILVER BOOM IN QUIJOTOA EXPLODES WITH QUICK, LOUD BURST. 8-27- 50 36. TRIO AMBUSHED AT SITE OF FAMILY MASSACRE. 9-3-50 BOX 30/13 37. WIDE VARJETY OF TREES IN UP;AND AND LOWLANDS OF STATES EXPLAINED. 9-10-50 38. TREES OF STATE PROVIDE SHADE, FOOD AND FUEL. 9-17-50 39. PEEPLES PARTY TRAVELED STRAIGHT PATH TO GOLD. 9-24-50 BOX 30/14 40. CALABASANS TAKEN IN BY TRAVELIN’ PREACHER. 10-1-50 41. HOWITZER FIRE ROUTS APACHE AMBUSH FORCE. 10-8-50 42. DUDE FROM NEW YORK GETS RODEO SMARLED UP. 10-15-50

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BOX 30/15 43. NOVICE MINERS’ LAZINESS LEADS TO RICH GOLD STRIKE. 10-22-50 44. SLIM JIM AND FAT JACK TEAM UP TO HUNT GOLD. 10-29-50 45. GAMBLING KICKED OUT AFTER LONG EXPERIENCE. 11-5-50 BOX 30/16 46. SEACOAST SLIPPED AWAY FROM STATE IN 1853. 11-12-50 47. GABRIEL-PIIY DUEL CALLED STATE’S SIX - GUN CLASSIC. 11-19-50 48. GOLD FINDS CREDITED WITH SETTLING OF WEST. 11-26-50 BOX 30/17 49. CATTLE-STEALING KILLERS CAUGHT AFTER LING TREK. 12-3-50 50. TONTOS PAID BIG PRICE FOR HASSAYAMPA RAIDS. 12-10-50 51. TENDERFOOT IS FLEECED BY SIMPLE RUN-AROUND. 12-17-50 BOX 30/18 52. EARLY MINE CAMP WINDOW WASN’T TRUE GOLD DIGGER. 12-24-50 53. PIMAS HAVE LONG HISTORY OF PEACE, FARMING PROGRESS. 12-31-50 JANUARY 7, 1951 TODECEMBER 30, 1951 BOX 31/1 1. CONTROVERSY SHROUDS ‘LAST OF BADMEN’. 1-7-51 2. TWO MEN’S LIVES FILL STORY OF CREATOR TOWN. 1-14-51 3. LAKES 0’ KILLARNEY PREVAILS AT FROGHAIR 1-21-51 BOX 31/2 4. RUIN. SOLDIER’S GRAVE MARK CULLING’S WELL. 1-28-51 5. STATE IS PLAYGROUND OF MYRIAD INTERESTS. 24-5 1 6. MONTANA AND ARIZONA GREW AS PEAS IN POD. 2-11-5 1 BOX 31/3 7. TERRITORY GLAMORIZED BY BOOK ON 1858 TRIP. 2-18-51 8. PLEASANT VALLEY WAR WITNESS TALKS. 2-25-51 9. OUTLAWRY OF ERA FANS PLEASANT VALLEY FEUD, 3-4-5 1 BOX 31/4 10. BLOODY BATTLE FAUGHT AT MIDDLETON RANCH. 3-1 1-51 11. BLOODY AMBUSH TURNS GRAHAM SUPPORTERS. 3-18-51 12. SHERIFF’S TRAP ENDS PLEASANT VALLEY WAR. 3-25-5 1 BOX 31/5 13. TOM GRAHAM KILLING IN TEMPE ENDS FEUD. 4-1-51 14. HISTORIC OLD TUBAC DESERVING OF PLAQUE. 4-8-5 1 15. WRITER’S ARIZONA URGE BORN IN MEXICO SALOON. 4-15-51 BOX 31/6 16. RATTLERS PROTECT MINE AFTER BEING KILLED. 4-22-51 17. RANCHER’S KINDNESS TO INDIAN SAVEX LIFE. 4-29-51 18. WILD TURKEY ENTICES COWBOY TO SLOW DEATH. 5-6-51 BOX 31/7 19. PAPAGOS SPLIT ON ISSUE OF CHANGING OLD WAYS. 5-6-51 20. TERMJNIJS POST PFFOCE RAILROAD DEPEDENT. 5-13-51 21. BIG MIKE NOONAJPS DEFENSES FALL IN END. 5-20-5 1 BOX 31/8 22. EARLY ARIZONA SHOCKS SNOBBISH TENDERFOOT. 5-27-5 1 23. TAILS OF LOST MINES MAINLY MIND FANCIES. 6-3-5 1 24. ORO BELLE MINE STRIKE AROUND 1905 RECALLED, 6-10-51 BOX 31/9 25. DETAILS OF GUN FIGHT IN 80’S ARE GATHERED. 6-17-51 26. SHERIFF’S TRIPLE SHOTS RETOLD IN TESTIMONY. 6-24-51 27. 1MYSTERY’ LYNCHING IS CONTOVERSIAL SUBJECT. 7-1-5 1

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BOX 31/10 28. TRJPLE HANGING IS SUBJECT OF MYSTERY. 7-8-51 29. ESTEVAN OCHOA RISKS LIFE FOR UNION CAUSE. 7-15-51 30. ARIZONA PLACE NAMES’IS HELPFUL REFERENCE. 7-22-5 1 BOX 31/11 31. PHOENIX WINS CAPITAL FROM PRESCOTT, TUCSON. 7-29-5 1 32. FAITHFUL BURRO SAVES INJURED MASTER’S LIFE. 8-5-51 33. EVENT’S OF 1866 ARE RECORDED IN PAPER. 8-12-5 1 BOX 31/12 34.TEXAN’S ROSY FUTURE TAKES A BLOODY TURN. 8-19-51 35. THIEVING’ THIRTEENTH EARNED ITS TITLE. 8-26-51 36. INEZ GONZALES IS SAVED FROM LIFE OF SALAVERY. 9-2-51 BOX 31/13 37. EARLY- DAY LEGISLATURE FULFILLED MANY DUTIES. 9-9-51 38. MURDERERS FAIL TO FIND RANCHERS HIDDEN CASH. 9-16-51 39. MISSONARY IS PIONEER IN RANCHING, FARMING. 9-23-51 BOX 31/14 40. IRISH ‘OLD TOMY’ HAD FRIENDSHIP FOR ALL. 9-30-51 41. EARLY -DAY FORESTERS HAD TRYING TIMES. 10-7-51 42. BILLY RHODES PROVES TOO BRAVE FOR APACHE. 10-14-51 BOX 3 1-15 43. ORIGIN OF STATE NAME IS CONTROVERSIAL. 10-21-5 1 44. BROWN TURNS WHITE FOR IGNACIO MENDOZA/ 45. POINEER’S DESERT TRIP OS LONG, HAZARDOUS. 114-51 BOX 31/16 46. MEXICO LEFT IMPRINT ON PIONEER ARIZONA. 11-11-51 47. WICKENBURG MASSACRE HAS BLOODIER SEQUEL. 11-18-51 48. ARIZONA HELD NO LURE FOR FIRST GOVERNOR. 11-25-51 BOX 31/17 49. OPERATION BEE-TREE’ YIELDS HONEY, TROUBLE, 12-2-51 50. CRUMBLED RUINS SHOW PREHISTORIC CULTURES. 12-9-51 51. APACHES PAY DEARLY FOR AMBUSH MASSACRE. 12-16-51 BOX 31/18 52. FIRST SECRETARY HELPED FRONTIER-DAY TERRITORY. 12-23-51 53. BILLY THE KID’S YOUTH IS TOPIC FOR ARGUMENT. 12-30-5 1. JANUARY 6, 1952 TO DECEMBER 28, 1952 BOX 32/1 1. OUTLAW’S GLOBE CAREER CLOUDED WITH RUMOR. 1-6-52 2. AUTHOR CHALLENGES PIONEER STORY. 1-13-52 3.60MB RACES CHALLENGE PAPAGO’S SPORTSMEN. 1-20-52 BOX 32/2 4. LOST FRENCHMEN MINE REMAINS DESERT SECRET. 1-27-52 5. ALDER GULCH AREA HAS GORY FRONTIER HISTORY. 2-3-52 6. HISTORY OF STATEHOOD FILLED WITH STRIFE. 2-10-52 BOX 32/3 7. WEALTHY MINER HIRES THEATRICAL PRODUCTION. 2-17-52 8. OLD STEM-WINDERS SPARKED GOOD STORIES. 2-24-5 2 9. FAMOUS COFFEE BRING MEMORY OF OLD TIMES. 3-2-52 BOX 32/4 10. CHINESE CAFÉ OWNER IS VICTIM IN SHOOTING. 3-9-52 11. DELAYING TACTICS FAIL TO SAVE FIVE KILLERS. 3-16-52 12. CROSS- CONTINENT TREK I S EPIC OF ENDURANCE. 3-23-52

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BOX 32/5 13. OLD DAYS ARE RELIVED AT PIONEERS’ REUNION. 3-30-52 14. STAGECOACHES’ ROBBER FALLS INTO LAW’S TRAP. 4-6-52 15. SPANISH PARTIES FIND GOLD TALES ARE MYTHS. 4-13-52 BOX 32/6 16. BUILDING AND DEDICATING OF ROOSEVELT DAM IS RECALLED BY HISTORIAN. 4-20-52 17. EARLY PAT-MIKE STORY HAS IRONY-NO HUMOR 4-27-52 18. EARLY-DAY MISSIONARY ANSWERS CHIEF’S PLEA. 54-52 BOX 32/7 19. HORSE-RUNN1NG TRAIL ENDS IN PAIR’S FLIGHT. 5-11-52 20. EARLY STATE HISTORY SHOWS BOUNTIFULL ERAS. 5-18-52 21. RIDER’S MEMORY SOLVES FRONTIER MURDER CASE. 5-25-52 BOX 32/8 22. SCOUT OF SOUTH AFRICA BUILT NAME IN ARIZONA. 6-1-52 23. SECOND GERONIMO DIES FROM POSSE’S GUN SHOTS. 6-8--52 24. STATE’S 14 COUNTIES HAVE 88-YEAR HISTORY. 6-15-52 BOX 32/9 25. EASTERN RECEARCI-IER IS KILLED BY APACHE. 6-22-52 26. FIRST ARMY CROSSES TERRITORY IN 1846. 6-29-52 27. GRIZZLED PROSPECTOR HIT PAY DIRT IN BANK. 7-6-52 BOX 32/10 28. INDIAN TRIBES HAVE RESERVATIONS CLAIMS. 7-13-52 29. ARGUMENT OVER BLOND WINDS UP IN KILLING. 7-20-52 30. AGED PAPAGO CLINGS TO ANCIENT BELIEFS. 7-27-52 BOX 32/11 31. APACHE MISTREATMENT COST OVER 200 LIVES. 8-3-52 32. WORTHLESS MINE STOCK STILL BEING PEDDLED. 8-10-52 33. UNPAID SILVER TAXES CAUSED MINERS GRIEF. 8-17-52 BOX 32/12 34. GREEM IRISHMEN HAS TROUBLES IN ARIZONA. 8-24-52 35. BRAND- CHANGING DEAL BRINGS TRIO TROUBLE. 8-31-52 36. SHOOTING OF MEXICAN BRINGS STIFF PENALTY. 9-7-52 BOX 32/13 37. FORT GRANT’S PICTURE IS PAINTED BY WRITER. 9-14-52 38. LAST OLDTIMER LIVES AT CROWN KING CAMP. 9-21-52 39. TRAIN ROBBERY OCCURS IN WRITER’S NARRATIVE. 9-28-52 BOX 32/14 40. INDIAN TRIBES INHERIT BLOODY TIBAL HISTORY. 10-5-52 41. GLOBE MAN DISAPPEARS FOLLOWING BLOODY WAR. 10-12-52 42. SHEEP-GRAZING SCHEME BRINGS COURT REBUKE. 10-19-52 BOX 32/15 43. TENDERFOOT TRAVELER WRITES OF EARLY-DAY DANGER 11-16-52 44. PIONEER-DAY COLONEL IS FIRST CATTLE BARON. 11-2-52 45. CHINESE FAACES FORM DISGUISE IN SMUGGLING. 11-9-52 BOX 32/16 46. SONG REMINDS WRITER OF EARLY -DAY DANGER. 11-16-52 47. MOUNTIANS STILL HOLD VAST GOLD TREASURES. 11-23-52 48. WIIITE MAN’S CRUELTIES CAUSES APACHE HATRED. 11-30-52 BOX 32/17 49. SONG REMINDS WRITER OF EARLY-DAY DANGER. 11-16-52 50. CLAIM-JUMPING FRACAS RESULTS IN KILLING. 12-14-52 BOX 32/18 51. MARCH OF MORMONS UNEQUALLED IN HISTORY. 12-21-52 52. GAMBLER IS THWARTED WHILE CLAIM JUMPING. 12-28-52

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JANUARY 4, 1953 TO DECEMBER 27, 1953 BOX33/1 1. OLD BUILDINGS REMAJN AS RELICS IN FLORENCE. 1-4-53 2. OLD RANCHER SURVIVES HAZARD OF FRONTIER. 1-11-53 3. OLD TIME SHERIFF FAILS COUNTY, NOT COMPADRE. 1-18-52 BOX 33/2 4. WINTER IS GOOD TIME FOR DESERT PROWLING. 1-25-53 5. HARQUA.HALA AREA HAS LONG MINING HISTORY, 2-1-53 6. LANDMARKS PRESERVE MEMORY OF HUMORIST. 2-8-53 BOX 33/3 7. SALOME SURVIVES ERA OF BOOL-BUST MINING. 2-1-53 8. BOUSE WASH AREA HAS PROSPECT FOR FUTURE. 2-22-53 9. OLD MINES, CARVINGS ARE TRIP’S FEATURES. 3-1-53 BOX 33/4 10. QUARTZSITE TS CENTER OF OLD MINING REGTON. 3-8-53 11. QUARTZ5ITE IS CENTER OF INTERESTING SIGHTS. 3-15-53 12. EHRENBERG IS SCENE OF EARLY RIVER TRADE. 3-22-53 BOX 33/5 13. BRAVE TROOPER SAVES COMRADES FROM RAID. 3-29-53 14. PIONEERS WILL RENEW EARLY - DAY FRIENDSHIP. 4-5-53 15. DESERT LAND IS RICH IN VARIETY OF WILDLIFE. 4-12-53 BOX 33/6 16. FRAIL-LOOKING YOUTH BEATS HARD TEAMSTER 4-19-53 17. ‘PADRE ON HORSEBACK’ FIRST MISSION BUILDER 4-26-53 18. RANCH OWNER FOOLS BUYER ON LAND IDEA. 5-3-53 BOX 33/7 20. OLD PIONEER’S CARRERRIS COLORFUL HISTORY. 5-10-53 21. ARMY BEGINS IMPORT OF ‘SHIP OF DESEERT’. 5-17-53 22. ANIMALS PROVE WORTH ON FIRST ARMY TRIP. 5-24-53 BOX33/8 23. AMINALS ARE SUCCESS WRITES ARMY LEADER. 5-31-53 24. SWITCH IS FROM HOT TO COOL FOR CAMELS. 6-7-53 25. CAMEL PLAYS HAVOC E1TH PHOENIX BAR. 6-14-53 BOX 33/9 26. CAMEL DEMISE CAUSED BY PAPAGOS’ APPETITE. 6-21-53 27. BRONZE PLAQUE MARKS HI JOLLY’S LAST CAMP. 6-28-53 28. VIFILANTES SAFEGUARD PHOENIX ‘S FAIR NAME. 7-5-53 BOX 33/10 29. MAN. BEASTS CONTENT IN LONELY DESERT. 7-21-53 30. WORDS ‘WELL DONE’ REWARD FOR BRAVERY. 7-19-53 31. KINDLY BEN WEAVER SPOKE WELL OF ALL. 6-26-5 3 BOX 33/11 32. OLD MAN IN LEAHTER BRINGS LUCK TO PROF. 8-2-53 33. SHEEP RAISING NOW IN HANDS OF BASQUES. 8-9-53 34. COWMAN DISCOVERS JOE’S TRUE FRIEND. 8-16-53 BOX 33/12 35. MOORE AND CORNING FIND TIP TOP MINE. 8-23-53 36.’EL MOCHO KILLS HERDER IN QUARREL. 8-30-53 37. INTRODUCTION “ARIZONA DAYS AND WAYS”. 9-13-53 BOX 33/13 38. HISTORY OF EARLY TOWNS OF ARIZONA. 9-20-53 39. FREEING TWO MEXICAN BOYS. 9-27-53 40. GUS SWAIN- JERKLINE DRIVING. 10-4-53

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BOX 33/14 41. “THE DAYS OF OLD. THE DAYS OF GOLD”. 10-11-53 42. LOST SOLDIER MINE. 10-18-53 43. JEROME COPPER MINE. 10-35-53 BOX 33/15 44. SHOOTING APACHE BY EMPLOYEE BOUNDARY COMMISION (CREMONY, WELLS). 11-1-53 45. GRAND CANYON. 11-8-53 46. INDIAN SCARE AT FORT DEFIANCE. 11-15-53 BOX 33/16 47. MISS LENAELLISON. 11-22-53 48. JOE BROTHERS MINE. 12-6-53 49. LOST BROTHERS MINE. 12-6-53 BOX 33/17 50. 100th ANNIVERSARY GADSDEN PURCHASE. 12-13-53 51. JOHN ROSS AND WIFE. 12-20-53 52. PREHISTORIC PEOPLE. 12-27-53 JANUARY 3, 1954 TO DECEMBER 26, 1954 BOX 34/1 1. SPENAZUMA. 1-3-54 2. GADSDEN. 1-10-54 3. KILLING OF JUDGE MCCOMAS. 1-17-54 BOX 34/2 4. JOHN A. ROCKFELLOW. 1-24-54 5. JOHN A. ROCKFELLOW. 1-31-54 6. JOHN A. ROCKFELLOW. 2-7-54 BOX 34/3 7. JOHN A. ROCKFELLOW. 2-14-54 8. JOHN A. ROCKFELLOW. 2-21-54 8A. BUTLER STORY. 2-28-54 BOX 34/5 12. SMUGGLER MC LEOD. 3-28-54 13. PIONEERS’ REUNION BRINGS OUT OLD HISTORY. 44-54 14. PIONEERS’ REUNION RECALLS “WORLD’S FAIR” AT PAYSON. BOX 34/6 15. BILL SPARLS HAS NARROW WSCAPE IN FIGHT WITH GRIZZLY BEAR 16. BIRD WATCHING IS INTERESTING PASTIME. 4-25-54 17. WESTWARD TRIP. 5-2-54 BOX 34/7 18. WESTWARD TRIP. 5-9-54 19. STERN MEASURES SAVE TRAVELERS FROM MASSACRE. 5-16-54 20. HARD ROCK MINERS OF OLDEN DAYS. 5-23-54 BOX 34/8 21. FOREST RANGERS HAVE BECOME “ALMOST HUMAN”. 5-30-54 22. OLD MANUSCRIPT DESCRIBES ARIZONA IN 50’S. 6-6-54 23. CHAPTER ONE IN THE TRAGEDY OF THE OATMAN FAMILY. 6-13-54 BOX 34/9 24. CONCLUDING CHAPTER IN THE TRAGEDY OF THE OATMAN FAMILY. 6- 13-54 25. DID OLIVE OATMAN MARRY MOHAVE CHIEF? 6-27-54 26. MYSTERY STILL SHROUDS KIDNAPPING OF TUCSON CHILD. 74-54 BOX 34/10 27. AUTHOR RECALLS EARLY DAYS IN DAKOTA TERRITORY. 7-11-54 28. STORY OF THE ROUGH RIDERS, CHAFFER ONE. 7-18-54 29. CONCLUDING CHAFFER. STORY OF THE ROUGH RIDERS. 7-25-54

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BOX 34/11 30. D.C. THORN PRESCOTT. 8-1-54 31. “THERE’S NOTHING LIKE A GOOD PARDNER”. 8-8-54 32. PEEPES VALLEY GETS NAME FROM PIONEER. 8-15-54 BOX 34/12 33. ROSCOE G. WILLSON TELLS A FEW RALES, ADMITFEDLY TALL. 8-22-54 34. IT WAS A LONG ROAD FOR OUR. FORST GOVERNOR. 8-29-54 35. THE DUDE FOREST SERVICE MAN-FROM TEXAS. 9-5-54 BOX 34/13 36. GUS SHOILD HAVE LEFT WELL DIGGING ALONE. 9-12-54 37. FOUNDING OF PRESCOTF IS CREDITED TO JOSEPH WALKER 9-19-54 38. WILDLIFE IS CHARMED BY YARNELL WOMAN. 9-26-54 BOX 34/14 39. PIMAS GET NAME FROM MISUNDERSTANDING. 10-3-54 40. GOVERNOR BRODIE, ROUGH RIDER, WAS A TRUE PIONEER. 10-10-54 41. COCONINO OLDTIMERS SWAP YARNS. 10-17-54 BOX 34/15 42. ST. JOHNS YOUTHS ARE MURDERED BY OUTLAWS. 10-3-54 43. THE TERRIBLE MASSACRE AT SKELETON CAVE. 10-31-54 44. THE TERRIBLE MASSACRE AT SKELETON CAVE. 11-7-54 BOX 34/16 45. “WE HAVE DRUNK FROM THE SAME CANTEEN”. 11-14-54 46. EARLY-DAY EDITORS HAD NO PATH OF ROSES. 11-21-54 47. ROSCOE HIKES UP BLACK MESA, A LOST WORLD IN THE DESERT. 11-28 54 BOX 34/17 48. ROSCOE HIKES UP BLACK MESA, A LOST WORLD IN THE DESERT, 12-5-54 49. YUMA CROSSING CELEBRATES 100111 ANNIVARSARY. 12-12-54 BOX 34/18 50. HISTORY OF EARLY MINES OS SUBJECT TO QUESTION, 12-19-54 51. CALIFORNIA COLUMN SAVED OUR “HAIR”. 12-26-54 JANUARY 2, 1955 TO DECEMBER 25, 1955 BOX 35/1 52. ARIZONA’S GREAT DROUTH CAUSED UNTOLD TRAGEDY. 1-2-55 53. ODD AND SCENIC ARIZONA IN PICTURES. 1-9-55 54. OLD CAMPS SALOON MEN LOVE AGAIN. 1-16-55 BOX 35/2 55. THE BLEAK, BARRON NAVAJO LAND. 1-23-55 56. “APACHE VENGENCE” RELATESTHE STORY OF APACHE KID. 1-30-55 57. DICK WICK HALL. 2-6-55 BOX 35/3 58. VERDE VALLEY PIONEERS ISSUE NEW BOOK. 2-13-55 59. A FEW FREAKISH CACTI. 2-20-55 60. WENDEN IS DEPOT FOR MANGANESE RESERVE STOCK 2-27-55 BOX 35/4 61 KOFAS HOLD SPECTACULAR SCENES. 3-6-55 62. PIONEER SOCIETY OPENS NEW HOME. 3-13-55 63. PETE KITCHEN AND PETE KITCHEN MUSEUM. 3-20-55 BOX 35/5 64. TOMMY MULVANY AND THE BISCUT SHOOTER. 3-27-55 65. PIONEERS ARE REMINDED OF THE ‘HAIRY AGE’. 4-3-5 5 66. EARLY RAILROAD SURVEYS WERE DANGEROUS, 4-10-55

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BOX 35/6 67. NOTES ON KINGMEN CUT OFF. 4-17-55 68. STAGE HOLD UP YIELDS TWO SILVER BARS. 4-24-55 69. STRANGE FIGURES PIZZLE ARCHAEOLOGIST. 5-1-55 BOX 35/7 70. OLD CAMP LOWELL. 5-8-55 71. APACHE PROPHET MEETS SITTING HULL‘S FATE. 5-15-55 72. EARLY DAY CATTLE LAWS. 5-22-55 BOX 35/8 73. PETROGLYPHS HIDE SYMBOLISM OF ANCIENT PEOPLES. 5-29-55 74. DESERT PROCEDURES ODD, TREE-LIKE FLORA. 6-5-55 75. PIONEER (CARTWRIGHT) RECALLS WAGON TRAIN DAYS. 6-12-55 BOX 35/9 76. ‘OLD KNOTHEAD’ FINDS APAY STREAK. 6-19-55 77. OLD TIMERS AND OLD TIMES. 6-26-55 78. PAULINE WEAVER: HE WORKED FOR PEACE. 7-3-55 BOX35/10 79. OLD STAGE STATION MARKS SCENE OF BRUTAL MURDER. 7-10-55 80. CONCLUDING A REPORT ON BRUTAL MURDER AT STAGE STATION. 7-17- 55 81. APACHE BOY. MIKE BURNS, DEFENDS HIS TRIBESMAN. 7-31-55 BOX 35/11 82. A RANGER RECALLS BLOODY WIKIEUP BA1TLE. 7-31-55 83. BOUNDARY COMMISSION, SURVEYORS AND NATURALISTS, 8-7-55 84. THE SKIMMER OF THE PLAINS WINS ABET. 8-14-55 BOX 35/12 85. STICTLY FOR THE BIRDS. 8-21-55 86. KIT CARSON, FEARLESS FRONTIERSMAN DESERVES BILLING WITH DAVY CROCKETF. 8-28-55 87. CATS MEOW SAVES ENGINEER’S LIFE. 9-4-55 BOX 35/13 88. GRAND CANYON GUIDE WRITES DESERT STORY. 9-11-55 89. FLIGHT OVER CANYON. 9-18-99 90. FLAGSTAFF KILLING OF JOHN N. BERRY. 9-25-55 BOX 35/14 91. PRESCOTT‘S EARLY HISTORY. 10-2-55 92.PLANTS DEVOUR EACH OTHER. 10-9-55 93. PRESIDENT MCKINLEY DELAYS ACTION IN HOLBROOK HANGING. 10-16, 55 BOX 35/15 94. HALE. HARDY FRONTIERSMAN BRINGS HOME THE BLUEING. 10-23-55 95. INDIAN HABITS, FIGHTS, ETC. 10-30-55 96. APACHES OUTFOX WHITES. 11-6-55 BOX 35/16 97. A HORSE THEFT LEADS TO RUTHLESS MURDER AR RAY. 11-13-55 98, HOLDUP VICTIM CHARMS CHEERFUL BANDIT, 11-20-55 99. RECENT TAMPICO FLOOD RECALLS EARLY DISASTER 11-27-55 BOX 35/17 100. FABULOUS LAND SCHEME IS FAILURE IN SONORA. 124-55 101. MURDER OS AN UGLY BUSINESS. 12-1 1-55 BOX 35/18 102. THE SAGE OF THE BRADSHAWS EARNED RIGHT TO HIS TITLE. 12-18-55 103. ‘BLOODY-MOUTHED BANDIT’ PAYS ROBBER’S PENALTY. 12-25-55

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JANUARY 1, 1956 TO DECEMBER 30, 1956 BOX 36/1 1. ‘OLD KING’ YIELDS MILLIONS. 1-1-56 2. FREAKS OF THE DESERT. 1-8-56 3. CHIEF GERONIMO. 1-15-56 BOX 36/2 4. WILY GERONIMO SURRENDERS BUT MAKES HIS OWN TERMS. 1-22-56 5. GERONIMO. 1-29-56 6. GERONIMO. 2-5-56 BOX 36/3 7.OLD SIERRA BONITA RANCH GAINED STORY BOOK OF FAME. 8. A YOUNG TENDERFOOT ARIVES IN ARIZONA. 2-18-56 9. DON DIEGO’S TIDE TO FORTUNE WAS FRAUGHT WITH ADVENTURES. 2- 26-56 BOX 36/4 10. TEDDY’S PETS’ FOUGHT HOSTILITY IN EARLYL DAYS OF FOREST RESERVE. 34-56 11. THE TERRITORY WAS OLD WHEN PHOENIS EMERGED. 3-11-56 12. ‘ECHOES OF THE PAST’ IN OLD YAVAPAI COUNTY. 3-18-56 BOX 36/5 13. FARES PLAY GRIM GAME AT AN OLD CAMP STORE. 3-25-56 14. BILKED BRACEROS FOIL FELLOW MEN DURING TREACHEROUS HOLD UP SCHEME. 4-1-56 15. OLD TIMES. OLD FRIENDS’ BRING PIONEERS TOGETHER. 4-8-56 BOX 36/6 16. BURRO MEN PROSPEDTORS WERE TRUE NATURE LOVERS. 4-15-56 17. MAN DOG DOWNING MEETS DOOL AT HANDS OF CROSINA RANGER 4- 22-56 18. AN INNOCENT APACHER IS SAVED BECAUSE OF A JUDGE’S WISDOM. 4- 29-56 BOX 36/7 19. PILGRAMAGE TO THE DESERT YIELDS LITTLE RELAXATION. 5-6--56 20. EARLY DAY TEXAS TRAIL DREVERS BATTLED DANGER AND DROUTH. 5-13-56 21. A TRIO OF RANGERS SAVE THE OLD KOFA’S GOLD. 5-20-56 BOX 36/8 22. AN OLD DIARY PROVIDES RECORD OF PADRE KINO’S EXPLORATION. 5- 27-56 23. FATES AVENGE DEATH OF A MAN AND HIS DOG. 6-3-56 24. FAN GEE’S KILLER MEETS FATE AT THE HANDS OF TWO BANDITS. 6-10- 56 BOX 36/9 25. OLD COVERS UNCOVER A WEALTH OF EARLY TERRITORIAL HISTORY. 6-17-56 26. MURDEROUS RAIDS MARKED GERONIMO’S BLOODY DAYS. 6-24-56 27. A 10-YEAR-OLD BOY IS HERO AT GERONTMO’S RAID. 7-1-56 BOX 36/10 28. COOL TALL TIMBERLANDS BECKON DESERT DWELLERS. 7-8-56 29. OLD DAN WAS A TOUGH HOMBRE, BUT NO ONE CALLED HIM COWARD. 7-15-56 30. ARIZONA’S ‘WILD APACHES’ STAR IN THEATRUCAL TOUR 7-22-56 BOX 36/11 31. APACHE THEATRICAL TROUP FLOPS IN EASTERN CIRCUIT. 7-29-56 32. PEACE WITH NAVAJOS COMES SLOWLY. 8-5-56 33. THE OLD GAS BUGGY WINS RACE WITH CYNICS. 8-12-5

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BOX 36/12 34. AGENT CLUM GAINED A TITLE AS ‘FRIEND’ TO APACHE TRIBE. 8-19-56 35. ARIZONA’S ‘LARGEST CITY LIES BENEATH LAKE MEAD. 8-26-56 36. CONTENTMENT, NOTCOIN, PAYS OFF PEOSPECTORS FOR GOLD ON THE DESERT. 9-2-56 BOX 36/13 37. ORIGIN OF ITS NAME M,½Y BE VAGUE BUT SKULL VALLEY EARNED ITS RIGHT TO THE GRUESOME TITLE. 9-9-56; 38. BEER BOTTLE BRAWL LEADST0 TRIPLE KILLINGS. 9-16-56 39. PIONEER CATTLEMEN PLAY VITAL ROLE IN ARIZONA’S RANGE HISTORY. 9-23-56 BOX 36/14 40. THE CASE OF THE BRADSHAW MTS. OR WHICH BROTHER GAAVE HIS NAME? 9-30-56 41. TOMMY KNOCKERS AT RATTLESNAKES HELP OLD PROSPECTOR FIND GOLD. 10-7-56 42. A SCIENTIFIC ARMY OFFICER. 10-14-56 BOX 36/15 43. BISBEE MURDER QUIKENS MYSTERY OF SLAYER, 10-21-56 44. DID CREMONY PULL STUNT S AS CLAINED OR *AS HE JUST A- YARNIN? 10-28-56 45. MURDER LEAVES ITS MARK IN AN OLD MINING TOWN. 11-4-56 BOX 36/16 46. FEBRURARY SETS A PRECEDENT AS THE MONTH OF DISASTER. 11-11-56 47. MORE ABOUT “THE KID”. 11-18-56 48. TWO GOVERNORS SERVED 23rd LEGISLATURE, 11-25-56 BOX 36/17 49. HERE’S A BIG WINDY’ THAT’S FULL OF SOUND AND RATTLES. 12-2-56 50. A JOURNERY OVER LAVA-SCARRED HILLS LEADS TO VAT CRATERS AND BIGHORNS. 12-9-56 51. THE OLD COMMONWEALTH MINE MADE MONEY BY THE MILLIONS. 12- 16-56 52. COMMONWEALTH CON’TD. 12-23-56 53. COMMONWEALTH CON’TD. 12-30-56 JANUARY 6, TO DECEMBER 29,1957 BOX 37/1 1. HE ‘BROUGHT HOME THE BACON’ AND STARTED A SMALL FORTUNE. (SULLIVAN) 1-6-57 2. SECRET SEVICE MEN FOIL BORDER SMUGGLING RACKET. 1-13-57 3. LINE RIDERS TRICK CHINESE SMULGGLERS. 1-20-57 BOX 37/2 4. AN OLD DIARY RECALLS ADVENTURE IN ARIZONA, (CONNEWS D1ATY OF JOSEPH WALKER) 1-27-57 5. A GRINGO IN MEXICO DANCED FOR THE REBELS. 2-3-57 6. WHITE MEN GUN FOE COCHISE DESPOTS HIS FLAG OF TRUCE. 2-10-57 BOX 37/3 7. OTERO FAMILY SETS RECORD AS OLDEST CATTLE BUSINESS. 2-17-57 8. NOTED HISTORIAN LED EVENTFUL LIFE IN ARIZONA (WILL C. BARNES) 2-24-57 9. CAN YOU NAME THESE PLANTS? 3-3-57

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BOX 37/4 10. DELUDED YAQUTS INVADED TOWN UNDER ORDER OF “THE WITCH” 3- 10-57 11. WILL IT BE LIFE IR DEATH FOR ARIZONA NIGHTINGALES? (BURROS) 3- 17-57 12. EARLY SETTLER REGAINS HEALTH FROM THE WEST’S RUGGED WAY. (JAMES SANFORD) 3-24-57 BOX 37/5 13. THEY WANTED ACTION (4 COWBOYS HOLDUP) 3-31-57 14. OATMAN. 4-7-57 15. OATMAN. 4-14-57 BOX 37/6 16. COLONEL MONIHON FORESAW AN AGRICULTYRAL EMPIRE. 4-21-57 17. COLONEL MEETS DEATH AT JANDS OF DESERTERS (CRAIG) 4-28-57 18. BOUSE WASH IS EVIDENCE OF RECORD LAND SWINDLE. 5-5-57 BOX 37/7 19. DIARY OF EARLY DAY PIONEER RELATES FANTASTIC HARDSHIPS. (JOHN WELL) 5-12-57 20. MRS. PYLE, 5-19-57 21. CORONADO MEMORIAL MARKS SEARCH FOR FABLED CITIES. 5-26-57 BOX 37/8 22. A RAMPANT FOREST FIRE TRAPS ELUSIVE MURDERER. 6-2-57 23. A PROSPECTOR FINDS A FORTUNE THEN GIVES IT AWAY/ 6-9-57 24. MARTYR OR MURDERER HISTORIANS DISAGREE (ESQUIM1NZJN) 6-16-5 7 BOX 37/9 25. ESQUIMINZIN’S LIFE WAS A SERIES OF TRIBULATIONS. 6-23 -57 26. TRAGEDY AND PATHOS PURSUED ESQUIMINZIN. 6-30-57 27. STARS AND STRIPES HANG AT HALF MAST FOR ANTHROPOLOGY’S ‘GRAND OLD MAN’. (HODGES) 7-7-57 BOX 37/10 28. THE DEADLY DESERT. 7-14-57 29. THE GREAT DIAMOND SWINDLE. (1st CHAPTER) 7-21-57 30.2ND CHAPTER - ‘A SALTED FIELD’ ENDS HOPES OF WORLD’S BIG JEWEL MARKET. 7-28-57 BOX 37/11 31. SLOW BOAT FROM YUMA. 8-4-57 32. THE GOVERNOR HAD A KEEN SENSE OF HUMOR 8-11-57 33. ‘SELDOM SEEN SLIM’ KNEW ALL THE TRICKS. 8-18-57 BOX 37/12 34. OUR PIONEERING MORMONS. 8-25-57 35. OUR PIONEERING MORMONS. 9-1-57 36. OUR PIONEERING MORMONS. 9-8-57 BOX 37/14 37. ‘BLACK ROPE’ RECALLS APACHE WAYS OF LIFE. 9-15-57 38.CHARLEY (BANTA) ‘GATHERED NO MOSS’ BUT HE COVERED MUCH GROUNG. 9-22-57 39. RIDE ‘EM ROUGH’ COWBOY MAKES WAY FOR THE DUDES 9-29-57 BOX 37/15 40. CHARLY’S (GENUNG) ‘BEST FRIEND’. 10--6-57 41. A ‘LITTLE OLD ARIZONA COWBOY ENJOYS EXCITEMENT OF BANDITRY. 10-20-57 42. MARAUDING INDIANS DEFEAT BULLY BUENO MINE PROJECT. 10-20-5 7 BOX 37/16 43. TALL PINE SET SCENE FOR PIONEER’S REUNION. 10-27-57 43. HE SPELLS RETIREMENT IN HALF A MILLION WORDS. 11-3-57 44. A. BEN AVERY’S WRITEUP* “KNOTHEADED PROSPECTOR” 11-3-57

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BOX37/17 45. ISOLATION DOOMS STUDIES AT MOUNTIAN TOP OBSERVATORY, 11-10- 57 46. DICK WICK’S CONCEITS MADE THE WORLD LAUGH. 11-17-57 47. GERONIMODOTJBLE CROSSES GENERAL. 11-24-57 BOX 37/18 48. GERONIMO MEETS HIS MATCH. 12-1-57. 49. THE FOOTHILL FILOSOFER REPORTS A ‘BAPTISING’. 12-8-57 50. EXPEDITION FOR SERI GOLD IS EPIC STORY OF HARDSHIP. 12-15-57 BOX 37/18 51. EXPEDITION FOR SERI GOLD IS EPIC STORY OF HARDSHIP. 12-22-57 52. EXPEDITION FOR SERI GOLD IS EPIC STORY OF HARDSHIP. 12-29-57 JANUARY 5, TO DECEMBER 28, 1958 BOX 38/1 1. SERI ECPEFITION FOR GOLD IS EPIC TALE OF HARDSHIP. 1-5-58 2. THE JUDGE WASTES HIS ELOQUENCE. 1-12-58 3. SOUTHERN REBELLION-NOVEMBER 1751, 1-19-58 BOX 38/2 4. PIMAS REBEL AGAINST OVERBEARING SPANISH. 1-26-58 5. SCENIC BTWAYS ARE REWARDING RO PROSPECTOR, PHOTOGRAPHER. 2- 2-58 6. AN OFFICER’S WIFE RECORDS LIFE IN EARLY ARIZONA 2-9-58 BOX 38/3 7. AN OFFICER’S WIFE RECORDS LIFE IN EARLY ARIZONA. 2-16-58 8. AN OFFICER’S WIFE RECORDS LIFE IN EARLY ARIZONA. 2-23-58 9. OSTRICH FARMS CONTRIBUTED TO FASHION WORLD. 3-2-58 BOX 38/4 10. BEAVER TRAPPERS MEET UP WITH INDIAN AND BEARS. 3-9-58 11. ARIZONAIN POETRY. 3-16-58 12. THE WILY COCHISE WINS OUT IN HILL TOP SKIRMISH. 3-23-58 BOX 38/5 13. THE ‘LITTLE GOVERNOR’ DOES WILL BY ARIZONA. 3-30-58 14. ARIZONA DAYS (PIONEERS’ HISTORICAL MEETING) 4-6-58 15. LOST IN THE MOUNTAIN WITH A HERD OF CATTLE. 4-13-58 BOX 38/6 16. DON PANCHO’S FRIENDSHIP SURVIVES A HALF CENTURY. 4-20-58 17. A SMOKE SIGNAL SAVES RANCHER FROM TRAGEDY. 4-27-58 18. ARIZONA’S FIRST MARSHALL. 54-58 BOX 38/7 19. LONG VANISHED MILL CITY ONCE VIED AS TOWNSITE FOR THE CITY OF PHOENIX. 5-11-58 20. BISBEE SETTLEMENT GETS BAD SCARE FROM APACHES. 5-18-58 21. PROPOSED BOND ISSUE GETS “THUMBS DOWN” SIGN. 5-25-58 BOX 38/8 22. ‘FLOWERS THAT BLOOM IN THE SPRING’. 6-1-58 23. RESEARCH THROES NEW LIGHT IN MURDER OF U.S. MARSHALL. 6-8-58 24, ‘MA AND PA WILLSON’ WONDER WHERE IS OUR WANDERING BOY? 6- 15-58 BOX 38/9 25. PAPAGO SCOUTS SHARP NOSE FERRETS OUT THE IVIURDERER. 6-22-58 26. THE OLD SONGS OF THE TRAIL KEEP A - TWANGIN’ RIGHT ALONG. 6-28- 58 27. APACHES BEDEVILED SONORA’S RESIDENTS. 7-6-58

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BOX 38/10 28. A PIONEER WOMAN RECALLS LIFE IN ‘THE OLD PUEBLO’. 7-13-58 29. CAPT. HARDY KNEW A GOBBLER WHEN HE HEARD ONE. 7-20-58 30. CAPT. HARDY EXPLAINS INDIAN’S SMOKE SIGNALS. 7-27-58 BOX 38/11 31. ENEMY OFFERS HOSPITALITY TO FEARLESS CAPT. HARDY. 8-3-58 32. BOOZE AND BLOODSHED SET PIMAS ON WARPATH. 8-10-58 33. DESERT NIGHTINGALES’ INSPORE PRO AND CON DISCUSSIONS. 8-17-58 BOX 3 8/12 34. A CIT OF PAPAGO CROW: THE POOR PAPAAGOS NEARLY GOT SHOT FOR RECOVERING TEXAN’S LIVESTOCK. 8-24-58 35. A PARTNERSHIP DISSOLVES IN A FIGHT TO THE DEATH. 8-31-58 36.THE OLD BIG BUG AREA WAS ONVE A LIVELY MINING CENTER. 9-7-58 BOX 38/13 37. CAMELS FLUNK THE TEST AS DESERT TRANSPORTATION. 9-14-58 38. PAPAGOS DISCOVER CAMELS ARE GOOD SOURCE OF FOOD. 9-14-58 39. CAMELS STILL SEEN AT TUEN OT THE CENTURY. 9-28-58 BOX 38/14 40. UNUSUAL CIRCUMSTANCES PUTS FIRST CAPITAL AT PRESCOTT. 10-5-58 41. “PIG PARTIES” LEAD HUNTERS INTO RUGGED DESERT AREAS. 10-12-58 42. ROSCOE RECALLS THE ROUGH AND TOUGH DAYS AND WAYS OF EARLY MINING LIFE. 10-19-58 BOX 38/15 43. THE RECKLESS KID LOSES OUT IN RACE FOR THE CINTURY MARK. 10- 26-58 44.THE RECKLESS KID COMES TO THE END OF THE TRAIL. 11-2-58 45. KINGS OF THE DESERT MEET DEATH FRON THU ATTACK OF A TINY MOTH. 11-9-58 BOX 38/16 46. THE TRUE STORY OF THE BOSTON PARTY. 11-16-58 47. THE TRUE STORY OF THE BOSTON PARTY. 11-23-58 48. THE TRUE STORY OF THE BOSTON PARTY. 11--30-58 BOX 38/17 49. THE TRUE STORY OF THE BOSTON PARTY. 12-7-58 50. THE TRUE STORY OF THE BOSTON PARTY. 12-14-58 BOX 38/18 51. A GAMBLING HOUSE HOLDUP. 12-21-58 52. SONOITA BORDER OASIS HAS A COLORFUL HISTORY. 12-28’-58 JANUARY 4, 1959 TO DECEMBER 27. 1959 BOX 39/1 1. HISTORICAL SOCIETY SPONSORS PIONEERS’ MUSEUM IN TUCSON. 14-59 2. FAMED INDIAN SCOUT DUBBED “10th MAN” BY APACHES. 1-11-59 3. APACHES MOURN DEATH OF FAMED INDIAN SCOUT. 1-18-59 BOX 39/2 4. DOUBLE HANGINGS AVENGE VICIOUS DOUBLE MURDER 1-25-59 5. “WAGERISMS” OR YARNS UNRAVELED BY A PIONEER. 2-1-59 6. “WAGERISMS” OT YARNS UNRAVELED BY A PIONEER 2-8-59 BOX 39/3 7. BATTLE OF “THE RED RIVER” WAS A TITANIC STRUGGLE. 2-15-59 8. EARLY DAY INDIANS DEALT IN SLAVERY, 2-22-59 9. THE OUTLAW OF PALOMAS. 3-1-59 BOX 39/4 10. ARIZONA PLACES HONOR PIONEER HENRY EHRENBERG. 3-8-59 11. A MARY LANDER REMEMBERS ‘GOOD OLD DAYS’ IN PHOENIX. 3-15-59 12. QUESTION: WHICH BOWIE INVENTED FAMOUS KNIFE? 3-22-59

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BOX 39/5 13. A PHONEY INDIAN SCARE DISSOLVES PARTNERSHIP. 3-29-59 14. CURLY BILL’S QUICK SHOT SAVES BREAKEN RIDGE’S LIFE. 4-5-59 15. LOS ANGELES MURDERER CAPTURED BY ARIZONA SHERIFF. 4-12-59 BOX 39/6 16. TIT.TAT,TOE, THREE AMBUSHES IN A ROW. 4-19-59 17. A BLACK HATTED RUSTLER FOILS AN ARIZONA RANGER. 4-26-59 18. SOME PLENTY THOUGH ‘LADY-BANDITS’ WERE ‘GUESTS’ AT THE OLD YUMA PEN. 5-3-59 BOX 39/7 19. AN ARIZONA INDIAN SCOUT WINDS UP AT END OF A ROPE. 5-10-59 20. AN ARIZONA INDIAN SCOUT WENDS UP AT END OF A ROPE. 5-17-59 21. AN ARIZONA INDAIN SCOUT WENDS UP AT END OF A ROPE. 5-24-59 BOX 39/8 22. AN ARIZONA INDIAN SCOUT WINDS UP AT END OF A ROPE. 5-31-59 23. STORY OF APACHE WARFARE TOLD BY SERGEANT PATTEN, 6-7-59 24. WHAT’S IN A NAME? YUMA HAS SEVERAL ANSWERS, 6-14-59 BOX 39/9 25. NEAVERS OPENED ARIZONA BEFORE GOLD WAS FOUND, 6-21-59 26. SOME ARIZONA HISTORY REPORTED IN PICTURES. 6-28-59 27. EARLY INHABITANT’S GAVE HORSE THIEF BASIN ITS NAME. 7-5-59 BOX 39/10 28. ‘IT FEELS GREAT TOBE ALIVE AT 80’. 7-12-59 29. JOINT STATEHOOD WITH NEW MEXICO NARROWLY ESCAPED IN 1906 VOTE .7-19-59 30. A RANGER’S LIED IS SAVED BY HIS HORSE. 7-26-59 BOX 39/11 31. WAYS OF WEST INSPIRE A SPECIAL CULT OF WRITERS. 8-2-59 32. CHUCKWALLA KID MEETS JUSTICE IN THE LONELY DESERT MOUNTIANS. 8-9-59 33. AN IRISHMAN GOES NUTS IN THE PURE MOUNTAIN AIR. 8-16-59 BOX 39/12 34. SOME NEW SIDELIGHTS ON THE MORMON BATTALION. 8-23-59 35. GUNMEN GYP EAGER AUDIENCE BY STAGING A PHONY FIGHT. 8-30- 59 36.DESERT CLIFF DWELLINGS ARE FEW AND FAR BETWEEN. 9-6-59 EOX 39/13 37. THE STORY OF ARIZONA’S FIRST LAW-MAKING BODY, 9-13-59 38. THE STORY OF ARIZONA’S FIRST LAW-1vIAKING BODY. 9-20-59 39. ACCORDING TO COLONEL ELLISON ‘TIME MEANS NOTHING TO A COW’ 9-27-5 9 BOX 39/14 40. PACK RATS ARE MASTERS IN THE ART OF THIEVERY. 10-4-59 41. LIFE IN OLD NEW MEXICO WAS TRANQUIL, CONTENTED, 10-1 1-59 42.RARE EARLY BOOK DESCRIBES FRONTIER5MM~ BILL WILLLA.MS. 10-18- 59 BOX 39/15 43. DR. MUNK PIONEER COWMAN, COLLECTOR OF ARIZONIANA, 10-25-59 44. A GREENHORN INSPECTOR GETS A LESSON FROM AN EXPERT. 1-5-59 45. A NOTED ARIZONA PIONEER GUIDES SECOND BOSTON PARTY. 11-8-59 BOX 39/16 46. GOLDEN - VOICED PROSPECTOR GIVES A GAMBLER A GLOWING SENDOFF. 11-15-59 47. A WOULD BE MURDERER PAYS FOR HIS CRIMES. 11-22-59 49. A PIONEER MINISTER LED A ROUGH AND READY LIFE. 11-29-59

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BOX 39/17 49. MORE “WAGERISMS” RECALL ROUGH AND READY MINING DAYS. 12-6- 59 50. AN EYEFUL OF HOLES. 12-13-59 BOX 39/18 51. THE TRAILS AND PERILS OF EARLY DAY STAGE TRAVEL. 12-20-59

52. ‘ROCK TO RICHES’ DESCRIBES ARIZONA’S HISTORY OF MINING. 12-27-5 JANUARY 3, 1960 TO DECEMBER 25, 1960 BOX 40/1 1. A YOUNG MAN FROM MICHIGAN FINDS THE WEST PLENTY TOUGH. 1-3-60 2. WILD HORSE IS SUBJECT OF ADDITIONAL RESEARCH, 1-10-60 3. FATHER AND SON PIONEER LOWER GILA AND MO AREA. 1-17-60 BOX 40/2 4. JOINT STATEHOOD VOTE REVEALS STARTLING FIGURES. 1-24-60 5. TRANSPORTATION IN THE 1860’S WAS A ‘SOMETIMES’ THING. 1-31-60 6. APACHES MADE LIFE THOUGH FOR ARIZONA’S. 2-7-60 BOX 40/3 7. THE DAYS AND WAYS OF THE PROSPECTOR, 2-14-60 8. THE DAYS AND WAYS OF THE PROSPECTOR. 2-21-60 9. THE DAYS AND WAYS OF THE PROSPECTOR, 2-28-60 BOX 40/4 10. THE DAYS AND WAYS OF THE PROSPECTOR, 3-13-60 11. THE DAYS AND WAYS OF THE PROSPECTOR 3-13-60 12. TI-IF DAYS AND WAYS OF THE PROSPECTOR, 3-20-60 BOX 40/5 13. THE DAYS AND WAYS OT THE PROSPECTOR. 3-27-60 14. TERRIBLE-TEMPERED EDITOR WROTE WITH A PIONTED PEN. 4-3-60 15. OLD NEWSPAPERS CONTIAN A LOT OF ‘PIONEER GOLD’ 4-10-60 BOX 40/6 16. PIONEERS’ ‘GOOD OLD DAYS’ WERE FILLED WITH PERIL. 4-17-60 17. INDIAN AGENT’S MURDER IS REPORTED BY AN APACHE. 4-24-60 18. STRANGE PARTNERSHIP REMAINS A MYSTERY. 5-1-60 BOX 40/7 19, ‘ARIZONA P;ACE5 MANES’ NOW IN REVISED EDITION. 5-8-60 20. WILD HORSES AND INDIANS WERE TOO MUCH FOR TENDERFEET. 5-15- 60 21. FIGHTIN’ AND SPITTIN’ BUILDS UP A COW OUTFIT. 5-22-60 BOX 40/8 22. TRAVEL IN THE EARLY DAYS WAS A TEST OF ENDURANCE. 5-29-60 23. MUCH-DISCU5S~D CUT-OFF COULD HONOR PIONEER 6-5-60 24. MUCH-DISCUSSED CUT-OFF COULD HONOR PIONEER 6-11-6- BOX 40/9 25. SAND STORMS IN THE DUNES WERE AN EARLY-DAY HAZARD, 6-19-60 26. PRESCOTT’S FRONTIER DAYS AS REPORTED IN 1926 6-26-60 27. THIS YEAR MARKS THE ANNIVERSARY OF A GREAT AMERICAN WRITER 7-3-60 BOX 40/10 28. APACHE MIKE BURNS DISTORTS DATE GREEK BATTLE. 7-10-60 29. WYATT EARP WAS UNLUCKY IN IDAHO GUN BATTLE. 7-17-60 30. A REPORT ON ARIZONA’S FIRST RELEGRAPH LINES. 7-24-60 BOX 40/11 31. MORE LIGHT ON MASSACRE ONLY INCREASES MYSTERY. 7-31-60 32. ROSCOE IS BAMBOOZLED AT MASSQUERADE PARTY. 8-7-60 33. ONE ARMED ‘PRAYING GENERAL’ MAKES TREATY WITH COCHISE. 8-14- 60

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BOX 40/12 34. ONE ARMED ‘PRAYING GENERAL MAKES TREATY WITH COCHISE. 8-14- 60 35. ONE ARMED ‘PRAYING GENERAL MAKES TREATY WITH COCHISE. 8-28- 60 36. ONE ARMED ‘PRAYJNG GENERAL’ MAKES TREATY WITH COCHISE. 9-4- 60 BOX 40/13 37. ONE ARMED ‘PRAYING GENERAL’ MAKES TREATY WITH COCHISE, 9-11- 60 38. THE OLD ‘MOUNTED GUARDS’ GAVE WAY TO THE ‘BORDER PATROL’ 9- 18-60 39. BORDER PATROL REPLACES THE OLD MOUNTED GUARDS, 9-25-60 BOX 40/14 40. A TEMPE RESIDENT RECALLS RUGGED TREK ACROSS DESERT, 10-2-60 41. “SLIM” THE ROUND UP COOK HAS A REAL BAD LUCK DAY, 10-9-60 42. HOW TH EBUFFALO CAME TO ARIZONA, 10-16-60 BOX 40/15 43. HOW TH EBUFFALO CAME TO ARIZONA. 10-23-60 44. NEW ‘WAGERISMS’ HONOR AN OUTSTANDING ARIZONAN, 10-30-60 45. NEW ‘WAGERISMS’ HONOR AN OUTSTANDING ARIZONAN, 114-60 BOX 40/16 46, PIMA AUTHOR REVIEWS TRADITIONS OF HIS PEOPLE. 11-13-60 47. ARIZONA’S CAMEL DRIVERS, 11-20-60 48. HOW THE DESERT SLICKERS TOOK THE CITY SAPS. 11-27-60 BOX 40/17 49. ‘NO MATTER HIS CRIMES, HE WAS MY GOOD FRIEND’ 12-4-60 50. OLDTIME DRILLING CONTESTS REQUIRED PLENTY OF BRAWN, 12-11-60 BOX 40/18 51. ‘LIFE AMONG THE APACHES’ RELATES EARLY DAY TRAILS, 12-18-60 52. CHRI5TMAS DAY IN A MEXICAN COFFEE FINCA 12-25-60 JANUARY 1, TO DECEMBER 31, 1961 BOX 41/1 1. HOW ABOUT TURNING OVER A NEW LEAF. 1-1-61 2. KILLING OF FOUR MEN CAUSED BY ‘HORSETAIL’ 1-8-61 3. ARIZONA’S EARLY TROOPS SUFFERED TERRIFIC HARDSHIP, 1-15-61 BOX 41/2 4. AN UNDERGROUND ADVENTURE. 1-22-61 5. ‘WAGERISM’ RECALL ROUGH AND READY DAYS IN ARIZONA. 1-29-6 1 6. KEARNYS ARMY OF THE WEST CROSSED ARIZONA IN 1846, 2-5-61 BOX 41/3 7, KEARNY’S ARMY OF THE WEST CROSSED ARIZONA IN 1846. 2-12-61 8. KEARNY’S ARMY OF THE WEST CROSSED ARIZONA IN 1846.2-19-61 9. KEARNY’S ARMY OF THE WEST CROSSED ARIZONA IN 1846. 2-26-61 BOX 41/4 10. KEARY’S ARMY OF THE WEST CROSSED ARIZONA IN 1846, 3-5-6 1 11. ‘GENTLE APACHES’ FOIL PLANS OF BAD MEN. 3-12-61 12. MASTER OF THE DOUBLE CROSS TOO FAST FOR HIS OWN GOOD. 3-19-61 BOX 41/5 13. THE LITTLE SPOTTED CALF BARELY SQUEKED THROUGH. 3-26-61 14. HOOKER’S TEXAS DRIVE PAYS TOLL TO APACHES. 4-2-61 15. OLD NEWSPAPERS YIELD WEALTH OF INFORMATION. 4-9-61

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BOX 41/6 16, THE STLRU OF A HORSE THAT LONGED FOR FREEDOJVL 4-16-61 17. IN THIS CASE ONE BAD TURN CALLED FOR ANOTHER 4-23-6 1 18. “A MILE IN HIS MOCCASINS” BUT NOT WHERE CHOLLA GROWS. 4-30-61 BOX 41/7 19. ARIZONA’S BIGHORNS, 5-7-61 20. ARIZONA’S BIGHORNS. 5-14-61 21. ARIZONA’S BIGHORNS, 5-21-61 BOX 41/8 22, ARIZONA’S BIGHORNS. 5-28-61 23, ARIZONA’S BIGHORNS, 6-4-61 24, OLD STATUES DECOTATE BARREN DESERT AREA, 6-11-61 BOX 41/9 25. BIG BIRDS BROUGHT BIG BUSINESS TO STATE. 6-18-61 26. PRESCOTT CELEBRATES ITS 741’I~ FRONTIER DAYS, 6-25-61 27. EARLY DAY TRAVELER’S TALE IS DRAMATIC BUT DOUBTFUL, 7-2-61 BOX 4 1/10 28, SOME OLD HARDHEADS AND FEW WHATISTS. 7-9-6 1 29. NEVER TRUST TO LUCK IN DESERT OR MOUNTAINS. 7-164 1 30. HISTORY FRUSTRATED WITH CONTRDICTIONS, 7-23-61 BOX 41/11 31. THE REAL OLD WILD DAYS’ MORE DEADLY THAN FICTION. 7-3061 32. THE ORIGIN OF SUNSET CRATER AND BLACK SANDS. 8-6-61 33. WHITE’S TREACHERY SPARKS APACHE VENGEANCE, 8-13-61 BOX 4 1/12 34. OLD TRAPPER-SCOUT HOMORED AS PRESCOTT’S FIRST CITIZEN, 8-204 1 35.MAGMA GEOLOGIST DESCRIBES EARLY -DAY CATTLE INDUSTRY, 9-10- 61 37. IT TOOK TIME FOR TUCSONANS TO APPRECIATE THE UNIVERSITY, BOX 41/13 37. MANY PROBLEMS CONI7ROI4eD EARLY-DAY CATTLE INDUSTRY, 9-10- 61 38. A MAN AND HIS HORSE CAN BE TRUE BUDDIES. 9-17-6 1 39: ELEVENTH TERRITORIAL LEGISLATURE SETTLED MANY EARLY-DAY PROBLEMS. 9-244 1 BOX 41/14 40. ARMY POST OF INDIAN DAYS ARE MOSTLY JUST AMEMORY. 10-1-61 41. POST OFFICES VANISHED AS OLD MINES VANISHED, 10-8-61 46. A BEAUTIFUL DESERT FOOLS THE MAN FROM IOWA. 10-15-61 BOX 41/15 43. THE ‘GOOD GRINGO AND MEXICAN’ DESPENSE WITH THE BAD ONES, 10-22-41 44. ‘HEAP CRAZY VIOLIN ACT SAVES A COWBOY’S LIFE. 10-294 1 45.GERONIMO’S CAPTURE HAS MANY VERSIONS, 11-5-61 BOX 41/16 46. OLD TIME ‘BINDLE STIFFS’ KNEW MEANING OF FRIENDSHIP, 11-12-61 47. DELMONICO, THE DUDE, MEETS UP WITH A BUCKLING, UNBROKEN BRONCO 48. SHAKESPEARE’S DIAMOND FIELD WAS ALL JUST A SWINDLE. 11-26-61 BOX 41/17 49. WEATHERBEATEN RUINS ARE REMINDERS OF EARLY DAYS, 12-3-61 50. BRITISH LIEUTENANT RELATES TRAVEL IN MEXICO AND ARIZONA. 12- 17-41 51. BRITISH LIETENANT RELATES TRAVEL IN MEXICO AND ARIZONA. 12- 17-61

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Box 41/18 52. BRITISH LIEUTENANT RELATES TRAVEL IN MEXICO AND ARIZONA. 12- 24-41 53. JOSE VARELA SEES DWARFS IN SUPERSTITION MOUNTIANS, 12-31-61 JANUARY 7, TO DECEMBER 30, 1962 BOX 42/1 1. BUFFALO AND MINING ARE TREASURES IN NEW BOOK, 1-7-62 2. NO CHAPS, NO SLICKER - AND IT’S A-POURING DOWN RAIN, 1-14-62 3. NOTED BOSTONIAN IS KILLED IN WICKENBURG MASSACRE, 1-21-62 BOX 42/2 4. NOTED BOSTONIAN IS KILLED IN WICKENBURG MASSACRE, 1-21-62 5. TO KNOW ARTZONA BEST, LEAVE BEATEN PATHS BEHIND, 2-4-62 6. TWO ROUGH AND READY COWBOYS ARE TREES ALL NIGHT BY MAMA COW, 2-11-62 BOX 42/3 7. ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY IS SUBJECT TO NEW BOOK. 2-18-62 8. CONGRESS TURNS THUMBS DOWN ON ARIZONA‘S SEAPORT, 2-25-62 9. THEY ‘HAD ONE ON THE HOUSE’ AND THEN THEY PAID FOR IT, TOO, 3-4- 62 BOX 42/4 10. QUIJOTA BONANZA BUBBLE SOON BURSTS. 3-11-62 11. SHOULD HE JUMP OFF CLIFF OR BE KILLED BY APACHES? 3-18-62 12. APAVHE HAIR AT PREMIUM IN NORTH AMERICAN STATES. 3-25-62 BOX 42/5 13. TENDERFOOT LOOKED GOOD UNTIL SAM TOOK CHARGE. 4-1-62 14. ARIZONA’S NAME ORIGIN IS PROPERLY ESTABLISHED, 4-8-62 15. ARIZONA’S NAME ORIGIN IS PROPERLY ESTABLISHED. 4-15-62 BOX 42/6 16. ARIZONA’S NAME ORIGIN IS PROPERLY ESTABLISHED, 4-22--62 17. CONSTANT HAZARDS STALKED ARIZONA’S FRONTIERSMEN, 4-29-62 18. HARDSHIPS MARK THE TRAIL OF OVERLAND TRANSPORTATION, BOX 42/7 19. CASE OT THE SILVER BARS AND A BROKEN HORSESHOE, 5-13-62 20. SOUTH OF THE BORDER TRIP OFFERS REWARDING EXPERIENCE. 5-20-62 21. SOUTH OF THE BORDER TRIP OFFERS REWARDING EXPERIENCE. 5-27-62 BOX 42/8 22. SOUTH OF THE BORDER TRIP OFFERS REWARDING EXPERIENCE, 6-3-62 23. LAZINESS AND NO KNOW-HOW PAYOFF FOR SLIM AND BILL, 6-10-62 24. ROSE-COLORED GLASSES TINTED ARIZONA’S EARLY GOLD WEALTH, 6- 17-62 BOX 42/9 25. THOSE EARLY-DAY COWBOYS KEEP MOVING RIGHT ALONG. 6-24-62 26. FRIEND OF ED TEWKSBURY IS FORCED TO KILL A MAN. 7-1-62 27, SPANISH NAMES FOR TRIBES CONFUSED EARLY HISTORIANS. 7-8-62 BOX 42/10 28. BRAND-DOCTORING ARTISTS LED A TOUGH-AND-GO LIFE. 7-15-62 2. PIONEER WOMAN OF BRADSHAWS WRITES HISTORY OF EARLY DAYS, 7-29 -6 2 30. PIONEER WOMAN OF BRADSHAWS WRITES HISTORY OF EARLY DAYS. 7-29-62

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BOX 42/11 31. PIONEER WOMAN OF BRADSHAWS WRITES HISTORY OF EARLY DAYS, 8-5-62 32. PIONEER WOMAN OF BRADSHAWS WRITES OF THE EARLY DAYS. (4 THE PART) 8-12-62 33. ARIZONA EDITORS HAD IT ROUGH-TOUGH-TOUGHER 8-19-62 BOX 42/12 34. A PARADISE IN THE DESERT. 8-26-62 35. TWO TERRITORIAL RANGERS GO DOWN BATTLING OUTLAWS, 9-2-62 36. PIONEER DAYS IN THE NATIONAL FOREST SERVICE. 9-9-62 BOX 42/13 37. TODAY MARKS MEXICO’S FIGHT FOR FREEDOM. 9-16-62 38. ABSENT MINDED PROFESSOR CALLS THE COWBOY’S BLUFF. 9-23-62 39. THE SALT RIVER VALLEY IN THE GOOD OLD DAYS’. 9-30-62 BOX 42/14 40. ONCE- FIERCE APACHES WORK FOR INDEPENDENCE, 10-7-62 41. AN AMERICAN IN MEXICO DOES SOMETHING ABOUT PEONAGE, 10-14-62 42. ARIZONA POST OFFICE BOOK DEPICTS EARLY COMMUNICATIONS. 10- 21-62 BOX 42/15 43. ARIZONA DAYS WHB ROSCOE G. WILLSON WE CELEBRATE WITH OUR ROSCOE, AN ANNIVERARY OF DISTINGUISHED WRITING. 10-28-62 44. A NOTORIOUS BATTLE - FROM THE OUTLAWS’ SIDE. 11-4-62 45. LIFE AT OLD WALLED CITY REPORTED BY AGED MEXICAN, 11-11-62 BOX 42/16 46. THANK GOODNESS THOSE SCALP HUNTING DAYS ARE PAST. 11-18-62 47. MYTH OF JESUIT TREASURE STIRS VANDILISM IMPULSE. 11-25-62 48. AN ARIZONA RANGER IN PROPER FOCUS. 12-9-62 BOX 42/17 49. ARIZONA RANGER IN PROPER FOCUS, 12-9-62 50. AN OLD COWMAN ENJOYS DRAMA AT THE MINING CAMP, 12-16-62 BOX 42/18 51. ROSCOE GOES BROKE- OR, ALL THAT SHINES IS NOT SILVER 12-23-62 52.‘IT IS MY COUNTRY AND GOD’S’ SAID THE FATHER OF ARIZONA, 12-30- 62 JANUARY 6, 1963 TO DECEMBER 29, 1963 BOX 43/1 1. FOXY TRICKS NEEDED TO OUTSMART WILD HORSES, 1-6-63 2. OLD CHARLEY NB-27 HATED HIS FOREST RANGER EXAM, 1-13-63 3. OLD PECOS PERKINS TAKES THE FOREST RANGER EXAM, 1-20-63 BOX 43/2 4. ‘THE WAGES OF SIN’ MAY HAVE LOST A LOT OF GOLD. 1-27-63 5. FIVE MINUTES MEANT MUCH TO SHANGHAI AND THE COLONEL. 2-3-63 6. ARIZONA MAKES A CENTURY AS A UNITED STATES TERRITORY. 2-10-63 BOX 43/3 7. ARIZONA MAKES A CENTURY AS A UNITED STATES TERRITORY, 2-17-63 8. ARIZONA MAKES A CENTURY AS A UNITED STATES TERRITORY. 2-24-63 BOX 43/4 9. THE CASE OF CHUCKAWALLA KID AND THE CONFUSING NOTEBOOK. 3- 3-63 10. OLD GOTCH AND JOE BEAT THE DROUGHT, 3-10-63 11. THE OLD EXPLORER RANALOSING RACE 3-17-63

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BOX 43/5 12. “MARMADUKE” OR “MARMALADE”, HE FLUBBERED. 3-24-63 13. ARIZONA’S FIRST TERRITORIAL LEGISLATURE INCLUDED MANY RUGGED, CAPABLE PIONEERS. 3-31-63 14. AS A ROBBER THE KING WAS A DUD, 4-7-63 BOX 43/6 15. A SMART STOREKEEPER REPAYS SOME KILLING, 4-14-63 16. FIRST RICH GOLD MINE DISCOVERED BY WICKENBURG, 4-21-63 17. “BILLY HELL” WAS A SMOOTH ONE, BUT A YOUNG MAN BESTED HIM. 4- 28-63 BOX 43/7 18. THE STORY OF STEAMBOAT DAYS ON THE COLORADO RIVER, 5-5-63 19. THE STORY OF STEAMBOAT DAYS ON THE COLORADO RIVER, 5-12-63 20. THE STORY OF STEAMBOAT DAYS ON THE COLORADO RIVER. 5-19-63 BOX 43/8 21. HITCHHIKING WASN’T EASY IN THE “GOOD OLD DAYS”. 5-26-63 22. MARSHAL OF OLD PINAL SCARE WOULD-BE BADMAN. 6-2-63 23. SNOWFLAKE’S NAME HONOR’S TWO NOTED MORMONS, 6-9-63 BOX 43/9 24. DAYS OF THE INDIAN WARS AS RECALLED BY AN APACHE, 6-16-63 25. DAYS OF THE INDIAN WARS AS RECALLED BY AN APACHE, 6-23-63 26. DAYS OF THE INDIAN WARS AS RECALLED BY AN APACHE, 6-30-63 27. ENGLISH VISITOR DAZZLES THE NATIVES OF WILLCOX. 7-7-63 BOX 43/10 28. MOHAVE PIONEER QUOTED IN EARLY DAY ARIZONA MAGAZINE. 7-14- 63 29. EARLY DAY FORTS PROTECTED FRONTIER 7-21-63 30. WARNERS RANCH A HAVEN FOR ARIZONA-CALIFORNIA PIONEERS, 7- 28-63 BOX 43/11 31. WARNER’S RANCH A HAVEN FOR ARIZONA-CALIFORNIA PIONEERS. 8-4- 63 32. YOUNG SCISSORBILL BEST OLD CHISOLM TRIAL HAND, 8-11-63 33. GET THEIR MAZUMA GAVE NAME TO SPENAZUMA. 8-18-63 BOX 43/12 34. PIONEER AUTO DRIVER REMINDS WRITER OF TRIP. 8-25-63 35. SKELETON FOUNG IN KILLS REMINDER OF OLD DISCOVERY. 9-1-63 36. HE CARES NOT FOR GOLD BUT DOES ENJOY SEEKING IT. 9-8-63 BOX 43/13 37. HANK, YANK HAD CLOSE CALL FROM BORDER HORSE THIEVES, 9-15-63 38. ARMY OFFICER TELLS OF ARIZONA LIFE IN 1872. 9-22-63 39. ARMY OFFICER TELLS OF ARIZONA LIFE IN 1872, 99-27-63 BOX 43/14 40. COOKING CONTEST ENLIVENS SNOWY TRIP IN HUACFIUCAS. 10-6-63 41. BLACK HAT ‘HORSE DOCTOR’ DECIEVES YOUNG COWBOY. 10-13-63 42. MINERS CAUGHT SALTING GOLD MINE IN SONORA. 10-20-63 BOX 43/15 43. TOM YEE, THE SOUTHWEST’S ONLY CHINESE CATTLEMAN. 10-27-63 44. FRIENDSHIP SERVICE MOVES IN MULTIPLE ACTIVITIES. 11-10-63 45. FOREST SERVICE MOVES IN MULTIPLE ACTIVITIES. 11-10-63 BOX 43/16 46. DICK WICK’S REPORT ON 20-MILE GOLF COURSE. 11-17-63 47. DAKOTA DAYS LED TO MEXICO AND ARIZONA. 11-24-63 48. APACHES NOT THE ONLY KILLERS OF OUR PIONEERS. 12-1-63 BOX 43/17 49. BOSS SAYS COWBOYS WORTH MORE THAN 100 TEXAS STEERS, 12-8-63 50. MANNA IN THE DESERT WAS KNOWN TO INDIANS, 12-15-63

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BOX 43/18 51. ROSCOE AT KIOWA DANCE IN OLD INDIAN TERRITORY. 12-22-63 52. FIRST BIG CATTLEMAN WAS A JESUIT PRIEST. 12-29-63 JANUARY 5, 1964 TO DECEMBER 27, 1964 BOX 44/1 1. LEFT A FOOT BY INDIAN ON THE TRAIL TO PRESCOTT. 1-5-64 2. WYATT EARP, BAD GUY, GOOD GUY. 1-12-64 3. SCENE OF BISBEE MASSACRE WAS AT GOLDWATER’S STORE, 1-19-64 BOX 44/2 4. COWBOY HIT IT BIG MAKING ‘EM LAUGH, 1-26-64 5. SETTLING THE LITTLE COLORADO, 2-2-64 6. SNOW, INTENSE COLD DEFEAT ARMY PAYMASTER 2-9-64 BOX 44/3 7. NEWSPAPER ACCOUNTS TELL OF EARLY-DAY INDIAN TROUBLES, 2-16-64 8. JOHN SLAUGHTER FEARED BY THE BAD MEN, 2-23-64 9. NOT WITHOUT HUMOR. 3-1-64 BOX 44/4 10. JOKE’S ON BARNES, 3-8-64 11. NATURE HIDES HER SECRETS. 3-15-64 12. LAKE POWELL HONORS EXPLORER. 3-22-64 BOX 44/5 13. WAS WHITE FIRST THROUGH THE CANYON, 3-29-64 14. FAMOUS HASHKNIFE SPREAD WAS LONGROPED TO DEATH. 4-5-64 15. PEOTIC ATMOSPHERE OF EARLY ARIZONA. 4-12-64 BOX 44/6 16. SECRETS OF THE DESERT. 4-19-64 17. DIVE FOR THE DUTCHMAN’S GOLD. 4-26-64 18. SPOTTY BEATS THE DESERT. 5-3-64 BOX 44/7 19. MY FRIEND “BLACK JACK”, 5-10-64 20. CHINESE HAD TOUGH TIME. 5-17-64 21. DAYS OF OLD YAVAPAO RE-LOVED BY COW BELLES, 5-24-64 BOX 44/8 22. FALSE TEETH OF A EIG BEST SESCURITY FOR DEBT, 5-31-64 23. FREDRICK REMINGTON SAW ARIZONA THE HARD WAY. 6-7-64 24. REMJNGRON WEITES MORE IN APACHE WAYS. 6-14-64 BOX 44/9 25. NEW LIGHT ON ARIZONA’S NAME. 6-21-64 26. GOLDWATERS MADE EARLY HISTORY, 6-28-64 27. HAY BAD WAS TOMBSTONE,? 7-5-64 BOX 44/ 10 28. WHO’S A ‘GRINGO?’ 7-12-64 29. TAKING THE STAGE WAS A FRIGHT, 7-19-64 30. JOSE CASTANEDA, EARLY DAY MERCHANT, 7-26-64 BOX 44/11 31. WAS THE BABY ‘GILA’ GIRL OR A BOY? 8-2-64 32. 49ERS OWED MUCH TO THE PIMA INDIANS, 8-9-64 33. EVIDENCE STRONG JAMES WHITE FIRST THROUGH GRAND CANYON, 8- 16-64 BOX 44/12 34. WALKER HELPED ADVANCE THE FRIENDLY PIMA TRIBES, 8-23-63 35. DICK WICK HALL AND HIS 20-MILE GOLF COURSE, 8-30-64 36. GENERAL CROOK - ‘MORE INDIAN THAN I AM’ 9-6-64

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BOX 44/13 37. BURRO - MEN LEFT THEIR MARKS. 9-13-64 38. TONTO FOREST - BIG DUDE RANCH. 9-20-64 39. JUAN PABLO SAVES THE DAY. 9-27-64 BOX 44/14 40. BILLY THE KID’S BROTHER DIED A PAUPER IN DENVER, 10-4-64 41. SLIM JIM, FAT JACK GAVE MANY ALAUGH, 10-11-64 42. ‘PRINCE OF FILIBUSTERS’ STIRRED NNORTHERN MEXICO. 10-18-64 BOX 44/15 43. SLABS OF GOLD BIG AS A MAN’S HAND. 10-25-64 44. REACHING THE GOLD FIELDS INVOLVED MANY HARDSHIPS. 11-1-64 45. SHERIFF’S AIDE TELLS OF BJSBEE DEPORTATION. 11-8-64 BOX 44/16 46. ECHOES OF DEPORTATION HEARD FOR MANY YEARS, 11-15-64 47. TEXAS GULF TO SINALOA- ON FOOT 400 YEARS AGO. 11-22-64 48. TALES OF GOLDEN CITIES LED TO ARIZONA FORAY, 11-29-64 BOX 44/17 49. THE BIG SURPRISE AT GLACK FIENTY’S CLAIM. 12-6-64 50. YOUNG TENDERFOOT COWBOY SHOOTS RANCHER’S GRANDMA. 12-13- 64 BOX 44/18 51. WHERE TO FIND A GOLD MINE, 12-20-64 52. THE FIGHT WAS RIGHT BUT THE TRIBE WAS WRONG 12-27-64 JANUARY 3. 1965 TO DECEMBER 26, 1965 BOX 45/1 1. PIONEER WOMAN TELLS OF WIIDRUFF’S EARLY DAYS. 1-3-65 2. THE TALE OF DUTCH FRANK AND THE ROADRUNNER 1-10-65 3. OLD DAYS, OLD WAYS. 1-17-65 BOX 45/2 4. CARELESS COWMAN HAD NARROW ESCAPE, 1-24-65 5. ARIZONA ROCK PICTURES NEED AROSETTA STONE. 1-31-65 6. TERRITORIAL PRISON WAS A REAL HELL HOLE. 2-7-65 BOX 45/3 7. THE DUDE STOLE THE SHOW. 2-14-65 8. RARE METEORITE FIND DESCRIBED BY TUCSONAN. 2-21-65 9. NEW LIGFIT SHED ON VEKOL SILVER MINE. 2-28-65 BOX 45/4 10. NEW LIGHT SHED ON VEKOL SILVER MINE. 3-7-65 11. MIRACULOUS ESCAPE OF TRAPPED MINER. 3-14-65 12. DID ‘WHISKY CAUSE THE GREAT DISASTER? 3-21-65 BOX 45/5 13. THE LOST TREASURE OF MT. GRAMHAM. 3-28-65 14. BAEDEKER FOR A 20-MILE GOLF COURSE 44-65 15. WHY DID “OLD ONES” LEAVE OUR VALLEY? 4-11-65 BOX 45/6 16. ARIZONA HUMOR-VERSE-AL. 4-18-65 17. PROMOTIOUS COLD RUIN A MAN, 4-25-65 18. LAST OF THE RANGERS. 5-2-65 BOX 45/7 19. FIRST WHEELS TO CROSS ARIZONA. 5-9-65 20. ARIZONA’S MAGNIFICENT MOUNTIANS. 5-16-65 21. SUPERSITIONS SUBJECT OF ANOTHER -BOOK. 5-16-65

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BOX 45/8 22. AN AUTHORITY ON BULLS, 5-30-65 23. THE FORT OF FORT VALLEY, 6-6-65 24. SILVER WAS THE LURE, 6-13-65 BOX 45/9 25. RAILROAD ON A STRING. 6-20-65 26. RUINS OF CAMP RENO. 6-27-65 BOX 45/10 27. OLD LAWMAN OUTSHOOTS ROBBERS, 7-4-65 28. PINAL’S BOOM AND BUST. 7-11-65 B0X45/11 29.MURDER OF A FRIEND. 7-1865 30. COFFEE THAT WON THE WEST. 7-25-65 31. NEW LIFE AT RETIREMENT. 8-1-64 BOX 45/12 32. IT LOOKED BAD FOR SHORTY. 8-8-65 33. BLAOSDELL BROTHERS, YUMA PIONEERS, 8-15-65 34. JUSTICE METED TENDERFOOT. 8-18-65 BOX 45/13 35. THE SURCEYORS WERE SOBER 8-29-65 36, TERRITORY WITH TWO CAPITOLS. 9-5-65 37. COCHISE PIONEER TALES. 9-12-65 BOX 45/14 38. BILLY WAS ON THE DODGE. 9-19-65 39, POTHOLE SPELUNKLING. 9-26-65 40, HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SENETOR HAYDEN, 10-3-65 BOX 45/15 41. MOUNTIAN LION ‘TAILS’ 10-16-65 42. MURDER IN PARKER CANYON. 10-24-65 43. SURVEYORS AMBUSHED IN CANYON, 10-24-65 BOX 45/16 44. CATITLE DIED BY THOUSANDS. 10-31-65 45. THE PIT AND PIPE TOUR. 11-7-65 46. MORE GROUNDS FOR ARBUCKLES. 11-14-65 BOX 45/17 47. MURDER BY DESERTERS. 11-21-65 48. INCIDENT RECALLS APACHE CASE. 11-20-65 49. JOHN NORTON, PIONEER MERCHANT, 12-5-65 BOX 45/18 50. CANYON ROUTED APACHES. 12-12-65 51. FORT MCDOWELL’S CENTENNIAL. 12-19-65 52. LOST MINE STORIES EXAGGERATED. 12-26-65 JANUARY 2, 1966 TO DECEMBER 25, 1966 BOX 46/1 1. HUMOR DIDN’T ESCAPR THEM. 1-2-66 2. THE LAND ROVERS. 1-9-66 3. PREHISTORIC HILLBILLIES. 1-16-66 BOX 46/2 4. A STRUGGLE TO THE DEATH, 1-23-66 5. THE DOG WAS A FRAUD. 1-30-66 6. THE WEST. 2-6-66 BOX 46/3 7. DYNAMITE GOT RID OF COOK. 2-13-66 8. MIJSTANGERS OUT OF BUSINESS. 2-20-66 9. OLD PHOENIX HAD ITS TOUGHS. 2-27-66

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BOX 46/4 10. CAMELS IN ARIZONA AND THE WEST. 3-6-66 11. CAMELS CAUSED COMMOTIONS. 3-13-66 12. CAMELS RAISED FUROR 3-20-66 BOX 46/5 13. TALES OF WILD CAMELS. 3-27-66 14. HI JOLLY CLOSED AN ERA. 3-4-66 15. HAIR ROPES AND RAWHIDING. 4-10-66 BOX 46/6 16. INDIAN RAID WAS EFFECTIVE. 4-17-66 17. OLD LE’ITER DESCRIBES JUNGLE. 4-24-66 18. INDIAN SCHOOL OF LONG AGO. 5-1-66 BOX 46/7 19. FIRST COEMAN OF THE GILA. 5-8-66 20. BEWARE THE DEADLY DESERT. 5-15-66 21. MASSACRE OF MARTIN FAMILY. 5-22-66 BOX 46/8 22. JESUITS WORKED FEW MINES. 5-8-66 23. NAVAJO OUTBREAK AVOIDED. 6-5-66 24. HORSE FINDS GOLD MINE. 6-12-66 BOX 46/9 25. OUR MEXICAN NEIGHBORS. 6-19-66 26. THE OLD MINING DAYS. 6-20-66 27. PIONEERS CHOPPED HAY. 7-3-66 BOX 46/10 28. FIRST LEGISLATURE PRIASED, 7-10-66 29. 13TH LEGISLATURE CALLED WORST. 7-17-66 30. GOLD MINE LOST IN DUNES. 7-24-66 BOX 46/11 31. RANCHES SOLD AS BOMB SHELTERS. 7-31-66 32. READERS WRITE ABOUT CAMELS. 8-7-66 33. MUR,DERED FOR VULTURE GOLD. 8-14-66 BOX 46/12 34. VANISHED HOMESTEADS. 8-21-66 . 35. BISBEE MEN INVADE SONORA. 5-25-00 36. SPANISH TROOPS SAVE THE DAY, 9-4-66 BOX 46/13 37. BATH DEEKERS FIND MINE. 9-11-66 38. CAPTURED BY APACHES. 9-18-66 39. OLD GRIZZLY KILLED THEM, 9-25-66 BOX 46/14 40. THE TWAIN SHALL MEET, 10-2-66 41. AROUND GOES THE LITTLE BALL, 10-9-66 42. BLOODY BASIN WILL NAMED. 10-16-66 BOX 46/15 43. GOLD STOKE AT LA PAZ. 10-22-66 44. FAKED PREACHER FOOLED CALABASAS. 10-20-66 45. AN ISLAND IN THE SKY. 11-6-66 BOX 46/16 46. NOGALES MAN FOUGHT ROBBERS, 11-13-66 47. AL SEIVER,THE IRON MAN. 11-20-66 48. GOLD THICK AS POTATOES. 11-27-66 BOX 46/17 49. THE SIDOW ONLY WANTED THE MAN, 124-66 50. EARLY EDITORS TOO OPTIMISTIC, 12-11-66 51. SAM SKINEM OF BAMBOOZLE GULCH, 12-18-66 52. TRAGEDY AT OLD CAMP GRANT. 12-25-66

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JANUARY 1, 1967 TO DECEMBER 31, 1967 BOX 47/1 1. THE DAM MADE A HAPPY NEW YEAR. 1-1-67 2. FIRST GOVERNOR’S HARD TREK, 1-8-67 3. BLACK YAQUI KILLS HERDER 1-15-67 BOX 47/2 4. DAYS OF DIAZ IN MEXICO. 1-22-67 5. TENDERFOOT REPAYS A FRIEND. 3-26-67 6. PIONEER SURVIVED INDIAN BANDITS. 4-9-67 BOX 47/3 7. WEDDING A CHORE IN EARLY DAYS, 2-12-67 8. FLYING FIGHTER APACHE SCOUT. 2-19-67 9. WILD PALMS IN DESERT MOUNTIANS. 2-26-67 BOX 47/4 10. LOST CRATERS OF THE MOON. 11. NACHO WAS WH]TR INSIDE. 12. DYNAMITE BLAST FOILED INDIANS. BOX 47/5 13. TENDERFOOT REPAYS A FRIEND. 3-26-67 14. SHORTY TH EBLTN, INDIAN ED, ET AL. 4-2-67 15. PIONEER SURVIED INDIAN BANDITS. 4-9-67 BOX 47/6 16. DAYS OF OLD. DAYS OF GOLD. 4-16-67 17. TERRITORIAL MEDICINE. 4-23-67 18. A DESERT MOONLIGHT TALE. 4-30-67 BOX 47/7 19. PAPAGOS THE BEAN PEOPLE. 5-7-67 20. FIRST ANGLO WOMAN. 5-14-67 21. A GAMBLER WITH A HEART. 5-21.67 BOX 47/8 22. SAVED BY THE CALIFORNIA COLUMN. 5-28-67 23. SMOKE SOLD IN YUMA. 64-67 BOX 47/9 24. STORY OF WOMAN’S VOTE. 6-11-67 25, TO ARIZONA FOR HIS HEALTH. 6-18-67 26. GAY WEDDING IN OLD TUCSON. 6-25-67 BOX 47/10 27. THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY 7-2-67 28. APAVHE LEADER FAVORED PEOPLE. 7--9-67 29, SKETCHES OF PIONEER CATTLEMEN, 7-16-67 BOX 47/11 30. A GOVERNOR’S WIFE PLANTS A ROSE, 7-23-67 31. MASSACRES WERE COMMON THOSE DAYS (MISSING) 32. ONY GOD CAN MAKE A TREE. (PART ONE) 8-4-67 33. ONLY GOD CAN MAKE A TREE. (PART TWO) 8-13-67 BOX 47/12 34. A COUPLE OF STEM WINDERS. 8-20-67 35. A WORLD FAMNOUS STREET. 8-27-67 36, WOMAN? WOMAN! OH WOMAN. 9-3-67 BOX 47/13 38. APACHE TACTICS BAFFLED SOLDIERS. 9-10-67 39. COPPER CAMP DAYS AND WAYS, 9-17-67 40, JUDGE JUST KEPT SAYING. 9-24-67

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B0X47/14 41,WHITE MAGIC PULLED NAVAJOS. 10-1-67 42. DEATH OF AN INDIAN AGENT. 10-8-67 43, PLESANT VALLEY DESERVES ITS NAME, 10-15-67 BOX 47/15 44. WETBACKS AND BRACEROS. 10-22-67 45. LONE SURVIVOR OF CONVENTONS. (PART ONE) 11-5-67 46. LONE SURVIVOR OF COMVERNTION. (PART TWO) 11-12-67 BOX 47/16 47. IMITATION GERONIMO KILLED. 11-19-67 48. MOHAVE AND CHEMEHUEVI INDIANS. 11-26-67 49. THEY ALL LOOKED ALIKE. 12-3-67 BOX 47/17 50, A COWBOY DABS A LOOP, 12-10-67 51. THE RNGER WAS STIFF NECKED. 52. SAVED BY BURRO’S NOSE. BOX 48/1 1. INTRO/SMART SMUGGLERS OUTWIT OFFICERS, 1-7-68. 2. TENDER FOOT WAS TOUGH, 1-14-68. 3. THE BITTER BITTEN, 1-21-68. BOX 48/2 4. THE FIRST BULDOGGER, 1-28-68. 5. EPIC FIGHT FOR SURVIVAL, 2-5-68. 6. EPIC FIGHT FOR SURVIVAL, 2-11-68. BOX 48/3 7. EPIC FIGHT FOR SURVIVAL, 2-18-68. 8. EPIC FIGHT FOR SURVIVAL, 2-25-68. 9. A COWBOY FOREST RANGER, 3-3-68. BOX 48/4 10. THE GOOD OLD DAYS, 3-10-68. 11. FOR AULD LANG SYNE, 3-17-68. 12. A LITTLE SUNBURNED, 3-24-68. BOX 48/5 13. FLAVORED WITH OAL OIL, 3-31-68. 14. A QUICK ACTING DUDE, 4-7-68. 15. THE CHAMPION EXPECTORATOR, 4-14-68. BOX 48/6 16. WAGON TRAIN MASSACRE, 4-21-68. 17. DIVORCE AND LOTTERY BY LEGISLATURE, 4-28-68. 18. STACKS OF GOLD, 5-5-68. BOX 48/7 19. OLD AND FEEBLE AND TOUGH, 5-12-68. 20. MURDERER DIES IN FOREST FIRE, 5-19-68. 21. DOODLING OR WRITING, 5-26-68. BOX 48/8 22. APACHE HAD LAST WORD, 6-2-68. 23. THE KING OF ARIZONA, 6-9-68. 24. A PRISONER IN MEXICO, 6-16-68. BOX 48/9 25. COCHISE MOST INTELLIGENT, 6-23-68. 26. WHO’S A LIAR, 6-30-68. 27. THE BIG LITTLE GOVERNOR, 7-7-68. BOX 48/10 28. FAMOUS MORMON MARCH, 7-14-68. 29. I REMEMBER, 7-21-68. 30. LOST DUTCHMAN STILL LOST, 7-28-68.

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BOX 48/11 31. A MEXICAN CATTLE DEAL, 8-4-68. 32. THE BEAUTIFUL BISCUT SHOOTER, 8-11-68. 33. FREIGHTERS LIVED DANGEROUSLY, 8-18-68. 34. A LUNGER BOOSTS ARIZONA, 8-25-68. BOX 48/12. 35. THE GRAND CANYON STORY, 9-1-68. 36. 3,000 CATTLE DISAPPEAR, 9-8-68. 37. VILLA’S RAID ON COLUMBUS, 9-15-68. BOX 48/13 38. IVES’ IRON STEAMBOAT, 9-22-68. 39. OLD RANGERS NEVER DIE, 9-29-68. 40. A COWBOY STRIKE, 10-6-68. BOX 48/14. 41. JASKOWSKI’S GOLD STRIKE, 10-13-68. 42. JACKRABBIT KILLS BURRO, 10-20-68. 43. ARIZONA’S ROUGH RIDERS, 10-27-68. BOX 48/15. 44. A LOST OBSERVATORY, 11-3-68. 45. PACK RATS FAVOR THEMSELVES, 11-10-68. 46. THEY DIED BY THOUSANDS, 11-17-68. BOX 48/16 47. THE DUDE FOREST RANGER, 11-24-68. 48. SPANIARDS MISNAMED PIMAS, 12-1-68. 49. RANGERS QUEERED GOLD ROBBERY, 12-8-68. BOX 48/17 50. INNOCENT APACHE IMPRISONED, 12-15-68. 51. PHOENIX HAD ITS WILD DAYS, 12-22-68. 52. DEATH ON THE BORDER, 12-29-68.