| 3 | Author: | Foster, Nancy Melvina, 1869-1961. | Requires cookie* | | Title: | Nancy Melvina Foster reminiscences
1871-1921 ead | | | Date(s): | 1871-1921 | | | Abstract: | One holographic manuscript, probably written in 1937. In it, Nancy Melvina Foster recounts her experiences, from 1871-1921, of homesteading in
Arizona, farming in California, and life in the mining camps of Arizona and New Mexico. Genealogy sheet enclosed. | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | Subjects: | Farm life -- California -- History -- Sources. | Frontier and pioneer life -- Southwest, New. | Women pioneers -- Southwest, New -- Biography. | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
7 | Author: | Empire Ranch (Ariz.) | Requires cookie* | | Title: | Empire Ranch
records,
1874-1944 (bulk
1880-1916) ead | | | Date(s): | 1874-1944 (bulk
1880-1916) | | | Abstract: | This collection includes correspondence, legal
documents, financial records, livestock records, and other materials relating
to the history, development, and operation of ranch property in Southern
Arizona and California. Includes records of cattle companies associated with
the Empire Ranch. Some ranches covered are Onyx Ranch, Bonita Ranch, El Dorado
Ranch, Rosemont Ranch, Pantano Ranch, and Rancho Corral de Quati. | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special
Collections | | | Subjects: | Total Wreck Mine (Ariz.) | Cattle trade -- Arizona -- History -- Sources | Sheep industry -- Arizona -- History --
Sources | Cattle trade -- Arizona -- History -- Sources | Cattle trade -- California -- History --
Sources | Forest reserves -- Arizona -- History --
Sources | Land titles -- Arizona -- History -- Sources | Land grants -- Arizona | Ranches -- Arizona -- Records and
correspondence | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
8 | Author: | Armitage, Merle,
1893-1975 | Requires cookie* | | Title: | Merle Armitage
papers,
1930-1974 ead | | | Date(s): | 1930-1974 | | | Abstract: | The collection contains an assortment of correspondence, books,
some published by his Manzanita Press, typescripts of books and short stories,
advertisements, illustrations, clippings, photographs and photographic plates,
articles, speeches, catalogs, and miscellaneous original art work. | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | Subjects: | Publishers and publishing -- California -- History -- 20th
century | Book industries and trade -- United States -- History -- 20th
century | Indians of North America -- Southwest, New -- Pictorial
works | Commercial artists -- United States | Small press books -- Specimens | Book design -- United States -- History | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
13 | Author: | Lizasoaín, Tómas Ignacio, 1717-1789. | Requires cookie* | | Title: | Noticia
1761-1763 ead | | | Date(s): | 1761-1763 | | | Abstract: | Photocopy of typescript translation. The one volume contains a census of people, as well as an inventory of goods for some of the missions.
The provinces of Baja California, Sonora, Tarahumara, Nayarit, and the former Chinipas are represented; missions of southern Arizona are included
within the Sonoran province. The census is by families, widows and widowers, doctriners, the number of people confessing, and the number of people
taking communion. | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | Subjects: | Missions -- Arizona -- History -- 18th century. | Missions -- Mexico -- Baja California (Peninsula) -- History -- 18th century. | Missions -- Mexico -- Chihuahua (State) -- History -- 18th century. | Missions -- Mexico -- Inventories. | Missions -- Mexico -- Nayarit -- History -- 18th century. | Missions -- Mexico -- Sonora (State) -- History -- 18th century. | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
15 | Author: | Krutch, Joseph Wood, 1893-1970. | Requires cookie* | | Title: | Manuscripts of Joseph Wood Krutch,
1952-1970 ead | | | Date(s): | 1952-1970 | | | Abstract: | Joseph Wood Krutch, 1893-1970, was an author, educator, and naturalist. Author of social criticism,
critical biographies, and later naturalist essays; retired to Tucson in 1952 and completed several works.
This collection includes typescripts, some with holograph corrections, of published manuscripts for The Desert Year, 1952,
Voice of the Desert: A Naturalist's Interpretation, 1955, The Great Chain of Life, 1957, Grand Canyon: Today and All Its Yesterdays, 1958,
The Forgotten Peninsula: A Naturalist in Baja California, 1961, Herbal, 1965, and the introduction for The Best Nature Writing of Joseph
Wood Krutch, 1970. Typescripts of unpublished travel diaries, 1965-1967, concern trips to France, Greece, and Baja California.
Also present are printers copies for Great Chain of Life, Forgotten Peninsula, and Grand Canyon;
and notes and miscellaneous material related to Herbal. | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | Subjects: | Animal behavior. | Botany, Medical. | Desert animals -- Arizona. | Desert biology. | Desert plants -- Arizona. | Evolution (Biology) | Manuscripts, American. | Natural history -- Mexico -- Baja California (Peninsula) | Natural history -- Southwest, New. | Plants -- Folklore. | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
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