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    • Wildfire: Rodeo-Chediski 7-4-2002 -- Show Low July 4th Parade

    • Wildfire: Rodeo-Chediski 7-4-2002 -- Show Low July 4th Parade

    • Buswell, Brian

    • Communication Artifact: Documentary Artifact: Print, Photographic

    • Color photograph of July 4th, 2002 Parade of Fire Fighting equipment being applauded by local celebrants. Show Low turned out to celebrate and show appreciation for the fire crews and others who helped during the fire. But even as thousands waved...
    • Photograph of Goldwater Hospital Dedication

    • Photograph of Goldwater Hospital Dedication

    • Marks, Kenneth and Susan

    • Communication Artifact: Documentary Artifact: Print, Photographic

    • B/W Photograph of Josephine Goldwater Hospital Dedication Ceremony on Saturday, April 22, 1961 at Show Low, AZ. Shown are Eric H. Marks, Lloyd Rhoton, Bruce Reidhead (Mayor of Show Low), Hon. Barry Goldwater (U.S. Senator), Hon. Paul Fannin...
    • Wildfire: Rodeo-Chediski 7-3-2002 -- Map

    • Wildfire: Rodeo-Chediski 7-3-2002 -- Map

    • Buswell, Brian

    • Communication Artifact: Documentary Artifact: Print, Photographic

    • Color photograph of Rodeo-Chediski Complex Wildfire and surrounding settlements, color-coded to indicate dates areas burned June 18 - 28, 2002. With the help of winds from the west, in ten days, 468,638 acres of heavily overgrown tinder-dry forest...
    • Wildfire: Rodeo-Chediski 6-18-2002 Two Fires start near Cibecue

    • Wildfire: Rodeo-Chediski 6-18-2002 Two Fires start near Cibecue

    • Buswell, Brian

    • Communication Artifact: Documentary Artifact: Print, Photographic

    • Color Photograph of smoke plume in forested area 6-18-2002 Two man-made fires started June 18, 2002 near Cibecue on the Fort Apache Reservation. The first was doused, but bone-dry fuels caused by extreme drought and gusty winds enabled the...
    • McNary's Business District: General Store, Offices and Theater

    • McNary's Business District: General Store, Offices and Theater

    • Curro, Sally

    • Communication Artifact: Documentary Artifact: Print, Photographic

    • B & W Photograph of McNary, AZ Business District ca. 1950s McNary was a transplanted and segregated "company town" about 4 mles south of Pinetop, AZ on Highway 260, 1923-1980. Before it was McNary, it was called Cooley, Arizona as it had been...
    • Photograph of Corydon E. Cooley

    • Photograph of Corydon E. Cooley

    • Unknown

    • Communication Artifact: Documentary Artifact: Print, Photographic

    • Corydon Eliphalet Cooley came to the White Mountains around 1870. The U.S. Army hired him to help build an outpost at Camp Thomas, (later changed to Fort Apache in 1879), Apache Territory. He was a scout under Lt. Alexander O. Brodie and served as...
    • Photograph of Niels Samuel Hansen

    • Photograph of Niels Samuel Hansen

    • Unknown

    • Communication Artifact: Documentary Artifact: Print, Photographic

    • 5.5" x 7" B&W Photograph of Niels Samuel Hansen, the father of Lakeside, AZ. While living in Show Low in 1903, Niels Hansen surveyed the ditch that brought water down from Lakeside with his homemade water level instrument. The instrument used...
    • Photograph of Apache Railway between Holbrook and Maverick, AZ

    • Photograph of Apache Railway between Holbrook and Maverick, AZ

    • Scott, John

    • Communication Artifact: Documentary Artifact: Print, Photographic

    • Color Photograph of the Train to Maverick. In 1916, Tom Pollock, owner of the Flagstaff Lumber Company, organized the Apache Railway Company with the assistance of the Santa Fe Railroad to build 72 miles of track from Holbrook to the new sawmill...
    • Photograph of Early Logging Train

    • Photograph of Early Logging Train

    • Unknown

    • Communication Artifact: Documentary Artifact: Print, Photographic

    • B&W Photograph of Early Logging Train. In the early days, lumbering, ranching and freighting were the only industries on the mountain. Lumbering camps owned by Southwest Forest Industries, such as Standard, sprang up into towns and then...
    • Photograph of Freight Wagons

    • Photograph of Freight Wagons

    • Unknown

    • Communication Artifact: Documentary Artifact: Print, Photographic

    • B&W Photograph of Freight Wagons. Freighting was the occupation of many men who needed to supplement their living as subsistence farmers. Freight was hauled from Holbrook, where the railroad went through, to the stores in the communities of...
    • Photograph of Guests at Cooley Ranch

    • Photograph of Guests at Cooley Ranch

    • Unknown

    • Communication Artifact: Documentary Artifact: Print, Photographic

    • B&W Photograph believed to be taken at Cooley ranch, south of Show Low in 1909. From left to right: Corydon E. Cooley, man in wagon behind Cooley is believed to be, George Smalley, a reporter for the Arizona Republican, Ernest Lewis, an...
    • Photograph of Cooley Ranch house

    • Photograph of Cooley Ranch house

    • Unknown

    • Communication Artifact: Documentary Artifact: Print, Photographic

    • Located at Indian Pine, this two-story, nine-room frame ranch house was a government forage station, important telegraph office for Fort Apache and hospitality house for freighters, soldiers, diplomats and a variety of other visitors traveling...
    • Photograph of the Old LDS Church Bell

    • Photograph of the Old LDS Church Bell

    • City of Show Low, AZ

    • Communication Artifact: Documentary Artifact: Print, Photographic

    • The bell in the belfry of the Old LDS Show Low Ward Church building served the community as a prompt that meetings were about to begin. As the years passed, the old hemp rope that was used for the ringing broke, and it became a challenge for the...
    • Photograph of William J. Flake

    • Photograph of William J. Flake

    • Unknown

    • Communication Artifact: Documentary Artifact: Print, Photographic

    • B&W Photograph of William J. Flake. After Henry Huning purchased Corydon Cooley's Ranch in 1888, he attempted to extend his empire by fencing North and East of the Show Low Valley. In 1901 the railroad contested his right to fence the open land...
    • Photograph of Show Low's Growth Pangs

    • Photograph of Show Low's Growth Pangs

    • Unknown

    • Communication Artifact: Documentary Artifact: Print, Photographic

    • Before US 60 cut through the heart of Show Low in order to connect Los Angeles, CA with Virginia Beach, VA some time in the mid-1930s, farmers routinely drove their cattle across town to the north pasture every morning and then back again at...
    • Photograph of the Huning Bunkhouse

    • Photograph of the Huning Bunkhouse

    • Unknown

    • Communication Artifact: Documentary Artifact: Print, Photographic

    • B&W Photograph of Henry Huning's bunkhouse, located on the west side of Show Low Creek, first sheltered the ranch hands of Cooley's Ranch. As the ranch passed from Cooley to Huning, and then from Huning to the Mormon pioneers, Willard and Emma...
    • Wildfire: Rodeo-Chediski 6-20-2002 -- The Chediski Fire is Set

    • Wildfire: Rodeo-Chediski 6-20-2002 -- The Chediski Fire is Set

    • Buswell, Brian

    • Communication Artifact: Documentary Artifact: Print, Photographic

    • Color photograph of forest wildfire on Mogollon Rim, 6-20-2002 Firefighters focused on the Rodeo Fire as it consumed 5,000 acres per hour and now covered 30,000 acres. But word soon came that another fire had been started that morning by a lost...

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