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    • Mapping Arizona with Primary Sources

    • Mapping Arizona with Primary Sources

    • Mapping and Geography.

    • Grade 7; with modifications could be used for lower grades.

    • This lesson will utilize geography skills by having the students create a resource map of Arizona using primary source documents, then creating a final project that may include a travel journal, storytelling, newspaper, or PowerPoint/Keynote and as...
    • Oral History with Father Peter Dobrowski, May 11, 2011

    • Oral History with Father Peter Dobrowski, May 11, 2011

    • Dobrowski, Father Peter
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    • Father Peter Dobrowski is the pastor of Saint Margaret Mary Catholic Church, in Bullhead City, Arizona. In this interview he talks about his personal history, the history of the church and parish, and his experiences ministering in Mohave County.
    • Oral History with Betty Grounds, July 8, 2011

    • Oral History with Betty Grounds, July 8, 2011

    • Grounds, Betty
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    • Betty (Clark) Grounds was born in 1918 to the Clark family, a pioneer family in the Kingman area. She recounts her life growing up on a dairy ranch and attending school there. She married into another pioneer family, the Grounds.
    • Oral History with Ace Bailey, February 15, 2011

    • Oral History with Ace Bailey, February 15, 2011

    • Bailey, Ace

    • Scottsdale (Ariz.); Architecture and tourism; Art, Municipal; Hotel Valley Ho (Scottsdale, Ariz.); Soleri, Paolo, 1919-

    • Ace Bailey is the owner of Ultimate Art and Cultural Tours. Through her company, Ms. Bailey runs guided tours throughout the Scottsdale community. Her tours take visitors through the many interesting landmarks in downtown Scottsdale. In this...
    • Oral History with Doug Thaement, February 11, 2011

    • Oral History with Doug Thaement, February 11, 2011

    • Thaement, Doug

    • Horseshoeing; Museum of the Horse; Horseshoeing--History; Patagonia (Ariz.)--Biography; Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Adobe buildings--Arizona

    • Doug Thamert is a longtime resident of Patagonia and owner of the local pool hall. For years, Mr. Thamert worked for Anne Stradling, as a blacksmith, in the Museum of the Horse in Patagonia. In this interview, he talks about the circumstances...
    • Oral History with Rob Chilcoat, January 21 and 28, 2011

    • Oral History with Rob Chilcoat, January 21 and 28, 2011

    • Chilcoat, Rob
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    • Rob Chilcoat was born and raised in the Kingman, Arizona area. He talks about the places his family lived while his father worked for the Santa Fe Railroad. Mr. Chilcoat joined the U.S. Air Force in 1977 and was stationed in England. He is the ...
    • Arizona Ghost Towns/Mining Operations.

    • Arizona Ghost Towns/Mining Operations.

    • Muench, Josef

    • Mines and mineral resources--Arizona; Gold mines and mining--Arizona; Copper mines and mining--Arizona; Ghost towns--Arizona; School buildings--Arizona; Hotels--Arizona; Morenci (Ariz.); Goldroad (Ariz.); Miami (Ariz.); Oatman (Ariz.); Bisbee...

    • This series contains seventy three photographs of ghost towns and mining operations in Arizona. This subseries contains seventy-six photographs of Mesa Verde. Included are images of Goldroad in Mohave County and the Phelps Dodge Copper Reduction...
    • The Golden West: Articles

    • The Golden West: Articles

    • Tucson Public Library (Pima County Public Library) and Arizona Historical Society

    • West (U.S.) – In literature; American Literature – West (U.S.); West (U.S.) – Literary Collections; West (U.S.) Description and travel; Phoenix (Ariz.) – Description and travel American literature -- West (U.S.) West (U.S.) --...

    • Original source materials reflecting observations about the industrialization and burgeoning growth of Phoenix and their far-reaching consequences for the ways of the Old West. 18 pages.
    • The Golden West: Essays

    • The Golden West: Essays

    • Tucson Public Library (Pima County Public Library) and Arizona Historical Society

    • West (U.S.) – In literature; American Literature – West (U.S.); West (U.S.) – Literary Collections; West (U.S.) Description and travel; Phoenix (Ariz.) – Description and travel

    • A booklet containing two scholarly essays, “The Golden West,” by Paul A. Carter and “Men of Vision: Phoenix” by G. Wesley Johnson, which examines the effects of the industrialization of the Southwest. New technology (in the form of...
    • The Golden West: Program Ideas for Public Libraries

    • The Golden West: Program Ideas for Public Libraries

    • Tucson Public Library (Pima County Public Library) and Arizona Historical Society

    • West (U.S.) – In literature; American Literature – West (U.S.); West (U.S.) – Literary Collections; West (U.S.) Description and travel; Phoenix (Ariz.) – Description and travel

    • Booklet containing aids for planning public humanities programs around the theme of “The Golden West.” Booklet, illustrated with photos and maps, is 16 pages, and also contains loose prefatory, program flyer, bookmark reading list, sample...
    • Writers of the Purple Sage: Origins of a National Myth: Introduction and Guide to the Resource Kits

    • Writers of the Purple Sage: Origins of a National Myth: Introduction and Guide to the Resource Kits

    • Tucson Public Library (Pima County Public Library) and Arizona Historical Society

    • American literature – West (U.S.); West (U.S.) – Literary collections; West (U.S.) – In literature

    • Booklet that describes the Writers of the Purple Sage resource kits, provides information about humanities programming, and lists institutional resources in Arizona and New Mexico. Includes acknowledgments, an illustration entitled “Arizonan in...
    • JY "EC" Otondo Oral History Interview

    • JY "EC" Otondo Oral History Interview

    • Otondo, JY "EC"

    • Glendale, AZ: Arizona Communities; Basque Community; Los Angeles, CA; Great Depression; Sheep Ranching;

    • “EC” Otondo was part of one of the first, if not the first sheep families to live in Arizona. He remembers herding his sheep down the trail from northern Arizona to Gilbert. Moving along the San Francisco Peaks into the valley. During this...
    • A Hopi Mother, Portfolio 12, Plate 403

    • A Hopi Mother, Portfolio 12, Plate 403

    • Curtis, Edward S., 1868-1952

    • Hopi Indians

    • “The Hopi are without doubt among the most interesting of our surviving American Indians, and one of the very few groups recently living in a state similar to that of a few hundred years ago. For the anthropologist the complexity of the ethnic...
    • Chaiwa - Tewa, Portfolio 12, Plate 414

    • Chaiwa - Tewa, Portfolio 12, Plate 414

    • Curtis, Edward S., 1868-1952

    • Tewa Indians; Hopi Indians

    • “The modern style of dressing the hair is like the ancient. Men cut it at the sides level with the lobe of the ear, and in front at such a length that when unconfirmed by the head-band it just covers the eyes; and they part it in the middle and...
    • Method for designation of cultures and their variations

    • Method for designation of cultures and their variations

    • Gladwin, Winifred, 1889-1965

    • Ceramics; Indian pottery; Indians of North America; Antiquities; Archaeological surveying; Pottery, Prehistoric; Hohokam culture; Basket-Maker Indians; Mound-builders; Pima Indians

    • (12,133kb pdf) A survey of the origins and evolution of Indian cultures and development of classification schemes to place the cultures in various periods.
    • Methods and instruments for use in measuring tree-rings

    • Methods and instruments for use in measuring tree-rings

    • Gladwin, Harold S. (Harold Sterling), 1883-1983

    • Archaeological dating; Tree-rings; Dendrochronology

    • (13,496kb pdf) Methodology and instruments for carrying out tree-ring analysis with the goal of determining age of archaeological structures and artifacts.
    • Some Southwestern pottery types, series III

    • Some Southwestern pottery types, series III

    • Gladwin, Winifred, 1889-1965

    • Ceramics; Indian pottery; Indians of North America; Antiquities; Archaeological surveying; Pottery, Prehistoric; Hohokam culture

    • (13,721kb pdf) Examination of Red-on-Buff pottery to better understand the Hohokam.
    • Archaeological survey of Verde Valley

    • Archaeological survey of Verde Valley

    • Gladwin, Winifred, 1889-1965

    • Ceramics; Indian Pottery; Archaeological surveying; Indians of North America; Antiquities; Kivas; Cliff-dwellings

    • (15,676kb pdf) A survey to the north along the Mogollon Rim and Verde Valley using ruins and sherds to identify distinct cultures- signs of their origins and entry into the region

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