/r/AZhistory
The history of the great state of Arizona.
A place to share and discuss history of the great state of Arizona! Arizona Rangers, Grand Canyon State, Tombstone, Native American tribes, Hohokam, Anasazi, Apache, Navajo, Spanish missions, Mexican period, Pioneer life, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, Geronimo, Cochise, Barry Goldwater, Sandra Day O'Connor, Cesar Chavez, etc
The history of the great state of Arizona.
A place to share and discuss history of the great state of Arizona!
/r/AZhistory
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Finding Resources to Research Arizona History
Hi, y'all!
I recently got into Arizona History, and right now I'm doing my own Personal Project looking into Historical Buildings in Downtown Phoenix. My main focus right now is the demo "St. James Hotel" that was by the Footprint Center in Downtown, before it was demo in 2021. I feel like I've done a good amount of research on the building; however, I still feel like I'm just finding surfaces level stuff. I can't even find any photo of the inside. Do any of you have any suggestions of resources to help find more information about "St. James Hotel", and about other Arizona Historical topics?
Here a list of resources I've been using so far:
- Phoenix Public Library Research Centers
- Online - Arizona Republic Archives Pages, Magazines, Journals, etc.
- Burton Burr - Arizona Room
- Arizona Heritage Musuem
- Online Archives
- Archive Room - Haven't been yet, but plan to visit it sometime soon
- Online - Google, Random Blogs, etc.
Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
Also, if any of you have any experience to share about the St. James Hotel. I would really love to hear about it.
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Wyatt Earp (c. 1887)
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'Fire insurance map of Tombstone in 1886. The OK Corral is bounded by 3rd and 4th Streets and Fremont and Allen Streets. A driveway exited on Fremont Street, where the gunfight took place.'
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Will McLaury (photo c. 1882), an attorney, sought justice for his brothers Tom and Frank killed at the O.K. Corral, but his emotional involvement and lack of legal expertise hindered his efforts, leaving him convinced that corrupt Arizona law protected the Earps.
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O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona after a fire in 1882.
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Charles A. Shibell, a contemporary of Wyatt Earp, served as Pima County Sheriff in Arizona Territory during the 1870s and 1880s, later becoming a prominent businessman and county recorder.
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Arizona Ranger Burt Mossman (c. 1910)
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Warren Earp, youngest of the Earp brothers, was shot to death in the Headquarters Saloon in Willcox by John Boyett in 1900. This portrait of Warren Earp is undated.
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"Celia Ann "Mattie" Blaylock was Wyatt Earp's common-law wife from about 1873 until mid-1881. After Wyatt left her for another woman, she later moved to Pinal City, Arizona Territory, where she apparently overdosed on laudanum and alcohol."
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Grand Canal ("Looking north, 1960 and today")
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Helldorado in Tombstone (10/3/31)
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Army officer, and scout Clay Beauford, taken in Tombstone (c. 1875)
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Tombstone Consolidated Mine (c. 1900)
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"Michael J. Goldwater’s first trading post was in what would become the Arizona Territory was in Gila City. It did not survive the 1862 flood, but that did not deter him from starting over. The grandfather of Senator Barry Goldwater eventually found success (in Prescott)."
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Arizona Territory (1864)
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John C. Frémont was appointed governor of the Arizona Territory by President Rutherford B. Hayes and served from 1878 to 1881. He spent little time in Arizona, and was asked to resume his duties in person or resign; Frémont chose resignation. (photo c.1856)
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"William Hardy opened the Quartz Rock Saloon in Prescott, Arizona Territory, on November 14, 1864 "
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"The Palace Restaurant & Saloon was rebuilt after a fire burned much of downtown Prescott, Arizona, in 1900. Since 1874, when the Cabinet Saloon opened for business, a bar has operated at approximately the same location on a section of South Montezuma Street that is known as Whiskey Row"
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John Horton Slaughter was a rancher, frontiersman, and lawman who served as Cochise County Sheriff for several terms and was instrumental in bringing a semblance of law and order to the region.
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✨🗺️ Tucson, Arizona 1920 United States City Map • Old Map of the Day: March 21, 2023
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✨🗺️ Tombstone, Arizona 1962 United States City Map • Old Map of the Day: April 12, 2023
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Cowboys taking a lunch break on the 3C’s Ranch (Chiricahua Cattle Company) near Duncan, (c. 1902)
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Apache Indian Scouts Chicken and Josh on the Mexican border in 1916.
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Tombstone (c. 1880)
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Question about iron and the Spanish in Arizona at around 1769
I'm writing a story set in this time period, and I can't find the answer to this question on Google. I'm wondering if the Spanish set up foundries, etc. in Arizona as early at the late 1760s. If not, did they get their horseshoes, gun (muskets?) parts, etc. from Mexico? How did they keep their metal things (guns, horse shoes, nails, barrel hoops, parts for various and sundry things) in working order?
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Globe, AZ (c. 1913)
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"The earliest bowling alley (Arizona Historian Marshall Trimble) found in Arizona was Vogan’s Saloon in Tombstone in 1879. Tombstone was a wealthy town at the time and could afford luxuries, such as bowling alleys, that other frontier towns could not."
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Jerome, Arizona (1927)
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