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Collection includes research, publications, business records, and photographs which Eve Ball used in her day-to-day life.

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Photocopies of handwritten and printed receipts, wills, correspondence, royal decrees, proclamations, pronouncements, grants, certificates, reports, licenses, orders, inventories, petitions, claims, and requests. The items were created mainly by New Mexican government officials and persons connected with local and territorial governments of that area.

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Three typed and signed letters dated August/Sept. 1931. These items are addressed to the Associated Press in Santa Fe, New Mexico and discuss findings and research by Fulton about Billy the Kid (William H. Bonney). Included in the letters are typescripts of materials from newspapers and letters concerning the Kid.

Scope and Contents Handwritten copy of a letter which was furnished to Professor Horatio O. Ladd of the University of New Mexico by the authority of General Grierson. Includes correspondence between the Secretaries of War and Interior and three endorsements requesting appropriate action in regard to problems between settlers on Navaho reservation land on the San Juan River, New Mexico, and the Navaho. This correspondence includes a letter from W.C. Endicott, Secretary of Interior and a letter from Lamar to...

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Primary source materials relating to the New Southwest part of the United States including the states of Arizona, California, Colorado, Louisiana, New Mexico, Texas, and Utah. Also included are materials on Mexico. The materials are in English and Spanish, and many relate to the settlement of the area by people of European descent and to the Indians.

Scope and Contents This document is a handwritten account of an incident which probably happened in 1912. Harris had been hired by a cattleman named Bill McNew to dig two large holes on his ranch roughly sixty miles northeast of El Paso, Texas to catch rainwater to water his cattle. Harris received word that a man who herded goats would kill both him and McNew if the "tank" were excavated.The two men were later confronted by Bob Waley and his wife who were both armed. The action of the incident...

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Handwritten and signed letter and diary. This letter is addressed to Captain Edward L. Hartz and is dated April 17, 1856. It discusses a military march through the Rio Grande Valley and life in and around Fort Union, New Mexico. The diary, kept from 1855-1856, records Irwin's journey from New York to Corpus Christi, Texas, abroad the steamship Prometheus and his overland march to Fort Filmore via a number of military forts.

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Book drafts, correspondence, notices, court transcripts, newspaper clippings, political pamphlets, poetry in English and Spanish, and certificates. The materials relate to Klasner's research for her autobiography, "My Girlhood Among Outlaws," and her biography of John Chisum, "Baron of the Pecos."

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Handwritten and printed indenture leasing a section of river property to James Sullivan for mining purposes.

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A collection of correspondence from Eve Ball to Henry Shcnautz from 1965-1980, discussing personal dealings, assosciations, and the affairs of the Mescalero Apache Tribe, with whom Ball was closely assosciated.