HISTORICAL ROUNDUP Source: Arizoniana, Vol. 4, No. 3 (FALL 1963), pp. 49-54 Published by: Arizona Historical Society Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/41700791 . Accessed: 18/06/2014 11:01 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. . Arizona Historical Society is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Arizoniana. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 185.2.32.152 on Wed, 18 Jun 2014 11:01:47 AM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions
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As a result of the kindness and interest of Editor Mel C. Nathan we will soon have a complete file of the "Western Express", the quarterly journal of the Western Cover Society. The members of that so- ciety are devoted to the collecting, study and research of the early mail of the west. The "Western Express" contains a wealth of facts, illustra- tions and information on early west- ern postal history and is a valuable addition to our growing postal his- tory library. We have joined the Western Cover Society in order to obtain the future issues of this authoritative publication.
Staff members have in recent weeks provided programs for the Tucson Kiwanis, Catalina Rotary Club, Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Tucson Welcome Wagon, and St. Cyril's Church. In August Mr. Brandes spoke to the Prescott Corral of the Westerners on the topic of "Joseph Mulhatton, Monarch of Mendacity," and in September, Mr. Brinckerhoff spoke before the Phoenix Corral of the Westerners on "Camp Date Creek, Arizona Territory."
Mr. Andrew Wallace, Archivist for the Arizona Pioneers' Historical So- ciety, has returned from Washing- ton, D.C. He visited the National Archives, the Smithsonian Institu- tion, and the Library of Congress for the purpose of enlarging the collec- tions of the Arizona Pioneers' His- torical Society pertaining to the his- tory of Arizona and the Southwest. He left Tucson June 17 and re- turned July 26. On July 18 Mr. Wallace placed orders for extensive microcopies of documents. The ma- terial from the Library of Congress has arrived, and other acquisitions are expected before mid-October. The Society's Archivist expects to have the material ready for use be- fore the end of the year.
Those materials ordered by Mr. Wallace when in Washington fall in three categories:
I. Arizona & New Mexico, United States Military Records and Docu- ments
A. Letters and documents of officers : Orders of General Zachary Tay-
lor to the Army of Occupation in the Mexican War, 1845- 1847
Selection of letters and news
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clips relating to Arizona, the Indian problem, and personal- ities in the West from The Papers of General Philip H. Sheridan
B. Records of personnel: Index to Compiled Service Rec-
ords of Volunteer Union Sol- diers from New Mexico
Mustering-out Rolls of the 1st U. S. Volunteer Cavalry (Rough Riders)
Individual Officers Muster Rolls for Officers of the Rough Riders
Muster Rolls of the First Dra- goons, 1856-1861
Papers Relating to the Trial of Dead Shot , an Apache Scout , 1881
Registers of Enlistments of U.S. Army , 1798-1914: Indian Scouts
C. Records of military installa- tions: Records , Fort Huachuca : letters
received 1883; orders 1878- 1883; medical orders and letters, 1882-1887; medical history, 1883-1894
Post Records , Fort Lowell : let- ters sent, 1868-1899; tele- grams, 1887-1888; letters and telegrams received, 1866- 1891; post orders
Post Records , Fort Whipple : letters sent, 1874-1881; let- ters received, 1866-1880; post general orders, 1874-1879; record of marriages, baptisms, deaths and burials; post re- turns
Post Returns for: Fort Lowell, 1866-1891; Fort Huachuca, 1887-1910; Camp Reno; Fort Craig, 1854-1856; Fort Gar- land, 1858-1883; Fort Stan- ton, 1869-1872
Quartermaster General Consoli- dated Correspondence File Regarding the Department of Arizona, 1854-1890; includes cemeteries, water supply, sub- sistence, and transport
Selection of miscellaneous post records from Fort Craig, Fort
Stanton, and Fort Garland, New Mexico
Selection of documents relating to posts, etc. in the Quarter- master General's Consolidated Correspondence File
D. Miscellaneous: Consolidated Departmental Re-
turns to the A. G. O., Depart- ment of Arizona, 1870-1887
Consolidated Departmental Re- turns to the A. G. O., District of New Mexico, 1871-1885
Field Special Orders, Depart- ment of Arizona ; 1876, 1881, 1885, 1886
File of letters received, Depart- ment of Arizona, 1869-1886
File of letters sent, Department of Arizona, 1879-1886 ; and Distňct of Arizona , 1869-70
General Orders and Circulars, Department of Arizona, 1870- 1886
Records of the Mexican Punitive Expedition, 1916
II. Arizona & New Mexico, Ter- ritorial Government Records and Documents
Letters received relating to Ari- zona, U. S. Army A. G. O. Files, 1875-1878
Diplomatic Instructions of the Department of State, 1807- 1906: Mexico, 1833-1906
Dispatches Received by Depart- ment of State from U. S. Min- isters to Mexico, 1823-1906, and Dispatches, 1854-1887
Federal Population Censuses, Arizona: 1870, 1880
Letters Received from the Sec- retary of Treasury from Col- lectors of Customs, 1833- 1869, from offices in South- west
Letters and Reports Received hy Secretary of Treasury from Special Agents : J. Ross Browne, 1854-1857
File of Applications and Ap- pointments, U. S. Department of Interior : Arizona, 1849- 1889
Postmaster General, Site Loca- tion Reports: Arizona
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Notes to Foreign Legations in the U. S. from Department of State : Mexico, 1834-1906
Records of Secretary of Interior Relating to Wagon Roads , 1857-1881 : letters sent, 1857- 1871; letters received, 1857- 1861; El Paso-Fort Yuma road; and miscellaneous cor- respondence, 1853-1887
Territorial Papers of Arizona
III. Arizona & New Mexico, In- dian Affairs
Letters Received by Secretary of War Relating to Indian Af- fairs , 1800-1824
Letters Received , Superintend- ent of Indian Trade , 1806- 1824
Letters Sent , Superintendent of Indian Trade , 1807-1823
Letters Received by Office of Indian Affairs , 1824-1881: miscellaneous, 1847-1880; Emigration, 1824-1848; Pima Agency, 1859-61
Records of New Mexico Super - intendency of Indian Affairs, 1849-1880
Reports of U. S. Indian Inspec- tors In Arizona , 1873-1880
Report on Arizona Indians by Special Commissioner Gen. O. O. Howard , 1872
Selection of letters and items from the Indian Office corre- spondence file relating to : Arizona Indian Problems and C ivil-M ilitary C onflicts
Special File of the Adjutant General Relating to Indian Affairs in Arizona , 1881-1886
Selection of documents relating to Arizona and Apache In- dians in File of Letters Re- ceived, District of New Mex- ico
Special File No. 270 , Indian Of- fice: Arizona, investigation of the San Carlos Indian Agen- cy, 1879
In addition to the microfilms from Washington, certain materials de- scribed by Herbert Eugene Bolton
in Guide to Materials for the History of the United States in the Principal Archives of Mexico [1540-1850] are being provided by the Bancroft Li- brary, University of California at Berkeley. These materials, on micro- film and Xerox prints, will span the Colonial period, the Mexican period, and the American period in the Southwest. They include a wide range of religious, military, political, and social records and the first 150 reels of film are now being acces- sioned. Among these documents are:
Jesuit correspondence and mission history.
Official correspondence relating to land and sea expeditions.
Official correspondence relating to campaigns against the Apache, Comanche, and Seri Indians.
Military records pertaining to presidios and troops.
Records relative to lawsuits and investigations.
Diplomatic relations with the United States.
Contracts and peace treaties. Mining activities in the border-
lands. Correspondence dealing with trap-
ping and trading. Diaries, journals and accounts of
such men as Father Garcés, and Juan Bautista de Anza.
The Arizona Pioneers' Historical Society will continue to film its own newspaper collection. The original papers are placed in storage as the work proceeds. In addition, the Society is acquiring on microfilm from the Air University Library, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, the first 29 volumes ( 1863-90) of the
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Army-Navy Journal. Another im- portant and scarce periodical ob- tained recently for the Society was the Journal of the Military Service Institution of the United States , vol- umes 6-61 (1885-1917), which con- tains innumerable items concerning
military affairs in Arizona and the West. To aid the researchers in us- ing the growing collection of period- ical literature, the Society now has a complete set available of the Readers' Guide to Periodical Litera- ture (1915-59).
NOTES FOR THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
In too brief a time death called three outstanding men who were closely associated with the Society. Each of them was known nationally, each was beloved and respected for his outstanding contributions to his community.
On August 6, Mr. Eugene Grant Starr, friend and benefactor of the Society, passed away in Los An- geles. Born in Tucson on February 22, 1890, Mr. Starr attended school with the president of the Society, Mr. Harold Steinfeld. He had re- tired in recent years from his post as president and general manager of the Universal Consolidated Oil Com- pany of California.
Dr. Robert L. Nugent, Executive Vice-President of The University of Arizona, passed away on June 23. Dr. Nugent was a 1923 graduate of the university and also received his Master of Science degree there in 1925. He took a bachelor s degree from Oxford and went on to earn the doctorate at Cornell in 1928. Since that time he had served Ari- zona, the University, and Tucson. Dr. Nugent was widely honored and cited for outstanding service, but he was proudest of his guidance and help to the young men and women of Arizona.
The Associate Editor of Arizoni- ana , Dr. Louis Bernard Schmidt, died on June 21, after a brief illness. Dr. Schmidt, a resident of Tucson for 12 years, was professor of Amer- ican history at Iowa State College from 1906 to 1951. There in 1914 he began the first systematic course of instruction in the history of Amer- ican agriculture and the next year presented a paper, "The Economic History of American Agriculture as a Field of Study," at one of the first annual meetings of the Mississippi Valley Historical Association, an- other institution with which he was closely connected all his life. He helped establish the Agricultural History Society and was its presi- dent in 1933-1934. Although he was the author of over one hundred learned articles, he would perhaps have found time to produce more full books if he had not devoted most of his effort to the teaching and kindly guidance of two genera- tions of young people. Many of his students went on to prominent posts in agriculture, teaching, and govern- ment. His most significant contri- bution to historiography probably was an article in the Iowa Journal of History and Politics in 1918 en- titled, "The Influence of Wheat and
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Cotton on Anglo-American Relations during the Civil War."
In later years, Louis Schmidt took a deep interest in the history of the American West. This is not sur- prising as he was at one time a stu- dent of Frederick Jackson Turner. In 1934 he wrote "The Agricultural Revolution in the Prairies and the Great Plains of the United States" for Agricultural History. After com- ing to Arizona, he contributed "Ag- riculture in the West as a Field of Historical Study" to Arizona and the West , the journal of history pub- lished by The University of Arizona
(vol. 1, No. 4, 1959). At the second annual Arizona Historical Conven- tion in 1961, he presented a paper on the range cattle industry. Last year Dr. Schmidt prepared a series of four interpretive essays for Ari - zoniana dealing with legislation of great significance for the West in the administration of Abraham Lin- coln. The last article appeared just before his final illness. Young in spirit at 83, ever willing to share his knowledge with others, the death of Louis B. Schmidt leaves a vacant place on the title page of this journal which is not apt to be filled for a long time.
NEW MEMBERS
Lawrence E. Ains worth, San Antonio , Texas Antonio Ferrer Amado, Amado , Arizona Maria Alpha Amado, Tucson Thomas G. Babington, Phoenix Mary S. Dunham, Beaumont , California Tony Enrico, M or enei, Arizona Miss Dorothy Ann Haas, Tucson Mrs. Dorothy Nance Haas, Tucson Cecil L. Hudnall, New York City Mrs. Florence V. W. Kettenbach, Tucson Daniel G. Moore, Tucson Mrs. Charles H. Pascoe, Tucson
Paul A. Robinson, Tucson Mrs. Alice Stillman Rogers, Tucson Harold B. Rogers, Tucson Mr. Harry A. Rollings, Tucson Mrs. Harry A. Rollings, Tucson W. T. Saylor, Sierra Vista , Arizona Mrs. Sadie H. Schmidt, Tucson Richard Royal Starr, Lancaster , California Kathleen Mary Strittmatter, Tucson Myriam Sarah Toles, Douglas , Arizona Mrs. John Miller Williams, Phoenix Mrs. Daniel G. Moore, Tucson
NEW NON-MEMBER SUBSCRIBERS
David W. Beebe, Phoenix John B. Bowdre, Macon Georgia Donald Strimike, North Arlington , New Jersey
C. L. Watson, Campbell , California Tucson Senior High School
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Corydon R. Dusenberry (1876-1963) Mrs. Dorothy Knipe (1887-1963) Mrs. Jeff Milton (1879-1963)
Benedict J. O'Neill (1890-1963) Alexander Jackson Young (1892-1963) Mrs. Jonathan L. Booth (1880-1963)
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On Monday, September 16th, Jules Powers Productions Inc., of New York City brought their television production DISCOVERY 63 to Southern Arizona. The first one-half hour show was filmed at the Arizona Pioneers' Historical Society because Daniel Wilson the producer stated, "The State Historical Society had everything we needed to produce the show." This first film which was shown on ABC television de- picted the "Cowboy as he used to be". On Tuesday the company moved to the Arizona-Desert Sonora Museum where it filmed another half-hour show. On Wednesday and Thursday of that week, the produc- tion company moved to the Hatha- way Ranch near Nogales to film "The Cowboy as he is Today".
The documentary programs are part of a series produced by an award-winning staff. Lou Volpicel- li, the director, is well-known for "Wide World of Sports" weekly tele- vision series. Mr. Sol Stember, the
writer, and his lovely wife were in Tucson several weeks earlier to find locations and to begin the script. Frank Buxton, the host, who is known to millions of youngsters be- cause of this show starred in the documentary film.
Mr. Sidney Brinckerhoff, Museum Curator, and Mr. Ray Brandes, As- sistant Director and Historian of the Society, were in the first show. Mr. Tony Aros of Tucson, long-time Ari- zona resident and expert on the cattle industry and its history also had a featured role.
The Society is proud to have been chosen as the site for such an im- portant film, which will bring fur- ther recognition to the State of Ari- zona and call attention to one of the outstanding industries in the history of the State. The producers and director were interested in tell- ing the history of the cowboy as re- flected in his working gear and equipment.
Mr. Tony Aros and Mr. Frank Buxton eating by the chuckwagon in "The Cowboy As He Used To Be " in the television series DISCOVERY 63. (photo by Tunney Wong)
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