Manuscripts
James Hackett correspondence, (bulk 1894-1900)
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John Keteltas Hackett letter to Ogden Hoffman
Manuscripts
Hackett writes that he has been appointed to be "a Commissioner for the State of California." Fragment; only final page of letter remains.
mssHM 19010
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Buffalo Bill incoming correspondence
Manuscripts
This collection of letters detail William F. Cody's investments in a Tucson mining venture known as the Camp Bonito Mine and Milling Company with John D. Burgess. Burgess is a colorful, confident and wildly optimistic person. In one letter dated July 5, 1910, Burgess assures Cody "Cheer up about Bonito! It can't fail for years! Schulite is on the rise! By the time Getch [L.W. Getchell] has made 6 carloads of concentrates you'll be overrun with applications to get into the B.B.B.B. (B's make money)." Approximately a month later, Burgess is reassuring Cody again "You & I can get rich out of those 5 claims if all else fail! But nothing will fail here Bill unless kidney's process fails!" (August 9, 1910). While the venture does not seem to have been a success, it offers a good glimpse into the kind of investments Cody entered, as well as many details about the mining business in Arizona.
mssHM 81555-81570
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Mining experiences, 1932-1985: the memoirs of Allan H. James
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Autobiographical account of Allan H. James' fifty years in the mining industry, transcribed from audio recordings made shortly before his death in 1985. The memoir begins with his going to work in the mines at Grass Valley following his graduation from Stanford, and follows his experiences mining in California and Nevada, including humorous and tragic anecdotes about his fellow miners. The memoir largely focuses on his time at various mines in South America and on the friends and co-workers he had while there, as well as his marriage in Costa Rica. James also describes the atomic bomb explosion at Alamogordo, New Mexico, in 1945; his various mining jobs with M.I.T., at the Mt. Hope Mine, and with the Kennecott Copper Corporation; and his impressions of Canada and rural Alaska. Includes 29 pages of photographs of James, his family, and various mining enterprises.
mssHM 73672
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James Judson Jerome diary
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In his diary, Jerome talks about his work with several gold, silver, and copper mines in Mohave and Yuma counties, Arizona. He talks specifically about mines around the Cedar, Planet, and Signal mining camps. Jerome performed several different tasks including surveying and recording of mine sites, posting notices on mines, and receiving, distributing, and sending out the mail in Mohave County. Included with the diary are nine pieces of ephemera including two tintypes of Jerome and several postcards.
mssHM 68418
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George E. Pilz correspondence, (bulk 1882-1898)
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This small group consists of the letters George E. Pilz to James Jerome Smith, who employed Pilz to secure profitable mining claims in Alaska and the Yukon Territory. These letters contain descriptions of Pilz's work as well as descriptions of the conditions under which he lived in Juneau, Alaska and Dawson, Yukon. Additionally there is the prospectus of the Harrisburg Consolidated Mill and Mining Company of Alaska (HM 66217)
mssHM 66195-66218
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James Clyman papers, (bulk 1827-1846)
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The collection contains 52 items and includes letters and receipts about Clyman's service in the Black Hawk War (1832-1835), receipts and promissory notes from the business operations of Clyman and Arnett in Danville, Illinois (1832-1840). The collection also includes nine volumes of diaries describing Clyman's travels to, life in, and return from Oregon and California (1844-1846) and an 1871 diary kept in Napa, California. Also included is one letter from Henry Dodge (1832) and another letter from Stephen Watts Kearny (1834).
mssHM 3900-3951