McNeil, Albertus James (ca. 1823-1881); McNeil, Mary Ann (ca. 1838-1888); McNeil, Homer H (ca. 1856-1842). Collection of Four Autograph Manuscript Letters from the McNeil Family, the Pioneer Publishers of Arizona, Discussing Financial Affairs, Future Prospects, and Plans to Move to the Arizona Territory; with Notes on Severe Job Crisis in San Francisco and Observations on Jew Settlers in Phoenix and Prescott. San Francisco, California: 13 April 1880; Carson City, Nevada: 13 April 1880; Carson City, Nevada: 13 June 1880; Carson City, Nevada: 21 July 1880.
Historically Significant Archive of ca. Forty Pages of Autograph & Typed Manuscripts and Carbon Copies, Eleven Pages of Handwritten Notebook Notes, Eighteen Original Gelatin Silver Photographs (including a Real Photo Postcard), Twenty-One Photo Negatives, Eighteen Pages of Period Newspapers, Ca. Eight Newspaper Clippings, Two Land Patents, Two Official Letters, and ca. Fifty-Six Pages of Xerox Copies, Mostly Written and Collected by Early Arizona Settler Melvin W. Jones, Discussing Personal Encounters with Local Outlaws (“Curley Bill,” Frank McLaury, Ike Clanton, etc.), White Mountain Apache Conflicts, a Typical Prospector’s Journey to the Silver Mines of Tombstone, the Craze over the Adams Lost Mine, and the Newly Founded San Carlos Indian Agency (“Hell’s Forty Acres”); also with Notes about Slavery in Georgia and Civil War in Arkansas. Ca. 1880s-1990s.