Wood, Elizabeth Lambert

Biographical note: Elizabeth Lambert Wood was born in 1871 in Oregon. She married Dr. William Lee Wood and moved to Oracle, Arizona in 1902 to start mining and ranching. Mrs. Wood wrote about her arrival in Tucson in a book titled Arizona Hoof Trails. Despite the death of their two children Mrs. Wood became an accomplished writer and poet. She donated Camp O Wood in Peppersauce Canyon to the Salvation Army for a local district camp that later became the Arizona Boys Ranch. In 1949 she donated another 400 acres that became the Triangle Y Ranch Camp. Elizabeth Lambert Wood died February 14, 1962.