Papers, 1799-1933 (bulk 1862-1894).

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Papers, 1799-1933 (bulk 1862-1894).

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Correspondence, diary, photographs, deeds, articles and speeches chiefly relating to Arizona territorial military experiences of Oury family members. Includes William Oury's address to the Society of Arizona Pioneers, 1885, regarding the Camp Grant Massacre; and letters to his daughter relating events in Tucson, 1883-1885; as well as items pertaining to Granville Oury's Civil War service with the Confederate Army and a letter from Sylvester Mowry to Granville from an 1860 political convention. Gilbert C. Smith materials consist of his diary, 1857-1856; letters to relatives while serving with the California Volunteers in Arizona, 1862- 1863; a letterbook kept while at Fort Lowell. Photographs, chiefly of army officers, but also family members and Zuni Indians, 1862-1894; military commissions; and annotated articles from "Frontier Times", 1928-1933. Also included are four photocopies of early land transactions involving George, August, and Wendell Oury in Virginia and Texas.

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Smith, Gilbert Cole, d. 1899.

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Mowry, Sylvester, 1833-1871.

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