Scrapbooks and autobiographical sketch, ca. 1895-1910.

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Scrapbooks and autobiographical sketch, ca. 1895-1910.

Summary: This collection consists of scrapbooks containing articles associated with native people's myths, legends, and stories of North America. Scattered throughout are topics referencing the Southwest and the Arizona area. Most of the entries deal with the far western United States and the Pacific Northwest especially. The first folder of the collection has a short autobiographical manuscript written by Wood in 1931.

13 linear ft. (8 boxes)

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Wood, Elizabeth Lambert

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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 an...