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The Evolving Scholarly Record
#oclcresearch #scholrec An OCLC Research Report by: Brian Lavoie, Eric Childress, Ricky Erway, Ixchel Faniel, Constance Malpas, Jennifer Schaffner, and Titia van der Werf This report presents a framework to help organize and drive discussions about the evolving scholarly record.
Days Past: All about Cleator - the town and the family
Cleator lies at 3,501 feet in the Bradshaw Mountain foothills between Crown King and Mayer, seven miles southwest of Cordes on Forest Road 259 (formerly Prescott & Eastern Railroad line). The town depot, Turkey Siding, was along Turkey Creek. The Turkey Creek Mining District was established in 1864. The town, near a placer gold mining site and known as Turkey, included mining camps and a stagecoach station two miles west of Turkey Creek.
Days Past: Sharlot Hall’s journeys to the Grand Canyon
The Grand Canyon National Park is celebrating its centennial this year. Prescott’s own Sharlot Hall visited the Grand Canyon even before it became a national park in 1919. In 1893, Sharlot was one of eight people taking an extended camping trip from Camp Verde to the Grand Canyon. In her journal, Sharlot documented many of the sights along the way, the flora and fauna, the weather and others they met en route.
Days Past: How Arizona Got on the Map - Part 16
Last week’s Days Past article detailed the Sitgreaves expedition which mapped the route the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad and Route 66 ultimately followed across Arizona to Kingman. This article focuses on an important role on most expeditions, the illustrator, and on the most notable Arizona expeditionary illustrator, Richard H. Kern — who offered the world its first glimpses of central Arizona.
Murphy Park and Zoo
In a previous article we were introduced to Frank Murphy, resourceful entrepreneur and generous philanthropist from the time he arrived in Prescott in 1878. This article focuses on a topic that illustrates the two. In 1892, he married Ethel Meany and found an enthusiastic partner in philanthropy. Murphy owned 350 acres in the western limits of Prescott. It included what is now Hassayampa Drive, Country Club Drive, around Indian Hill and back over to Coronado Drive, Vista Drive and High Street.
Days Past - Frank M. Murphy: man of many hats, much heart
Frank Morrell Murphy was born in Maine in 1854, raised in Wisconsin, and moved as a young man to Santa Rosa, California, where he worked at a hotel and as a stagecoach driver. He came to Prescott in 1878 when he was 23 years old. He found work in a haberdashery at Thomas Bray & Co. and encouraged his brother, Nathan Oakes Murphy, to join him in 1883. Nathan became governor of the Arizona Territory in 1892-1893 and 1898-1902.
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