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Edward Vail's sketch about a Mexican dance put on by the Greaterville placer gold mining camp and the cowboys attempt to join the dance after the Mexican miners decided not to let the cowboys in.

Edward Vail's sketch briefly describing Southeastern Arizona and Southern New Mexico's fiercest and most warlike tribe of Apache Indians, the Chiricahuas, and the names and locations of various Apache tribes.

Edward Vail's account of the happenings near the old Cienega Stage Station, now known as Pantano, including the Southern Pacific's Apache Trail Route with gravestones, Farishes' History of Arizona, and a story about robbery and murder of a U.S.…

Edward Vail's account, The First Railroad in Arizona, written February 24, 1926, recalls the completion of the Southern Pacific Railroad from Los Angeles to Maricopa Wells in 1879. This was the first railroad ever built in the State of Arizona. In…

Letter (December 1, 1906) from Alec Wills to Edward L. Vail. It describes Walter Vail's accident in Los Angeles and his condition. Walter Vail was crushed between two streetcars on November 30, 1906. He died on December 2, 1906.

January 29 and January 30, 1890 entries from Edward L. Vail's diary which he wrote during the cattle drive from the Empire Ranch in Arizona to the Warner Ranch in Southern California.

February 16 and February 17, 1890 entries from Edward L. Vail's diary which he wrote during the cattle drive from the Empire Ranch in Arizona to the Warner Ranch in Southern California.

February 18 and February 19, 1890 entries from Edward L. Vail's diary which he wrote during the cattle drive from the Empire Ranch in Arizona to the Warner Ranch in Southern California.

February 20 and February 21, 1890 entries from Edward L. Vail's diary which he wrote during the cattle drive from the Empire Ranch in Arizona to the Warner Ranch in Southern California.

February 22 and February 23, 1890 entries from Edward L. Vail's diary which he wrote during the cattle drive from the Empire Ranch in Arizona to the Warner Ranch in Southern California.

February 24 and February 25, 1890 entries from Edward L. Vail's diary which he wrote during the cattle drive from the Empire Ranch in Arizona to the Warner Ranch in Southern California.

February 26 and February 27, 1890 entries from Edward L. Vail's diary which he wrote during the cattle drive from the Empire Ranch in Arizona to the Warner Ranch in Southern California.

February 28 and March 1, 1890 entries from Edward L. Vail's diary which he wrote during the cattle drive from the Empire Ranch in Arizona to the Warner Ranch in Southern California.

March 2 and March 3, 1890 entries from Edward L. Vail's diary which he wrote during the cattle drive from the Empire Ranch in Arizona to the Warner Ranch in Southern California.

March 15, 1890 entry from Edward L. Vail's diary which he wrote during the cattle drive from the Empire Ranch in Arizona to the Warner Ranch in Southern California.

March 16 and March 17, 1890 entries from Edward L. Vail's diary which he wrote during the cattle drive from the Empire Ranch in Arizona to the Warner Ranch in Southern California.

January 31 and February 1, 1890 entries from Edward L. Vail's diary which he wrote during the cattle drive from the Empire Ranch in Arizona to the Warner Ranch in Southern California.

March 20, 1890 entry from Edward L. Vail's diary which he wrote during the cattle drive from the Empire Ranch in Arizona to the Warner Ranch in Southern California.

March 28 and March 29, 1890 entries from Edward L. Vail's diary which he wrote during the cattle drive from the Empire Ranch in Arizona to the Warner Ranch in Southern California.

March 29 (cont.) 1890 entry from Edward L. Vail's diary which he wrote during the cattle drive from the Empire Ranch in Arizona to the Warner Ranch in Southern California.