Box 7

Scope and Contents Includes biographical research on Erastus W. Parker the superintendent and part owner of the South Homestake Mine in White Oaks, family groups sheets of Parker family along with a well-documented history of the family written by Morris Brown Parker (1940), copy of an incomplete document titled Old Tacosa by Henry Hoyt (1928) newspaper obituary for Morris Brown Parker ( 1957), research about the Congregational church in White Oaks, correspondence to and from Roberta Haldane and other research...

Scope and Contents Includes correspondence to and from Roberta Haldane, block diagram of the Homestake Mine, photocopies of images of the Erastus Parker home and of Morris B Parker, and excerpts from the book Morris B Parker’s Mules Mines and Me in Mexico 1895-1932 (edited by James M. Day, 1979), and other research materials

Scope and Contents Includes a handwritten timeline, an Ozanne family summary, transcript of speech by Robert Lee Hart September 23, 1995 titled “the Ozanne Stage Line”, transcripts of speeches about Ozanne stage stop by Johnson Stearns, Bob Hart, and Holm Bursum III, original copy of Southern New Mexico Historical Review article (Jan 2001) The San Antonio-White Oaks Stage Robberies of 1896 by John D. Tanner and Karen H. Tanner and other research materials

Scope and Contents Includes copy of obituary for Ozanne (1903), photocopies of 1901 Hotel Ozanne ledger (expenses), 1893 Chattel Mortgage record for Ozanne and Company, newspaper clipping advertisement for Ozannes Tri Weekly Passenger and Express line (1895, fragile condition), copy of letter on Hotel Ozanne letterhead 1894 discussing bouillon lode located by E.E. Baird, photocopy of June 1889 letter on Ozanne & Co letterhead to [Territorial Governor] L. Bradford Prince , photocopy of image of what is...

Scope and Contents Includes background on George Pritchard, document titled Pritchard Family history and Genealogy of the descendants, Antecedents and Collateral Relatives of Harmon and Nancy Purcell Pritchards (1976), page excerpts from “My Nine Years as Governor of the Territory of New Mexico, 1897-1906 by Miguel Antonio Otero, copy of letter (June 1902) for the bill of Alfred Gonzales for extra guards at Lincoln Jail signed by Geo Pritchard, and other research material.

Scope and Contents Includes research that Redman was one of many aliases used by Sherriff W.J. Woodman, document discusses Redman and Tom O’Folliard parted ways in their friendship when O’Folliard joined, Billy the Kid’s gang, articles with conflicting information about the relationship between Sherriff Woodman and Billy the Kid, and other research materials

Scope and Contents Includes photos of John B. Slack headstone (Mason symbol), articles about the “Diamond Hoax” and his arrest, eventually the undertaker of White Oaks. Photocopy image of the Roswell Lodge 18 which includes a person identified as George Bowman and other research material.

Scope and Contents Includes research articles about John Slack and his cousin Philp Arnold who swindled investors in diamond mines, transcribed speech of Fern Lyon about John Slack given July 1973 to the White Oaks Historical Society, and other research material

Scope and Contents Includes Record of Death White Oaks Vicinity records from May 1881-July 1904 (Billy the kid not listed), Wild West article Oct 2013 “Great diamond Hoax of 1872” by John Koster, article by Samuel Stanley also titled The Great Diamond Hoax, Smithsonian article, June 2004 titled “The Great Diamon Hoax, by Robert Wilson and other research material.

Scope and Contents Includes a complete photocopy of book “Diamonds in the Salt” by Bruce A. Woodward (1967)