Collection
Primary Documents
Deeds, clippings, census pages and letters — scanned, transcribed, sourced.
What this collection will hold
Every claim on this site should trace back to a document. This collection is where those documents will live: each one scanned, transcribed where the print is hard to read, and credited to the archive that holds it.
The sources the research draws on so far
- Arizona Daily Citizen and Tucson Citizen notices of the hotel, 1895–1898
- Arizona Daily Star, February 29, 1908 — coverage of Curly Neal’s land case
- Obituaries of Curly Neal, Arizona Daily Star and Arizona Republic, October 1, 1936
- Obituaries of Annie Neal, May 1950
- George Stone Wilson, “The Saga of Oracle,” 1964–65 — an eyewitness memoir by a guest who arrived in 1906
- Bentz, “Echoes of the Oracle,” Oracle Historian, Winter 1984–85
- The Papers of William F. Cody, codyarchive.org
- Barbara Marriott, Annie’s Guests: Tales From a Frontier Hotel
- Wanda Winningham, Front Porch News (Oracle Historical Society), Spring 2023
Still to find
The hotel’s own guest register, the Neal family papers and the Box family papers are held by the Arizona Historical Society in Tucson. We have asked to examine them.
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