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Sam P. Davis Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: NC197
Abstract
Includes letters from Henry George on a U. S. income tax proposal, 1883; Theodore Roosevelt on establishing a Nevada State Police, 1908; E. A. Powell on Davis' purchase of a pedigreed bull, 1885; Thomas A. Edison on use of sagebrush as fuel, 1910; letters from Davis to Nevada U. S. Senator William M. Stewart about politics and Lake Tahoe, 1900-1901; Davis' poem the Burial of Sam Magee, n.d.; and Davis' response to a toast at a Virginia City banquet celebrating the installation of electrical...
Dates:
1883-1912
Sam P. Davis Papers
Collection
Identifier: NC587
Abstract
Includes materials by or about Sam Davis and his family, the Corbett-Fitzsimmons boxing match, Thomas Fitch, Thomas P. Brown, Henry R. Mighels, Robert O'Brien, Theodore Winters, Lake Tahoe, and the Western States Exploration Company. Microfilm contains materials from family scrapbook.
Dates:
1865-1960
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- Boxing matches -- Nevada 1
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- Brown, Thomas P. (Thomas Pollok), 1879- 1
- Corbett, James J., 1866-1933 1
- Crowell, Lucy Davis, 1881-1978 1
- Davis, Nellie Verrill Mighels 1
- Davis, Robert P. 1
- Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931 1
- Fitch, Thomas, 1838-1923 1
- Fitzsimmons, Robert James, 1863-1917 1
- George, Henry, 1939-1897 1
- Mighels, Henry R. (Henry Rust), 1830-1879 1
- Mighels, Roy R., 1872-1960 1
- O'Brien, Robert 1
- Powell, E. Alexander (Edward Alexander), 1879-1957 1
- Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 1
- Stewart, William M. (William Morris), 1827-1909 1
- Western States Exploration Company 1
- Winters, Theodore, 1823-1906 1 ∧ less
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