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Core Documents of Arizona's History
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Period Before Written History
- Grand Canyon-Parashant - Petroglyphs
This U.S. Bureau of Land Management site highlights petroglyphs found in the Arizona Strip.
- Hohokam Petroglyph at Dog Bite Site
This U.S. Bureau of Reclamation site shows a Hohokam petroglyph near Lake Pleasant, Arizona as an example of a cultural resource which needs to be preserved.
- National and State Photo Library
You can search for photos of petroglyphs in Arizona in this U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management photo database.
- Petroglyphs
at Crack-in-the-Rock ruin
From the Image Database of Northern Arizona University's Cline Library,
this is a photo (NAU.PH.96.4.26.9 by Bill Belknap) of petroglyphs at
Wupatki National Monument on the Land Use History of North America:
Colorado Plateau site.
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Spanish Period, 1528-1821
- Map
of Explorations of North America
This is a U.S. Geological Survey map from the collections of the Library
of Congress showing the expedition routes of explorers of North America
between 1541 and 1844.
- Maps
of the Pimería
This is Jack D. Mount's exhibit on the University of Arizona Library's
site of rare and historic maps illustrating early cartography of the
Southwest.
- Mission 2000
This is a National Park Service database of Spanish records of the Pimería
Alta missions.
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Mexican Period, 1821-1848
- Kearny
Code
The Avalon Project at Yale Law School provides a transcription of the
Laws for the Government of the Territory of New Mexico dated September
22, 1846 also known as the Kearny Code. An explanation of
the international law at the time relating to conquest of land through
war and treaties that follows are in two U.S. Supreme Court cases: Leitensdorfer
v. Webb, 61 U.S. 176 (1957) and Fleming v. Page, 50 U.S.
603 (1850).
- Treaty of Guadalupe
Hidalgo
This Library of Congress site has links to pages from the Treaty signed
February 2, 1848 which concluded the U.S. Mexican War.
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American Period, 1848-
- Arizona
This is a map of Arizona from 1895 from Ray Sterner's Color Landform
Atlas of the United States site.
- Arizona
- Where We Came From...
This University of Arizona Library site has Rep. Morris K. Udall's
report discussing the 5 C's of the Arizona economy and how the economy
is changing.
- Bird's eye
view of Phoenix
This is a map of Phoenix, AZ circa 1885 sketched by C. J. Dyer from
the collections of the Library of Congress.
- Gadsden
Purchase Treaty
The Avalon Project at Yale Law School provides a transcription of
the Gadsden Purchase Treaty as amended by the Senate of the United
States and signed by President Franklin Pierce on June 30, 1854.
The version of the treaty which was signed in Mexico on December 30,
1853 specified that the United States would pay $15 million for 45,000
square miles of territory. However, when the U.S. Senate
ratified the treaty on April 25, 1854, only $10 million was authorized
for the purchase of 29,670 square miles of territory.
The renegotiated treaty was signed by Antonio López de Santa
Anna on June 8, 1854. See also: Gadsden
Purchase, 1853-1854 (U.S. Department of State)
- Hartley's Map
of Arizona
This 1865 map of the Territory of Arizona by William B. Hartley from
the collections of the Library of Congress shows the triangular area
in the northwestern part of the Territory which the U.S. Congress
transferred from Mohave and Pah-Ute counties
in the Territory of Arizona to the State of Nevada in 1866.
- History
of Arizona
The Second Legislature of the State of Arizona directed Thomas Edwin
Farish to write a history of Arizona. The eight volume
set was published between 1915 to 1918. The University
of Arizona Library's Southwest Electronic Text Center makes the set
available online.
- Navajo Code
Talkers' Dictionary
During World War II, Navajo Marines developed a code based on the
Navajo language which was used in the war in the Pacific and which
was never broken. This Naval Historical Center site provides
a code dictionary.
- Powell Expedition
Maps
The John Wesley Powell Memorial Museum has a map showing Powell's
route and a map used by Powell for his 1869 exploration of the Grand
Canyon.
- Wheeler's
1871 survey of parts of Arizona...
The Making of America digital library provides access to this Preliminary
report concerning explorations and surveys, principally in Nevada
and Arizona. Prosecuted in accordance with paragraph 2,
special orders no. 109, War dept., March 18, 1871, and letter of instructions
of March 23, 1871, from Brigadier General A. A. Humphreys, chief of
engineers. Conducted under the immediate direction of 1st
Lieut. George M. Wheeler ... 1871.
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Updated: 11/24/2008
