ACADIA RANCH MUSEUM

The Acadia Ranch Museum, which is housed in one of the area’s oldest ranch structures, offers interpretive displays on the history of Oracle, as well as an array of ranching, mining and other historic artifacts and an extensive photography archive.

The Acadia Ranch Museum is located at 825 Mt. Lemmon Road in Oracle (off of American Avenue) and is open on Fridays and Saturday from 1 to 5 p.m. or by appointment (please call 520-896-9609).

PUBLICATIONS

For further reading, you may want to check out our publications, copies of which can be ordered from the Oracle Historical Society (email or telephone us for more details at 520-896-9609):

• The Oracle Historian (volumes 1-10) gives an in-depth look into the people and histories that surround the town of Oracle. Learn more about the pioneer men and women who first settled in the area, as well as the many notable figures who made their lives here.

• Annie’s Guests: Tales from a Frontier Hotel by Barbara Marriot. Oracle's Mountain View Hotel attracted a clientele made up of well-to-do easterners, writers, foreign dignitaries, prospectors, celebrities and a few dubious characters as well. Learn more about the exceptional couple who made it possible, as well as the people who came to stay.

• The recently published African American Women of the Old West, written by Tricia Martineau-Wagner, contains a chapter devoted to the life of Annie Box Neal, beloved proprietoress of the Mountain View Hotel.

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WEB LINKS

Below are links to related sites that may be of interest:

• Oracle: Community Guide

• Oracle: Description and History

• On Edward Abbey

• African American History in the West

• Arizona Historical Society

• Arizona State Historic Preservation Offfice

• Arizona timeline

• Eulalia ‘Sister’ Bourne: Little Cowpuncher Series

• On Alice Hubbard Carpenter

• Buffalo Bill Cody and the High Jinks Ranch

• Heritage Conservation Network

• Kannally Ranch: Brief History

• National Register of Historic Places

• On Annie Box Neal

• On William ‘Curly’ Neal

• PreservationDirectory.com

• Rancho Linda Vista history

• On Harold Bell Wright

• Andy Warhol's Lonesome Cowboys

• Elizabeth Lambert Wood: There Go the Apaches
(online edition)

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QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS?

If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to contact us at azohs@earthlink.net.

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