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ACADIA RANCH MUSEUM

The Acadia Ranch Museum offers interpretive displays on the history of Oracle, as well as an array of ranching, mining and other historic artifacts and an extensive photography and research archive.

The Acadia Ranch Museum is located at 825 Mt. Lemmon Road in Oracle (click here for map). The Museum is open to drop-by visitors on Fridays and Saturdays from 1 to 5 p.m. Appointments are required for special tours or to browse the Lisa Armstrong Memorial Reading Room archives. Please call 520-896-9609 or email oraclehistoricalsociety @ gmail•com for more information.



  
  

PUBLICATIONS

The following publications 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.

Oracle and the San Pedro River Valley by Cathy Ellis looks at Oracle and the surrounding region's history through its photographs.

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, in this popular work of historical fiction.

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

Canyon of Gold by Barbara Marriott pays tribute to the pioneers of Arizonaís Santa Catalina Mountains.

City of Gold by Barbara Marriott is a pictorial history of the cattle ranch days (and before) that preceded nearby Oro Valley's founding in 1974.

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Eulalia 'Sister' Bourne



William 'Curly' Neal



Harold Bell Wright


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 Humanities Council

Arizona State Historic Preservation Offfice

Arizona timeline

Eulalia ‘Sister’ Bourne: Little Cowpuncher Series

Buffalo Bill Cody and the High Jinks Ranch

Camp Grant Massacre (Wikipedia)

Camp Grant Massacre (original 1871 NY Times article)

On Alice Hubbard Carpenter

Center for Desert Archaeology

Denver Public Library: Western History & Geneology

Heritage Conservation Network

Kannally Ranch: Brief History

National Register of Historic Places

On Annie Box Neal

On William ‘Curly’ Neal

Oro Valley Historical Society

PreservationDirectory.com

Rancho Linda Vista history

San Manuel Mine (map and brief outline)

San Manuel Historical Society

San Pedro River Valley

On the Sobaipuri

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?

Please feel free to contact us at oraclehistoricalsociety @ gmail•com or call (520) 896-9609. As we are not open every day and are only manned by a part-time staff, please give us a few days in order to respond.

We are however very grateful for your interest.

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