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CHIRICAHUA
Historic Structure Report Historical and Archeological Data Sections A History of the Building and Structures of Faraway Ranch |
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ENDNOTES
Chapter One
1. Of some interest is an invitation sent by a colonel and his wife at Fort Bowie to the wedding of their daughter on December 20, 1886, and addressed to "Mr. and Mrs. Neil Erickson." Neil and Emma had not been married yet. Beaumont to Erickson, ca. 1886, Erickson-Riggs Collection, Western Archeological and Conservation Center, National Park Service, Tucson, Arizona (hereafter cited as Erickson-Riggs Collection).
2. Reminiscences of Emma Erickson, ca, 1940s, pp. 54-6. Erickson-Riggs Collection.
3. Emma to Landone, August 3, 1923, Box 102, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
4. Neil to Supervisor, U.S. Forest Service, ca. 1912, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
5. "Autobiographical Notes by Neil Erickson, 1927," Erickson-Riggs Collection.
6. Hoofs and Horns, Vol. I, No. 33, July 15, 1932, p. 5.
7. Neil Erickson, "A Tribute to Mary B. Riggs," newspaper and date unknown, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
8. Neil Erickson, "Our First Night in Bonita Canyon," April 19, 1931, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
9. Anonymous, "The History of Faraway Ranch: The Gateway to the Wonderland of Rocks," Hoofs And Horns, vol. IV, No. 5, October 1934.
10. Forrestine C. Hooker, When Geronimo Rode (Garden City: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1924), p. 148.
11. Lillian E. Riggs, "Westward Into the Sun," unpublished manuscript, 1961, pp. 28-9, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
12. Arizona Daily Star, December 22, 1927; Earl Jackson, The Natural History Story of Chiricahua National Monument (Globe, Arizona: Southwest Parks and Monuments Association, Inc., 1970), p. 67; Early History of Chiricahua National Monument: Interview of Mrs. Lillian Riggs by Superintendent Clair Cooke, July 28, 1953, Transcription in Western Regional Office, National Park Service.
13. Hoofs and Horns, October 1934; ibid., February 1935.
14. Autobiographical Notes by Neil Erickson, 1927, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
15. The United States of America, Grant to Neil Erickson, November 22, 1894, Box 293, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
16. Entry 71, Tract Book, Arizona, Volume 166 and individual land record jackets, Washington National Record Center, Suitland, Maryland. The author is indebted to Chief Historian Edwin C. Bearss and Historian Martin Conway of the National Park Service, Washington Office for this information. Final Certificate Homestead, Department of the Interior, U.S. Land Office, Phoenix, Arizona, August 12, 1924, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
17. Emma Erickson to Landone, August 3, 1923, Box 102, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
18. Neil Erickson to Supervisor, Forest Service, ca, 1912, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
19. Neil Erickson, "A Tribute to Mary B. Riggs," newspaper and date unknown, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
20. Neil to Emma, February 23, 1887, Box 33, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
21. Emma to Landone, August 3, 1923, Box 102, Erickson-Riggs Collection; Reminiscences of Emma Erickson, ca. 1940's, Ms. in Box 111, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
22. Reminiscences of Emma Erickson, ca, 1940s, Ms in Box 111, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
23. Emma to Landone, August 3, 1923, Box 102, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
24. Neil Erickson "Our First Night in Bonita Canyon," April 19, 1931, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
25. "Remembrances of Hildegard Erickson," n.d., Erickson-Riggs Collection.
26. Forrestine C. Hooker, When Geronimo Rode, (Garden City: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1924), pp. 147-9.
28. Ibid., pp. 154-5, 158-9, 177.
29. Lillian E. Riggs, "Westward Into The Sun," unpublished manuscript, ca. 1960, pp. 30-31.
31. Neil Erickson, "Our First Night in Bonita Canyon," April 19, 1931, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
33. Anonymous, "The History of Faraway Ranch: The Gateway to the Wonderland of Rocks."
34. Neil Erickson, "Our First Night in Bonita Canyon," MS, April 19, 1931, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
35. This sketch is in the Erickson-Riggs Collection.
36. Neil Erickson's Diary 1896-1899, Erickson-Riggs Collection; Lillian E. Riggs, "Westward Into The Sun," p. 100.
37. Photograph, caption: "Left to Right Rob. Larson, Mrs. Erickson, Mrs. C.M. Right Roberts, a girl from Bowie. A group at Faraway Ranch before the Lean-to on the old cabin was taken away," ca. 1905, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
38. Photograph in a small album marked "Photographs given to Dad by Mrs. Grey." The photograph in question has written above it "Dad, Ben and Mother, Mr. Lewis and Mr. Grey, Hildegard in Window" and below it "Our first Cabin Located 1886. Second addition/Stonehouse on Right ???888 - Box House Later 1897 or 8," Erickson-Riggs Collection.
39. These three photographs do not contain captions or dates. The drawing bears the following caption: "Our second house in Bonita Canyon/made by the ???Roycroftors," n.d. but after 1910. All in the Erickson-Riggs Collection.
40. Anonymous, "The History of the Faraway Ranch: The Gateway to the Wonderland of Rocks."
41. A.T. Steele, "The Lady Boss of Faraway Ranch," The Saturday Evening Post, Vol. 230 No. 37, March 15, 1958.
42. Remembrances of Hildegard E. Hutchison, n.d., Erickson-Riggs Collection.
43. Reminiscences of Hildegard E. Hutchison, ca. 1940s, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
44. Lillian E. Riggs, "Westward Into The Sun," pp. 57-9.
46. "Neil Erickson Thought First White Man to Know Beautiful Rhyolite Park in Chiricahuas", Douglas Daily Dispatch, January 20, 1929, copy in Erickson-Riggs Collection.
47. "Some facts about (Bigfoot) Massai, said by Indian Scouts to have been the most fierce warrior of the Chiricahua tribe of Apaches," Ms. written by Neil Erickson, ca., 1933, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
48. Neil to Emma, November 18, 1892, Box 83, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
49. Neil to Emma, December 23, 1892, Box 83, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
50. Remembrances of Hildegard Hutchison, Ms, n.d., Erickson-Riggs Collection.
51. Lillian E. Riggs, "Westward Into The Sun," pp. 284-7.
55. Wunschorn to Erickson, November 5, 1900, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
56. Wunschorn to Erickson, January 7, 1901, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
57. Wunschorn to Erickson, February 12, 1901, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
58. The Roycrofters was a commercial establishment located in East Aurora, New York. They were engaged in printing, binding, and in the production of crafts made of copper and wood. They wrote personalized brochures for various establishments throughout the United States, sometimes after visiting them. One such brochure was written for the Maurice Bathhouse in Hot Springs, Arkansas. It may be that a number of The Roycrofters visited Faraway Ranch and drew the sketch, but the sketch is such a great likeness of the illustration that it is very probable it was drawn from the latter. See brochure titled Roycroft: A Catalog of Books & Things Hand Made at the Roycroft Shops, Erickson-Riggs Collection. See also Elbart Hubbard, A Little Journey to the Maurice Baths (East Aurora, N.Y.: The Roycrofters).
59. Neil to Emma, June 8, 1902, Box 83, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
61. Neil to Emma, June 13, 1902, Box 83, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
62. Field Notes: General Land Office, "My First Book", 1903, Box 251 Erickson-Riggs Collection.
63. Ibid., "Neil Erickson Forest Ranger, Paradise, Arizona." 1904-1905, Ms. in Box 251, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
64. Neil Erickson's Diary, September ???December 1910, Box 251, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
65. Neil Erickson's Diary for 1911; Small maroon book, February 1915, Box 102, both in Erickson-Riggs Collection.
66. U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Forest Service, Map Sheet "L.S. Erickson's Drift Fence, March 18th, 1911," Box 252, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
67. Neil Erickson's Diary, 1914-1915, Box 102, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
68. Neil Erickson's Diary, October 1915, Box 85, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
69. Neil Erickson's Diary 1916, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
70. Neil Erickson's Diary for 1917, Box 252, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
71. Photograph of Main House, ca. 1915-1920, Box 294, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
72. Janet Ann Stewart, Arizona Ranch House Southern Territorial Styles, 1867-1900 (Tucson: Arizona Historical Society, 1974), pp. 56-63. This book has a number of misleading statements and inaccuracies, and the plan of the main house at Faraway Ranch shows the stairway in a wrong location.
73. Hildegard Hutchison, Ms., n.d., Erickson-Riggs Collection.
74. In March 1917, Neil was still in Bonita Canyon because on one weekend he and Emma were guests of Senator and Mrs. C.M. Roberts. Arizona Range News, Willcox, Arizona, March 2, 1917.
75. Lillian was still teaching in Bowie in April 1917. See Arizona Range News, Willcox, Arizona, April 6, 1917. On March 19, 1915, the same paper noted that a company had been formed to exploit the possibilities of establishing resorts in the Chiricahua Mountains. Faraway Ranch was apparently caught up in this movement.
76. Hildegard Hutchison, Ms., n.d., Erickson-Riggs Collection.
77. "Solutions and Notes Thereto," ca. 1930, Erickson-Riggs Collection. In the Erickson-Riggs Collection there are a number of photographs in a box marked Hildegard and Lillian start guest ranch at Faraway--Pictures mostly 1918-1919--Some later rock pictures. See Box 97, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
78. According to Murray Riggs, Ed Riggs's son by a first marriage, the name Faraway Ranch was Lillian's idea. Interview with Murray and Ann Riggs by Bill Hoy, November 1979, Park Historical Files.
79. Rural Property Record, Louis Benton Erickson and Lillian E. Riggs, appraisal made in December 1966, Assessor's Office, Cochise County, Bisbee, Arizona.
80. See, for example, a photograph of Lillian and Hildegard in front of the house, ca. 1918 (Illustration No. 11), and a photograph, no caption or date, but ca. 1920, with a group of people also sitting in front of the house, both in Erickson-Riggs Collection (Illustration No. 13).
81. See photograph with caption "Hildegard and Frank Daugherty feeding her french fries. About 1918," Erickson-Riggs Collection.
82. Hildegard Erickson's Diary, ca. 1916, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
83. Two sheets of floor plans drawn to scale entitled "Main House/Faraway Ranch," n.d., Erickson-Riggs Collection.
84. Lillian to Neil, November 23, 1930; Agreement between Wilber B. Wheeler and wife and Lillian Erickson, April 22, 1918, both in Erickson-Riggs Collection.
86. "Back From Honeymoon," news article, ca. 1923, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
87. McNabb to Riggs, January 11, 1932, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
88. General Fund Expenditures, 1924, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
90. Interviews with Murray and Ann Riggs by Bill Hoy, November 26, 1979 and September 8, 1980, Park Historical Files.
91. Neil Erickson's Diary for 1930, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
92. Interview with Murray and Ann Riggs by Bill Hoy, November 26, 1979, Park Historical Files.
93. Interview with Murray and Ann Riggs by Bill Hoy, November 26, 1979, Park Historical Files. Typewritten Ms. by Lillian E. Riggs, July 26, 1972, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
96. Invoice of J.B. Colt Company, April 5, 1922, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
98. Sundt to Riggs, March 7, 1931, Box 103, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
99 Sundt to Riggs, March 21, 1932; Sundt to Riggs, March 21, 1933, both in Box 103, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
100. Neil Erickson's "Diary" for 1935, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
101. Invoice, R.G. Lewis Lumber & Hardware, for Neil Erickson, September 1936, Box 89, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
102. Shaver to Riggs, March 26, 1938, with "General specifications for remodel job for Mrs. Riggs Faraway Ranch," Erickson-Riggs Collection.
104. Invoice of Bill Baldridge, April 1960; Statement, October 30, 1960, both in Box 136, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
Chapter Two
1. Entry 471, Tract Book, Arizona, Volume 166, and individual land record jackets, Washington National Record Center, Suitland, Maryland. The author is indebted to Chief Historian Edwin C. Bearss and Historian Martin Conway of the Washington National Park Service Office for this information. Also see grant, United States of America "on the claim of Ja. Hu. Stafford," received June 21, 1888, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
2. Entry 471, Tract Book, Arizona, Volume 166, and individual land record jackets, Washington National Record Center.
3. Lillian Erickson Riggs, "Westward Into the Sun." According to one resident of the area, the Staffords named this child Revelly because soldiers at what is now Faraway Ranch were playing reveille at the time of her birth. Interview with Ervin Bond, n.d., Erickson-Riggs Collection. Mrs. Helen Kenney, Stafford's granddaughter has confirmed this. Interview with Mrs. Kenney by Bill Hoy, August 2, 1980, Park Historical Files.
4. Biographical Information, Arizona Pioneers' Historical Society, Tucson, Arizona, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
5. Memorandum of Bill Hoy, subject: Stafford Cabin, December 9, 1979, Park Historical Files.
6. Arizona Range News, Willcox, Arizona, November 21, 1913.
7. Interview with Mrs. Helen Kenney by Bill Hoy, November 28, 1979, Park Historical Files.
8. Agreement between Wilber B. Wheeler and Clara Stafford Wheeler and Lillian Erickson, April 22, 1918, Phoenix Title & Trust Co., Erickson-Riggs Collection. Deed recorded in Book 104, page 195, County Clerk's Office, Cochise County, Bisbee, Arizona. Final payment on this purchase was made in 1928 after a new agreement was signed in 1923. See Agreement between Wilbur B. and Clara Stafford Wheeler and Lillian Erickson Riggs, February 19, 1923, and Computations of Payments and Interests on Stafford Place, n.d., both in Erickson-Riggs Collection.
9. Account book kept by Lillian and Hildegard Erickson, ca. 1917-1920, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
10. Interview with Murray and Ann Riggs by Bill Hoy, November 26, 1979, Park Historical File; Interview with Mrs. Helen Kenney, St. David, Arizona, by Louis Torres and Jim Glass, July 13, 1983.
11. Record Book of Lillian E. Riggs, 1924-1933; Rates for Faraway Ranch Cottages, ca. 1940s, Box 245; Rates for Faraway Ranch Cottages for 1965, Box 141, all in Erickson-Riggs Collection.
12. The dimensions and descriptive material appearing in this chapter and in later sections are taken largely from the National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form prepared by Mr. Gordon Chappell, Regional Historian, Western Regional Office, National Park Service, July 1979. Since the description of existing structures in this document is so complete, this writer has freely used its valuable contents. For a more detailed account of the existing fabric, the reader is referred to that form.
13. Interview with Mrs. Ethel Erickson by Louis Torres, April 29, 1983.
14. Interview with Mrs. Helen Kenney by Louis Torres and Jim Glass, St. Davids, Arizona, July 13, 1983.
15. Log Cabin Furnishings, June 23, 1947, Box 136, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
Chapter Three
1. National Register Nomination Form; Records of the Assessor's Office, Cochise County, Bisbee, Arizona, 1966.
3. Drawing of floor plan of Cowboy House, n.d., Erickson-Riggs Collection.
4. Interview with Mrs. Ethel Erickson by Louis Torres, April 29, 1983.
5. Neil Erickson's Diary, March 1930, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
6. Photograph of Office/Garage with Neil Erickson in view, ca. 1930, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
7. Records of the Assessor's Office, Cochise County, Arizona.
8. Electrical Rewiring Estimate by Bill Baldridge, April 1960; Statement in account with Mrs. Lillian Riggs, October 30, 1960, by George Morse, both in Box 136, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
9. Lillian E. Riggs, "Westward Into the Sun," p. 358.
11. Neil Erickson's Diary for 1929, page 35, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
12. Neil Erickson's Diary for October 1935, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
13. Drawing, "Out Buildings: Faraway Ranch," n.d., Erickson-Riggs Collection.
14. Tack Room Inventory, October 1, 1962, Box 149, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
15. Neil Erickson's Diary, June-July 1935, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
16. National Register Nomination Forms.
17. Neil Erickson's Diary for February 11, 1930, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
18. Neil Erickson's Diary for 1936, Box 102, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
19. Neil Erickson's Diary for September 1936, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
20. National Register Nomination Form.
21. Lease, Neil Erickson and wife to E.M. Riggs and wife, January 1, 1933, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
22. Interview with Murray and Ann Riggs by Bill Hoy, November 26, 1979, Park Historical Files.
23. See section on Stafford cabin for treatment of this structure. See also interview with Murray and Ann Riggs by Bill Hoy, November 26, 1979, Park Historical Files, and Rural Property Record Card of Lillian E. Riggs, Records of the Assessor's Office, Cochise County, Bisbee, Arizona.
24. Neil Erickson's "Weekley Memo 1935," Box 83, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
25. Neil Erickson's Diary for July 1935, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
26. Records of the Assessor's Office, Cochise County.
27. National Register Nomination Form.
28. Pat to Hildegard and Lillian, May 29, 1920, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
29. Ed to Lillian, July 19, 1922, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
30. Ed to Lillian, July 31, 1922, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
31. Interview with Murray and Ann Riggs, by Bill Hoy, November 26, 1979, Park Historical Files.
32. Neil to Ed and Lillian, March 18, 1925, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
33. Neil Erickson's Diary for July 1929, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
34. Interview with Murray and Ann Riggs.
35. Notes on Faraway Ranch, Chiricahua National Monument, Park Historical Files; Brochure, "Faraway Ranch: The Last Frontier," Erickson-Riggs Collection.
36. National Register Nomination Form.
37. Neil Erickson's Diary for 1896, 1897, 1898 and 1899, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
38. Invoice from Valley Hardware Co., Willcox, Arizona, December 4, 1936, Box 134; Statement of Ed M. Riggs, ca. 1939, Box 136, both in Erickson-Riggs Collection.
39. Hildegard Erickson Hutchison's Memoirs, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
40. Lillian E. Riggs's Diary for 1957-1961, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
41. National Register Nomination Form.
42. U.S. Forest Service Form 765, October 14, 1913, Box FARA-81, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
43. Neil Erickson's Diary for 1896-1899, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
44. Lillian E. Riggs, "Westward Into the Sun," pp. 332, 243.
45. Neil to Emma, October 2, 1891, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
46. Neil Erickson's Diary for 1896-1899, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
47. Hildegard Erickson's Diary, ca. 1916, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
48. Neil Erickson's Diary for 1930, 1931, 1935, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
49. Denham to Riggs, June 8, 1940, Box 136, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
50. Riggs, "Westward Into the Sun", page 68.
51. Neil Erickson's Diary for 1935, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
52. Ed to Lillian, July 14, 1922, Lillian E. Riggs' Diary for 1957-1961, both in Erickson-Riggs Collection.
53. Neil Erickson's Diary for 1935, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
54. Neil Erickson's Diary for August 1935, Erickson-Riggs Collection
55. Neil Erickson's Diary for November 1935, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
56. Riggs, "Westward Into the Sun," p. 36.
57. Neil to Lillian and Ed, March 18, 1925, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
58. Neil Erickson's Diaries for February 1931 and December 1935, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
59. Ed to Lillian, August 2, 1922, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
60. Neil Erickson's Diary for 1929-1936, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
62. Lillian E. Riggs' Diary for 1957-1961, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
64. Interview with Murray and Ann Riggs by Bill Hoy, August 9, 1980, and interview with Murray and Ann Riggs by Bill Hoy, November 26, 1979, both in Park Historical Files. Mrs. Kenney provided essentially the same story in her interview with Bill Hoy, August 2, 1980, Park Historical Files.
65. Neil Erickson, "Some facts about (Bigfoot) Massai said by Indian Scouts to have been the most fierce warrior of the Chiricahua tribe of Apaches," ca. 1933, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
66. Riggs, "Westward Into the Sun," p. 41.
68. Neil to Emma, January 28 [1891], Box 83, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
69. Neil to Emma, October 1, 1891, Box 83, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
70. Neil Erickson's Diary 1896, 1897, and 1898, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
71. Neil to Emma, June 13, 1902, Box 83, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
72. Neil to Emma, July 13, 1902, Box 83, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
73. Neil Erickson's Diary for 1932, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
74. Interview with Mrs. Ethel Erickson by Louis Torres, April 29, 1983.
75. National Register Nomination Form.
76. Lillian E. Riggs' Diary for 1957-1961, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
77. Neil to Emma, December 23, 1892, Box 83, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
78. Photograph of Prue's gravesite, ca. 1915, Box 89; photograph of Prue's gravesite, ca. 1930, Box 103, both in Erickson-Riggs Collection.
79. "Southwestern Monuments," 262 Monthly Report for October 1937, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
80. Order blank in folder marked "Log Book 1875." Dates actually cover orders for 1889-1890, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
81. Reminiscences of Emma Erickson, ca. 1940's, Box 111, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
82. Neil Erickson's Diary for 1896-1899, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
83. Miscellaneous Ranch Lists. Guests (1924-1933), pp. 56-7, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
84. Rural Property Record Card, Martha Stark House, Assessor's Office, Cochise County, Bisbee, Arizona.
85. Agreement between Roy Rising and Lillian E. Riggs, n.d., Box 256, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
86. Rural Property Record Card, Martha Stark House, Assessor's Office, Cochise County, Bisbee, Arizona.
87. Neil Erickson's Diary for 1896-1899, Erickson-Riggs Collection.
88. Ibid.; Neil Erickson's Diary for September-December 1910, Box 251, and Diary for 1935, both in Erickson-Riggs Collection.
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