1879 Letter from Tucson Mayor James H. Toole Attempting to Tender His Resignation, with an Anti-Semitic Note from C.R. Drake.
Fort Apache, Arizona: May 1879. Single 5 x 7 ½ inch page on War Department letterhead. An 1879 letter from Tucson Mayor James H. Toole to City Councilman Charles Rivers Drake. Toole (1824–1884) was a merchant from New York who went to California for the gold rush in 1849 before.....