A gold mine in Special Collections

After our adventure in finding Kerlin's Well, I took advantage of the
fact that we were already in Northern Arizona to go to the Northern
Arizona University, Cline Library, Special Collections and Archives
Department. The book with the faded picture of Kerlin's Well was written
by my Great-uncle, George Shepherd Tanner. See Tanner, George S. Henry
Martin Tanner; Joseph City, Arizona Pioneer, Born June 11, 1852, San
Bernardino, California, Died March 21, 1935, Gilbert, Arizona.
1964. NAU's Special Collections is typical of many other large
university library collections. Finding NAU is not a problem, I have
driven past the campus hundreds of times and visited parts of the
university on many different occasions. But this was my first visit to
the library.

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