Camp Verde Community Library
The Camp Verde Community Library is located at 130 Black Bridge Loop Road in Camp Verde (phone: 520-567-3414). This library has a carefully preserved Southwestern collection for which they have recently re-bound a number of publications relating specifically to Arizona or the Camp Verde area. Of special interest to researchers interested in early twentieth century research on the Colorado River is the W.W. Midgley scrapbook (see below).
Books
The following books in the Southwest collection are not always available at other libraries in the District.
Morris, Earl H. An Aboriginal Salt Mine at Camp Verde, Arizona. New York City: Anthropological
Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, Volume XXX. Part III, 1928.
Zarbin, Earl. Salt River Valley Canals: 1867-1875. Salt River Project, 1980 presentation.
Zarbin, Earl. The Swilling Legacy, reproduced by Salt River Project with permission of Phoenix
Newspapers, Inc., The Arizona Republic and the Phoenix Gazette, manuscript no date.
Dissertation
Allen, Agnes Morgan. The sequence of human occupancy in the Middle Rio Verde Valley, Arizona (dissertation)
Large Leather-bound scrapbook
"Articles on the Colorado River by W. W. Midgley." The lettering of the title is tooled into the leather cover. The 500 page scrapbook contains manuscripts and clippings of articles Midgley wrote about the area and the Colorado River in particular. In the front there are several photos of Midgley; in the book are several blueprint maps as well as copies of correspondence from the late 1920s through the 1940s.
