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Special thanks to author Paul Cool for research assistance on this article.

Interview with Dorothy (Kengla) Fitzpatrick (age 92, granddaughter of Bernabe Robles) on Mar. 21, 2014

Interview with Gene Robles (great nephew of Bernabe Robles) on Mar. 14, 2014

Emails from Raclare Kanal of Maryland (descendent of the Suastegui family)

Bernabe Robles Death Certificate (Office of Vital Records)

Joaquina Suastegui Robles Death Certificate (Office of Vital Records)

Rafaela Robles Death Certificate (Office of Vital Records)

1864 Census of the Arizona Territory (Entry # 1076)

1870 U.S. Census (Tucson, Pima County, Arizona Territory)

Oral history interview with Fernando Robles (AHS AV0545-13)

"Bernabe Robles Taken By Death," Arizona Daily Star, Feb. 15, 1945

"Robles Requiem at Holy Family," Arizona Daily Star, Feb. 25, 1945

"Hold Funeral of B.S. Robles in City Today," Tucson Citizen, Feb. 19, 1945

"Mrs. Joaquina Robles Is Claimed By Death," Arizona Daily Star, Jan. 8, 1950

"Robles Estate Evenly Divided," Arizona Daily Star, Aug. 8, 1951

Bernabe Robles Sr. Probate Court Records, Docket No. 90 (Date of initial filing Aug. 9, 1873)

Bonnie Henry, "Three Points: It's Good News," Arizona Daily Star, 2002

Floyd R. Negley et. Al, "Arizona Territorial Marriages: Pima County, 1871-1912," Arizona State Genealogical Society, 1994

1917 U.S. World War I Registation Card for Bernabe Robles Jr. (born 1890)

Bernabe Robles--Certificate of Citizenship (Dec. 10, 1890)

Tucson's National Cemetery: http://www.pima.gov/jointcourts/PDFs/SRI_JCC_Archival_Report.pdf

Pedro Aguirre buys Robles Stage Line, Small Talk section, Arizona Weekly Citizen, May 3, 1884

B. Robles, Local Notes, (Tombstone) Daily Epitaph, Feb. 11, 1886

Thomas E. Sheridan, "Los Tucsonenses: The Mexican Community in Tucson, 1854-1941," University of Arizona Press, 1992

Robles dance party at Carrillos Garden, under Local News section, Arizona Weekly Citizen, May 16, 1890

Frank C. Schrader, "Mineral Deposits of the Santa Rita and Patagonia Mountains, Arizona," Government Printing Office, 1915 (pg. 132)

C. L. Sonnichsen, "Tucson: The Life and Times of an American City," University of Oklahoma Press, 1982

James E. and Barbara H. Sherman, "Ghost Towns of Arizona," University of Oklahoma Press, 1969 (pg. 72)

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