For your consideration is Tombstone Minnie Hart's Signed School Books, 1863 to 1890. Provenance: Tombstone Western Heritage Museum, Tombstone, Arizona. Famous Tombstone gunsmith S. L. Hart's daughter Minnie Jane taught school in 1890 at Tombstone's first school house. S. L. Hart raised his family including Minnie and her siblings in Menasha, Wisconsin. S. L. moved out west with his brothers eventually landing in Tombstone in Arizona Territory. Eventually his family joined him. Minnie became a teacher in Tombstone, replacing the first woman schoolteacher in Tombstone, Sarah Herring Sorin who was the librarian and principal. Sorin became Arizona's first woman attorney and the first woman to try a case in front of the US Supreme Court unassisted by a male attorney. Minnie taught in Tombstone until S.L. moved the family to Tucson, where she again was a teacher for almost four years. Books included are: "Talks About Useful Plants", Charles Barnard, 1887; "Eclectic Shorthand", J. G. Cross, 1890; "Progressive Higher Arithmetic", Horato N. Robinson, 1871; "Methods of Teaching", John Swett, 1885; "Treasury of General Knowledge", Celia Doerner, 1882; "The Song Wave", Perkins, Danforth, and DeGraff, 1882; "Fable of Aesop", Croxall, 1863. A Tombstone Western Heritage Museum label reads, "BOOKS BELONGED TO MINNIE HART, Tombstone, A. T.", museum code, "BK-59". These hardcover books are in preserved conditions, scuffing, staining, and fading exhibited on covers. Intact page exhibit age tanning and foxing. Two books have painted Top, bottom, and fore edges. Smallest book measures 4.5"W x 6.25"L x .5"D, largest is 6"W x 8.375"L x .75"D. Combined weight is 6lb, 6oz.