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David F. Myrick

David F. Myrick is known as an outstanding Western historian, with a particular interest in railroads. He worked for many years in the financial offiace of a major western railroad and lived in San Francisco. He is now retired.

A native of Santa Barbara, he received the first impetus of his interest in Arizona from his father, who attended the Evans Ranch School in Mesa when Arizona was still a Territory. Subsequently, Mr. Myrick has made many visits to Arizona and has come to know the people, the towns and institutions, and the varied landscape of Arizona, along with its history.

His many railroad books and pamphlets include the first three volumes of the Railroads of Arizona series. Volume 1, The Southern Roads (1975), Volume 2, Phoenix and the Central Roads (1980), and Volume 3, Clifton, Morenci and Metcalf: Rails and Copper Mines (1984), are all out of print at the moment. He has also published two volumes about the railroads of Nevada and eastern California, and a volume on railroads of New Mexico, and has written local histories of San Francisco's Telegraph Hill and Santa Barbara's Montecito.

Mr. Myrick's Volume 4 of the Railroads of Arizona series, The Santa Fe Route, was published by Signature Press in 1998. He continues to work on the concluding volumes of the series, which cover the secondary lines north of Phoenix as well as the mining and logging railroads. The first of these, Volume 5, Santa Fe to Phoenix, was published in November, 2001; the second, Volume 6, is now in preparation for printing.

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