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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the W. P. Fife papers #4437-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Transfer from the North Carolina Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in March 1986.

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• Fife, W. P. (William Pell), 1858-1907.
• Great Western Gold Company.
• Mineral industries--United States--History.
• Petroleum industry and trade--United States--History.
• Sales personnel--North Carolina--History.
• Sunset Gold and Mining Company (Denver, Colo.)

Correspondence, circulars, and advertisements documenting the career of William Pell Fife of Thomasville, N.C., as a stock salesman for western oil and mining companies. Many items are lengthy printed "Personal Letters" from Fife to prospective purchasers of stock, extolling the bargains he had available. Companies Fife represented included the Sunset Gold and Mining Company, Denver, Colo. and the Great Western Gold Company, Ingot, Calif., and St. Louis, Mo.