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- ↑ "Ex-Teacher Merchant Dies At 75". Arizona Daily Star . November 27, 1984. p. 3. Retrieved September 17, 2022– via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ "Pathways of Old Memories". Arizona Daily Sun . September 2, 1965. p. 4. Retrieved September 17, 2022– via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ "Mary Favour Hazeltine". Arizona Daily Sun . February 20, 2005. p. 18. Retrieved September 17, 2022– via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ Favour, Alpheus H. (1962). Old Bill Williams: Mountain Man. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 0806116986. Archived from the original on November 15, 2016.
- ↑ "Up Old Bill's Hill". Arizona Republic . August 26, 2004. p. 87. Retrieved September 17, 2022– via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ "A. H. Favour Rites Arranges". Arizona Republic . January 3, 1940. p. 9. Retrieved September 17, 2022– via Newspapers.com.
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