Scope and Contents The High Family Papers include correspondence, business and legal documents, photographs, realia, and miscellaneous items from 1803-1981. The families significantly represented in this collection include the High, Brooks, Denison, and Ringo families. Of particular interest is the correspondence from Thaddeus Ransome Brooks to his family describing his experience at Fort Buchanan, Arizona, including relations with the Pueblo and the Apache and the election of Abraham Lincoln. Also of interest...