Holbrook is a storied American witnessed fall. Excerpted from the classic W. M. Foote monograph of November 1912:

"It was doubtless the literary exaggerations of the 18th century and similar causes which prevented early geologists and astronomers from investigating the reports of falling sky-stones. But in the fatherland of yellow journalism we sometimes find a journalistic restraint, under conditions that are worth of remark, and which prove the labor of the news-gatherer to be of value to science. In the last week of July, the following acount appeared in several Arizona papers:

'Friday evening about six-thirty a meteor, or some other body of a like nature, passed over Holbrook going almost due east at a rate of speed that would make a swift-moving express train seem as though it were standing dead still. The noise it created was very loud and lasted for at least a half a minute and sounded somewhat like distant thunder or the booming of a cannon in the distance. It left a large cloud of smoke in its trail and several of our citizens heard it explode a couple of times. A few saw it and nearly everyone heard the noise it made. Reports from Winslow are that several people saw the body pass over the town, and the noise was heard at St. Joseph, Woodruff, Pinedale, and Concho. That either all or part of the body fell near the section house at Aztec, six miles east of here, there seems to be little doubt.'

About two dozen people went to Aztec to pick up pieces of the meteor Sunday afternoon and the field is now pretty well cleaned up..."

This last sentence is at least amusing, as this strewn field has successfully been hunted for the subsequent century with marked success. After the aforementioned search conducted by some two dozen people, another recovery attempt was funded by Foote:

"A most careful search by over one hundred persons was made under that stimulus which is usually found to be instantly effective. This search continued for two months. The discoveries of new stones rapidly rose and as rapidly dwindled to nothing."

It is unknown how many stones in addition to the originally-estimated 14,000 or so at the time of Foote's writing have since been recovered.

This specimen was acquired in the October 28, 2007, Bonhams auction, the first ever by a major international auction house to be solely dedicated to meteorites.