Accounts and publications about Indians, 1934-1938.
Collection Number: 9087
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Accounts and publications about Indians, 1934-1938.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
9087
Abstract:
Correspondence, biographies, and accounts collected in the 1930s, but describing actions
from many years previous. Focus is on western Indians, exploration, and pioneers,
particularly pertaining to Colorado and Utah. Folder 1: correspondence from Thomas
P. Willson of the society. Stories of Indian captivities in Nebraska. Folder 2: accounts
about Tascosa Texas, Guatemala, Central America Accounts, E. B. Sopris, William Carroll
Riggs, St. Louis, Pierre Laclede, William Campbell, The Pony Express, J. A. Billington,
Thomas P. Wilson, Joseph McCoy, Theodore C. Henry, Mexico, Truman Blancett, Sand and
Midway Island in the Pacific, Indian medicine balls, and correspondence written by
William E. Drisdale, Jerry Hammer, Mrs. W. W. Boyle, and W. H. Streeper. Folder 3:
Account about Indians by the government scout who captured Geronimo, recorded by Morris
S. Swett, librarian at Fort Sill Oklahoma. Scout was a Kiowa named I-See-O. Includes
excerpts of letters to E. H. Plummer from Hugh L. Scott and notes on the history of
Indian use of peyote. Folder 4: Autobiography of Thales H. Haskell. Includes experiences
with Indians, Navajo, Ute and others, on a trip out west.
Creator:
Roeder, Arthur, Mrs.
Seeley, Charles Livingstone.
Bond, Frank, 1856-1940.
Roeder, Harriet A.
Huntington Free Library
Quanitities:
14 folders.
Language:
Collection material in English
Correspondence, biographies, and accounts collected in the 1930s, but describing actions
from many years previous. Focus is on western Indians, exploration, and pioneers,
particularly pertaining to Colorado and Utah. Folder 1: correspondence from Thomas
P. Willson of the society. Stories of Indian captivities in Nebraska. Folder 2: accounts
about Tascosa Texas, Guatemala, Central America Accounts, E. B. Sopris, William Carroll
Riggs, St. Louis, Pierre Laclede, William Campbell, The Pony Express, J. A. Billington,
Thomas P. Wilson, Joseph McCoy, Theodore C. Henry, Mexico, Truman Blancett, Sand and
Midway Island in the Pacific, Indian medicine balls, and correspondence written by
William E. Drisdale, Jerry Hammer, Mrs. W. W. Boyle, and W. H. Streeper. Folder 3:
Account about Indians by the government scout who captured Geronimo, recorded by Morris
S. Swett, librarian at Fort Sill Oklahoma. Scout was a Kiowa named I-See-O. Includes
excerpts of letters to E. H. Plummer from Hugh L. Scott and notes on the history of
Indian use of peyote. Folder 4: Autobiography of Thales H. Haskell. Includes experiences
with Indians, Navajo, Ute and others, on a trip out west.
Folder 5: Correspondence from Thomas P. Wilson and Charles Kelly about the Mormon
State of Deseret or Utah. Includes manuscripts written in the Deseret Alphabet by
Thales H. Haskell, and E. K. Friller. Discussion of Deseret gold coins, Moquis Indians,
Mormons, Joseph Smith and Brigham Young. Also a Photostat of a page from Ordinances
of the State of Deseret. Folder 6: Flyer from Las Vegas dated March 24, 1882, titled
Notice to thieves, thugs, fakirs, and bunko-steerers. Lists criminals and notes that
they will be invited to a "grand neck tie party" if they do not leave town by 10:00pm
that night. Criminals listed include, J.J. Harlin, aka Off Wheeler, Saw Dust Charlie,
William Hedges, William Henry Bonney, aka Billy the Kid, Billy Mullin, Little Jack,
The Cutter, and Pock-Marked Kid. Poster reproduced by the C. S. Card Iron Works Company,
Denver. Folder 7: Map of Jefferson Territory and a Photostat of a proclamation, dated
June 6, 1861, by R. W. Steele governor of Jefferson Territory disbanding the territory
and telling employees and residence to abide by the laws governing the United States.
Folder 8: Information about Egyptians and Egypt, particularly King Tutankhamen by
Howard Carter and Arthur Weigall excerpted from publications.
Folder 9: Minnequa Historical Society bulletins, 1934. Includes a photo of an old
Spanish fort. Information about Indian arrowheads, the Oregon Trail, the Aztecs, information
pertaining to the exploration of Colorado and Utah. Folder 10: Minnequa Historical
Society bulletins, February through December 1935. Wide range of accounts and information
about exploration and life of pioneers and Indians, description of places and forts,
in the West, mainly Utah and Colorado. Includes some photos and postcards. Folder
11: Issues of the Minnequa Historical Society bulletins, 1936. These include accounts
of pioneer life and Indians of the West. Information on Chief Crazy Horse, Jack Stilwell,
Zebulon Montgomery Pike, and Pueblo and Lakota Indians. Folder 12: Various papers
about Indians. Correspondence from T. P. Wilson, Margaret Burke, Andrew Jenson, and
M. M. Watson. Photo of a Navajo family, information about Folsom points, legend of
Texas about the women in blue, Fort Bernard and Santa Clara Indians. Folder 13: Photos
from the Oregon Trail near Guernsey, Wyoming. Possibly photos of a town, possibly
a mine, wagon wheel tracks, several photos of the register cliffs and rocks showing
the names of the pioneers carved in stone, gravestone of Mary E. Homsley. Names on
registers include H. H. Roman, W. E. Conwell, L. Acers, E. S. Pemce, N Shre, J. Foreman,
A. Lamb.
Folder 14: Three publications, The Colorado Magazine Volume 7 March 1930 with articles
on Bent's Fort and Indians in Colorado; Pioneer Days in the Arkansas Valley in Southern
Colorado and History of Bent's Fort by Charles Livingstone Seeley, August 1932; and
Historical Sketch of Louisiana and the Louisiana Purchase by Frank Bond and the Department
of the Interior, 1933.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Accounts and publications about Indians, #9087. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections,
Cornell University Library.
Objects associated with this collection are at the National Museum of the American
Indian.
Names:
Billington, J. A.
Blancett, Truman.
Billy, the Kid.
Burke, Margaret, active 1933.
Campbell, William, 1842-1932.
Carter, Howard, 1874-1939.
Crazy Horse, approximately 1842-1877.
Drisdale, William E.
Friller, E. K.
Geronimo, 1829-1909.
Hammer, Jerry.
Harlin, J. J.
Haskell, Thales H.
Hedges, William, active 1882.
Henry, Theodore, C.
I-See-O, . 1927.
Jenson, Andrew, 1850-1941.
Kelly, Charles, 1889-1971.
Laclède-Liguest, Pierre de, 1724-1778.
Little Jack.
McCoy, Joseph G. (Joseph Geiting), 1837-1915.
Mullin, Billy.
Plummer, E. H.
Pike, Zebulon, 1751-1834.
Pock-Marked Kid.
Riggs, William Carroll, 1856-1924.
Saw Dust Charlie.
Scott, Hugh Lenox, 1853-1934.
Smith, Joseph, Jr., 1805-1844.
Sopris, E. B.
Steele, Robert W. (Robert Wilbur), 1819-1891.
Stilwell, Jack.
Streeper, W. H.
The. Cutter
Tutankhamen, King of Egypt.
Tutankhamen, King of Egypt -- : Tomb.
Watson, M. M.
Weigall, Arthur E. P. Brome (Arthur Edward Pearse Brome), 1880-1934.
Wilson, Thomas P., active 1936.
Young, Brigham, 1801-1877.
Places:
Utah -- History.
Trinidad (Colo.)
Tascosa (Tex.)
Rose Atoll (American Samoa).
Pueblo (Colo.)
Oregon National Historic Trail.
Midway Islands.
Louisiana -- History.
Louisiana -- Boundaries.
Guernsey (Wyo.)
Deseret.
Bent\'s Fort (Colo.)
Arkansas River Valley -- History.
Subjects:
Ute Indians.
Lakota Indians.
Pueblo Indians.
Pony express.
Pioneers.
Peyote.
Navajo Indians.
Deseret alphabet -- Texts.
Mormons.
Mormon pioneers.
Mormon Church.
Louisiana Purchase.
Kiowa Apache Indians.
Indian captivities.
Hopi Indians.
Frontier and pioneer life -- Colorado.
Frontier and pioneer life.
Folsom points.
Aztecs.
Apache Indians.
Indians of Mexico.
Indians of Central America -- Guatemala.
Indians of North America -- Nebraska.
Indians of North America -- Medicine.
Indians of North America -- Implements.
Indians of North America.
CONTAINER LIST
Container
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Description
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Date
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Series I. Accounts, biographies, and correspondence
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Huntington Box 14 | Folder 1 |
Captivities
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Laura L. Roper
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Huntington Box 14 | Folder 2 |
Accounts
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William E. Drisdale
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Jerry Hammer
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General E. B. Sopris
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W. W. Boyle
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William Carroll Riggs
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Thomas P. Wilson
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William Campbell
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J. A. Bullington
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W. H. Streeper
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Trumon Blancett
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Mrs. George B. Perry
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Huntington Box 14 | Folder 3 |
I-See-O, Kiowa Indian scout
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Huntington Box 14 | Folder 4 |
Thales H. Haskell
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Series II. Published items
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Huntington Box 14 | Folder 5 |
Ordinances of the State of the Dessert
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Dessert Alphabet
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Thales H. Haskell
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Scope and Contents
Includes note from B. W. Harrison 1934 stating that letter in the alphabet written
by his father, Haskell, when he and E. K. Friller were with the missionairies with
the Moquis Indians during the Winter of 1859-1860.
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Huntington Box 14 | Folder 6 |
Notice flyer for "Grand Neck-tie Party", hanging
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Huntington Box 14 | Folder 7 |
Proclamation disbanding territory of Jefferson with map
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Huntington Box 14 | Folder 8 |
King Tutankhamen
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Huntington Box 14 | Folder 12 |
Misc. articles photos, clippings
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Huntington Box 14 | Folder 14 |
Pioneer Days in the Arkansas Valley in Southern Colorado and History of Bent's Fort Charles Livingstone Seeley
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1932 |
Huntington Box 14 | Folder 14 |
Historical Sketch of Louisiana and the Louisiana Purchase Frank Bond
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1933 |
Huntington Box 14 | Folder 14 |
The Colorado Magazine State Historical Society of Colorado
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March, 1930 |
Series III. Minnequa Historical Society bulletins
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Huntington Box 14 | Folder 9 |
August, October, Christmas 1934
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1934 |
Huntington Box 14 | Folder 10 |
February-December 1935
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1935 |
Huntington Box 14 | Folder 11 |
February 1936
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1936 |
Series IV. Photographs
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Huntington Box 14 | Folder 13 |
Oregon Trail
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