Pioneers.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Accounts and publications about Indians
Collection
Identifier: 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...
Dates:
1934-1938.
Elizabeth Sager letter and clippings
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 438
Scope and content
Letter to James Wightman from Elizabeth Sager Helm, the adopted daughter of Marcus Whitman. Also, clippings from the CHRONICLE EXPRESS (Penn Yan, New York) concerning Marcus and Narcissa Prentiss Whitman's journey into the Oregon Territory in the mid-1800s, Whitman's missionary work among the Indians, the Whitman massacre in 1847, D.A.R. plans for a Whitman memorial, and an article about pioneer Mary Jemison from THE ROCHESTER HERALD, n.d. Also included is a pamphlet "The Romance of a...
Dates:
1913, 1931.
James Leonard Carlton reminiscences
Collection — Manuscript box 48 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065250825]
Identifier: 2396
Scope and content
Typed reminiscences of James L. Carlton as dictated to Charlotte Holmes Crawford describe life in the Cherokee Strip, the Oklahoma land rush, and service in the 31st Michigan Infantry, National Guard, 1898-99, with comments on the Cuban campaign in the Spanish-American War and the role of blacks in the Battle of San Juan Hill.
Dates:
1958.
Marshall family papers
Collection
Identifier: 128
Abstract
Manuscript books and letters on genealogy of the Marshall family.
Dates:
1849-1898.
Whiteside family papers
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065174363]
Identifier: 643
Scope and content
This set of papers deals largely with the activities of Phineas and John Whiteside, pioneer farmers in Washington County, New York, who acted as agents (1785-90) in the handling of 3,756 acres of land for Henrietta Maria Colden and her son. The papers include deeds to Phineas Whiteside for 1,011 acres from Alexander Colden (1769) and Richard Nicholas Colden (1775) containing detailed information as to lots, names, rents, and terms, and with some rents fixed at 20 bushels of wheat per 100...
Dates:
1769-1938.