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Frontier and pioneer life.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 9 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.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Accounts and publications about Indians

Colored photographs of the frontier

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 9111
Scope and content Six colored photographs depicting life on the frontier. The photos include: taking cow robes (buffalo skins) at Timber Creek, 1878; Bull train, Main Street, Milestown, Montana Territory, 1880; Near Custer's Hill, June 25, 1877, one year after the battle, shows eight unmarked graves, from the Battle of the Little Bighorn, labeled as the last men to fall; Wild goats in the Badlands; A trail herd, Powder River, 1886; Buffalo hunters camp, a relic of the seventies. Each piece has the title and...
Dates: 1877-1886.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Colored photographs of the frontier

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.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / James Leonard Carlton reminiscences

L. A. Huffman scrapbook

 Collection — Huntington box 35
Identifier: 9113
Scope and content

Scrapbook containing pictures of L. A. Huffman photos, newspaper clippings about Huffman. Articles contain biographical information about Huffman as well as information about frontier life.

Dates: 1905-1930.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / L. A. Huffman scrapbook

M. L. Baker letters

 Collection — Huntington box 36 - folder 1
Identifier: 9201
Scope and content Photostats of letters from M. L. Baker to his family with typed transcriptions. Ten letters dating from September 13, 1846 to May 23, 1849. They describe the writer's participation in Mexican and Indian campaigns. Descriptions of the culture of Indians and landscape of the area around New Mexico, including encounters with Indians. Letters are addressed from Santa Fe New Mexico, Council Grove Kansas, Arkansas River near Pawnee Forks, Albuquerque New Mexico, and Head quarters Fort...
Dates: 1846-1849.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / M. L. Baker letters

Matthew T. Scott papers

 Collection — Box 12: [Barcode: 31924064937349]
Identifier: 330
Abstract

A collection of business documents relating to the establishment and development of a 55,000-acre frontier estate in Illinois and a 5,000-acre estate in Iowa, by Matthew T. Scott, Jr., of Lexington, Kentucky, the Scott family and other partners. Notebooks and papers dating from 1852 describe purchases, acquisitions and sales of land and the development costs and crop yields of frontier farms.

Dates: 1831-1930.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Matthew T. Scott papers

Peck family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 322
Scope and content Letters of Mary Hopkinton to Lucetta Abbot (1832-41) mention Universalism in St. Lawrence County, New York, and describe McConnellsville, Ohio (1841); letters from the Olin family of Bloomingdale, Wisconsin (1841-49) describe the conflict of religious sentiment with the realities of land speculation, the weather, prices, and progress of settlement; letters from W. Abbot (1851) from Nevada City and Placerville describe mining conditions; and four account books of the Peck family, Potsdam, St....
Dates: 1808-1883.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Peck family papers

Scrapbook containing information and pictures pertaining to Frederic Remington

 Collection — Huntington box 35
Identifier: 9112
Scope and content

Scrapbook containing pictures of Remington paintings and sculptures, newspaper clippings about Remington or showing Remington artwork, and program from a Remington exhibition. Articles cut from the Saturday Evening Post and Detroit Free Press. Articles containing biographical information about Remington as well as information about frontier life.

Dates: 1905-1930.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Scrapbook containing information and pictures pertaining to Frederic Remington

The Huffman pictures

 Collection — Huntington box 20
Identifier: 9089
Scope and content Album of photographs dated between 1870 and 1910. Some illustrations from magazines. Includes invoice for purchase by The Heye Foundation. Some of the photos are colored. The photos show various aspects of frontier and Indian life in Montana and Missouri. There is a typed note inside the cover from Huffman written at Miles Creek, Montana and a signed picture of Huffman. Included are photos of Sioux and Cheyenne Indians, cowboys, and ranchers, the battle field of Little Bighorn with the grave...
Dates: 1870-1910.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / The Huffman pictures

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