Scope and content

Paintings signed Broncho Charlie and dated 1942. This could be Broncho Charlie Miller, sometimes spelled Bronco, who was the youngest rider for the Pony Express and showman for Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. Two of the paintings are titled "Wild Horses", and "Hunting Buffalo 1878 Kansas"; the third is untitled. The untitled painting depicts Indians fighting and being killed with guns, and also has riders on horseback. A southwestern mesa landscape is in the background.

Scope and content

Contains 6 original paintings of art signed by R. Cronau, mounted for publication. 4 pages of printed proofs of the paintings as well. Pencil notes along painting edges for publication purposes. Paintings have captions, Tizoc; Gold Treasure of Sigsig, Ecuador; and Turquois Mosaic Objects from Hawikuh, New Mexico. The paintings show Aztec and southwestern United States jewelry and sculpture.

Abstract Notebooks, sketches, postcards, photographs, manuscripts, Indian vocabularies, poetry, newspaper clippings, and maps. Most pertaining to mid west and northern Great Plains Indians. There are many sketches of native plants, some of them appear to have been copied from botanical books, but others appear to be original drawings also sketches of land formations. Biographic and encyclopedic information on Indians and their customs. Notes regarding places of the west he visited, cowboys, how to...