Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.).
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Autobiography of Isaac Jones Wistar manuscript, approximately 1892
Item
Identifier: 1500-001-36
Scope and Contents
Autobiographical notes. Philadelphia, 1892. Memoirs, much of which is devoted to the opening and development of the far West from 1849 to 1860
Dates:
approximately 1892
Henry C. Merriam papers, 1865-1907; bulk 1865-1877
Collection
Identifier: 1500-001-23
Scope and Contents
Handwritten letters by Colonel Henry C. Merriam, both personal and official correspondence, in a lined manuscript notebook, dating from Apr 1865 to Jun 1877. Topics addressed include: the capture of Fort Blakely, Alabama and the colored troops therein; an Indian skirmish near the Arkansas River; military plan of mobile detachments to fight Indians in preference to establishment of a permanent sub-post; requests for aid of Mexican military in the capture of marauding cattle thieves;...
Dates:
1865 - 1907; Majority of material found within 1865 - 1877
Robert Bruce papers, 1863-1950
Collection
Identifier: 1978-001
Scope and Contents
Consists of the source materials collected by Robert Bruce while researching his book, The Fighting Norths and Pawnee Scouts: Narratives and Reminiscences of Military Service on the Old Frontier. (Lincoln, Nebraska: Nebraska State Historical Society, [1932]. Materials dating from before 1900 are comprised of photographs or photostats of original materials obtained by Bruce during the course of his research. Included are original and photostat copies of correspondence between Bruce and...
Dates:
1863 - 1950
Two Great Scouts and their Pawnee Battalion Manuscript, approximately 1928
Item
Identifier: E83.866 .N86 1925 Ovrsz-.N86 1925 Ovrsz
Scope and Contents
Typescript draft with handwritten revisions and corrections of "Two great scouts and their Pawnee battalion; the experiences of Frank J. North and Luther H. North, pioneers in the great West, 1856-1882, and their defence of the building of the Union Pacific Railroad."
Dates:
approximately 1928