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Wyoming -- History

 Subject
Subject Source: Lcnaf

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

C. M. Brough letters

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233291886]
Identifier: Vault MSS 646
Scope and Contents

Two handwritten and signed letters. One deals with financial concerns and discusses a possible appointment from the governor of Wyoming. The other is personal and describes Indian relations in the Wind Rivers Valley.

Dates: 1869

Buffalo Bill papers

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233291829]
Identifier: Vault MSS 656
Scope and Contents

Handwritten and signed letters and printed pamphlets. Two letters from Cody are to his aunt Eliza Martin and sister Julia. Each discusses family matters. The remaining miscellaneous items were not written by Buffalo Bill, but comment on his life. Includes 8 items.

Dates: 1910-1929

Citadel on the Santa Fe Trail : the sage of Bent's Fort

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 2661
Scope and Contents

Typewritten book drafts with handwritten corrections. The items are early drafts of the "Bent's Fort" work and the "Military Posts of Wyoming" work. The materials were submitted to the Old Army Press for publication.

Dates: approximately 1970

Frank Ecoffey letter

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 1191
Scope and Contents

Handwritten and signed letter. The letter is in two parts. The first is a request on behalf of Hiram B. Kelly to purchase wagons from the store of Benjamin Mills The second part is a personal note from Ecoffey to Mills and discusses a visit by his wife to the Mills' store in Ft. Laramie.

Dates: 1868

Granville Stuart scrapbooks, 1865-1918

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1534 Series 11
Scope and Contents

This series is comprised of three scrapbooks, put together by Granville and Allis Brown Stuart, from 1865 to 1918, while they were living in Montana. The scrapbooks include newspaper clippings concerning cattlemen's meetings and Granville's death, along with letters of condolence to Allis.

Dates: 1865-1918

John R. Maxon Western American collection

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230350594]
Identifier: MSS 4229
Abstract

Research in the form of journals, notes and correspondence of the Platte Bridge Battle, 1963-1989.

Dates: 1963-1989

Testimony in the case of the Territory of Wyoming vs. George Parrott.

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230309285]
Identifier: MSS SC 1193
Scope and Contents

Photocopied typescript of testimony given in a murder and train robbery trial against George Parrott.

Dates: 1881