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92 days in the saddle
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 2649
Scope and Contents
Typewritten book draft with handwritten corrections. Butler and his wife took a bet to ride on horseback from the Canadian-North Dakota border to the town of Deadwood, South Dakota in twenty days. They actually started near Winnipeg, Canada and rode 1,550 miles to Steamboat Springs, Colorado in 92 days. The item was submitted to the Old Army Press for publication.
Dates:
1976
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
About Seander Semmons and his friends of bygone days
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 1355
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a handwritten biography composed at an unknown time. Wakefield writes about horse breaking and cattle herding in Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Colorado, and Montana.
Dates:
approximately 1920
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Ansel Adams photographs
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS P 379
Scope and Contents
Collection includes ten photographs by Ansel Adams of Western scenery, taken between 1936 and 1959.
Dates:
1936-1959
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
James B. Allen papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2183
Abstract
The collection of professional papers of James B. Allen, includes drafts and research files for various books, correspondence, class lecture notes and other papers. Manuscripts include those for The Story of The Latter-day Saints, The Company Town in the American West, Men with a Mission and Hearts Turned to the Fathers.
Dates:
approximately 1950-1999
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions letter received
File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 2197
Scope and Contents
Materials include a five page unsigned handwritten letter dated October 2, 1833, to Reverend D. Green, secretary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, from the chairman of a committee in Jacksonville, Illinois, requesting the Board's aid in outfitting a missionary group to the "Indians West of the Rocky Mountains." This letter is accompanied by a two page manuscript copy of a petition titled "Incipient measures in relation to the establishment of a mission," with...
Dates:
1833
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
American Pioneer Trails Association papers
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 42
Scope and Contents
The collection contains brochures, photographs, newspaper clippings,programs, and correspondence relating to the formation, projects, and meetings of the American Pioneer Trails Association, 1938-1943. Included are historical sketches and photographs of monuments erected at historical sites along various pioneer trails in the American West. Also included are charters and bylaws of various trail memorial associations and correspondence with Le Roy Hafen, an history professor at Brigham Young...
Dates:
1938-1943
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
An appeal to the president of the United States
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 241
Scope and Contents
Handwritten copy of a letter appealing to the president of the United States, James K. Polk. The item was copied in 1890, but the original was dated 1 June 1846. The letter states that the Mormons have been persecuted and appealed for aid. It is believed that Polk's call for volunteers to fight in the war with Mexico was an answer to this request. The "Mormon Battalion" was formed in consequence.
Dates:
1846 June 1
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Leonard J. Arrington miscellaneous images
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS P 628
Scope and Contents
Leonard J. Arrington miscellaneous images collection contains about 40 photographs mostly about sailing ships and scenery. There are also prints of Western American scenes.
Dates:
1880-1960
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Herbert S. Auerbach collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 7488
Scope and Contents
Collection includes letters, photographs, books, and maps relating to Herbert S. Auerbach's hobby of Western history, as well as a few miscellaneous items. The items were collected over the course of his lifetime. The collection dates from circa 1882 to 1945.
Dates:
approximately 1882-1945
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
D. F. Barry photographs of Native Americans
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS P 297
Scope and Contents
Collection includes seven photographs of Native Americans and Indian agents, taken by Barry between the 1880s and the 1890s.
Dates:
approximately 1880-1899
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
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