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Drafts (Documents)

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:

Bloody Knife : Custer's favorite scout

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 2655
Scope and Contents

Typewritten book drafts with handwritten corrections. The item is a biography of the Indian scout who served under George Armstrong Custer. The manuscript was submitted to the Old Army Press for publication.

Dates: 1973

The Custer adventure : as told by its participants

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230322783]
Identifier: MSS SC 2665
Scope and Contents

Typewritten book draft with handwritten corrections. Upton compiled primary sources to tell the story of the Little Bighorn campaign of 1876. The item was submitted to the Old Army Press for publication.

Dates: 1975

Custer, calvary, and Crows

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 2660
Scope and Contents

Typewritten book draft with handwritten corrections. The item is a biography of William Henry White (1851-1938) who was a Montana pioneer, Indian fighter, and one of the command which buried the dead on the Custer battlefield in June of 1876. The item was submitted to the Old Army Press by Mrs. Theodore Heil for publication.

Dates: approximately 1930

Custer centennial observance

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 2667
Scope and Contents

Typewritten book drafts with handwritten corrections. The materials include notes, resource materials, and transcripts. The items were edited by Michael J. Koury. These materials relate to the books "Custer Centennial Observance" and "To Consecrate this Ground: The Custer Battlefield 1876-1976." The items were submitted to the Old Army Press for publication.

Dates: 1976

Custer for president?

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230325141]
Identifier: MSS SC 2581
Scope and Contents

Typewritten and printed book draft and galley proofs of the book "Custer for President?" The materials include handwritten corrections. Repass writes about the possibility of George A. Custer running for the President of the United States. The item was published in 1985 by the Old Army Press in Ft. Collins, Colorado.

Dates: 1985

Custer high spots

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230322460]
Identifier: MSS SC 2659
Scope and Contents

Typewritten book draft with handwritten corrections. Luther's work is an extension of Fred Dustin's bibliography of works on George Armstrong Custer which Luther regards as inadequate. The item was submitted to the Old Army Press for publication.

Dates: 1972

The Custer tragedy : events leading up to and following the Litte Big Horn Campaign of 1876

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197231055564]
Identifier: MSS 1414
Scope and Contents

Typescripts with corrections of a book draft by Dustin. Also included is a carbon copy of another draft.

Dates: 1939

East of Gettysburg

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230322569]
Identifier: MSS SC 2663
Scope and Contents

Typewritten book draft with handwritten corrections. The item is about the battle between the Confederate cavalry under Jeb Stuart and the Union forces under George Armstrong Custer and David McMurtrie Gregg on 3 July 1863 approximately three miles east of where "Picket's Charge" was engaging the federals. The manuscript was submitted to the Old Army Press for publication.

Dates: 1968

Robert J. Ege book drafts

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197230218163]
Identifier: MSS 1705
Scope and Contents

Typewritten book drafts with handwritten corrections. The materials are early versions later published. "Curse not his Curls" is about George Armstrong Custer and the Battle of the Little Bighorn. "Strike Them Hard" is about a massacre of Piegan Indians on the Marias River on 23 Jan. 1870. These items were submitted to the Old Army Press for publication.

Dates: 1970-1974

Walter Mason Camp writings, between 1910 and 1923

 Series
Identifier: MSS 57 Series 6
Scope and Contents

Contains drafts of the planned book, articles, and speeches written by Camp on the 7th Cavalry. These include materials from "Death of F. F. Gerard, a Custer Scout," "Some of the Indian Battles and Battlefield, Order of the Indian Wars Address," and "The Story of Custer and the Seventh Cavalry."

Dates: Other: between 1910 and 1923