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Indians of North America -- Wars -- 1866-1895

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 105 Collections and/or Records:

Walter Mason Camp interviews with Group 3, between 1903 and 1923

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 57 Series 3 Sub-Series 3
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Contains records of interviews conducted by Camp for his research on the Indian Wars.

Dates: Other: between 1903 and 1923
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 57, Walter Mason Camp papers / Walter Mason Camp interviews

Walter Mason Camp notes, between 1905 and 1923

 Series
Identifier: MSS 57 Series 4
Scope and Contents Contains notes prepared by Camp in the course of his research. Includes all general field notes and research notes, which is defined for filing purposes as all non-interview compilations in Camp's hand except maps and accompanying notes and drafts well-developed enough to be distinguished as writings. Most of Camp's general notes consist of questions either to ask of a future interviewee or to answer through research, along with reminders about people to see, where to find them and related...
Dates: Other: between 1905 and 1923
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 57, Walter Mason Camp papers

Walter Mason Camp research and reference file, between 1870 and 1943

 Series
Identifier: MSS 57 Series 7
Scope and Contents

Contains primary and secondary sources about various people, places and events involved in the Indian Wars. This includes articles, newspaper clippings, copies of accounts, letters, printed epherema, diaries, copies of reports, obituaries, notes, and maps. The research and reference file contains mostly materials collected by Camp and authored by others. Also, it contains everything that would not fit in any of the other categories in the collection.

Dates: Other: between 1870 and 1943
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 57, Walter Mason Camp papers

Walter Mason Camp typescripts of selected interviews and notes, approximately 1905-1925

 Series — Box 6: Series 5; Series 6 [Barcode: 31197225556205], Folder: 1-9
Identifier: MSS 57 Series 5
Scope and Contents Contains typescripts of selected interviews and notes. The typescripts of selected interviews and notes were an outgrowth of Kenneth Hammer's work on the book Custer in '76. As indicated, they are not a complete typescript for all the interviews and notes in the collection. Those filed here consist of a photocopy of the original which has been cut apart with scissors (and as such many pages carry original page numbers and markings such as "End of folder," which should be ignored) in order to...
Dates: approximately 1905-1925
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 57, Walter Mason Camp papers

With the Indian and the buffalo in Montana

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233290342]
Identifier: Vault MSS 498
Scope and Contents

Detailed handwritten account of his activities during the campaigns against the Cheyenne, Sioux, and Nez Perce tribes during the 1870s. His unit was the first on the scene of Custer's massacre on the Little Bighorn (1876), and he describes the battlefield in great depth, and also provides personal speculations on the specifics of the fight.

Dates: 1925
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / With the Indian and the buffalo in Montana

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