Material Types
Subject
Subject Source: Cclabroad
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Mathew Brady portraits
Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233601381]
Identifier: MSS P 92
Dates:
approximately 1840-1859
Kit Carson papers
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197232537388]
Identifier: Vault MSS 513
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, military dispatches, a deed, a Taos County Resolution, and two payment vouchers. Nine of these items are personal in nature and are addressed to Carson from friends and family members. The remaining thirty-five letters are concerned with and document Indian affairs. They include instructions from superiors, official correspondence regarding military actions during the American Civil War in the West. They document aspects of the Jicarilla War of 1854-55, the Mescalero...
Dates:
1854-1867
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
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Kit Carson papers
Robert Ellison Western photographs
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS P 115
Scope and Contents
Collection includes two hundred and thirty photographs, including oversize images, one tintype, and a Brady photograph, with images of the oil industry and oil fields, landscapes of the West, G. A. Custer, and Ellison family and friends; stereographs of Indian wars, Wyoming; various western personalities and places; and postcards. Also includes four photographs and a postcard of Edward Copely and family. Also a picture of the printing shop at the "Old Nez Pierce Mission", and a postcard of...
Dates:
approximately 1880-1949
John L. Gaspar letter
File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230340066]
Identifier: MSS 80
Abstract
This folder contains a handwritten letter dated 24 March 1925 and addressed to the Utah historian, Le Roy Hafen. John L. Gaspar discusses his relationship and his knowledge of the American frontiersman and scout, Kit Carson (1809-1868).
Dates:
1925 March 24
Philander Simmons biography of Kit Carson
Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233291837]
Identifier: Vault MSS 657
Scope and Contents
Handwritten and signed biography of Kit Carson. These are the personal recollections of Simmons, who knew Carson from 1858-1867.
Dates:
1870