Colorado
Subject
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Found in 23 Collections and/or Records:
Chaffee County Republican Newspaper, 1927
Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 255.Unknown]
Identifier: TU2009.39.8377
Description
Chaffee County Republican Newspaper. Newspaper from December 16, 1927. Transcript (DCI) The Chaffee County Republican
Established 1881 –No. 2344 Buena Vista. Colorado, Friday, December 16, 1927 $2.00 per year
Buena Vista – The Gem of the Rocky Mountains
Some of The Old Time Stories Told in Pictures and Words – How, in the Early Days, Some Progressive Citizens Made a Pilgrimage to Granite and Swiped the County Records – Some Successes and...
Dates:
1927
Colorado River at the Grand Canyon, 1916
Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 255.Unknown]
Identifier: TU2009.39.7650.73
Description
Black and white photograph of the Colorado River looking South at the Grand Canyon. Photograph is part of the album TU2009.39.7650. A collection of pictures taken when Charles M. Russell and Nancy C. Russell join Howard Eaton on a six week trip to Arizona. They departed on September 9, 1916 to see the Grand Canyon and visit the Navajo and Hopi country.
Dates:
1916
Envelope, late 19th century - early 20th century
Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 255.Unknown]
Identifier: TU2009.39.8362.1
Description
Envelope addressed to Mrs. Helen E. Britzman, 2212 West Colorado Avenue, Colo. Spgs., Colorado.
Dates:
late 19th century - early 20th century
Envelope addressed to Joe M. Ross, Locust Grove, Indian Territory, March 9, 1905
Item — Folder 45: [Barcode: 188.45]
Identifier: 4027.291.1
Description
Folder 45
Dates:
March 9, 1905
Indian Territory with Part of the Adjoining State of Kansas, 1866
Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 233.Unknown]
Identifier: 3926.660a-b
Collection Overview
From the Collection:
Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: The Gilcrease Cartographic Collection was initially created as a storage designation for maps found in the manuscript collections and for the few original maps purchased during the life of Thomas Gilcrease. From the collections initial humble beginnings, it has continued to grow into am official map collection through additional gifts and purchases. The collection includes atlases, hand drawn maps from the manuscript...
Dates:
1866
John Lowery Brown's account of his journey from Grand Saline, Indian Territory to California goldfields, April 1850
Item — Folder 1: [Barcode: 27.1]
Identifier: 3616.94
Description
Foreword by Muriel H. Wright, June 1934. See transcription field for full text. Yellowed and crumbling with the passing of eighty-four years, the pages of a small, leather bound notebook reveal the story of the overland journey of a party of Cherokees who set out from the Grand Saline, Cherokee Nation, for California in 1850. This journal was kept by a young Cherokee, John Lowery Brown, who recorded the progress of the emigrants day by day. It tells the difficulties encountered along a...
Dates:
April 1850
Letter from M. W. Ritesman, Loveland, Colorado to Joe M. Ross, Locust Grove, writing to verify address, March 9, 1905
Item — Folder 45: [Barcode: 188.45]
Identifier: 4027.291
Description
Folder 45
Dates:
March 9, 1905
Letter from Richard to Leigh referencing a hunting trip, the Cody "Gold Rush", Yellowstone Park and Buffalo Bill Museums, and Rockefeller and H. C. Bunpas, 3/1/1931
Item — Folder 353: [Barcode: 127.353]
Identifier: 3826.2693
Description
Folder 353 Transcript (DCI) [first page of multi-page letter]
[handwritten in cursive with ink]
[stationery with personal letterhead of four lines centered at top of page:
“WILL RICHARD”, “SCULPTOR-TAXIDERMIST”, “THE CODY MUSEUM”, “CODY, WYO.”] Mar 1 / 31Dear Leigh: - It looks as tho I never would get around to answer your long letter of over a month ago, but I received it just as I was about to start down to...
Dates:
3/1/1931
Location certificate for Thomas Moran's Colorado mine, October 10, 1883
Item — Folder 96: [Barcode: 150.96]
Identifier: 5136.246
Description
Folder 96
Dates:
October 10, 1883
Manuscript Collection: John Lowery Brown
Collection
Identifier: MC.1954.26
Collection Overview
Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Journal of John Lowery Brown (1779-1852), a Cherokee. He and a party of fellow tribesmen left Grand Saline (near Salina, Oklahoma) on April 20, 1850, for the gold fields of California. After suffering many hardships, the party arrived late in September. The last entry is November 10, 1850. This journal is in English. A transcript with notes is printed in Vol. XII of the Chronicles of Oklahoma (Oklahoma Historical Society,...
Dates:
1850