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Frontier and pioneer life.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:

Accounts and publications about Indians

 Collection
Identifier: 9087
Abstract Correspondence, biographies, and accounts collected in the 1930s, but describing actions from many years previous. Focus is on western Indians, exploration, and pioneers, particularly pertaining to Colorado and Utah. Folder 1: correspondence from Thomas P. Willson of the society. Stories of Indian captivities in Nebraska. Folder 2: accounts about Tascosa Texas, Guatemala, Central America Accounts, E. B. Sopris, William Carroll Riggs, St. Louis, Pierre Laclede, William Campbell, The Pony...
Dates: 1934-1938.

Colored photographs of the frontier

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 9111

James Leonard Carlton reminiscences

 Collection — Manuscript box 48 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065250825]
Identifier: 2396

L. A. Huffman scrapbook

 Collection — Huntington box 35
Identifier: 9113

M. L. Baker letters

 Collection — Huntington box 36 - folder 1
Identifier: 9201

Matthew T. Scott papers

 Collection — Box 12: [Barcode: 31924064937349]
Identifier: 330
Abstract

A collection of business documents relating to the establishment and development of a 55,000-acre frontier estate in Illinois and a 5,000-acre estate in Iowa, by Matthew T. Scott, Jr., of Lexington, Kentucky, the Scott family and other partners. Notebooks and papers dating from 1852 describe purchases, acquisitions and sales of land and the development costs and crop yields of frontier farms.

Dates: 1831-1930.

Peck family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 322

The Huffman pictures

 Collection — Huntington box 20
Identifier: 9089