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Helen Addison Howard Papers, 1934-1989

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Howard, Helen Addison
Title
Helen Addison Howard Papers
Dates
1934-1989 (inclusive)
Quantity
3 containers., (2.5 linear feet of shelf space.), (50 items.)
Collection Number
Cage 197
Summary
Manuscripts of War Chief Joseph (1941) and Saga of Chief Joseph (1965) and published articles on western history.
Repository
Washington State University Libraries' Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC)
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections
Terrell Library Suite 12
Pullman, WA
99164-5610
Telephone: 509-335-6691
mascref@wsu.edu
Access Restrictions

This collection is open for research use.

Languages
English
Sponsor
Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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Biographical Note

Helen Addison Howard (Mrs. Ben Overland) was a writer of western U.S. history. She published two books on Chief Joseph and was one of several 1930s and 1940s writers who authored works on the Nez Perce. Howard also wrote on other Western topics, the last of which was a booklength manuscript entitled The UY Ranch: Reminiscences of a Montana Stockman's Wife: 1912-1921. The Sunflower University Press of Manhattan, Kansas, published it posthumously in 1989. Howard was born in Missoula, Montana, in 1904. She studied history at the University of Montana (called Montana State University at that time), under the direction of Paul C. Phillips. Howard received a master's degree in history at the University of Southern California. Since the 1930s, she made her home in Burbank, California. Howard continued to write up to her death from cancer in 1989.

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Content Description

The Howard Papers consists principally of two book-length manuscripts ( War Chief Joseph and Saga of Chief Joseph); correspondence between Howard and several other local and regional historians, and others; and maps, photographs, and drawings used in Howard's books, and paper placemats with a Native American motif used by the Florence Hotel, Missoula, Montana. During the mid-1930s, Helen Addison Howard researched and wrote her first book-length manuscript, War Chief Joseph. Caxton Printers of Caldwell, Idaho, published it in 1941. The volume was reissued in 1958. Howard later made extensive revisions to War Chief Joseph and published the revised work as Saga of Chief Joseph in 1958. The Helen Addison Howard Papers comprises all items accessioned at several points since 1941, except for an autographed copy of Saga of Chief Joseph, published in 1965. This volume was separated from the collection and is shelved in the rare books section of the WSU Libraries--Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections.

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Use of the Collection

Preferred Citation

[Item Description]. Cage 197, Helen Addison Howard Papers. Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

This collection is arranged in three series, reflecting the diverse nature of the items included in it.

Acquisition Information

Helen Addison Howard gave the Washington State University Libraries a substantial portion of this collection in 1941 and between 1965 and 1972. It was catalogued as Cage 197. More recently, in 1990, Helen Addison Howard's niece, Barbara Howard Finn, of Missoula, Montana, donated one linear foot of related materials (accessioned as MS 90-61).

Processing Note

Robert W. Hadlow processed the 1990 accession and reprocessed Cage 197 in February and March 1994. Both collections are combined as Cage 197.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection.

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Subject Terms

  • Indians of North America--Northwest, Pacific--Wars

Personal Names

  • Howard, Helen Addison --Archives (creator)
  • Joseph, Nez PercĂ© Chief, 1840-1904

Corporate Names

  • Nez PercĂ© Indians--Wars, 1877

Titles within the Collection

  • Saga of Chief Joseph
  • War Chief Joseph

Finding aid prepared by Robert W. Hadlow
2012

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