Washington State University Libraries, Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections
Cage 203
White, Cull A., 1889-1964.
Cull A. White Papers
1885-1970
2 Linear feet of shelf space
4 Boxes
Correspondence, clippings, transcripts of tape
recordings, donor file, and other papers mostly related to Native American and
pioneer history in central Washington State.
Collection materials are in English
Cull A. White was born on December 17, 1889 in Omaha, Nebraska. He later attended
Miami University, in Ohio. White moved to Washington in 1909. Other than a brief
time in military service during the first world war, White made this state his
lifetime home. He was associated with the Coffin Brothers Sheep Company of Yakima
from 1918 to 1936. White also worked for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation as an
inspector at Grand Coulee Dam. He died on August 21, 1964 at his home in Elmer City.
Throughout the 1950s and early 1960s White researched and wrote about the history of
the peoples of north-central Washington. He focussed on the lives of Indians,
especially the descendants of Chief Moses and Chief Kamiakin, and the lives of
whites who inhabited the region in the late nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries.
The papers of Cull A. White consist of manuscripts and notes by White and others on
the history of Indians and whites who lived in north-central Washington in the late
nineteenth century. They include White's incoming and outgoing correspondence on
this subject, and the personal correspondence of other parties.
The papers were received with no particular filing arrangement in use. Subsequently,
Library staff arranged the papers into six series, arranged alphabetically within
each: Series 1. Notes and Manuscripts by White; Series 2. Manuscripts and published
material by other authors; Series 3. Incoming correspondence, correspondence of
others; Series 4. Newspaper clippings; Series 5. White's notepads and horn; Series
6. Miscellaneous correspondence, manuscripts, and newspaper clippings
This collection is open and available for research use.
Copyright restrictions may apply.
[Item description]
Cull A. White Papers, 1885-1970 (Cage 203)
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.
In the 1950s Cull A. White donated his papers and photographs to the WSU Libraries.
Katherine Hartley of Freeland, Washington donated an addition to the collection in
June 1983 (MS83-22).
In 1991, Ling Jinqi and Robert W. Hadlow reprocessed the Cull A White Papers, at
which time the photographs were separated into a distinct collection, PC 86.
Cull A. White Photographs and Negatives, 1861-1950 (PC 86)
Lucullus Virgil McWhorter Papers, 1848-1945 (Cage 55)
Frank S. Matsura Photographs, 1907-1913 (PC 35)
Nez Perce Photographs, circa 1877-1905 (PC 83)
Lucullus Virgil McWhorter Photographs, circa 1868-1950 (PC 85)
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the online
catalog. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or
places should search the catalog using these headings.
White, Cull A., 1889-1964 -- Archives.
Frontier and pioneer life -- Washington (State) -- Sources.
Indians of North America -- Washington (State)
Indians of North America -- Washington (State) -- History.
Native Americans
Washington (State)
Photographs
Series 1. Notes and Manuscripts by White
1
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Arcasa, Isabel Friedlander
6 items.
1
2
Bergevin Bros. Resuce Virginia City;
Montana Territory, 1865
1 item.
1
3
Brown, Charley,
1 item.
1
4
Burge, Milt
13 items.
1
5
Chinese Source Material
3 items.
1
6
Columbia Joe
1 item.
1
7
Colville Tribe
2 items.
1
8
Condon, Wild Goose Bill Samuel Wilbur
Condit
2 items.
1
9
Conversation between Mr. Mrs. Pete Wheeler, Cull White, John
Brown, Made July, 1961
1 item.
1
10
Covington, John Calvert "Virginia Bill"
8 items.
1
11
Curlew, Billy
7 items.
1
12
Damman, Art, Wagon Trip to the
Dalles
1 item.
1
13
Dolan, P. H.
1 item.
1
14
Drumheller, Jerome
3 items.
1
15
Dunn, William and Dunn, Millie Harshman
Marriage Return, January 20th 1892
1 item.
1
16
Father Davis Recalls Church's
History in Pacific Northwest
1 item.
1
17
Ft. Okanogan Museum Dedication,
Aug. 27, 1960
1 item.
1
18
Gathering No Moss Bergevin
Bros.
2 items.
1
19
George, Coxit (Coxit George)
5 items.
1
20
Grant County History
1 item.
1
21
Green Foot Sophy, Return Journey of
Green Foot Sophy After Her Escape From Blackfeet
Captors
1 item.
1
22
Hutchinson, Sam and Ben
4 items.
1
23
James, Jim, Funeral of Chief Jim
James
1 item.
1
24
Joseph (Chief Joseph)
4 items.
1
25
Lynch, Jenny McDonald
12 items.
1
26
Miscellaneous Notes--part 1
34 items.
1
27
Miscellaneous Notes--part 2
67 items.
1
28
Miscellaneous Notes--part 3
20items.
1
29
Miscellaneous Notes--part 4
72 items.
1
30
Miscellaneous Notes--part 5
24 items.
1
31
Miscellaneous Notes--part 6
91 items.
1
32
Moore, Clara
2 items.
2
33
Moses (Chief Moses)
14 items.
2
34
Moses, Mary
1 item.
2
35
Moses, Peter Dan
12 items.
2
36
Olney, Nathan and Cyrus
1 item.
2
37
Osborne, Charley
17 items.
2
38
Research Among Indians, with Dr.
Robert Ruby Moses Lake Prof. John Arthur Brown,
Wenatchee
1 item.
2
39
St. Mary's Mission, Omak, Washington
5 items.
2
40
Sensentzqh Sin Scintq, Sin-Sintq older
sister of Chief Moses
1 item.
2
41
The Sheriff's
Star
1 item.
2
42
Shotwell, Harry
3 items.
2
43
Smith, Hiram F., 'Okanogan Smith'
and 'Smith's Point'
1 item.
2
44
Strawmen and U.S. Marshals . .
.
2 items.
2
45
Thorp Children
3 items.
2
46
Tucker, Dave
1 item.
2
47
Unidentified Manuscript
1 item.
2
48
Wood, Erskine Craig
3 items.
Series 2. Manuscripts and published material
by other authors
2
49
Alcorn, Rowena L., Art Exhibit:
Portrait of Nez Perce Indians, 1962
June-September
1 item.
2
50
Bergevin, Clem, Canadians and
French Aided In This Section
1 item.
2
51
Case, Robert O., Christmas Eve at
Whitman's Mission
1 item.
2
52
Clark, Ella E. Dry Falls of the
Columbia and The Grand Coulee Dam,
poems
2 items.
2
53
Constitution and By-Laws of the Confederated Tribes of the
Colville Reservation
1 item.
2
54
Davin, Mrs. Lionel, The Early
History of Frenchtown
1 item.
2
55
Descendants of Frenchtown,
Frenchtown Rendezvous, April 24, 1949
1 item.
2
56
Fruit in
Kittitas
1 item.
2
57
Hibben, Frank, Buffalo Hunt:
Oklahoma City Style
1 item.
2
58
Historical Monuments and Markers
and Their Respective Locations in the State of Washington, up to
1949
1 item.
2
59
Jerome-Grubbs, Ferne, poems
2 items.
2
60
Kingston, C. S., "Samuel Wilbur
Condit: Frontiersman
1 item.
2
61
Kreitz, Mabel Patrick, "'Thunder
Rolling In the Mountains', Presenting the Indian's point of view on
the removal of Chief Joseph's body . . .
1 item.
2
62
Lehighton, Caroline C., excerpt from
Life at Puget Sound by Lehighton
1 item.
2
63
Lewis, William, S., Lured West by
Hudson's Bay Company,
1 item.
2
64
Lugenbeel, Major Pinkney, Letter to
Commissioners of Spokane County
July 1861
1 item.
2
65
The Madre D'Oro, vol. 1, no. 1, journal
1 item.
2
66
Palmer, Mrs. Lou, Narrative of
James Longmire, A Pioneer of 1853
3 items.
2
67
Petition-- Land Needs of the
Colville Indians
2 items.
2
68
The Pilgrimage to Old Fort
Okanogan
1 item.
2
69
Pingston, Captain Alfred T., Diary
of Steamer 'Alpha'
2 items.
2
70
Richardson, Albert D., Beyond the
Mississippi
1 item.
2
71
Sagebrush Annie, Riding the
Range, 1906
1 item.
2
72
Schoenberg, Wilfred, S.J., Jesuits in
Montana 1840-1960
1 item.
2
73
Snyder, Charles and Mary Gillel, Marriage
Certificate, 1874 Nevember 29
2 items.
2
74
Storch, Carl Friedrich Rudolph,
Auszug aus dem Geburts und Taufbuche,
1867
1 item.
2
75
Treaty with the
Yakima
1855
1 item.
2
76
United States Indian Service,
correspondence
5 items.
2
77
United States, Congress, 88th, 1st
session, S-1442, a bill to close roll of Colville Indian Reservation,
1963 May 2
1 item.
2
78
United States, Congress, House, Committee
on Indian Affairs, Letter to All Indian Members of the Reservation, 1944
June 10
1 item.
2
79
United States, Department of the Interior,
Office of Indian Affairs, Indians at Work, July
1939.
1 item.
2
80
Walla Walla, 1856-1952, Historical
Landmarks pamphlet
3 items.
2
81
Walla Walla: Cradle of Pacific
Northwest History, brochure
1 item.
2
82
Washington at a
Glance
1 item.
2
83
Washington, Secretary of State,
Monuments in the State of Washington
1 item.
2
84
Weaver, Harold, A Tour of the Old
Indian Camp Grounds of Central Washington
1 item.
2
85
Winans, William P. letter
1 item.
2
86
Wood, C. E. S. An Indian
Horse-Race, "as it appeared in Century Magazine, January
1887, vol. 33, pp. 447-450"
3 items.
Series 3. Incoming correspondence,
correspondence of others
3
87
Bills of Sale, Livestock
3 items.
3
88
Converse, Mrs. George L., Letter from E.
O. Holland President Emeritus, WSC, 1949 March 21
1 item.
3
89
Curlew, Billy, correspondence
82 items.
3
90
Huggins, E. L., U.S. Indian Service, Camp
Wenachiem sic
5-18-1885
1 item.
3
91
Kingston, Mrs. C. S., Letter from J. E.
Sykes
10-15-51
1 item.
3
92
White, Cull A., incoming correspondence
35 items.
Series 4. Newspaper clippings
3
93
Brown, Judge William Compton
1 item.
3
94
Curlew, Billy
1 item.
3
95
Grand Coulee Dam September 9, 1933
1 item.
3
96
Indian Chiefs
2 items.
3
97
James, Jim (Chief Jim James)
5 items.
3
98
Last Survivors Recall Nez Perce
Retreat
1 item.
3
99
Miscellaneous Newspaper Clippings
10 items.
3
100
Moses, Peter Dan
1 item.
3
101
Palisades Potlatch
1 item.
3
102
St. Mary's Mission, near Omak
3 items.
3
103
Sensentzqh (Sin Scinto)
1 item.
Series 5. White's notepads and horn
3
104
Notepads--Cull A. White, part 1
7 items.
3
105
Notepads--Cull A. White, part 2
6 items.
3
106
Notepads--Cull A. White, part 3
5 items.
3
107
Animal Horn
1 item.
Series 6. Miscellaneous correspondence,
manuscripts, and newspaper clippings
4
108
Manuscripts
13 items.
4
109
Miscellaneous Notes, Clippings, Letters
29 items.
4
110
Correspondence, Clippings
72 items.
4
111
Correspondence with Mary Avery, WSU
Archivist
27 items.
4
112
Miscellaneous Photographs, Clippings
8 items.
4
113
Oral History on Reel-to-Reel Cassette Tape
2 items.