Collection Summary
Hanna, Oliver Perry, b. 1851.
Oliver Perry Hanna manuscript
1926
00423
.25 cubic
feet (1 box)
University of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.
English
Biography of Oliver Perry HannaHanna (1851-1934) was born in Pennsylvania and came to Montana in 1868 and worked as a trapper and hunter. He worked as a supplier of fresh game for Fort McKinney in northern Wyoming and was also a scout for General George Crook in 1876. In 1878 Hanna homesteaded in Sheridan County, Wyoming and helped found the town of Bighorn in 1879. He sold his ranch in 1880 and ran a general store in Bighorn and later served as the town's postmaster from 1896-1900 before retiring to Long Beach, California.
Scope and ContentCollection contains the manuscript for Hanna's autobiography "An Old Timer's Story of the Old Wild West: Being the Recollection of Oliver Perry Hanna, Pioneer, Indian Fighter, Frontiersman, and First Settler in Sheridan County, WY" written in 1926 in which he discusses scouting and trapping, a trip through what is now Yellowstone National Park in 1870, frontier life in Bighorn and Sheridan County, Wyoming, the Johnson County War in 1892, the Battles of the Little Bighorn and Rosebud, and a trip to Veracruz, Mexico, in 1915.
Access Restrictions
There are no access restrictions on the materials for research purposes,
and the collection is open to the public.
Copyright Information
No portion of manuscript may be photographed, scanned, or otherwise reproduced. The researcher assumes full responsibility for observing all copyright,
property, and libel laws as they apply.
Related Materials
There are no known other archival collections created by Oliver Perry Hanna at the date of processing.
Additional Information
Finding aid available in repository.
Acquisition Information
The collection was received from Mrs. C.L. Carter in 1959.
Processing Information
Finding aid encoded by Morgan Walsh and D. Claudia Thompson in October 2020.
Preferred Citation
Item Description, Box Number, Folder Number, Collection Name, Collection
Number, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming.
Access Terms
Dakota Indians -- Wars, 1876.
Cheyenne Indians -- Wars, 1876.
Voyages and travels.
Johnson County War, 1892.
National parks and reserves -- Wyoming.
Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876.
Frontier and pioneer life -- Montana.
Frontier and pioneer life -- Wyoming -- Sheridan County.
Frontier and pioneer life -- Wyoming -- Bighorn.
Pioneers -- Wyoming -- Sheridan County -- Biography.
Scouts and scouting -- Wyoming.
Scouts and scouting -- Montana.
Trapping -- Montana.
Big Horn (Wyo.)
Fort McKinney (Wyo.)
Johnson County (Wyo.)
Sheridan County (Wyo.)
Montana -- History.
Veracruz (Veracruz, Mexico)
Yellowstone National Park.
Wyoming -- History -- To 1889.
Wyoming -- History -- 1890-1918.
Wyoming -- History -- 1919-1945.
Pioneers.
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Ranching
Immigration and American Expansion
Expeditions and Adventure
Pioneers
People, Ethnicity, and Culture
Native Americans
National Parks
Social Life and Customs
Montana
Wyoming
Container List
1An Old Timer's Story of the Old Wild West: Being the Recollection of Oliver Perry Hanna, Pioneer, Indian Fighter, Frontiersman, and First Settler in Sheridan County, Wyoming, by O.P. Hanna (photocopied manuscript)1926
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Photographs:
T698Bridal Veil Falls
Y3p-oLOld Faithful Excelsior Geyser
Y3p-geExcelsior Geyser
Y3p-hOld Faithful Inn
Y3p-gGrotto Geyser
B482Big Horn Mountains
R517Shoshone River
C418pChimney Rock
Y3pLake Eleanor
Y3pSylvan Lake
Y3p-LYellowstone Lake
Y3p-rYellowstone River
Y3p-mMammoth Hot Springs