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Utah Westerners records, 1967-2009

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Westerners. Utah Westerners
Title
Utah Westerners records
Dates
1967-2009 (inclusive)
Quantity
14 linear feet
Collection Number
ACCN 0370
Summary
The Utah Westerners records (1967-2009) includes the organization's bylaws and constitution, a calendar of events, lecture transcripts, correspondence, membership rosters, meeting minutes, field trip itineraries, completed questionnaires, membership applications, speech transcripts, and other documents. This collection also contains files kept by the Utah Westerners for two other organizations: the Fort Douglas Museum Association and Westerner's International. The Utah Westerners was organized in 1967. The major events of this all-male club are monthly lectures and annual field trips. These lectures and field trips allow club members to increase their knowledge of Western American history by addressing topics such as early Utah politics, Native Americans and westward expansion, Mormonism in the nineteenth century, and transportation, colonization, exploration, and communication in the West. The Utah Westerners holds its monthly lectures at the Alta Club in Salt Lake City.
Repository
University of Utah Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library
University of Utah
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City, UT
84112-0860

Telephone: 8015818863
special@library.utah.edu
Access Restrictions

Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.

Languages
English
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Content Description

The Utah Westerners records (1967-2009) includes the organization's bylaws and constitution, a calendar of events, lecture transcripts, correspondence, membership rosters, meeting minutes, field trip itineraries, completed questionnaires, membership applications, speech transcripts, and other documents. This collection also contains files kept by the Utah Westerners for two other organizations: the Fort Douglas Museum Association and Westerner's International. The Utah Westerners was organized in 1967, holding its first meeting in December of that year. The major events of this all-male club are monthly lectures and annual field trips. These lectures and field trips allow club members to increase their knowledge of Western American history by addressing topics such as early Utah politics, Native Americans and westward expansion, Mormonism in the nineteenth century, and transportation, colonization, exploration, and communication in the West. The Utah Westerners holds its monthly lectures at the Alta Club in Salt Lake City.

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

The library does not claim to control copyright for all materials in the collection. An individual depicted in a reproduction has privacy rights as outlined in Title 45 CFR, part 46 (Protection of Human Subjects). For further information, please review the J. Willard Marriott Library’s Use Agreement and Reproduction Request forms.

Preferred Citation

Collection Name, Collection Number, Box Number, Folder Number. Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, The University of Utah.

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Administrative Information

Acquisition Information

Boxes 1-3 were donated by Greg Thompson, the Utah Westerners, and Peter DeLafosse in 1974-1997 (1.5 linear feet).

Boxes 4-6 were donated by Oscar Olsen in 2001 (1.5 linear feet).

Boxes 7-10 were donated by Greg Thompson, Vernon Gorzitze, and unrecorded donors in 2002-2004 (1.75 linear feet).

Boxes 11-24 were donated by Vernon Gorzitze, Walter Jones, Paul Mogren, and unrecorded donors in 2002-2004 (1.75 linear feet).

Separated Materials

Photographs and audio-visual materials were transferred to the Multimedia Division of Special Collections (P0621 and A0142).

Processing Note

Processed by Julie Hunsaker, Liz Rogers, Lisa DeMille, and Halle Fiderlick in 1997-2015.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

  • Transcripts and Miscellaneous Files

    • Description: Calendar of Events for Utah Westerners

      Draft and published calendar.

      Dates: 1967-1990
      Container: Box 1, Folder 1
    • Description: Fort Douglas Museum Association File

      A newsletter, an issue of "Headquarters Heliogram," a membership application, a photocopy of the Certificate of Incorporation, a brochure, tour information, a tax notice, a financial report, Historic Park correspondence and budget, a biography of Patrick Edward Connor, and U.S. Army Pioneers: Black Soldiers in Nineteenth-Century Utah, by Michael J. Clark. Also included in this folder are a brochure, "Historic Forts of the Old West," and an issue of Periodical: Journal of the Council on America's Military Past (12:3).

      Dates: 1974-1975; 1981-1985
      Container: Box 1, Folder 2
    • Description: Westerners International File

      Correspondence, issues of the "Buckskin Bulletin," awards entry forms, and the 1981 Tally Sheet.

      Dates: 1975-1989
      Container: Box 1, Folder 3
    • Description: Floyd O'Neil, "The Lynching of Robert Marshall"
      Dates: 1969
      Container: Box 1, Folder 4
    • Description: O. N. Malmquist, "The Life and Times of the Salt Lake Tribune"
      Dates: 1969
      Container: Box 1, Folder 5
    • Description: T. Edgar Lyon, "Nauvoo: History and Restoration"
      Dates: 1970
      Container: Box 1, Folder 6
    • Description: Samuel W. Taylor, "The Hanging of the Hodge Brothers"
      Dates: 1970
      Container: Box 1, Folder 7
    • Description: Mark Leone, "An Evolution in Mormon Culture"
      Dates: 1970
      Container: Box 1, Folder 8
    • Description: Brigham D. Madsen, "When Jehus Ruled the Road"
      Dates: 1971
      Container: Box 1, Folder 9
    • Description: William J. Petersen, "Ho! For the Mountains! Ho! For the Gold Mines!"
      Dates: 1971
      Container: Box 1, Folder 10
    • Description: Bishop Robert Joseph Dwyer, "A New Look at Father Pierre DeSmet"
      Dates: 1971
      Container: Box 1, Folder 11
    • Description: Sam Weller, "Booksellers in Salt Lake City, Their Trials and Tribulations" and "Books as Investments"
      Dates: 1972
      Container: Box 1, Folder 12
    • Description: Nelson Wadsworth, "Through Camera Eyes: A Photographic History of Utah and the Mormons"
      Dates: 1972
      Container: Box 1, Folder 13
    • Description: Dean Larson, "The Discovery and Exploration of Yellowstone"
      Dates: 1972
      Container: Box 1, Folder 14
    • Description: Sam Arnold, "Frying Pans West"
      Dates: 1973
      Container: Box 1, Folder 15
    • Description: Unknown, "If You Want to Have a Good Time, Don't Jine the Cavalry"
      Container: Box 1, Folder 16
    • Description: Mary Lee Spence, "The Fremonts and Utah"
      Dates: 1975
      Container: Box 1, Folder 17
    • Description: W. Turrentine Jackson, "Salt Lake City: Transportation Depot During the Stagecoach Era"
      Dates: 1984
      Container: Box 1, Folder 18
  • Organizational Records

    • Description: Organizational Records
      Dates: 1968-1984
      Container: Box 2
    • Description: Organizational Records
      Dates: 1985-1996
      Container: Box 3, Folder 1-14
    • Description: Miscellaneous

      Correspondence, meeting minutes, an officers list, a membership attendance list, a ballot, programs and announcements, a dinner attendance list, a biographical sketch for H. Rush Spedden and an unknown person, a bibliography of works by William Rozelle Christensen, recipes, articles, photocopies of photographs, and other items.

      Container: Box 3, Folder 15
    • Description: Bank Records
      Dates: 1991-1999
      Container: Box 4
  • Trips and Activities

    • Description: Yellowstone Trip
      Dates: 1991
      Container: Box 5, Folder 1
    • Description: Donner Lake, Carson City Trip
      Dates: 1992
      Container: Box 5, Folder 2
    • Description: Montana Trip
      Dates: 1993
      Container: Box 5, Folder 3
    • Description: Wyoming Trip
      Dates: 1994
      Container: Box 5, Folder 4
    • Description: Arizona Trip
      Dates: 1995
      Container: Box 5, Folder 5
    • Description: Great Salt Lake Boat Trip
      Dates: 1995
      Container: Box 5, Folder 6
    • Description: Southern Utah and Arizona Trip
      Dates: 1996
      Container: Box 5, Folder 7
    • Description: Club Activities

      Includes information on northern New Mexico trip; Pocatello, Idaho, trip; and Fort Benton, Montana, trip.

      Dates: 1997-1999
      Container: Box 5, Folder 8-10
  • Organizational Records

    • Description: Attendance
      Dates: 1991-1996
      Container: Box 6, Folder 1-4
    • Description: 30th Anniversary Brochures
      Dates: 1996
      Container: Box 6, Folder 5
    • Description: Alta Club Notices
      Dates: 1997-1999
      Container: Box 6, Folder 6
    • Description: Minutes and Newsletters
      Dates: 1995-1997
      Container: Box 6, Folder 7-9
    • Description: Receipts
      Dates: 1992-1999
      Container: Box 6, Folder 10-12
    • Description: Correspondence
      Dates: 1986-2003
      Container: Box 7, Folder 1
    • Description: Fur Trade Talks

      Given by Fred A. Gowans and Warren A. Ferris.

      Dates: 1984-1993
      Container: Box 7, Folder 2-3
    • Description: Field Expedition, Encampment at Chamber's Hole
      Dates: 1974
      Container: Box 7, Folder 4
    • Description: Field Expedition, Indian Wars 1866-1876
      Dates: 1975
      Container: Box 7, Folder 5
    • Description: Field Expedition, Oregon Trail
      Dates: 1977
      Container: Box 7, Folder 6
    • Description: Field Expedition, Great Salt Lake and Great American Desert
      Dates: 1978
      Container: Box 7, Folder 7
    • Description: Field Expedition, Cody, Wyoming
      Dates: 1979
      Container: Box 7, Folder 8
    • Description: Field Expedition, The Anasazi
      Dates: 1981
      Container: Box 7, Folder 9
    • Description: Field Expedition, Great Salt Lake and Points North
      Dates: 1982
      Container: Box 7, Folder 10
    • Description: Field Expedition, We Are Called to Dixie!
      Dates: 1983
      Container: Box 8, Folder 1
    • Description: Field Expedition, Return to Chamber's Bay on Fremont Lake
      Dates: 1984
      Container: Box 8, Folder 2
    • Description: Field Expedition, South to the Spanish Settlements
      Dates: 1987
      Container: Box 8, Folder 3
    • Description: Field Expedition, Westward Ho! For the State of Nevada
      Dates: 1988
      Container: Box 8, Folder 4
    • Description: Field Expedition, Ho! Indian Fights, Ho! Cattle Wars, and Other Historic Landmarks
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box 8, Folder 5
    • Description: Field Expedition, Ho! For the State of Colorado
      Dates: 1990
      Container: Box 8, Folder 6
    • Description: Field Expedition, Thar Be "Hos and Beaver" in Yellowstone Country
      Dates: 1991
      Container: Box 8, Folder 7
    • Description: Field Expedition, History A'Plenty in Northern Nevada
      Dates: 1992
      Container: Box 8, Folder 8
    • Description: Field Expedition, To the Greasy Grass
      Dates: 1993
      Container: Box 9, Folder 1
    • Description: Field Expedition, Yippee Ti Yi!
      Dates: 1994
      Container: Box 9, Folder 2
    • Description: Field Expedition, Southeast Arizona
      Dates: 1995
      Container: Box 9, Folder 3
    • Description: Field Expedition, Ho! for Southern Utah
      Dates: 1996
      Container: Box 9, Folder 4-5
    • Description: Field Expedition, Montana
      Dates: 1999
      Container: Box 9, Folder 6
    • Description: Field Expedition, North by Northwest
      Dates: 2001
      Container: Box 9, Folder 7
    • Description: Field Expedition, Black Hills of South Dakota
      Dates: 2002
      Container: Box 9, Folder 8
    • Description: By-law Revisions
      Dates: 2002-2003
      Container: Box 10, Folder 1
    • Description: Meeting Minutes and Agendas
      Dates: 2000-2003
      Container: Box 10, Folder 2
    • Description: Name Lists
      Dates: 1996-2002
      Container: Box 10, Folder 3
    • Description: Newsletters
      Dates: 1993-2003
      Container: Box 10, Folder 4
    • Description: 30th Anniversary Booklet
      Dates: 1998
      Container: Box 10, Folder 5
    • Description: Miscellaneous
      Container: Box 10, Folder 6
  • Administration and General Materials

  • Membership and Attendance

  • Programs and Meeting Minutes

  • Field Trips and Expeditions

  • 2008 Dinners

    • Description: January Dinner
      Dates: 2008
      Container: Box 16, Folder 1
    • Description: February Dinner
      Dates: 2008
      Container: Box 16, Folder 2
    • Description: March Dinner
      Dates: 2008
      Container: Box 16, Folder 3
    • Description: April Dinner
      Dates: 2008
      Container: Box 16, Folder 4
    • Description: May Dinner
      Dates: 2008
      Container: Box 16, Folder 5
    • Description: May Dinner
      Dates: 2008
      Container: Box 16, Folder 5
    • Description: July Dinner
      Dates: 2008
      Container: Box 16, Folder 6
    • Description: August Dinner
      Dates: 2008
      Container: Box 16, Folder 7
    • Description: September Dinner
      Dates: 2008
      Container: Box 16, Folder 8
    • Description: October Dinner
      Dates: 2008
      Container: Box 16, Folder 9
    • Description: November Dinner
      Dates: 2008
      Container: Box 16, Folder 10
    • Description: December Dinner
      Dates: 2008
      Container: Box 16, Folder 11
  • Financial Records

    • Description: Financial Records
      Dates: 2002-2005
      Container: Box 17, Folder 1-4
  • Correspondence and Expeditions

  • 2005 Dinners

    • Description: Membership Payments and Dinner Bills Jan-Oct
      Dates: 2005
      Container: Box 19, Folder 1
    • Description: Monthly Financial Report, Dinner, and Board Minutes for October
      Dates: 2005
      Container: Box 19, Folder 2
    • Description: Monthly Financial Report and Dinner for November
      Dates: 2005
      Container: Box 19, Folder 3
    • Description: December Monthly Dinner
      Dates: 2005
      Container: Box 19, Folder 4
    • Description: Monthly Financial Report and Dinner for December
      Dates: 2005
      Container: Box 19, Folder 5
  • 2006 Dinners

    • Description: Monthly Financial Report and Dinner for January
      Dates: 2006
      Container: Box 20, Folder 1
    • Description: Monthly Financial Report and Dinner for February
      Dates: 2006
      Container: Box 20, Folder 2
    • Description: Monthly Dinner for March
      Dates: 2006
      Container: Box 20, Folder 3
    • Description: Monthly Financial Report and Dinner for April
      Dates: 2006
      Container: Box 20, Folder 4
    • Description: Monthly Dinner for May
      Dates: 2006
      Container: Box 20, Folder 5
    • Description: Monthly Dinner for July
      Dates: 2006
      Container: Box 20, Folder 6
    • Description: Monthly Dinner for August
      Dates: 2006
      Container: Box 20, Folder 7
    • Description: Monthly Financial Report and Dinner for September
      Dates: 2006
      Container: Box 20, Folder 8
    • Description: Monthly Financial Report and Dinner for October
      Dates: 2006
      Container: Box 20, Folder 9
    • Description: Monthly Financial Report and Dinner for November
      Dates: 2006
      Container: Box 20, Folder 10
    • Description: Monthly Dinner for December
      Dates: 2006
      Container: Box 20, Folder 11
  • 2007 Dinners

    • Description: Monthly Financial Report and Dinner for January
      Dates: 2007
      Container: Box 21, Folder 1
    • Description: Monthly Dinner for February
      Dates: 2007
      Container: Box 21, Folder 2
    • Description: Monthly Financial Report and Dinner for March
      Dates: 2007
      Container: Box 21, Folder 3
    • Description: Annual Financial Report and Monthly Financial Report and Dinner for April
      Dates: 2007
      Container: Box 21, Folder 4
    • Description: Monthly Dinner for May
      Dates: 2007
      Container: Box 21, Folder 5
    • Description: Monthly Financial Report and Dinner for July
      Dates: 2007
      Container: Box 21, Folder 6
    • Description: Monthly Dinner for August
      Dates: 2007
      Container: Box 21, Folder 7
    • Description: Monthly Dinner for September
      Dates: 2007
      Container: Box 21, Folder 8
    • Description: Monthly Financial Report and Dinner for October
      Dates: 2007
      Container: Box 21, Folder 9
    • Description: Monthly Financial Report and Dinner for November
      Dates: 2007
      Container: Box 21, Folder 10
  • 2009 Dinners

    • Description: Monthly Financial Report and Dinner for January
      Dates: 2009
      Container: Box 22, Folder 1
    • Description: Monthly Dinner for February
      Dates: 2009
      Container: Box 22, Folder 2
    • Description: Monthly Financial Report and Dinner for March
      Dates: 2009
      Container: Box 22, Folder 3
    • Description: Monthly Financial Report and Dinner for April
      Dates: 2009
      Container: Box 22, Folder 4
    • Description: Monthly Dinner for May
      Dates: 2009
      Container: Box 22, Folder 5
    • Description: Monthly Dinner for July
      Dates: 2009
      Container: Box 22, Folder 6
    • Description: Monthly Financial Report and Dinner for August
      Dates: 2009
      Container: Box 22, Folder 7
    • Description: Monthly Dinner for September
      Dates: 2009
      Container: Box 22, Folder 8
    • Description: Monthly Financial Report and Dinner for October
      Dates: 2009
      Container: Box 22, Folder 9
    • Description: Monthly Financial Report and Dinner for November
      Dates: 2009
      Container: Box 22, Folder 10
    • Description: Monthly Financial Report and Dinner for December
      Dates: 2009
      Container: Box 22, Folder 11
  • Meeting Minutes and Financial Records

  • General Materials

    • Description: Poem
      Dates: 2009
      Container: Box 24, Folder 1
    • Description: Utah Westerner Notices
      Dates: 1982-2005
      Container: Box 24, Folder 2
    • Description: Publications
      Dates: 1974-2002
      Container: Box 24, Folder 3
    • Description: Historical Research Materials
      Container: Box 24, Folder 4
    • Description: Electronic Files
      Dates: 2004
      Container: Box 24, Folder 5
    • Description: Membership Badges
      Container: Box 25
    • Description: Membership Records
      Dates: 1989-2011
      Container: Box 26, Folder 1
    • Description: Utah Westerners Monthly Dinners
      Dates: 1985-2010
      Container: Box 26, Folder 2
    • Description: History of the Founding of Utah Westerners
      Container: Box 26, Folder 3
    • Description: Utah Westerners By-Laws
      Container: Box 26, Folder 4
    • Description: Utah Westerners Member Information and Photos
      Container: Box 26, Folder 5
    • Description: Utah Westerners Board Meeting Minutes
      Dates: 1978-2009
      Container: Box 26, Folder 6
    • Description: Buckskin Bulletin
      Dates: 1989-2004
      Container: Box 26, Folder 7
  • Field Trips

    • Description: Anasazi Field Trip
      Dates: 1981
      Container: Box 27, Folder 1
    • Description: Great Salt Lake and Points North Field Trip
      Dates: 1982
      Container: Box 27, Folder 2
    • Description: Dixie Field Trip
      Dates: 1983
      Container: Box 27, Folder 3
    • Description: Goldfields and Sacramento Field Trip
      Dates: 1985
      Container: Box 27, Folder 4
    • Description: Nevada Field Trip
      Dates: 1988
      Container: Box 27, Folder 5
    • Description: Wyoming Field Trip
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box 27, Folder 6
    • Description: Colorad Field Trip
      Dates: 1990
      Container: Box 27, Folder 7
    • Description: Nevada Field Trip
      Dates: 1992
      Container: Box 27, Folder 8
    • Description: Oregon Trail Field Trip
      Dates: 1993
      Container: Box 27, Folder 9
    • Description: South Pass Wyoming Field Trip
      Dates: 1994
      Container: Box 28, Folder 1
    • Description: Arizona Field Trip
      Dates: 1995
      Container: Box 28, Folder 2
    • Description: Southern Utah Field Trip
      Dates: 1996
      Container: Box 28, Folder 3
    • Description: Salt Lake Cutoff Field Trip
      Dates: 1998
      Container: Box 28, Folder 4
    • Description: Fort Bennion Montana Field Trip
      Dates: 1999
      Container: Box 28, Folder 5
    • Description: Brown's Hole Colorado Field Trip
      Dates: 2000
      Container: Box 29, Folder 1
    • Description: North by Northwest Field Trip
      Dates: 2001
      Container: Box 29, Folder 2
    • Description: Black Hills South Dakota Field Trip
      Dates: 2002
      Container: Box 29, Folder 3
    • Description: Uintah Basin Field Trip
      Dates: 2003
      Container: Box 29, Folder 4
    • Description: Monument Valley Field Trip
      Dates: 2004
      Container: Box 29, Folder 5
    • Description: Nebraska Field Trip
      Dates: 2006
      Container: Box 29, Folder 6-7
    • Description: Colorado Field Trip
      Dates: 2008
      Container: Box 30, Folder 1
    • Description: Idaho Field Trip 2006
      Container: Box 30, Folder 2
    • Description: Benchmark Books with Will Bagley and David Bigler
      Container: Box 30, Folder 3
    • Description: Correspondence
      Dates: 1984-2002
      Container: Box 30, Folder 4
    • Description: Expenses
      Dates: 1989,1999
      Container: Box 30, Folder 5
    • Description: Harold M. Schindler Obituary
      Dates: 1998
      Container: Box 30, Folder 6
    • Description: Martin's Cove Papers
      Container: Box 30, Folder 7
    • Description: Maps
      Container: Box 30, Folder 8
    • Description: Miscellaneous Articles
      Container: Box 30, Folder 9
    • Description: Newspaper Articles on Catholicism
      Container: Box 30, Folder 10
    • Description: Statue Photos
      Container: Box 30, Folder 11
    • Description: Utah Westerners Stationary and Applications
      Container: Box 30, Folder 12
    • Description: Virginia Dale Articles
      Container: Box 30, Folder 13
    • Description: Women in the Utah Westerners
      Container: Box 30, Folder 14

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Corporate Names

  • Fort Douglas Military Museum
  • Fort Douglas Museum Association
  • Westerners. Utah Westerners--Archives

Geographical Names

  • Utah--Description and travel
  • Utah--History
  • West (U.S.)--Description and travel
  • West (U.S.)--History

Form or Genre Terms

  • Announcements
  • Bylaws
  • Correspondence
  • Financial records
  • Membership lists
  • Minutes
  • Transcripts
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