AHJ_ah00323 Inventory of the W. W. Morrison Papers, 1809-1976 Morrison (William Wayne) Papers Processed by Brittany Heye University of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.
American Heritage Center Dept. 3924, 1000 E. University Avenue University of Wyoming Laramie, WY 82071 Phone: 307.766.2574 Fax:307.766.5511 Email:ahcref@uwyo.edu URL:http://ahc.uwyo.edu/
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 Finding aid encoded by Mark Shelstad March 2006 Finding aid is in English W. W. Morrison papers, 1809-1976 Collection number 323 University of Wyoming. American Heritage Center. Publication date: 2006 Contact Information American Heritage Center Dept. 3924, 1000 E. University Avenue University of Wyoming Laramie, WY 82071 Phone: 307.766.2574 Fax:307.766.5511 Email:ahcref@uwyo.edu URL:http://ahc.uwyo.edu/ September 1986.

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 Collection Summary Morrison, W.W. (William Wayne) W. W. Morrison papers 1809-1976 00323 32.02 cubic ft. (32 boxes) University of Wyoming. American Heritage Center. English William Wayne Morrison (1898-1977) was passenger agent of the Union Pacific Railroad and a historian of emigrant trails and pioneer graves. This collection contains W.W. Morrison’s personal papers, books, and research files. They include diaries, maps, and photographs related to the history of emigrants, emigrant trails, and other western history. Biography of W.W. Morrison

William Wayne Morrison (1898-1977) was passenger agent of the Union Pacific Railroad and a historian of emigrant trails and pioneer graves. Morrison came to Hillsdale, Wyoming in the 1920s to work as a telegrapher for the Union Pacific Railroad and eventually became a freight and passenger agent. Throughout his life, Morrison conducted extensive personal research on the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails, collecting transcripts, diaries, narratives of overland travel, and photographing historic sites. He also corresponded with descendants of emigrants whose graves had been identified along these trails.

 Scope and Content

This collection contains W.W. Morrison’s personal papers, research files and books. His personal papers contain family history, artifacts, photographs, autobiographical manuscripts, maps, and his employment information with the Union Pacific Railroad. The research files contain diaries, photographs, notes, transcripts, manuscripts, subject files, newspapers, and audio materials related to Morrison’s research into western history, emigrants, and emigrant trails. Morrison’s book collection contains books and booklets related to western history, emigrants, emigrant trails, and the Civil War.

There are no access restrictions on the materials for research purposes, and the collection is open to the public.

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There are no known other archival collections created by W. W. Morrison at the date of processing.

Received from W.W. Morrison in 1954 and 1973 and from the Morrison family in 1986 and 1993.

The collection was processed by D.C. Thompson in 1986. This collection was updated in November 2025 by Brittany Heye.

Item Description, Box Number, Folder Number, W. W. Morrison Collection, Collection Number 323, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming.

 Access Terms Union Pacific Railroad Company Trails -- United States. Overland journeys to the Pacific. Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.) Massacres Massacres--United States Massacres--Wyoming Donner Party Pony express Latter Day Saints Latter Day Saint--History Latter Day Saints--United States Latter Day Saints--West (U.S.)--History Overland Trails. Oregon National Historic Trail California National Historic Trail Mormon Pioneer National Historic Trail Wyoming washigton (State) Oregon Kansas Utah Nevada Diaries. <?xm-replace_text {Title as Subject}?> Railroads Immigration and American Expansion Overland Journeys to the Western United States Pioneers Series I. Personal papers 1902-1975 1Artifact - Mail bagundated 21Artifact - Pattison Grave modelsundated 23Artifact - Railroad Spikesundated 23Artifact - Rockundated 21Artifact - Telegraph Keys undated 1Artifact - Tieundated 1Artifact - Train passes and cardsundated 21Artifact - Union Pacific Cigar Boxesundated 1Artifact - Wisconsin Dells leather knife holderundated 1Autobiographical - An Unforgettable Tragedyundated 1Autobiographical - English Compositions - stories written while at the Larmie County Community College, Cheyenne, WY1974 1Autobiographical - Eulogy to A Country School House, near Cumberland, OhioFebruary 1967 1Autobiographical - Eulogy to My Motherundated 1Autobiographical - Home and the Back DoorDecember 20, 1965 1Autobiographical - Little Rebecca Arrives - Bob and His New Day - The White DovesMarch 18, 1966 1Autobiographical - Travels - European Trip 1964 1Autobiographical - Travels - Hawaii1967 1Autobiographical - Travels - Puerto Vallarta, Mexico 1970 1Autobiographical - Travels - Olympia, Washington - Easter Time 1971 1Autobiographical - Our Trips - Hawaii, West Virginia, Ohio 1968 1Autobiographical - Our Trips - Ohio1973 26Certificates - Distinguished Help and Service to the Cause of Preserving our Western Trails and Traditions of Pioneers1942 26Certificates - The Father of the Year Award1975 26Certificates - Louie Miller School of Millinery certificate for Mrs. W.W. MorrisonFebruary 1950 28Diploma - Wayne MorrisonJune 1914 1Miscellaneous1930-1978 1Morrison Genealogical Research (and estate matters)undated 1Personal 1969-1977 1Photographs - Morrison family and friends (or unidentified)undated 1Photographs - Negatives - School Groups, family friends, West Virginiaundated 1Photographs - Negatives - W.W. Morrison and familyundated 1Post Cards - Europe1964 1Post Cards - Hawaii/ New Zealand1968, 1974 1Post Cards - Ohio, etc. 1902-1920 1Post Cards - Wyoming and the West1919-1964 1Souvenir Telegrams1976, undated 30Train line Telegraph chartsundated 1Union Pacific employment1925-1957 1William Wayne Morrison employment and financialundated 1William Wayne Morrison - school and personalundated Series II. Research files 1809-1976 1A. Kelly and John Hollman Graves - west of Ash Hollow1852 1Ada Magill Grave1864 1Ah- Ho - Appa1866 1Alva Unthank Grave1850 1Amanda Lamin Grave1850 1Amanda Mary Fletcher (Indian captivity)1865 2Ash Hollow to Scotts Bluffundated 2Augusta Winters Grant, edited by Mary Grant Jadd (granddaughter of Rebecca Winters)undated 2Barlow Road, Oregonundated 2Big Blue to Platte Junctionundated 2Blue Bucket Mine Toute (Meek Cutoff) Oregon undated 2Calamity Janeundated 2Columbia River (Oregon - Washington)undated 2Correspondence1954 2Deadwood Trail (Wyoming - South Dakota)undated 2Deer Creek to Fort Casper undated 2Donner Party 1846 2Donner Party - early History of Donner and Reed families1846 2Donner Party - Grim Journey by Hoffman Birneyundated 2Donner Party - James F. Reed diary 1846 2Donner Party - Miscellany 1846 2Donner Party - Patrick Breen diary 1846-1847 2Donner Party - Photographsundated 2Donner Party - transcripts from published sourcesundated 2Early Labors of the Missionaries1903 2Elva Ingram's Grave1852 2The Expedition of the Donner Party and It's Tragic Fate1911 2Extract from the Geiger Bryarly Diary1849 2Fanny Kelly (Indian Captivity)1864 2Floyd Bryan's Grave (death of Floyd Bryan) 1912 2Fort Boise to Columbia River, Oregonundated 3Fort Casperundated 3Fort Casper to Sweetwaterundated 3Fort Laramieundated 3Fort Laramie to Register Cliffundated 3Grattan Massacre to Fort Laramie undated 3Green River to Fort Boiseundated 3Hillsdale Markerundated 3History of the Donner Party, C.F. Glashan1949 3Horse Shoe Station to Deer Creekundated 3Ingram Family history 1971 3John Lawrence - Grattan Massacre1854 3J.P. Parker Grave1860 3Life of Augusta Winters Grantundated 3Lodgepole Creek Trail (Nebraska - Southeast Wyoming)undated 3Lucinda Rollins' Grave1849 3Lucinda Walton Eubank, Volumes I-III (Indian Captivity)1864 3, 29Mapsundated 26Map - Old Oregon Trailundated 3Map - Pony Express RouteApril 3, 1860- October 24, 1861 3Mary Homsley's Grave1852 3Mary Kelly - Speech at gravesite by W.W. MorrisonMay 30, 1954 3Missouri River to Big Blueundated 3Mormons - East of Missouri Riverundated 3Mormons - emigration of 1847, 1852, 18561847, 1852, 1856 23Mormon Emigration scrapbook1847 3Mormons - Mountain Meadows Massacre and general historyundated 3Mormons - Winter Quarters to the North Platteundated 4Northern Oregonundated 4Oregon Trail - Full routeundated 4Overland Trailundated 4Pattison donation Land claimsundated 4Pattison family - Robert C. Wyllie, Olympia Washington and Hawaii (trip to Olympia)1971 4Pattison Lakeundated 4Platte Junction to Ash Hollowundated 4Rachel Morgan's Grave1847 4Rachel Pattison's Grave1849 4Records of the Donner Party1876 4Rebecca Winters' Grave1852 4Register Cliff to Horse Shoe Stationundated 4Rock Creek Methodist Churchundated 4Rock Creek Methodist Church, Clackamas County, Oregon1950 5Sanford Johnson Grave undated 5Scotts Bluffundated 5Scottsbluff to Grattan Massacreundated 5Silver Dollar Tabor undated 5Southern Oregonundated 5St. Louis to St. Josephundated 5Sweetwater undated 5Sweetwater to Green River undated 5Vancouver to Olympia (Washington)undated 5Washington State (pictures included)undated 5Whitman 1847 Massacre1847 5Whitman Massacre - Early Labors of the Missionaries, U.S. Office of Indian Affairs1903 5Willamette Valley (Oregon)undated Sub-series 1. Diaries 1811-1903 5Agnes Stweart 1853 5Albert D. Richardson - Leavenworth to Denver by Republican River route1859 5Albert Jerome Dickson1860-1869 5Allan Davis1842 5Allen's Guide Book1859 5Amanda Mary Fletcher - Indian Attack, capture and escape of Amanda Mary and life of her sister1865 5Ameilia Hadley1851 5Ameilia Stewart Knight1853 5Andrew J. Chambers - Crossing the Plains in 18451845 5Asa B. Smith - also something of Asa B. Smith and their leaving Kamiah to the Hawaiian Islands1838 5Asahel Munger and wife1839 5Benjamin Williams Ryan - Illinois to Virginia City, North side of Platte, lower bridge, Bozeman Trail1864 5Bennett C. Clark1849 5Bibliographyundated 5Birmingham Emigration Company: Emigrant Guide by Leander V. Loomis1850 5Byron McKinstry Diary (incomplete)1850-1852 5Capt. B.F. Rockafellow - 6th Michigan Calvary1865 5Capt. John Wolcott Phelps - Fort Leavenworth to Ham's Fork via Ahs Hollow and Ft. Laramie1857 5Caroline Gale (Budlong) - from Memories of Pioneer Days, Oregon and Washington Territories1853-1886 5Catherine Sager (Pringle)1844-1847 5Cecilia Emil McMillen Adams 1852 5Celinda E. Himes1853 5Charles Tinker1849 5Christina Coutts Hunter1864 5Combined diaries of Mary Richardson Walker and Myra Eells - wives of missionaries (from First White Women over the Rockies, Diary vol. II)1838 5Cornelia A. Sharp1852 5Cyrus C. Loveland - The California Trail Herd1850 5Daniel Benjamin Cleghorn1861 5Daniel Delany 1843 5Davis1852 5Deerin Farrer1868 5Donner Miscellanyundated 5The Dorions of Oregonundated 5Dr. David S. Maynard1850 5Dr. Marcus Whitman 1835-1836 5E. Willard Smith - St. Louis to Rocky Mountains and return (excerpts)1839-1840 5Edward Henry Lennox 1843 5Edwin Bryant - Ft. Bridger - Salt Lake - Mary's River1846 6Edwin Bryant - What I Saw in California undated 6Edwin Pettit - biography1846-1851 6Elijah Bryan Farnham1849 6Elisha Douglas Perkins from Gold Rush Diary1849 6Eliza Hart Spalding1836 6Eliza P. Donner (Houghton) - The Expedition of the Donner Part and Its Tragic Fateundated 6Elizabeth Dixon Smith (Geer)1847 6Elkanah Walker from First White Women Over the Rockies, Diary, Vol. III1838 6Eneas Entz1852 6E. W. Conyers1852 6Ezyra Meeker1852 6Francher Stimson1850 6Gabriel Franchere from Voyage to Northwest Coast1811-1814 6General W.S. Harney - Battle of Ash Hollow1855 6George H. Himes1853 6George W. Fox - Co. Bluffs to Virginia City1866 6Granville Stuart - Iowa to California1852 6G.W. Hunt Family - To Oregon b Ox-Team in "47" by Fred Lockley1847-1850 6Heinrich Leinhard from St. Louis to Sutter's Fort 1846 6Henry Allen1853 6Henry Atkinson (Stine (Stines?)1850 6Henry Page (letters) also diary extracts of Joseph Hackney and E.I. Bowman1849 6Henry Smith Turner - enroute with General Kearny from California to Ft. Leavenworth1847 6Hines, Oregon - It's History, Condition and Prospectsundated 6Homon Munson Humphrey1852 6Horn's Overland Guide by Hosea B. Horn1850 6Howard Michael - Ash Hollow and Virginia Dale1863-1876 6Howard Stansbury's 1849 Report1849 6Index, by Year of Emigrationundated 6Iney Eugenia Adams (Parker)1848-1868 6Issac B. Pennick - Co. I 11th Kansas Calvary - from the Bozeman Trail, by Howard and Brininstod1865 6Jack McNemee1845 6Jake Pennock - Co. L 11th Kansas Calvary - Platte River Bridge Fight July 26, 1865 6James Atkin, Jr. 1852 6James C. David - Wisconsin to California 1852 6James Frazier Reed1846 6James Knox Polk Miller - from the Road to Virginia City 1864 6James Longmire1853 6James Richey and family1852 6Jane Burnside1847 6Jesse Applegate - Way Bill from Fort Hall to Willamette Valley1848 6Jesse Harriett1845 6Jesse Looney1843 6Jesse W. Crosby1845-1850 6J.G. Brall1849 6Joaquin Miller - from Overland in a Covered Wagon1854 6Joe E. Sharp1852 6John Ball1832 6John Birney Hill1850 6John Bratt - from Trails of Yesterday1865-1878 6John Doyle Lee, The Mormon Menace edited by A.H. Lewisundated 6John McTurk Gibson, alias John Blunt - Iowa to California1859 6John Pulispher (Mormon) - during Johnson's Army Invasion1857-1858 6John S. Zeiber1851 6John T. Kearns1852 6John Wood1850 6John Work1830 6Joel Palmer - Journal of Travels Over the Rocky Mountains1845-1846 6Joseph Myers - Narrative of their Trials and Hardships on their way to Oregon1860 6Joseph Rhodes1850 6Joseph Williams - Narrative of a tent from Indianna to Oregon Territory and Return1841-1842 6J. Quinn Thornton - Oregon and California1846 6Keil Wagon Train1855 6Kimball Webster - Pack train from Independence Mo. To California1849 7Leander V. Loomis (Birmingham Emigrating Company)1850 7Lester Hulin1847 7Levi Powell and A.J. Powell1870-1876 7Life of Augusta Winters Grant - granddaughter of Rebecca Wintersundated 7Lorren B. Hastings1847 7Lucy Ann Henderson (Deady)1846 7Lucy A. Ide1878 7Mabel Young (Sanborn) - daughter of Brigham Youngundated 7Margaret Windsor (Iman) - Across the plains and life on the Columbia River1852-1856 7Major P.B. Reading1843 7Malinda J. Armstrong1852 7Maria A. (Parsons) Belshaw1853 7Martha Wilson McGregor - from Aurora, Nebraska to Sheridan, Wyoming1886 7Mary Augusta Dix Gray - from First White Women Over the Rockies 1838-1842 7Mary Gibbs Bigelow - granddaughter of Mabel Young Sandborn1811-1845 7Matilda J. Sager (Delaney)1844-1862 7Mormon Letters1847-1849 7Moses Ira Smith - Missouri to Oregon1847 7Myra F. Eells1838 7Narcissa Prentiss Whitman1836 7Nathaniee (Nathaniel?) Myers1853 7Orange Gaylord1850, 1853 7Orson Pratt1847 7Patrick Breen1846-1847 7Paul Crandall and family - diary of Polly Coon1852 7Peter Skene Odgen - Snake Expedition1825-1827 7Polly Frazier (Lewis)1843 7Randall H. Hewitt - from Across the Plains and Over the Divide - mule train from Illinois to Olympia, Washington1862 7Report of Lt. Col. Philip St. George Cooke1857 7Reverand A.E. Garrison1846 7Reverand A.F. Waller - via Cape Horn1839-1840 7Reverand Edward Evan Parrish (Sager family was also in this train)1844 7Reverand John McAllister 1852 7Reuben Lewis1842 7Robert Stuart 1812-1813 7Rufus Sage - from Rocky Mountain Life 1841-1843 7Sam May1848 7Samuel Parker1845 7Sarah Gilbert White Smith - from First White Women Over the Rockies, Diary, Vol. III1838 7Sarah L. Larimer - My Capture and Escape - or Life Among the Sioux1864 7Scott family - John Tucker Scott, Abigail Scott Duniway1852 7Silas L. Harper - Missouri River to California via Lodgepole cutoff and Salt Lake, returning via Panama1863 7Susan P. Angell1853 7Unpublished brochure by William Claborn Kennedy - Across the Plains in 1852 and Life in Oregon1852 7Velina A. Williams - diary and recollections of O.A. Stearns1853 7Vincent Gieger and Wakeman Bryarly - from Trail to California1849 7Virgil K. Pringle1846 7Virginia Belle Benton - Missouri River to Laramie, Laramie to Sheridan City1881 7Washington Smith Gilliam1844-1847 7Welborn Beson - Illinois to Oregon, from Dr. Jack Ingram of Medford, Oregon1853 7W.G. Felton - letters1876-1877 7Whitman Massacre - from Early Labors of the Missionaries, U.S. Office of Indian Affairs1903 7Will H. Young - Nebraska to Fort Laramie1865 7William A. Carter - Atchinson, Kansas to Fort Bridger1857 7William A. Empey - Mormon emigration (Mormon Ferry) also notes and extracts from Appleton M. Harmon diary 1847 7William Anderson - also includes notes1834 7William Clayton 1847 7William Henry Gray - from First White Women Over the Rockies, Diary, Vol. III1838 7William Lanford 1850 7William Shaw - Capt. Gilliam's train, the Sagers were also in this train1844 7William Sloan - Council Bluffs to Salt Lake City 1853 7William Snow 1850 7Wiliams' Pacific Tourist Guide by Henry T. Williams1876 7Willis Spear - Kansas to Salt Lake, Montana, Sheridan1874-1883 7W.W. Chapman1849 Sub-series 2. Manuscripts 1854-1973 7Ah-Ho-Appa - Chief Spotted Tails Daughter (Falling Leaf)undated 7Ann Rutledge and Lincoln - New Salem, Illinoisundated 7At the Grattan Massacre siteJune 28, 1953 7At the Roadside Monument near Grattan Massacre siteJuly 13, 1969 7Custard MassacreJuly 26, 1865 7Davis Ridge School House - near Caldwell, OhioJune 1973 7Early Roads in and Across Wyoming by L.C. Bishop1955 7Emily Patrickundated 7Fetterman Massacre by L.C. Bishop1959 7Grattan MassacreAugust 19, 1854 7Little Mary Kellyundated 7Mary Homsley Graveundated 8Massacre of the Kelly-Larimer trainundated 8Pattison Lake and the Pattison Familyundated 8Pearl Bryan's Murder1897 8The Pioneer Ministerundated 8Rachel Pattison's Graveundated 8Rock Creek Methodist Church, Clarkamas County, Oregonundated 8Talk given at the Mary E. Homsley graveJuly 13, 1969 8Telegraphyundated Sub-series 3. Research Notes 1809-1959 8Actions (etc.) with Indians 1866-1891 8Bent's Fortundated 8Bozeman/ Bridger/ Charbonneau/ Colter/ Glass/ Sacajawea/ Silcottundated 8Courthouse Rock, Jail Rock, Independence Rock undated 8Custer Massacre, etc. undated 8Emigration of 18421842 8Emigration of 1843 - Independence to Willamette 1843 8Emigration of 1845 - Samuel K. Barlow and others1845 8First Settlements in Wyoming Territory, by Col. A.G. Brackett1897 8Folk Lore of Oregon and Washingtonundated 8Fort Phil Kearney and the Fetterman Massacre undated 8Fremonts Expeditions 1842 8From "Along the Trail"undated 8From "Astoria" by Washington Irvingundated 8From "The Ferries of the Forty-Niners" by Dale L. Morgan1959 8From "The Great Platte River Road" by M.J. Mattesundated 8From "Lincoln The President" by J.G. Randallundated 8From "The Overland Stage to California - The Pony Express" by Root and Connelly undated 8From "The Road to Oregon" by W.J. Ghant1934 8From "Tahiti" by Conradundated 8From "When Lincoln Died" by Ralph Borresonundated 8The Hard Winter on Livestock, from "Forty Years on the Frontier" by Granville Stuart1886-1887 8History of Wyoming and the Far West, Volumes 1-2 undated 8Jesse James, by Horan and Sannundated 8Kansas and Nebraska - settling Kansas, Harney Massacre, Fort Kearney undated 8Minning Towns: Montana, Colorado, Alaska undated 8Mt. Vesuvius - St. Paul at Puteoli - Pompeii-Rome - Paris undated 8Nevada and Utahundated 8Oregon - history and geographyundated 8The Pony Express by Chapman1932 8Pony Express Route - Wyomingundated 8Pioneers and Pioneer Lifeundated 8Platte Bridge/ Plum Creek, Potter and Ogallala/ Summit Springs1865-1870 8Railroads: Building the First Transcontinental Lineundated 8Spotted Tail and Crazy Horse/ Capt. Eugene Wareundated 8Tom Hornundated 8The Tonquin1809-1811 8Transcripts from "Cheyenne Leader" 1867-1875 9Washington Stateundated 9Wyoming - Cheyenne (methodist, congregational, catholic, and episcopal churches)undated Sub-series 5. Subject Files and Transcripts 1953-1974 9An Unfinished Diaryundated 9Epigramsundated 9Emigrant Trail Track 10July 1959 9English Composition1974 9Lessons bindersundated 9Man's Best Friendundated 9My Will For Those I Love, by Dwight E. Newbergundated 9New Facts Unearthed Shedding Light on the Christmas Story undated 9Oregon Trail Track no. 1June 28, 1953 9Oregon Trail Track no. 2October 25, 1953 9Oregon Trail Track no. 3May 30, 1954 9Poetryundated 9The Proper Way to Write Lettersundated 9Seven Reasons Why A Scientist Believes in Godundated 9Short Story Composition - from Mrs. Roy PageMay 1970 9The Story Of Our Bible/ The Open Graveundated 9Why I Am For the Churchesundated Sub-series 6. Photographs 1850-1973 9Ada Magill's grave and family (negatives included)undated 9A.H. Unthank's grave and family (negatives included)undated 9Ah-Ho-Appa's grave and family (negatives included)undated 9A. Kelly's grave - near Ash Hollow, Nebraska (negatives only)undated 9Amanda Lamin's grave (negatives only)undated 9Californiaundated 9California - Donner Party camp sites (negatives included)undated 9C.B. Platt's grave (negatives included)undated 9Chamber's grave and family - Oregon (negatives included)undated 9Colorado - Gunnison's Red Lion Inn, U.S. Stage Line Schedule undated 9Donner Party (negatives included)undated 9Dr. Ellis Reynolds (Shipp) (negative only)undated 9Elva Ingram's grave and familyundated 31Elva Ingram's grave and family (negatives only)undated 9Emily Patrick grave (negatives included)undated 9Eubank - Roper Indian Captivityundated 9Ezra Meeker1906, undated 9Floyd Bryan's grave and Hilo, Hawaii (negatives included)undated 9Fort Casper to South Pass - Custard Massacre, etc. undated 9Fort Laramieundated 9Fort Laramie to Horse Shoe Station - Porter's Rockundated 9Fort Laramie to Horse Shoe Station - Trail between Ft. Laramie and Gurnseyundated 9Henry Hill (negatives included)1850 9Horse Shoe Station to Fort Casper - Deer Creek Stationundated 9Horse Shoe Station to Fort Casper - LaPrelle Station site, Ralston Baker graveundated 9Illinois - Nauvoo and Brigham Young Home (negatives only)undated 9Indians and soldiers (negatives only)undated 9Indians - Chief High Eagle, Chief Joseph, etc. (photographic slide included)undated 9Indian Women - Margaret Red Deer, Mary Crow and children, etc. (negatives only)undated 9J.A. Deaton and wife - Portland Oregonundated 9John C. Friend (negatives included)undated 9John Hollman's grave (negatives only)undated 9John Hunton and wifeundated 9J.P. Parker grave (negatives included)undated 9J.R. Powell and Mary Powell Rousch (negatives included)undated 9John Tucker Scott (negatives included)undated 9Kelly - Larimer Indian Captivity1954 9Kelly - Larimer , Little Box Elder MassacreMay 30, 1954 9Lucinda Eubank (Atkinson) grave and family (photographic slide included)undated 10Lucinda Rollins' grave (negatives included)undated 10Mabel Young (Samborn) (negatives only)undated 10Mabel Young (Samborn) and family - Salt Lake Cityundated 10Mary Homsley's grave and family (negatives included)undated 10Mary Richardson Walkerundated 10Matilda J. Seger (Delaney) (negatives included)undated 10Miscellaneous peopleundated 10Nancy Hill's graveundated 10Nebraska - Ash Hollow and area (negatives only)undated 10Nebraska - Blue Water Battle ground (negatives only)undated 10Nebraska - Chimney Rock (negatives only)undated 10Nebraska - Jail and Courthouse Rock (negatives only)undated 10Nebraska - Kimballundated 10Nebraska - Kimball, depot and homes (negatives only)undated 10Nebraska - Scottsbluff and area (negatives only)undated 10Ohio - Archer's Ridge Schoolhouse1973 10Ohio - Cumberland Schoolhouseundated 10Ohio - Davis Ridge Schoolhouse, Caldwell (negatives included)undated 10Oregon (negatives included)undated 10Oregon - Applegate Roadundated 10Oregon - Homes (negatives included)undated 10Oregon - Rock Creek Methodist Church (negatives included)1950 10Oregon and Overland Trails, Nebraska and Wyoming (photographic slides included)undated 10Oregon Trail in Oregon: John Day Riverundated 10Oregon Trail - Miscellaneous, Nebraska and Wyoming undated 10Oregon Trail through Nebraska and Wyomingundated 10Other gravesundated 10Pearl Bryan's Murder (negatives included)undated 10Picture Platesundated 10Portugee Phillips' grave (negatives only)undated 10Rachel Pattison grave and family (negatives included)undated 10Ralston Baker grave (negative only)undated 10Rebecca Winters' grave and family (negatives included)undated 10Rebecca Winter's trainundated 10Robert Harvey (negatives only)undated 10Rev. Clinton Kelly (negatives included)undated 10Samuel K. Barlow grave and Barlow Road - Oregonundated 10Samuel K. Barlow's grave (negatives only)undated 31Sanford Johnson, Nancy Johnson (negatives only)undated 10Sarah W. Smithundated 10Scottsbluff to Fort Laramie - Gratton Massacre site1953 10Scottsbluff to Fort Laramie - Rebideux Passundated 10Scottsbluff to Fort Laramie - Scottsbluff, Neb.August 8, 1949 10Unidentified and Miscellaneous buildings, structures, landmarksundated 26Unidentified woman (oversized)1931 10Utah - First House in Salt Lake (negative only)undated 10Utah - Salt Lake City undated 10Washington (negatives included)undated 10Washington - Fort Walla Walla (negatives included)undated 10Washington - Patterson Lake (negatives included)undated 10Washington - Whitman Mission Site (negatives included)undated 10William L. Clary grave (negatives included)1953 10William Reynolds and Dr. Ellis Reynolds Shippundated 10Wyoming - Cheyenne undated 10Wyoming - Cheyenne Airport (negatives only)undated 10Wyoming - Custard Massacre Site (near Casper Wyoming) (negatives only)undated 10Wyoming - Devil's Gate, Split Rock (negatives only)undated 10Wyoming - Emigrant Laundry Tub (negatives only)undated 10Wyoming - Fort Bernard (negatives only)undated 10Wyoming - Fort Casper (negatives only)undated 10Wyoming - Fort Laramie (negatives only)undated 10Wyoming - Grattan Massacre Site (negatives only)undated 10Wyoming - Guernsey Trail Ruts (negatives only)undated 10Wyoming - Hillsdale (negatives included)1927 10Wyoming - Horseshoe Station (negatives only)undated 10Wyoming - Independence Rock (negatives only)undated 10Wyoming - Jim Bridger Ferry (negatives only)undated 10Wyoming - LaGrange (negatives only)undated 10Wyoming - Porter's Rock (negatives only)undated 10Wyoming - Register Cliff (negatives only)undated 10Wyoming - South Torrington, Wm. Guerrier grave (negatives only)undated 10Wyoming - Telegraph Demonstration 1976 10Wyoming - Teepee Rings North of Pine Bluffs (negatives included)undated 10Wyoming - Trains, Sherman Station, Dale Creek Bridge, etc. undated 10Wyoming - Trek (negatives only)1953 10Wyoming - warm Springs Trail Ruts (negatives only)undated Sub-series 7. Newspapers 1885-1976 25Clippingsundated 25Clippings - binder pagesundated 25Clippings - Cheyenne SunDAY Magazine September 5, 1976 27Clippings - The Denver PostMarch 8, 1935 27Clippings - Deuer County Hearld June 3, 1948 25Clippings - "Old Fort Report"1868-1904 28Clippings - Scrapbookundated 27Clippings - St. Louis Post - Dispatch June 30, 1901 27Clippings - Sunday Journal Magazine July 27, 1952 26American Revolution - Bicentennial edition1976 27The Casper Tribune HeraldMarch 6, 1949 27Cheyenne Daily Sun - Illustrated edition1885, 1890 26Colorado Prospectorundated 27The Daily OlympianApril 3, 1952 27Eugene Register-Guard February 1, 1948 27Garden County NewsJune 23, 1949 27The Journal and the Noble County Leader December 13, 1973 27Molalla Pioneer 1950-1952 27The Olympian News April 3, 1952 27Oregon City Enterprise1948, 1950 27The Oregon StatesmanFebruary 17, 1950 26Ouray Centennial - Historic Souvenir IssueJune 1976 26The Pony Express1957-1958 27Scottsbluff Star-Hearld 1952 27Woodburn Independent1950-1953 27The Wyoming Eagle1952, 1973, 1976 28Wyoming State Tribune1947-1954 Sub-series 8. Audio/Visual 1963-1970 26Cassette Tape - W.W. Morrison and Jack Ingram1970 26Phonograph record - "New Light on Old Glory"1963 26Reel-to-Reel - Lutheran Church, Gillette, WYundated 26Reel-to-Reel - "New Light on Old Glory" written and narrated by Dr. Howard R. DriggsMarch 5, 1963 26Unidentifiedundated Series III. Books 1872-1976 14A Reply to Professor Bourne's "The Whitman Legend" by Myron Eellsundated 14Abraham Lincoln: The Boy and the Man by James Morgan (hardcover)1908 14After 60 Years sequel to A Story of the Plains by A.B. Ostrander1925 14America: A History of Our Country by William J. Long (hardcover)1923 14The American Scrapbook (hardcover)1928 26Atlas - Roads1964, 1967 24Atlas of the Early Christian World (hardcover)1959 14The Banditti of the Plains: Or the Cattlemen's Invasion of Wyoming in 1892 by A.S. Mercer (hardcover)1954 14The Best Loved Poems of the American People selected by Hazel Felleman (hardcover)1936 14Bethel and Aurora by Robert J. 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Brininstool (hardcover)1922 14The Bullwhacker by William Francis Hooker (hardcover)1940 15Calico Hill published by Jolly Dry Farmers' Club1973 15Captivity of the Oatman Girls 1909 15Centennial History of Illinois, Introductory Volume by Solon Justus Buck (hardcover)1918 15Cheyenne Landmarks1976 15Children of God by Vardis Fisher (hardcover)1939 24Cliff Dwellings of the Mesa Verde: A Story in Pictures by Don Watsonundated 15Collected Writings of Deming, Volumes I-II (hardcover)1946 30Commercial Atlas of America, Fifty-Fifth edition (oversized)1924 15The Covered Wagon by Emerson Hough (hardcover)1922 15Days with Chief Joseph by Erskine Woodundated 15Dictionary of Thoughts by Tyron Edwards (hardcover)1906 24Documents of Wyoming Heritage edited and written by Charles "Pat" Hall1976 15Early Cheyenne Homes, 1880-18901975 15Early Oregon, 1850 to 1860 by Geo E. Cole1901 15Early Progress West by Willis Mason West (hardcover)1920 15Elementary English in Action, Grade VIII by J.C. Tressler and Margurite B. Shelmadine (hardcover)1935 15The Elements of Style by William Shunk, Jr. and E.B. White, 2nd edition1972 15The Epic of America by James Truslow Adams (hardcover)1932 16Essential in Church History by Joseph Fielding Smith (hardcover)1922 16Essentials in Journalism by H.F. Harrington and T.T. Frankenberg (hardcover)1912 30Famous Leaders and Battle Scenes of the Civil War (oversized)undated 16The Federal Union by John D. Hicks (hardcover)1937 16Forward the Nation by Donald Culross Peattie (hardcover)1942 16Genealogical Narrative: A History of Three Pioneer Families: Pope, Kerns, Gibson by Edith Kerns Chambers (hardcover)1943 16The Grandmothers by Glenway Wescott (hardcover)1927 16The Great Platte River Road by Merille J. Mattes (hardcover)1969 16The Growth of Oklahoma, revised edition (hardcover)1935 16Gold Rush (hardcover)1949 16The Gold Seekers of '49 by Kimball Webster (hardcover)1917 16Guardian of the Grasslands by John Rolfe Burroughs (hardcover)1971 16Handbook of English, book two (hardcover)1951 16Health for Young Americans (hardcover)1946 16Heroes of the Plains (hardcover)undated 16Hillside HeritageOctober 1976 17History of Custer Battlefield by Don Rickey, Jr. 1967 17History of the Donner Party by C.F. McGlashan (hardcover)1949 17History of Scandinavians and Biographies U.S., I-II by O.N. Nelson (hardcover)1904 17History of Wyoming by T.A. Larson (hardcover)1965 17How Marchus Whitman Saved Oregon by Oliver W. 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Winkler 1974 19Recorded Insights: Poems of Yesterday for Tomorrow by Clara Chassell Cooper , 2nd edition1976 19The Road to Oregon: A Chronicle of the Great Emigrant Trail by W.J. Ghent (hardcover)1934 19Roots of Political Behavior, special edition1949 19Saddles East by Chaplain John W. Beard (hardcover)1949 19Saleratus and Sagebrush: The Oregon Trail Through Wyoming by Robert L. Munkers1974 19Salt Lake City: A Pictorial Study by Josef Muench1947 19The Science of Handwriting Analysis: A Guide to Character and Personality by Billie Rosen (hardcover)1965 19The Secret of the Ages by Robert Collier (hardcover)1959 19Shadows Fall Across the Little Horn by Joseph G. Masters1951 24Smoke Over the Divide by James L. Ehrenberger and Francis G. Gschwind (hardcover)1965 20The Smoky Hill Trail by Margaret Long (hardcover)1947 20Some Pioneer Recollections of George Lathorp and Luke Voorhees1927 20Someone Cares: The Collected Poems of Helen Steiner Rice (hardcover)1972 20The Souvenir of Western Women edited by Mary Osborn Douthit1905 20The Story of the Christ by Meredith G. Standley (hardcover)undated 20The Story of Oregon and Its People by Charles H. Chapman (hardcover) (2 copies)1909 20The Story of Wyoming by Doris Shannon Garst (hardcover)1938 22Stories from Magazines and Newspapers (binders)undated 22-23Stories from the Reader's Digest (binders)undated 20Stories of the Far West by Joesph G. Masters (hardcover)1935 23Sunshine Magazine Stories (binder)undated 20Tales of Tavern or The House on the Hill by Daniel A. Washington1956 24Tales the Western Tombstones Tell: Historic Graves of the Old West by Lambert Florin (hardcover)undated 20Their Yesterdays by Harold Bell Wright (hardcover)1912 20This is America My Country, Volumes I-II edited by Donald H. Sheehan (hardcover)1952 20This Means Everlasting Life (hardcover)1950 20Trail to California: The Overland Journal of Vincent Geiger and Wakeman Bryarly (hardcover)1945 20The Trail to Oregon by Frederica B. Coons (hardcover)1954 20Transition of the West by Alfred James Mokler (hardcover)1927 20Toward the Setting Sun by Miles Cannonundated 20Using English, First Year (hardcover)1935 20Utah Historical Quarterly, Volume XIX (hardcover)1951 20Where Flows Hood River by Marion Cook (hardcover)1907 20The White Indian Boy by E.N. Wilson (hardcover)1919 21William Chapin Deming: A Biography by Agnes W. Spring (hardcover)1944 21Wyandot Folk-Lore by William Elsey Connelley 1899 21Wyoming: A Guide to Its History, Highways, and People (hardcover)1952 21Wyoming Historical Society Collections by Robert C. Morris, Volume I (hardcover)1897 21Wyoming Pageant by Virginia Cole Trenholm and Maurine Carley (hardcover)1946 32Across the Wide Missouri by Bernard DeVoto (Hardcover)1947 32The Conquest by Eva Emery Dye (Hardcover)1902 32From the West to the West by Abigail Scott Duniway (Hardcover)1905 32George the Handcart Boy by Howard R. Driggs (Hardcover)1952 32The Journals of Lewis and Clark edited by Bernard DeVoto (Hardcover)1953 32Living English, fifth grade by Howard R. Driggs (Hardcover)1935 32Mormon Trail: Pathways of Pioneers Who Made Deserts Blossom by Howard R. Driggs (hard and softcover copies)1947 32The Old West Speaks by Howard R. 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