Collection Summary
Hart, George, 1938-2000
George Hart Papers
1927-1997
12579
16.72 cubic ft. (17 boxes)
University of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.
English
George Hart wrote about events and characters of the American West.
Biography of George HartGeorge Hart wrote about events and characters of the American West. He produced articles on Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and Calamity Jane, among others. Hart published in "Real West" and other magazines in the 1960s and 1970s. Hart owned "Hart Iconographic Archive", which was located in Youngstown, Ohio.
Scope and ContentThe collection contains subject files and manuscripts for George Hart's research and writing. His interests included outlaws, gamblers, and the Indian Wars. Also included are files on Civil War guerrillas, including Quantrill, Jesse James, the Younger brothers, Belle Starr, and others.
Access Restrictions
There are no access restrictions on the materials for research purposes,
and the collection is open to the public.
Copyright Information
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 George Hart at the date of processing.
Acquisition Information
This material was received from the North Bloomfield (Ohio) Historical Society in August 2013.
Processing Information
The collection was processed by Zacharia S. Ajour and D. Claudia Thompson in December 2013.
Preferred Citation
Item Description, Box Number, Folder Number, Collection Name, Collection
Number, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming.
Access Terms
Frontier and pioneer life
Outlaws -- West (U.S.)
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Underground movements
West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century
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Immigration and American Expansion
Pioneers
Container List
1005 Winchester
1Tombstone
1234 Frank Dalton, Henry Starr, David Payne, Rocky Mountain Dick, Jim Bridger, Wild Bill, Teens Bob Heckle, Painte Horse Boyer, Kit Carson, Kit Carson Jr. Al Jennings and John Brughier
1236 Mr. Shull
1239 Order #11
1240 Lincoln
1246 Starr, Belle
1248 Shirley, Edwin B.
1249 Frye, Johnny
1250 Lincoln County Group
1251 James, Frank
1252 Buffalo Hunt
1253 Cody, W.F.
1254 White Eagle Bill
1255 Army Cook
1261 Wild West Show
1262 “Quantrell” Guerrillas
1263 Cody, Bill
1264 Bliss, Lucy
1266 Garrett, Patrick F.
1268 Buntline, Ned
1269 Stein, Nat and Friend
1271 Youngers and Charlie Pitts
1272 Las Vegas, N.M Terr.
1273-A Virginia City, Nevada
1273-B Virginia City, Nevada
1274 Valley City, D.T.
1276 Family of Trick Shot Artists
1277 Lander, Frenderick W.
1278 Rebel Soldier
1279 Confederate Captain
1280 Jesse James
1281 Jesse James
1282 Ranch Hands
1283 Leadville Citizen
1285 Westerner
1286 Frank and Jesse James
1287-A Westerner
1288 Dandies
1289 Westerner
1292 Buckboard
1293 Jesse James and Allan Parmer
1294 Man with Glass Eye
1295 Men in Buggy
1296 Steam Boat Officer
1297 Indians
1298 Jim Courtright
1300 Leavenworth
1302 Range Hand
1303 Western Mountain Man
1304 Frank James
1305 Man in High Hat and Woman
1306 Man in Tall Top Hat
1309 Quantrill
1310 Man with Remington
1311 A Kansas Views Train Stops
1311-B Kansas Views Train Stops
1313-B Kansas Sod Busters
1314 “Bill Bonney”
1315 “Tough Guys”
1315-D “Tough Guys”
1315-J “Tough Guys”
2316 Men Smoking Cigars
2317 Ellen Everest
2321 Tintype AD
2322 Plainsman
2244 Hickok, J.B.
2245 Trappers
2247 Nichols, G.W.
2243 Frontiersman
2123 Cattle Annie
2126 Jim McIntyre
2127 Roy Bean
2129 Calamity Jane
2130 Lottie Deno
2131 Buckskin Frank
2133 Kate Fisher
2050 Satanta
2051 Cody
2053 Daltons
2054 Benders
2061 Hickok
2071 Wyoming
2072 Sitting Bull
2077 Boston Corbett
2078-Gh Hickok
2082 Dick Maddox
2083 David Tate
2084 John Chatman
2085 Nat Tigue
2086 Dick Tinney
2087 Ted Sanders
2088 Henry Clement
2089 Bud Story
2090 Ol Shepherd
2091 Thomas Little
2092 Charlie Pitts
2093 Bill Ryan
2094 Golley Robertson
2095 Clark Hocken Smith
2096 Thomas Hunt
2097 Jim Reed
2098 Sam Hildebrand
2Younger, Thomas Coleman
2099 Cole and Jim Younger
2100 Jo Shelby
2101 Frank James
2102 Hickok
2103 Quantrill
2104 Quantrill
2Images of a Guerrilla Chieftain
2105 George Todd
2106 Frank James and Kit Dalton
2107 Chief Joseph
2108 Sitting Bull
2109 Sitting Bull
2110 Rain in the Face
2111 Arkansas Tom
2112 Blue Duck
2113 Sam Starr
2114 Belle Starr
2115 Belle Starr
2116 Belle Starr
3117 Jim July
3120 George Shepherd
3121 Military Group
3136-H Jesse James
3122 Sam Bass
3124 Black Jack Christian
3125 Power Alice
3135 Earp-Clanton
3136-A Cole Younger
3136-C Jim Younger
3136-B Bob Younger
3136-F Clell Miller
3136-G Frank and Jesse James
3134 Jim Courtright
3Nola Quarterly Vol. 1 #1 through Vol. 5 #4Spring 1975 through July 1980
3Nola Quarterly Vol. 7 #1 through Vol. 10 #4Spring 1982 through Spring 1986
3Military Images Vol. 7 #4 through Vol. 9 #4Jan-Feb 1986 through Jan-Feb 1988
4Military Images Vol. 1 #1 through Vol. 3 #3July-Aug 1979 through Nov-Dec 1981
4True West, Articles Appearing in Real West: #87, #91, #92, #93, #94, #101, #104, #106
4True West, Articles Appearing in Real West: #108, #109, #110, #111, #115, #116, #118, #123
4Frontier Times, Contents: New Series #1 thru #10Winter 1957-1958, Spring 1958, Summer 1958, Fall 1958, Winter 1958-1959, Spring 1959, Summer 1959, Fall 1959, Winter 1959-1960, Spring 1960
4Nola Quarterly Vol. 11 #1 through Vol. 14 #4
5Research files (Xerox copies) pertaining to figures of the west
5Portrait mounted to a plaque
6Research files (Xerox copies) pertaining to figures of the west
7United States Vs. John Mc Call Alias Jack McCall – Indictment for Murder (transcript)
7United States Vs. John Mc Call Alias Jack McCall – Indictment for Murder (transcript)
7(McCall) Pardon Attorney, Department of Justice, Pardon Case File for John McCall)
7(McCall) Pardon Attorney, Department of Justice, Pardon Case File for John McCall)
7(McCall) Pardon Attorney, Department of Justice, Pardon Case File for John McCall)
7The United States Vs. John McCall, Indictment for Murder, Rosa, English Westerners’
7Allen, George
7Berry, Samuel
7Bradford, William W.
7Brennan, James
7Clarke, Marcellus Jerome
7Ellis, Abraham “Bullet Hole”
7Frew, James Barcus
7Fry, Edward
7Heffington, William J.
7James, Alexander Franklin (Frank)
7Jones, John and Jones, John E.
7Kile, John
7Kress, Mortimer N.
7Lonergan, Jeremiah “Jerry”
7Leslie, Nathaniel Franklin
7Quantrill, Thomas
7Ryan, William P.
7Seafferman, Henry
7Slade, Joseph Alfred
7Smith, James Co. A, 7th Kansas Cav
7Smith, James Co. A, 7th Kansas Cav
7Stahl, Francis M.
7002 Kansas
7003 Kansas Missouri
7014 Buckskin
7016 Banning
7017 Captain Jack
7020-C Modoc
7020-D Modoc
7023 Cody
7024 New Mexico
7026 Colorado
7027 James Boys
7034 Yellowstone Kelly
7040 Dakota
7041 Cowboys
7044 Confederate Indian
7045 Frank James
7046 Jim Younger
7047 J. James Imposter
7324 Westerners
7325 Westerners
7327 Indian Outfit White Man
7049 Daltons
7326 Wyatt Earp
7328 Indian Outfit White Man
7329 Century, Oklahoma
7332 Confederate Soldier
7336 Westerners
7337 The Samuels
7338 Westerner
7339 Brothers
7340-A “New Mexico” Youngers
7341 Lander, Frederick W.
7342 Custer’s Last Fight
7343 Buckskin Coat
7344 Colt
7345 Girl Head wound
7346 Old St. Joe
8347 Westerner
8348 Quantrill
8350 Quantrill
8351 Ft. Laramie
8353 Quantrill
8354-A Earring
8355 A Dean Iwalker
8Jack McCall, (Denver) Rocky Mountain News, 8/24/1876
8(McCall Arrested) Cheyenne Daily Leader, 8/30/1876
8Wild Bill’s Presentiment, Cheyenne Daily Leader, 8/26/1876
8McCall, The Murderer, Cheyenne Daily Leader, 8/31/1876
8“Wild Bill” (from the St. Louis Globe-Democrat), North Topeka Times, 8/31/1876
8(McCall Arrested) (Denver) Rocky Mountain News, 9/1/1876
8Jack McCall (Interview) (Denver) Rocky Mountain News, 9/1/1876
8Deadwood (Hickok’s Killing Etc.)(Denver Rocky Mountain News, 9/2/1876
8(Hickok Grave Inscription) Cheyenne Daily Leader, 9/26/1876
8Wild Bill (In Custer’s Article) (Denver) Rocky Mountain News, 10/7/1876
8(Jenkins to Prosecute McCall) Cheyenne Daily Leader, 10/11/1876
8A Strike for Freedom (McCall) Cheyenne Daily Leader, 11/19/1876
8Arrivals and Departures (Varnes) (Denver) Rocky Mountain News, 11/22/1869
8Wild Bill (John Varnes), Cheyenne Daily Leader, 11/23/1876
8Jack McCall to be Hung, Cheyenne Daily Leader, 12/8/1876
8A Cool Customer (McCall), Cheyenne Daily Leader, 2/6/1877
8Wild Bill’s Murder Must Hang, Cheyenne Daily Leader, 2/25/1877
8How Wild Bill’s Murderer Died, Cheyenne Daily Leader, 3/4/1877
8How Wild Bill’s Murderer Died, Cheyenne Daily Leader, 3/5/1877
8McCall, John (1)
8McCall, John (2)
8McCall, John (3)
8Battles… V.1 The Pea Ridge Campaign
8Battles… V.1 Union and Confederate Indian in the Civil War (& opposing P.R.)
8Battles and Leaders of the Civil War Vol. 3: The Conquest of Arkansas
8Battles and Leaders of the Civil War Vol. 4: The Red River Campaign and Navy in Red River
8Battles…V.4: Defense of Red River and Resume of Military Operations in Mo. & Ark. 1864-65
8The Circus, From Rome to Ringling
8Cody, William F. (Baltimore) American, 9/10/1878
8Custer – St. Louis Globe-Democrat, 7/10/1876
8Death to Traitors
8Doc Middleton: Life and Legends of the notorious Plains Outlaw (My Review) Stats
8Double Murder in Hays, Snell, Joseph W.
8Fighting Confederates
8Ford, Charles Jefferson City (Mo.) Daily Tribune, 5/8/1884 (Stat and trans
8Fremont and ‘49
8Copies Friendly Enemies
8The Gun Digest, “Frontier Firepower: 1836-18721981
8The House of Harper
8In Patagonia
8Iron Men (Book)
8James, Jesse – St. Louis Globe – Democrat 7/10/1876
8James, Jesse – St. Louis Globe-Democrat 7/10/1876
8Jack McCall: Frontier Enigma
8Tutt, Davis K.
8Tutt, Davis K. (3)
8Real West: The Tales of the American Frontier from the 1970s
8Photographica American Photographic Historical Society from the 1990s
9Folders containing newspaper and magazine clipings
10The Pony Express
10Queen of Cowtowns
10Rouging It
10Copies 7th Kansas
10Sitting Bull - - St. Louis Globe-Democrat, 7/1/1876
10The Story of the Guard
10Taking Scalps, Iapi Oaye (The Word Carrier), V. 7, #1, January, 1878 (transcription)
10The Taming of the West: A Photographic Perspective (My Review) Stats
10The Texas Ranger
10U.S. Grant Album
10Abraham Lincoln the Prairie Years - - I Volume 1
10Abraham Lincoln the Prairie Years - - I Volume 3
10Abraham Lincoln the Prairie Years - - II Volume 4
10Abraham Lincoln the Prairie Years - - III Volume 5
10Abraham Lincoln the Prairie Years - - IV Volume 6
10Battles and Leaders of the Civil War Vol. 1: The 1st Year of the War in Missouri
10Battles…V.1 In Command in Missouri (Fremont)
10Battles…V.1 Wilson’s Creek, and the Death of Lyon
10Battles…V.1 Arkansas Troops in the Battle of Wilson’s Creek
10Battles..V.1 The Flanking Column at Wilson’s Creek (& Opposing forces at WC)
10Battles…V.1 The Siege of Lexington, Mo.
10Some Hopeless Duels ( Wild Bill in 18670, Hadley, Col. James A., Sidney (Ohio) Sentinel 7/19/06
10How Abilene was Made in Early Days (McCoy Account), Topeka Capital, 8/30/08
10An Abilene, Kas., “Bad Man,” Kansas City Star, 3/29/1918
10Wild Bill Knight Chivalric of Plains, (Denver) Post, 8/3/19 Part One, Ward, Josiah M.
10Wild Bill Knight….. Part Two (Denver) Post, 8/17/19 Ward….
10“Beat Our Pony Express Ride? Not a Chance,” Says Henry Avis, Kansas City Times, 8/31/1923
10Writing “Wild Bill” Into Abilene’s History, Kansas City Star Magazine, 11/15/25
10Even Wild Bill Hickok to feel Debunker’s Sting, MacNamara, Sue, Kansas City Journal-Post, 5/11/26
10The Kansas City Days of Wild Bill, Snyder, Jr., Robert M., Kansas City Star, 8/15/26
10Nephew of Famous Indian Sout Will seek to Clear Uncle’s Name Journal, 8/12/27 Seeks Hickok Stories, Topeka Capital, 8/13/27
10Marshall Pioneer Tells of Wild Bill Hickok’s Big Fight on Dog Row, Kansas City Journal-Post, 8/21/27
10Debunking “Wild Bill” Hickok McDonald, A.B., Kansas City Star, 11/18/28
10Wild Bill Hickok, Mills, John Peere, Kansas City Journal-Post, 12/2/28
10P.T. Barnum Becomes Sucker, too on Visit to Lure Wild Bill Hickok from Hays City. Hays Daily News, 8/24/58
10Wild Bill: Hero or Bum? Pipes, Gerald H., Springfield (Mo. Sunday News and Leader, 9/18/60
10“Wild Bill” Hickok was Famous in Arkansas as well as the west, Croley, Victor A., Arkansas Gazette, 1/21/68
10Family’s Honor Vs. Wild Bill’s Story, O’Brien, Janice McCanles, Kansas City Times, 5/29/68
10“Cowardly” Hickok Shot Victims in Back, Contemporay Recalled, Forrest Hintz, Wichita Eagle and Beacon, 10/30/77
10Ed Little Tells of “Wild Bill” Kansas City Journal (n.d.)
10He (H.D. Hickok) corroborates col. ED. Little, Topeka Mail and Breeze, n.d.
10World’s Fastest Gunman (Unidentified Clipping)
10Material in th Kansas State State Historical Society Library about Wild Bill, James Butler Hickok (Carbons) Also my typed copy from original
10On the Plains of Colorado, The Great Southwest Magazine, February, 1909, Mayfield, A.U.
10The Truth Behind the Wild Bill Hickok Myth, New Mexico Sun Trails January, 1953, Part Two, Mann, E.B.
10(Barnett Buffalo Hunt) Niagara Falls (N.Y.) Gazette, 9/4/1872
10(Hickok in Town) Cheyenne Daily Leader, 7/22/1874
10(Buffalo Bill and Wild Bill Guides) (Denver) Rocky Mountain News, 7/31/1874
10(Hickok in Town Again) Cheyenne Daily Leader, 6/8/1876
10(Hickok in Deadwood) Cheyenne Daily Leader, 8/9/1876
10(Hickok Killed) Cheyenne Daily Leader, 8/12/1876
10Wild Bill (Meets His Fate Etc.), (Denver) Rocky Mountain News, 8/13/1876
10(Hickok’s Hat) Cheyenne Daily Leader, 8/15/1876
10(Sutherland) Cheyenne Daily Leader 8/15/1876
10Something about Wild Bill, Cheyenne Daily Leader, 8/16/1876
10(Hickok’s Remains) Cheyenne Daily Leader, 8/17/1876
10Wild Bill and the Marshal Cheyenne Daily Leader, 8/18/1876
10Wild Bill (Account of a Shooting) 8/18/1876 (Denver) Rocky Mountain News
10Wild Bill’s Reputation as “Bad Man” overrated, McAfee, E.C., Springfield Daily Leader 2/120
10“Wild Bill” Hickok’s “Baby Boy” Missouri Hisrorcal Review (from the Springfield Leader, June 9, 1929
10‘Duck Bill” Hickok not Working for Express CO. when he shot mc canles Lincoln Evening Journal and Nebraska State Journal, 1/8/60
10Early Days and War Times in Northern Arkansas
10History of Greene County, Missouri
10History of Kansas City, Missouri Part 2
10Local Items (Jury Verdict in Tutt Killing) Springfield Missouri Weekly Patriot, 8/10/1865
10Marion County (Ark.) Records Will of Hansford Tutt
10Pictorial and Genealogical Record of Greene County Missouri
10The Tutt and Everett War in Marion County (Ark.)
10(Tutt) Census, 1850, Marion County, Arkansas
10(Tutt) Census, 1860, Yellville, Union Township, Marion County, Arkansas
10Local Items (Tutt Killing) Springfield (Mo.) Missouri Weekly Patriot, 7/27/1865
10When the Clock Struck Twelve, A Famous Ozark Duel, Roper, William L., Rayburn’s Ozark Guide
10From the West – Six Men Killed Indians (Rock Creek) –Scouting Parties Brownville (Nebraska) Advertiser 7/25/1861
10Cow-Boys and Colonels (Hickok)
10The Territory of Nebraska Vs. Wm. B. Hickok, J.W. Brink and Horace G. Wellman (Rock Creek)
10The True Story of the Rock Creek, Nebraska Territory Tragedy (Wm. Monrow McCanles)
10Historic Niagara Falls
10(Kress) Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Adams, Clay, Hall and Hamilton Counties, Neb.
10“Wild Bill” (From the Leavenworth Conservative), (Denver) Rocky Mountain News, 2/28/1867
10(Hickok In Atcjo
10(Hickok in Atchison – from the Free Press), (Denver) Rocky Mountain News, 3/14/1867
10(Comparing Hickok to Comstock), (Denver) Rocky Mountain News, 3/19/1867
10(Outlaw Band – Smith?) (Denver) Rocky Mountain News, 4/7/1866
10Indians (Other Wild Bill), Daily Central City Register, Colorado, 9/8/1868
10Gleanings (Wild Bill and Other Scouts – from the Chieftain,) (Denver) Rocky Mountain News 10/30/1868
10Jesses James and History, A Correction by Stanley Waterook, The Chicago Tribune, 10/13/1895 (Transcriptions)
10Kanhistique –“Rebecca Keys Burch A Kansas Homesteader”
10Kanhistique – “Dalton Captured Twice by Same Man”
10Kanhistique – “Early Memories about Swedish Windmill”
10Kit Carson Days Volume 1
10Kit Carson Days Vol. 2
10The Legend Makers
10The Life of P.T. Barnum
10Missouri a History of the Crossroads State
10My Early Travels and Adventures in America & Asia Vol. 1
10Kanhistique
10Kyle
10Lake, Carolyn
10McCorn, Edith Lancaster
10McKee, In
10Merchandise Center
10Military Images
10Moore, Sus.
10Montana
10Morey, Jeffery J.
10Museum of the Confederacy
10Nevada Publications
10Schoenberger, Dale T.
10Suderow, Bryce
10Swick, Edward
10University, Kansas
10Clippings, Cartoons
10Burke, Bob
10Brown, Jack R.
10Confederate Calendar Works
10DeShazo, Steve
10Grall, A.
10Hildebrand
10Ismert
10Jackson County Historical
10Shooting Affray. Two Men Killed, Abilene Chronicle 10/12/1871
10Attempt to Kill Marshal Hickok. He Circumvents the Parties., Abilene Chronicle 11/30/1871
10(Barnett Buffalo Hunt), Niagara Falls (N.Y.) Gazette, 8/28/1872
10The Wide of Wild Bill, Virginia (Nevada) Evening Chronicle 7/14/1877
10Pictures From Life in the Black Hills (Wild Bill etc.0, (Denver) Rocky Mountain News, 1/11/1878
10Wild Bill’s Grave Robbed, Cheyenne Daily Leader, 7/1/1879
10(Hickock’s Remain Exhumed) Cheyenne Daily Leader, 8/8/1879
10Wild Bill’s Remains, (Denver) Daily News, 8/23/1879
10Wild Bill’s Widow, Cheyenne Daily Leader, 8/3/1880
10A Chip off the Old Block (“son” o Wild Bill), Cheyenne Daily Leader, 7/19/1881
10The Ball that Killed Wild Bill (Massey) Cheyenne Daily Leader, 7/30/1885
10Happy Bad Men of the West (Hickok) (Denver) Rocky Mountain News, 10/23/1898 Cowen, E.D.
10Kansas Topics “How Mr. Hickok Came to Cheyenne,” Kansas City Journal, 3/12/1904
10Wild Bill Hickok Gun Fighter (Denver) Republican, 2/4/06
11Result of Investigation of Capt. Meinhold as to the Trouble Between Pawnee and Sioux and Manner of Death of Whistler and Two Other Indians on the Republican
1188 Unmarked Folders containing a varity of material types including but not limited to newspaper articles, technical maps, postcards and correspondence
11File G, Generals
11The Cattle Towns by Robert R. Dykstra
12Various research materials pertaining to the American West
13Various research materials pertaining to the American West
14Various research materials pertaining to the American West in Scrapbook format
15Various research materials pertaining to the American West in Scrapbook format
16Various research materials pertaining to the American West in Scrapbook format
17Various research materials pertaining to the American West in Scrapbook format
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