Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Rare Books
Cache la poudre : the romance of a tenderfoot in the days of Custer
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Rare Books
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Rare Books
279921
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Manuscripts
The collection consists of letters, manuscripts, photographs, one cloth map, and a few artifacts collected by Herbert Myrick related to western history, mainly the Battle at Little Bighorn. Subjects include Dakota Native Americans, Fort Abraham Lincoln, Fort Yates, and Standing Rock Indian Reservation. The collection contains 125 photographs, from approximately 1860 to approximately 1910, of Northern Plains Native Americans, U.S. 7th Cavalry members, and the Little Bighorn battlefield. It includes photographs of the following individuals: Frederick William Benteen, Bullhead, Crow Foot, George Armstrong Custer, Myles Walter Keogh, James McLaughlin, Rain in the Face, Sitting Bull, Standing Holy, Tiburcio Vasquez, George Daniel Wallace, and Young Man Afraid of His Horse. There are also 41 photographs of cowboys and ranch life. Additional persons represented in the collection include David F. Barry, Elizabeth Bacon Custer, and Herbert Myrick. Artifacts in the collection include a lock of Custer's hair, a cartridge from Custer's pistol, and a cloth map of the Custer battlefield drawn by T.B. Whitmore (who claimed to have witnessed the battle).
mssHM 49754-49909