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Letters from Samoa, 1891-1895
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1891-1895
Manuscripts
Chiefly letters, including three letter books, with documents, manuscripts, 38 Civil War maps, nine photographs, newspaper clippings, and other ephemera relating to Buckner's service in the Civil War, Reconstruction, Kentucky and national politics, and Buckner's business and personal affairs. The papers deal with various aspects of the Civil War: Buckner-Bragg controversy, Chickamauga campaign, battle of Perryville, siege of Fort Donelson, various Confederate armies, departments, and districts. Included are military maps, especially for Louisiana, Alabama, Tennessee, and the Chickamauga Campaign. Also included are papers of Joseph Walker Taylor, nephew of Zachary Taylor, scout for Buckner and a major in Adam Johnson's Partisan Rangers (10th Kentucky). The portion of the collection covering Reconstruction includes a group of letters by Buckner's sister Mary Buckner Tooke, written from Texas, and letters from various other people. Also included are materials related to Buckner's political affairs, including his gubernatorial campaign and various state governmental and political questions. Buckner's business affairs are represented by the materials of the litigation involving his Kentucky and Chicago property (Kingsbury suit), his insurance activities as regional manager of the Globe Mutual Life Insurance Co., and interest in railroads. The collection also contains poetry written by Buckner; letters of Buckner's sister, Mary Buckner Tooke; letters of his first wife, Mary Kingsbury Buckner; and letters of his daughter, Lily Buckner Belknap.
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Manuscripts, 1891-1895 August
Manuscripts
The collection contains letters, narratives, and eight large volumes of clippings related to the members of the Jayhawkers, their overland trip to the California gold fields through Death Valley, and their annual reunions held between 1872 to 1918. It also contains diaries by Asa Haines and Sheldon Young of the Jayhawkers' route and a map of Death Valley by William Lewis Manly, approximately 1889. The collection was assembled by John B. Colton (1831-1919), a member of the Jayhawker party. Participants in the collection include: John Wells Brier, Reverend James Brier, William Frederick Dody, Jessie Benton Fremont, John Groscup, Eliza Poor Donner Houghton, Charles Fletcher Lummis, William Lewis Manley, Charles B. Mecum, and Lorenzo Dow Stephens. The collection also includes items related to Mary Hunter Austin, Frederic Remington, and Theodore Roosevelt.
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