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Mrs. Alphonso Reeves diary
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Public lands disposed of during fiscal year ended June 30 1902
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Handwritten, 2-page, document about public land disposed of during 1902 from 15 states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Washington, Wyoming, Nebrasks, and Utah. Is probably from "Annual Reports of the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1902. Report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office," Washington, Government printing office, 1902. Written on "United States Senate" letterhead.
mssHM 84318
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Mary Arbeely diary
Manuscripts
Mary Arbeely wrote this diary during the final months of the family's Beirut trip (1908, November 17-1909, September 30).
mssHM 83424
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Lyman H. Howland letters to his son
Manuscripts
Lyman H. Howland wrote seven of these letters to his son, Garrald, after he left New Bedford to become an itinerant miner in California, Idaho, Nevada, and Montana. The first letter is a 16-page description of his 1892 railroad journey to Sacramento. In 1894, Howland is living in Spokane, Washington and talks of mining prospects. In 1896, Howland is mining in Troy, Idaho, and in 1897, he is mining in Sylvanite, Montana. Besides mining and his life as a miner, Howland also lectures his son on the evil of alcohol, talks of sending for his son to join him, and asks about family and friends back in New Bedford. Two of these letters are incomplete.
mssHM 83122-83129
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West of last chance
Rare Books
Photographs and text reflecting the land, life, and people of the Great Plains of Colorado, New Mexico, South Dakota, Kansas, Wyoming, Nebraska, Utah, Oklahoma and Texas.
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Diary and letterbook
Manuscripts
This journal or diary, kept at irregular intervals over nearly forty years (fullest for the 1720s), gradually morphs into a letterbook recording copies of Thomlinson's correspondence. Early entries discuss with some frankness his family and prospects, his own and his family's business and legal mattters, daily life and gossip, books and rading (including The Tatler), politics and current events, sermons, occasional medicinal rcipes and cures, and accounts of his corresepondence.
mssHM 70982
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Life and adventures of Captain William G. Felton, California Bill
Manuscripts
The manuscript memoirs, prepared by William G. Felton in 1886. The memoirs cover Felton's military service, including the battle of Lewisburg, the siege of Vicksburg, his time at the Camp Ford Stockade Prison, and his post-war career. Included are accounts of his experiences in stage coaching in Wyoming and South Dakota, including an incident with the Dakota Indians, after which Felton was sent to Fort Laramie; the Battle of Little Bighorn; Crazy Horse's death at Camp Robinson; farming in California and Nevada; and mining in Colorado. Felton specifically talks about Buffalo Bill, Crazy Horse, George Crook, George Custer, Ulysses S. Grant, Henry Heth, Wild Bill Hickok, and Joseph Reynolds.
mssHM 68183