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R.C. Overton letter to John W. Barriger, III, Arthur H. Cole, William J. Cunningham, et al
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Legal proceedings of William W. Phelps vs. Richard Simpson, et al
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Legal documents pertaining to a case brought by William W. Phelps against Missouri residents in Jackson County. The accusations stemmed from the 1833 destruction of Phelps' printing studio by an anti-Mormon mob.
mssHM 25796
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The life of William Henry Hayes, "Bully Hayes," the last of the buccaneers : a chronicle of the South Seas during the nineteenth century
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Biography of American "gentlemen merchant adventurer" William Henry Hayes by Sydney William Dutton and Earl Leon Heck. Recounts Hayes' escapades in the South Pacific, including in and around ports at Singapore, Adelaide and elsewhere in Australia, New Zealand, Shanghai, Java, and San Francisco. Larger themes covered include the negative role of missionaries, British and American animosity toward German trading expansion in the South Pacific, and Maori unrest against European influence. Mentions are made of Captain Ben Pease, Captain John J. Mahlmann, and Dr. James Chalmers, among others. With bibliography and index.
mssHM 74640
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W. H. Holabird Papers
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This collection contains forty items primarily related to the work of railroad agent and California Development Company receiver W.H. Holabird (1845-1921), as well as some personal and ephemeral items. The first and largest series (HM 73863-73875) is comprised of 13 items including correspondence and one report related to Holabird's survey of Miller and Lux's property for Southern Pacific in 1909. Holabird's surveys were in response to the Southern Pacific's interest in purchasing Miller and Lux and its various holdings. Includes one letter by Henry Miller to Holabird. Series 2 (HM 73876-73878) contains 3 documents related to Holabird's time as receiver and general manager of the California Development Company. Series 3 (HM 73879-73884) is made up of various reports Holabird wrote during and after his trips to the Philippines, Manchuria, and Siberia while working for E.H. Harriman and the Southern Pacific Railroad. This section also includes related correspondences regarding Manchuria with New York City-based journalist George Kennan (1845-1924). The final series (HM 73885-73892) contains 12 miscellaneous and personal items including a photograph of Holabird, biographical and autobiographical materials, letters, and World War I-era essays written by Holabird regarding nationalism and communism; it also includes a folder of ephemera with two copies of the Los Angeles Times announcing Holabird's death and a newspaper clipping written by Holabird on agriculture and irrigation in the Imperial Valley.
mssHM 73863-73892
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William H. Anderson letter to Frances Anderson
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Letter from William H. Anderson to his daughter Frances, written from the "southern part" of New Mexico near Rincon. In the letter Anderson describes his travels from Boston to New Mexico by railroad. The letter was intended as a geography lesson for his daughter and Anderson carefully traces his progress through Buffalo, Detroit, down the Mississippi River to St. Louis, through Missouri and Kansas, and finally through Colorado to New Mexico. Anderson includes a slightly more detailed description of Kansas City, Missouri, where he rode in a cable street car. In addition to tracking his geographical progress Anderson writes of difficulties encountered with cattle on the railroad tracks.
mssHM 74757
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C.L. Peckinpath letter to W. H. Hutchinson
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In the letter, Peckinpah comments upon Hutchinson's new book A bar cross man: The life and personal writings of Eugene Manlove Rhodes. Peckinpah also talks about the author Stuart E. White and the Peckinpah homestead on Peckinpah Mountain.
mssHM 68387
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Livergood, H. Letter to Arthur W. Zimmerman (1 piece)
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This collection consists mainly of correspondence detailing the lives and activities of the Zimmerman family, especially J. Franklin Zimmerman and his sisters who were in Alaska, the Klondike, and the prairie provinces of Canada. Included is a 136 page diary by J. Franklin that details his journey with his friend Lawrence "Brunky" Weber from Skagway, Alaska over the White Pass and then on to Dawson. The diary begins after they arrived at Fort Wrangel on February 14, 1898 and goes on to describe their traveling conditions, buying of supplies, customs rules, boat making on Tagish Lake, mining along the Dominion River, mining claims, and descriptions of the surrounding environment and towns.
mssZimmerman family