Manuscripts

Clippings scrapbook with list of Jayhawkers

Description: Large scrapbook of clippings regarding the Jayhawkers, with some other printed material. At front is a typed list of names and addresses of the original party, with some information about their lives.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1890s
Call number: mssJA
Creator: Jayhawker Party(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Edward T. Colton, 1930.; Asa Haines diary (JA 1051), gift of G. William Hume, September 1957.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.; RESTRICTED: Box 12: Asa Haines diary is fragile; use facsimile reproduction. Original available with curatorial approval only.

Clippings scrapbook

Manuscripts

Clippings of accounts of reunion meetings of the Jayhawkers. Cover stamped: Jayhawkers of '49. Headquarters, Galesburg, Illinois. Written in ink on cover: First meeting held Feb. 5, 1872 at home of John B. Colton.

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Scrapbooks chiefly contain newspaper clippings related to the Jayhawkers, with some correspondence and ephemera such as programs. Volume 2 chiefly contains clippings related to topics such as horses, farming, alfalfa, etc., with the stamp of the Buzzard Roost Ranche, Eddyville, Nebraska on the inside front cover. The volume numbers are based on the original numbers written on the volume spines.

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Palmer, Theodore Sherman. List of Jayhawkers and Jayhawker descendants' reunions, 1872-1938

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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Clippings scrapbook, 1897-1901

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