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Digital Collections: Western Heritage

The McCracken Research Library’s digital collections relating to western history:

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MS 002 Victor Arland

MS 002
Victor Arland

MS 003 Charles Belden Photograph Collection

MS 003 Charles Belden Photograph Collection

MS 007 George Armstrong Custer

MS 007
George Armstrong Custer

Collection consists of four journals by Count Otto Franc von Lichtenstein relating daily activities as he ran the Pitchfork Ranch on the upper Greybull River west of present day Meeteetse, Wyoming. Typed transcripts are present for the first two journals.

MS 010 Count Otto
Franc Von Lichtenstein

This collection consists of the 15 letters from Charles Rapp to Eva Shepard written from various locations in Wyoming Territory. Mr. Rapp, of New York, discusses gold mining, women homesteaders on the frontier, Mormon immigration, Shoshone and Sioux Indians, and a description of a visit to the Little Big Horn battlefield three days after the battle.Charles Rapp was a New Yorker who came to Wyoming during the short-lived gold rush period. The collection contains 15 letters, written to a friend back home, that describe life in early Wyoming and in the mining camps. Among the topics discussed are relations with the Indians, the Battle of Little Big Horn, and his feelings of home sickness.

MS 017
Charles Rapp

MS 025 Wallace David Coburn Collection - This collection contains the booklet The Battle of the Little Big Horn by Wallace David Coburn and a manuscript written in pencil in a spiral notepad by "...the last of the Coburn boys..."

MS 025 Wallace David Coburn Collection

A compilation of images, correspondence, and ephemera related to the survey, settlement, development, evolution and interpretation of the West. This project was made possible in part by a Museums for America grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

MS 071
Vincent Mercaldo

A selection from the more than 300,000 images found in the McCracken Archives. Jack Richard was a journalist and professional photographer in Cody, Wyoming. Subjects include Yellowstone National Park, industries, portraits, ranching, and aerial photography. This project was made possible in part by a Museums for America grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The project was also funded in part by a generous grant from the Carol McMurry Library Donor Advised Endowment Fund, through the Wyoming Community Foundation. Thank you!

MS 089
Jack Richard

Postcards, Advertisements, Book Pictorial Souvenir of Cody, WY.

MS 112 Barbara Smith Collection

A collection of images, correspondence, and ephemera related to the life and times of John Wallace "Captain Jack" Crawford, his family and descendants.

MS 322 John Wallace
Crawford Collection

This collection consists of a legal transcript from a court case involving property loss in 1817 Territorial Missouri.

MS 331 William Clark
Collection, 1817

28 Photographic Negatives (Nitrate) and 2 photographic prints (possibly by Hiscock)

MS 402 Big Horn Basin Collection

MS 413 Herbert Homer Hews Black Hills Gold Rush Diary Collection

MS 413 Hewes Black Hills Gold Rush Diary

MS 414 Samuel B. Reed Collection

MS 414 Samuel B. Reed Collection

MS 426 Ken Blackbird Photograph Collection

MS 426 Ken Blackbird Photograph Collection

The collection contains research done by Roy Marcot for the writing of his book Civil War Chief of Sharpshooters; Hiram Berdan Military Commander and Firearms Inventor. It includes copies of sharpshooter correspondence, court records, patent records, and photos of sharpshooters and firearms, as well as drawings of Berdan's firearms and other inventions.

MS 437 Hiram Berdan Chief of Civil War Sharpshooters

Digital Collections are works in progress. Please see the appropriate finding guides for more complete collection content.
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