Robert E. Eagan Papers

Collection

Identifier: WH1070

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Correspondence, notebooks, photo scrapbook pages, notes, typewritten copies of articles and newspaper clippings relating to Dodge City and western Kansas. Includes photographs of sheriffs, deputies, mayors, workers, editors, merchants, school groups, sports teams, bands, criminals, firemen, families, businesses, the town, churches, trains, locomotives, automobiles, Native Americans, stagecoaches, cattle, cowboys, hide yards, schools, bicycles, drawings, documents and houses. Names include Albert Alonzo Robinson, Stubbs, Milton, Miller, Evans, Straeter, Riney, Kirkpatrick, Imel, Van Riper, Tarbox, Kampf, Dillworth, Hooley, Baird, Dixon, Hanrahan, Leonard, Rath, Johnson, Bond, Qanah Parker, Anthony, Hoover, Sitler, Riney, McCarty, Deger, Webster, Sutton, Wright, Ham Bell, Short, Bat Masterson, Wyatt Earp, Bill Hickock, Doc Holliday, Charles Bassett, Beeson, Fisher, Zimmerman, Raymond, Kelley, Frost, Klaine, Bainbridge, Hinkle, Hale, Sughrue, Singer, Straughn, Dora Hand, Thompson, Tilghman, Elden, Lowe, Olive, Nixon, Mather, Ben Hodges, Rhodes, Landis, Ford, Grunke, Locations include Adobe Walls, Long Branch Saloon, and a publicity photo for the television program "Gunsmoke."

Dates

circa 1864-1967

Creator

Eagan, Robert E.,1896-1967. (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research.

Copyright

All requests for permission to publish, reproduce, or quote from material in the collection should be discussed with the appropriate librarian or archivist. Permission for publication may be given on behalf of the Denver Public Library as the owner of the physical item. It is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained by the customer. The Library does not assume any responsibility for infringement of copyright or publication rights of the manuscript held by the writer, heirs, donors, or executors. Reproduction restrictions are decided on a case-by-case basis.

Biographical / Historical

Dodge City, Kansas resident. 42-year employee of Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. As an avocation, Eagan researched Dodge City and Kansas history through interviews, correspondence, reading, and collecting.