CAPTAIN HILDRETH FROST PAPERS

Correspondence, general Army orders, receipts, notes and deeds ranging from 1910 to 1918 comprise this collection. Frost's allegiance to mine owners and to General Chase as well as his struggles to help the men who served under him are evident in the correspondence. The men's correspondence conveying their personal problems is included. The folders in the collection include the names of each troopers. Reports and memos pertaining to various military matters such as equipment or pay vouchers are also contained in the collection.

Collectionc contains microfilm: Mflm185.

The papers in this series include correspondence from Charles Thomas, Senator from Colorado, and a title search for a Colorado Springs property.

Orders, memos, lists, notes and newspaper clippings constitute this series. The 1913 memos describe the deployment of the troops to the "strike zone" near Ludlow, Colorado. Information contained in letters and memos discusses supposed union leaders talking of murder and planning to arm the strikers. One memo purported that 400 of 700 strikers were not working for the company before the strike, implying that they were brought into the situation by the union planning violence. In 1914, Frost counted the weapons of his troops. Bills of sale document Frost's personal purchase of revolvers. After the "Ludlow Massacre", Frost's memos and correspondence dealt with matters such as pay for his men, equipment and discipline. The reports and memos that defended the National Guard's actions are dated later in 1914 and continue until 1917.

Arranged alphabetically by the individual names of the National Guard of Colorado troops, this series contains correspondence and power-of-attorney forms that Frost used to help his soldiers cash their pay vouchers. The vouchers arrived seldom and late to the men and in the correspondence, the men complain of the trouble they have cashing the checks. Frost helps by writing to each soldier and to his superiors to complain about the situation. This correspondence is included in the series.

This series includes two black-and-white photographs, one of Frost and one of unidentified soldiers on horseback.