Frontier and pioneer life -- Colorado.
Found in 17 Collections and/or Records:
A Lowrie Letter to W. R. Wetherall
Correspondence to W. R. Wetherall mentions hunting trip to Ratoon Mountains (Colorado Territory), Colorado Pike's Peak gold rush, Lowrie's plans to accompany Kit Carson the following spring. Includes transcription.
ADDISON E. BAKER PAPERS
ALEXANDER TAYLOR RANKIN PAPERS
Benjamin Wilson Marsh letters to Jemima E. Marsh
Letters from Colorado Springs and "three miles north of Denver" to his wife "Mima" in Kansas. Tells of business activities, cattle, and crops. Letter of Aug. 9 incomplete.
Calvin Perry Clark Diary
Account of a journey by wagon train from Plano, Ill. to Denver, Colo. and vicinity over the Santa Fe Trail in 1859.
CAROLINE BANCROFT FAMILY PAPERS
HENDRIE FAMILY PAPERS
James D. Denning Letters to Family
Handwritten letters by Denning to his family during overland trip from Pittsburgh to California; includes description of trip to Estes Park, Colorado.
John Barkley Dawson Biography
Typed manuscript of biography of John Dawson by his granddaughter.
Lucille Hagus Imherr papers
Collection contains transcripts of: "The Donovan Family Story" (1968), "The Hagus Family Story" (1964) by Lucille Hagus Imherr; transcripts contain reminiscences and genealogical information with additional historical information about Adams County, Colo. and also the military engagement at Beecher Island.
Pike's Peak or Bust
Description of life in Colorado from gold-rush days to the coming of the railroads. Emphasis on prospecting and mining, early roads and transportation, farming, ranching, and irrigation.
ROONEY - LITTLEFIELD PAPERS
SADIE QUIGLEY CAMPBELL PAPERS
Territorial Daughters of Colorado Records
Collection contains autobiographical reminiscences by members; paper by Helen Frances Ingersoll about the history of the early Denver Public Library; yearbooks with organization bylaws and membership rosters (1976-1982).
Transcript of Oral History Interviews, 1942, Medical Springs, Or., with Frank M. Jasper
Reminiscences of experiences in and around Central City, Denver, and Estes Park, Colo. 1860s.
Welch Nossaman's life story of pioneer life in Iowa and Colorado
Story "related at the insistence of [his friend] Carl Weeks to [Weeks' secretary] I.E. Carlin".
William/Lucia Letters
Letters home to his wife Lucia give account of miner's life in 1860s Colorado.