Frontier and pioneer life -- Colorado.

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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.

Scope and Contents Twenty-three small, leather-bound pocket diaries comprise the collection, which spans 1859 to 1883. The bulk of Baker's diaries contain entries made during a single calendar year. However, in several instances, Baker made diary entries for the same period of time in two different diaries. For example, entries for January and February 1871 appear both at the end of the 1870 diary and the beginning of the 1871 diary. These entries, while not exact duplicates, are very similar. All...

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE Most of the items contained in this collection were published in 1966 in a book edited by Nolie Mumey entitled Alexander Taylor Rankin, 1803-1855, His Diary and Letters: A Pioneer Minister Who Fought Lawlessness with Religion on the Prairies of Eastern Kansas and the Frontier Settlements of Denver Where Life was Harsh and Brutal. However, the correspondence in file folder 6 regarding the murder in Mexico of A. T. Rankin's son Sylvester is not...

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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.

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Account of a journey by wagon train from Plano, Ill. to Denver, Colo. and vicinity over the Santa Fe Trail in 1859.

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE The Caroline Bancroft Family Papers comprise correspondence, business and personal papers, memorabilia, photographs and family history from five generations of the Bancroft and Jarvis families. Caroline Bancroft was clearly the keeper of these family papers, and she sometimes annotated the records for the benefit of future researchers. While the collection primarily documents the lives of many members of the Jarvis and Bancroft families, it also contains historical research and...

Scope and Contents The collection spans 1692 to 1987 and documents the families of brothers Charles Francis and Edwin Beard Hendrie and their business, Hendrie and Bolthoff Manufacturing Company and its subsequent iterations as Hendrie and Bolthoff Manufacturing and Supply Company, Hendrie and Bolthoff Company, and the Hendrie Investment Company. The bulk of the collection chronicles sisters Jennie, Edna (Hadley), and Marion Grace Hendrie’s travels during the late 1890s through the 1960s, as well as the real...

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Handwritten letters by Denning to his family during overland trip from Pittsburgh to California; includes description of trip to Estes Park, Colorado.

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Typed manuscript of biography of John Dawson by his granddaughter.

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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.

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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.

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE The correspondence in this collection ranges from 1859 to 1862. It consists of correspondence between Alexander Rooney and his fiancee, Emeline Littlefield. In 1859, Rooney wrote while in Wisconsin and Iowa working as a traveling salesman. From 1860 through 1862, the correspondence between the two contained details of their lives as Rooney traveled to Colorado and New Mexico, and Littlefield remained in Iowa teaching. Rooney's letters described Denver City, California Gulch, Taos and Santa...

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE The Sadie Q. Campbell collection consists of correspondence and mementos. Letters reflect relationships between mostly women friends and relatives from the 1880s to the 1920s. The letters provide a glimpse into the life of a woman who separated from her husband and raised a daughter in a tightly-knit extended family in northern Colorado around the turn of the 20th century. Many letters offer condolences for the death of Sadie’s 5-year old daughter Helen in 1914. Other letters cover topics...

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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).

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Reminiscences of experiences in and around Central City, Denver, and Estes Park, Colo. 1860s.

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Story "related at the insistence of [his friend] Carl Weeks to [Weeks' secretary] I.E. Carlin".

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Letters home to his wife Lucia give account of miner's life in 1860s Colorado.