urn:taro:utexas.cah.00248 A Guide to the Earl Alonzo Brininstool Collection, 1850-1945. Edited with XMetal 2 by Cherie Baker and Evan Hocker according to the instructions in TARO 2 EAD 2002 Editing Instructions. 20030827. Finding aid written in English. Descriptive Summary Brininstool, Earl Alonzo A Guide to the Earl Alonzo Brininstool Collection, 1850-1945. Materials are written in English. (3 ft., 7 in.) Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin. Papers consist of interviews of veterans of the Indian Wars, as well as research and materials on life in the western part of the United States during the latter part of the nineteenth century. Biographical Note

Author of newspaper and magazine articles and books, primarily on cowboys, range and frontier life, and Indian wars, was born in Warsaw, New York, and lived in Los Angeles after 1895. Brininstool was the author of 14 books and numerous articles on subjects related to the collected materials.

 Scope and Contents

Correspondence, reminiscences, memoirs, newspaper and magazine clippings, printed material, maps, and photographs collected by Brininstool, primarily between 1930 and 1939, relate to life and events in the western half of the United States in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Letters and personal narratives from 33 veterans of the Indian Wars, members of their families, and other writers and historians, including Alson Bowles Ostrander and Homer W. Wheeler, relate primarily to General George A. Custer, Major Marcus A. Reno, Major F. W. Benteen, the Battle of the Little Big Horn, Wild Bill Hickock, William Cody (Buffalo Bill), Billy the Kid, and various Indian chiefs and tribes.

 Organization

Papers organized into five series by types of material: Correspondence (correspondence files alphabetical by correspondent or subject and then chronological). Narratives. Printed materials. Photographs. Oversize materials.

Preferred Citation

Earl Alonzo Brininstool Collection, 1850-1945, Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin.

 Index Terms Persons Benteen, Frederick William, 1834-1898. Billy, the Kid. Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917. Custer, George Armstrong, 1839-1876. Hickock, Wild Bill, 1837-1876. Reno, Marcus A. (Marcus Albert), 1835-1889. Subjects United States. Army.--History--19th century--Sources. Frontier and pioneer life--West (U.S.). Indians of North America--Wars--1815-1875. Indians of North America--Wars--1866-1895. Indians of North America--West (U.S.)--History--19th century--Sources. Little Big Horn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876. Dakota Territory. Montana--History--19th century--Sources. Rocky Mountains Region--History--19th century--Sources. West (U.S.)--History--19th century--Sources. Separated Material

Five issues of Harper's Weekly:

July 1, 1876; July 8, 1876; Nov. 29, 1890; Dec. 6, 1890; Dec. 13, 1890

 Detailed Description of Records 3G468 Correspondence (Classified) Files 3G468 Army, 1851-1919 & undated 3G468 Copies of letters, 1867, from Commanding Officer, Fort. Philip Kearney, Dakota Territory concerning Indian raids 1867. 3G468 Proceedings of a Board of Survey, New Mexico, to examine and fix responsibility of damage to quartermaster stores, 1869 3G468 Correspondence regarding differences in military procedure, 1869 3G468 Typescript of letter from Austin Henely, 2d Lt., 6th Cav, Ft. Wallace, Kan, reporting Indian encounter on Sappa Creek, 1875. 3G468 Letter, General P.H. Sheridan, 1876, and from General W.T. Sherman, 1876 3G468 Military order from Major Chamber, Camp North Fork, Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory, 1876 3G468 Newspaper report transcript about Indians 1876 3G468 Transcript of letter of Lieutenant General P. H. Sheridan relinquishing Command of the Division of Missouri, 1888 3G468 Check from Mary E. Carter, Post Trader, Fort Bridger, Wyoming Territory, to H. L. Griffin, 1884 3G468 Marksman's Certificate, 1887 3G468 Scores of Rifle Teams' Competition, Missouri, 1888 3G468 Proceedings of Board of Survey concerning loss of property, 1870 3G468 Proceedings of Board of Survey, concerning previous board, 1870 3G468 Asbury, C. H., Superintendent, Crow Agency, Montana, about Indians and markers at the Little Big Horn Battlefield, 1923-1935 3G468 Beecher Island (battleground), 1933-1940 3G468 Benteen, F. W., Maj, USA, Retired, son of Gen. F.W. Benteen, 1929-1937 3G468 Billy the Kid, Correspondence about his life and death, ca. Jul 15, 1881, also about Pat Garrett 3G468 Bisbee, Wm. H., Gen., US Army, regarding Fort Phil kearney, Dakota Territory, 1866; about General Cooke; letters written to Major O.B. Ostrander, 1932 3G468 Brisbin, Willliam C. includes copy of letter, January 1, 1892, from James S. Brisbin, U.S. Army, a general at the time of Custer's Last Stand, 1941 3G468 Brown, W. C., Buffalo Fight Monument; Indian stories; Battle of the Big Horn, 1925-1934 3G468 Buffalo Bill, miscellaneous, 1926-1937 3G468 Capron, T. H., 1864-1890, 1921-1934 3G468 Chapin, A. R. about Buffalo Bill and Sitting Bull; Sitting Bull;s death and burial, 1890-1939 3G468 Christensen, Sandy, about Custer, 1920-21 3G468 Cook, James, concerning Cody-Yellow Hand Duel, the Cheyenne's Big Bat, Little Bat, Gen. Charles King, Indian Lore, Buffalo Bill, 1928-1941. 3G468 Custer, George A., 1867-1845: 3G468 Copy of 1867 General Court Martial Orders, charging him with "Absence without leave" and "Conduct to the prejudice of good order and military discipline." 3G468 Postcard, William O. Taylor, about aftermath of Battle of Little Big Horn, 1920. 3G468 Letter, E. W. Countryman, concerning the "real 'Curley' of Custer fame," 1923; Correspondence from W.L. Lansing, Van Horn, Texas, 1924. 3G468 Letters, H.L. Scott, concerning battlefield comments of Curley, 1925. 3G468 Two letters from J.M. Carnahan, 1925, telegraph operator who sent first news of Custer battle to the world in 1876, Bismark, Dakota Territory. Newspaper clippings about J. M. Carnahan, 1938-1942. 3G468 Letters from men who were close to Custer or his command, 1925-1945, and undated. 3G468 Correspondence, 50th and 60th commemorations of Custers Last Fight. 3G468 DeLand, Charles, Custer material; Indians; typescript about Inkpaduta Indians, by Mrs. Josephine Waggoner, an Ogallala Sioux, 1932-1933 3G468 Dixon, Olive K., Adobe Wells Indian Fight; Buffalo Wallow Fight; wrote Life of Billy Dixon (Scout for Gen. Miles in Texas-Oklahoma campaigns), 1923-1942. 3G468 Dustin, Fred, concerning Custer, military topics; Indians; Letters to and from Colonel Goldin 1923-1943. 3G468 Falconer, W.A, about Custer. 1923-1935. 3G469 Fessenden, F.M., Fort. Philip Kearney, Dakota Territoy, 1919-1920. 3G469 Gatewood, Charles B., related to his father's pursuing Geronimo to Mexico and arranging for Geronimo's surrender, 1925-1941. 3G469 Ghent-Brininstool Controversy, includes letters from Mrs. Ida Godfrey, R. G. Carter, W. J. Ghent, 1932. 3G469 Gibson, Samuel, Army sergeant from 1866-1904, discusses Wagon Box Fight; Hardships of winter 1866-1867; and his desire for military retirement pay, 1914-1925. 3G469 Gillett, J. B., discusses Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett's shooting the Kid; refutes Burnes' story of The Kid, essay on the early history of the Texas Rangers, 1923-1933. 3G469 Goldin, Theodore, relates to the Little Bighorn Battle, Custer, Indians, 1927-1934. 3G469 Graham, W.A., Colonel, Judge Advocate, U.S. Army, writer refutes Brininstool's position of when first news of the Battle of Little Bighorn was released, 1922-1940. 3G469 Grinnell, George B., 1924-1925. 3G469 Hickok, James G., Wild Bill, 1921-1927. 3G469 Indians, 1890-1941: 3G469 Captain E.G. Fechet, Report of the Killing of Sitting Bull ; Story of Killing of Yellow Hair in the Hat Creek Fight Between the Cheyennes and U.S. Soldiers, 1929, as related by Beaver Heart, a Cheyenne Indian, eye witness; statement of Josie Tangleyellohair, 1929; and other letters concerning Indians. 3G469 Johnson, Albert W., concerning General Custer; his scout, Charles Reynolds; Indian Wars; copies of soldiers' and scouts' diaries, 1933-1939. 3G469 Kelly, Luther S., 1918-1928, and undated. 3G469 Kuhlman, Charles, concerns Battle of Little Bighorn, 1936-1941. 3G471 Correspondence (General) Files 3G471 Photostat of letter written by Jesse James, May 1882. 3G471 Letter, Grenville M. Dodge, concerning Civil War battles at Pea Ridge, Arkansas, 1905. 3G471 Letter, M. Littmann, relating to Wagon Box Fight, 1867, 1913. 3G471 Letter, Mrs. T. J. Foster, 1917. 3G471 Letter, Clark B. Stocking, 1866 Indian Fighter, 1918. 3G471 Letter, Charles King (?) mostly illegible, 1917. 3G471 Copy of letter, written by Annie Oakley to Hunter-Trader-Trapper magazine concerning Curley (Indian), 1925. 3G471 Brininstool's official appointment to National Indian War Veterans, April 12, 1916. 3G471 Letters from Lorenzo D. Walter, concerning Wyatt Earp, Bill Cody, Jesse James, 1933. 3G471 McAnelly, George M., concerning Crazy Horse's death, 1936. 3G471 Neifert, William A., concerning Custer; Indians, 1936. 3G472 Notes and Fragments 3G470 Lee, Jesse M., Brigadier General, U.S. Army, Indian agent, 1891-1930, and Mrs. Lucy W. Lee, 1923-1930. Daughter Maude Rethers. 3G470 McCarthy, D., 1933. 3G470 McGillycuddy, V. P., 1925-1937. 3G470 Mercer, William A., Major, Infantry; Indian agent, 1888-1918, undated. 3G470 Merritt, T. E., 1850-1935 and undated. 3G470 Mills, Anson, 1920-1924. 3G470 Milner, Joe, 1925-1927. 3G470 North, Luther H., campaigned with General Crook, 1876-1877; in partnership with his two brothers and William Cody on a cattle ranch where he was foreman 1877-1882, with General Custer's 1874 expedition to the Black Hills; 1923-1935. 3G470 Ostrander, A. B., about military life in 1860s; Jim Bridger, Bozeman Trail; his experiences as a clerk to General Philip Cooke, 1918-1933 and undated. 3G470 Reno, Marcus A., concerns copies of Court Martial Orders, May 8, 1877, and May 17, 1880, both charging Reno with "conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman". 1877-1941. 3G470 Reynolds, Charles, written by brother, Walter Reynolds, 1931-1940. 3G470 Root, Frank A., 1924-1930. 3G470 Ryan, John, relates to Bill Hickok and William F. Cody, 1923-1926. 3G470 Spotts, D. L., 1868-1869 diary, 1920-1933. 3G470 Standing Bear, concerns dispute over his standing in the tribe, 1930-1935. 3G470 Strahorn, Robert E., war correspondence during 1876 Indian campaigns, 1933-1940 and undated. 3G470 Swerdfeger, C. E., one of four sisters named "German" who were captured as children by Indians, 1925-1927. 3G470 Thornton, W. Packer, M.D., Indian fighter; relates to Indian encounters, 1925. 3G470 Watson, Elmo Scott, 1926-1941. 3G472 Mrs. Frank D. Baldwin, (wife of General Frank D. Baldwin), Reminiscences 3G472 Materials about Wild Bill Hickok, by George W. Hansen, undated. 3G472 Materials about General George A. Custer: 50-Year Celebration of Custer Battlefield, by A.B. Ostrander; Custer's Last Stand, no author, undated; Chief Gall's Story of the Custer Fight," an Associated Press Report of June 25, 1886. 3G472 The Mackenzie Raid Into Mexico, 1873, by Captain R.G. Carter. U.S. Army. 3G472 History of the Ninth Regt of Cavalry by Lieutenant Grote Hutchison 3G472 With Reno at the Little Big Horn by Sgt. Thomas O'Neill (contains 7 photographs) 3G472 Killing and Burial of Sitting Bull, Sioux Medicine Man, Dec. 15, 1890 by Captain A.R. Chapin and Captain E.G. Fechet 3G472 Field Diary of Lieut. William L. English, Seventh Infantry, Indian Campaign, 1876 3G472 The Story of a Rescue, by Brevet Col. L. H. Carpenter 3G472 Western and Military 3G472 Beecher Island Fight ; The Story of a Rescue ; Facts of the Life of John W. Poe, 1906; Draft notes concerning Indians of Black Hills, E.A. Brininstool; Life and Adventure of Calamity Jane, written by Herself with notes by Frank Hilton; The Surrender of Geronimo, written 1895 by Lieutenant Charles G. Gatewood, 6th Cavalry; The Westward March of America, 1930, The Building of Ft. Phillip Kearney, 1866 ; Was Billy the Kid a Brave Man, no author, undated; A Forgotten Campaign of our Indian War, typescript by Charles B. Gatewood. 3G473 Printed Material 3G473 Magazine excerpts 3G473 Newspaper clippings, bound about the Sioux War of 1876, compiled by John H. Josselyn, 1930, taken from a scrapbook kept during the years 1874-1878. 3G473 Indian Sketches and Pioneer History, ca. 1876 to late 1880s. 3G473 Newspaper clippings relate to Calamity Jane; Billy Dixon Wild Bill Hickok, Luther H. North 3G473 Periodicals 3G473 Dover Index, July 19, 1976; The Gary Owen Trumpeter, Ft. Bliss, July 17, 1926; Photocopy excerpts of Harpers Weekly December 6 and 13, 1890. 3G473 Sagebrush Philosophy, Aug. 1908-Nov. 1910 (four periodicals) 3G473 South Dakota Historical Review, Oct. 1936-July 1937 (four periodicals) 3G473 The Field Artillery Journal, Jan.-Feb. 1939 3G473 The American Rifleman, May 1931 3G473 Mount Rushmore National Memorial, 1930-1931. 3G474 Printed Material 3G474 Periodicals 3G474 The Cavalry Journal, published by the United States Cavalry Association, Jan.-Feb., 1934 3G474 The Journal for American Military History Foundation, Volume 1, Spring, Summer, Winter, 1937 3G474 Texas Publications 3G474 The Prisoners of Perote, 1844 3G474 The Rise and Fall of the Mission San Saba, 1905 3G474 Old Camp Verde, the Home of the Camels, 1936 3G474 Life of John Wesley Hardin, 1896 3G474 Authentic History of Sam Bass and his Gang, 1878, reprinted 1926, 1932 3G474 Heel-Fly Time in Texas, 1931 3G474 The Life of 'Big Foot' Wallace, 1899 3G474 Life of John Wesley Hardin written by Himself, 1896, reprinted with addition 3G474 Military History 3G474 New England War Veterans of the American Revolution and of Later Wars of Abraham Parker's family and of his Brothers, James, Joseph, John, and Jacob, William T. Parker, M.D., 1923 3G474 Destruction of the Spanish Fleet, Personal Narratives as Told by Officers of the American Fleet, in the Battle of Santiago de Cuba, July 3, 1898. 3G474 The Sinking of the 'Merrimac,' Richmond P. Hobson, 1898 3G474 Across the Plains with the Donner Party in 1846, no author, undated 3G474 The Custer Battlefield National Cemetery, Quartermaser General, U.S. Army, 1937 3G474 Incidents in Aguinaldo's Capture, Colonel W.C. Brown, Retired, 1925 3G474 Gettysburg, Robert Bruce, 1920 3G474 My Personal Story, Lieut. Charles C. DeRudio, 1876 3G474 Fourth Cavalry United States Army, 1855-1930 3G474 Army Documents, Orders, Musters, Memos, 1881-1914 3G474 Miscellaneous Indian Publications 3G474 The Ghost Dance 'War', 1890 3G474 Gen. Nelson A. Miles' Indian Campaigns 3G474 When War Came to the Indian, 1932 3G474 From Dogs to Horses Among the Western Indian Tribes, 1939 3G474 The Teepee Book, 1916 3G474 The Beecher Island Annual, 1930 3G474 Tragedy of the Wahk-Shum, 1937 3G475 The Indian Warrior, P.E. Byrne, 1928 3G475 3G475 Universal Indian Sign Language, William Tompkins, 1927 3G475 Sully's Expedition Against Southern Plains Indians in 1868, General E.S. Godfrey 3G475 Report of the Board of Indian Commissioners, Ex. Doc. No. 39, 41st Congress, 3d Session, Feb. 10, 1971, bound as Speeches of 'Red Cloud.' 3G475 Some of the Indian Battles and Battlefields. 3G475 Adobe Walls Indian Ceremonials, 1941 3G475 The Carlisle Arrow, 1912 3G475 Miscellaneous Western Publications 3G475 The Last Days of Kit Carson, H.R. Tilton, 1939 3G475 The Jayhawkers of Death Valley, John G. Ellenbecker, 1938 3G475 Makers of History, compiled by F. Romer, 1926 3G475 Personal Experiences on the oregon Trail Sixty Years Ago, Ezra Meeker, 1912 3G475 Complete Story of Omaha's Disastrous Tornado, Easter Sunday, March 23, 1912, Charles B. Driscoll, 1913 3G475 Across The Plains by Prairie Schooner, Frank Lockley, undated 3G475 Buffalo Bone Days, M.I. McCreight, 1939 3G475 Frontier Days, Cheyenne Wyoming 49th Annual Celebration, July 22-25, 1936 3G475 Early Days in Wyoming--A Short History of Old Fort Laramie, John Hunton, 1928 3G475 The W.M. Bogg's Manuscript About Bent's Fort, Kit Carson, The Far West and Life Among, the Indians, LeRoy R. Hafen, 1930 3G475 Through Yellowstone park with Gen. Sherman, 1883 3G475 A Souvenir History of Fort Robinson, Nebraska, Lieutenant Colonel Laurin L. Lawson, 1930 3G475 A Journal Across the Plains in 1836, a journal of Mrs. Marcus Whitman 3G475 Miscellaneous printed material (includes several pamphlets about the Overland Stage) 3S50 Photographs 2.325/D33c Correspondence: Schlesinger, (undated), The Beecher Island Fight Snyder, John F. (Mar 15, 1909) 2.325/D33c Map of Wounded Knee Battlefield 2.325/D33c Third and Fourth Quarterly Returns of Quartermaster Stores, New Mexico (1851) 2.325/D33c Estimate for Subsistence Stores at Las Pinos, NM (July 6, 1866 to June 30, 1867) 2.325/D33c Estimate for Subsistence Stores Fort Wingate, NM (Apr - June 30, 1866) 2.325/D33c Special Requisition for Subsistence Stores, Fort Marcy, NM (May 1, 1866 to July 31, 1866) (2 original copies) 2.325/D33c Requisition for Subsistence Stores at Los Pinos, NM (Apr 1, 1866, - June 30, 1866) 2.325/D33c List of Reports Eminating From and Going Through or Required at Commanding Officers Office (undated) 2.325/D33c Sunday Magazine and Womans' World (June 5, 1898) 2.325/OD11 Return of Provisions, Fort Union, N. M., January 1864