A Guide to the Earl Alonzo Brininstool Collection,
1850-1945.
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| Creator | Brininstool, Earl Alonzo
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| Title: | A Guide to the Earl Alonzo
Brininstool Collection,
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| Dates: | 1850-1945. |
| Abstract | 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. |
| Extent: | (3 ft., 7 in.) |
| Language | Materials are written in
English. |
| Repository | Center for American History, The University
of Texas at Austin. |
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.
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.
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Organization
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| 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.
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| 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. |
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Five issues of
Harper's Weekly:
July 1, 1876; July 8, 1876; Nov. 29, 1890; Dec. 6, 1890; Dec. 13,
1890
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Earl Alonzo Brininstool Collection,
1850-1945, Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin.
Detailed Description of Records
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| 3G468 | | Correspondence (Classified) Files |
| | | Army,
1851-1919 & undated |
| | | | Copies of letters,
from Commanding Officer, Fort. Philip
Kearney, Dakota Territory concerning Indian raids
1867,1867. |
| | | | "Proceedings of a Board of
Survey", New Mexico, to examine and fix responsibility of damage to
quartermaster stores,
1869 |
| | | | Correspondence regarding differences in military
procedure,
1869 |
| | | | Typescript of letter from Austin Henely, 2d Lt., 6th
Cav, Ft. Wallace, Kan, reporting Indian encounter on Sappa Creek,
1875. |
| | | | Letter, General P.H. Sheridan,
and from General W.T. Sherman,
1876,1876 |
| | | | Military order from Major Chamber, Camp North Fork,
Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory,
1876 |
| | | | Newspaper report transcript about Indians
1876 |
| | | | Transcript of letter of Lieutenant General P. H.
Sheridan relinquishing Command of the Division of Missouri,
1888 |
| | | | Check from Mary E. Carter, Post Trader, Fort Bridger,
Wyoming Territory, to H. L. Griffin,
1884 |
| | | | Marksman's Certificate,
1887 |
| | | | Scores of Rifle Teams' Competition, Missouri,
1888 |
| | | | Proceedings of Board of Survey concerning loss of
property,
1870 |
| | | | Proceedings of Board of Survey, concerning previous
board,
1870 |
| | | Asbury, C. H., Superintendent, Crow Agency, Montana, about
Indians and markers at the Little Big Horn Battlefield,
1923-1935 |
| | | Beecher Island (battleground),
1933-1940 |
| | | Benteen, F. W., Maj, USA, Retired, son of Gen. F.W.
Benteen,
1929-1937 |
| | | Billy the Kid, Correspondence about his life and death,
also about Pat
Garrett ca. Jul 15, 1881, |
| | | Bisbee, Wm. H., Gen., US Army, regarding Fort Phil
kearney, Dakota Territory,
about General Cooke; letters written to
Major O.B. Ostrander,
1866;1932 |
| | | Brisbin, Willliam C. includes copy of letter,
from James S. Brisbin, U.S.
Army, a general at the time of Custer's Last Stand,
January 1, 1892,1941 |
| | | Brown, W. C., Buffalo Fight Monument; Indian stories;
"Battle of the Big Horn," 1925-1934 |
| | | Buffalo Bill, miscellaneous,
1926-1937 |
| | | Capron, T. H.,
1864-1890, 1921-1934 |
| | | Chapin, A. R. about Buffalo Bill and Sitting Bull; Sitting
Bull;s death and burial,
1890-1939 |
| | | Christensen, Sandy, about Custer,
1920-21 |
| | | Cook, James, concerning Cody-Yellow Hand Duel, the
Cheyenne's Big Bat, Little Bat, Gen. Charles King, Indian Lore, Buffalo Bill,
1928-1941. |
| | | Custer, George A.,
1867-1845: |
| | | | Copy of 1867 General Court Martial Orders, charging him
with "Absence without leave" and "Conduct to the prejudice of good order and
military discipline." |
| | | | Postcard, William O. Taylor, about aftermath of Battle
of Little Big Horn,
1920. |
| | | | Letter, E. W. Countryman, concerning the "real 'Curley'
of Custer fame,"
Correspondence from W.L. Lansing, Van
Horn, Texas,
1923;1924. |
| | | | Letters, H.L. Scott, concerning battlefield comments of
Curley,
1925. |
| | | | Two letters from J.M. Carnahan,
telegraph operator who sent first news
of Custer battle to the world in
Bismark, Dakota Territory. Newspaper
clippings about J. M. Carnahan,
1925,1876,1938-1942. |
| | | | Letters from men who were close to Custer or his
command,
1925-1945, and undated. |
| | | | Correspondence, 50th and 60th commemorations of
"Custers Last
Fight." |
| | | DeLand, Charles, Custer material; Indians; typescript
about Inkpaduta Indians, by Mrs. Josephine Waggoner, an Ogallala Sioux,
1932-1933 |
| | | 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. |
| | | Dustin, Fred, concerning Custer, military topics; Indians;
Letters to and from Colonel Goldin
1923-1943. |
| | | Falconer, W.A, about Custer.
1923-1935. |
| Box |
| 3G469 | | | Fessenden, F.M., Fort. Philip Kearney, Dakota Territoy,
1919-1920. |
| | | Gatewood, Charles B., related to his father's pursuing
Geronimo to Mexico and arranging for Geronimo's surrender,
1925-1941. |
| | | Ghent-Brininstool Controversy, includes letters from Mrs.
Ida Godfrey, R. G. Carter, W. J. Ghent,
1932. |
| | | Gibson, Samuel, Army sergeant from
discusses Wagon
Box Fight; Hardships of winter
and his desire for
military retirement pay,
1866-1904,1866-1867;1914-1925. |
| | | 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. |
| | | Goldin, Theodore, relates to the Little Bighorn Battle,
Custer, Indians,
1927-1934. |
| | | 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. |
| | | Grinnell, George B.,
1924-1925. |
| | | Hickok, James G.,
"Wild Bill," 1921-1927. |
| | | Indians,
1890-1941: |
| | | | 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,
and other letters concerning
Indians. 1929; |
| | | Johnson, Albert W., concerning General Custer; his scout,
Charles Reynolds; Indian Wars; copies of soldiers' and scouts' diaries,
1933-1939. |
| | | Kelly, Luther S.,
1918-1928, and undated. |
| | | Kuhlman, Charles, concerns Battle of Little Bighorn,
1936-1941. |
| Box |
| 3G471 | | | Correspondence (General) Files |
| | | Photostat of letter written by Jesse James,
May 1882. |
| | | Letter, Grenville M. Dodge, concerning Civil War battles
at Pea Ridge, Arkansas,
1905. |
| | | Letter, M. Littmann, relating to
"Wagon Box Fight, 1867," 1913. |
| | | Letter, Mrs. T. J. Foster,
1917. |
| | | Letter, Clark B. Stocking, 1866 Indian Fighter,
1918. |
| | | Letter, Charles King (?) mostly illegible,
1917. |
| | | Copy of letter, written by Annie Oakley to
Hunter-Trader-Trapper magazine
concerning Curley (Indian),
1925. |
| | | Brininstool's official appointment to National Indian War
Veterans,
April 12, 1916. |
| | | Letters from Lorenzo D. Walter, concerning Wyatt Earp,
Bill Cody, Jesse James,
1933. |
| | | McAnelly, George M., concerning Crazy Horse's death,
1936. |
| | | Neifert, William A., concerning Custer; Indians,
1936. |
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| 3G472 | | | Notes and Fragments |
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| 3G470 | | Lee, Jesse M., Brigadier General, U.S. Army, Indian agent,
and Mrs. Lucy W.
Lee,
Daughter Maude
Rethers. 1891-1930,1923-1930. |
| | | McCarthy, D.,
1933. |
| | | McGillycuddy, V. P.,
1925-1937. |
| | | Mercer, William A., Major, Infantry; Indian agent,
1888-1918, undated. |
| | | Merritt, T. E.,
1850-1935 and undated. |
| | | Mills, Anson,
1920-1924. |
| | | Milner, Joe,
1925-1927. |
| | | North, Luther H., campaigned with General Crook,
in partnership
with his two brothers and William Cody on a cattle ranch where he was foreman
with General
Custer's
expedition to the Black Hills;
1876-1877;1877-1882,18741923-1935. |
| | | 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. |
| | | Reno, Marcus A., concerns copies of Court Martial Orders,
both charging
Reno with "conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman".
May 8, 1877, and May 17, 1880,1877-1941. |
| | | Reynolds, Charles, written by brother, Walter Reynolds,
1931-1940. |
| | | Root, Frank A.,
1924-1930. |
| | | Ryan, John, relates to Bill Hickok and William F. Cody,
1923-1926. |
| | | Spotts, D. L.,
diary,
1868-18691920-1933. |
| | | Standing Bear, concerns dispute over his standing in the
tribe,
1930-1935. |
| | | Strahorn, Robert E., war correspondence during 1876 Indian
campaigns,
1933-1940 and undated. |
| | | Swerdfeger, C. E., one of four sisters named "German" who
were captured as children by Indians,
1925-1927. |
| | | Thornton, W. Packer, M.D., Indian fighter; relates to
Indian encounters,
1925. |
| | | Watson, Elmo Scott,
1926-1941. |
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| 3G472 | | Mrs. Frank D. Baldwin, (wife of General Frank D. Baldwin),
Reminiscences |
| | | Materials about Wild Bill Hickok, by George W. Hansen,
undated. |
| | | Materials about General George A. Custer:
"50-Year Celebration of Custer
Battlefield," by A.B. Ostrander;
"Custer's Last Stand," no author,
Chief Gall's Story of the Custer
Fight," an Associated Press Report of
undated;June 25, 1886. |
| | | "The Mackenzie Raid Into Mexico,
1873," by Captain R.G. Carter. U.S. Army. |
| | | "History of the Ninth Regt of
Cavalry" by Lieutenant Grote Hutchison |
| | | With Reno at the Little Big Horn by
Sgt. Thomas O'Neill (contains 7 photographs) |
| | | Killing and Burial of Sitting Bull, Sioux
Medicine Man, by Captain A.R. Chapin and
Captain E.G. Fechet Dec. 15, 1890 |
| | | Field Diary of Lieut. William L. English,
Seventh Infantry, Indian Campaign, 1876 |
| | | The Story of a Rescue, by Brevet
Col. L. H. Carpenter |
| | | Western and Military |
| | | "Beecher Island Fight ; ""The Story of a Rescue ;""Facts of the Life of John W.
Poe," 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
by Lieutenant Charles G. Gatewood, 6th
Cavalry;
"The Westward March of America,""The Building of Ft. Phillip Kearney,
1866 ;""Was Billy the Kid a Brave Man,"
no author,
"A Forgotten Campaign of our Indian
War," typescript by Charles B. Gatewood. 1906;18951930,undated; |
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| 3G473 | | | Printed Material |
| | | Magazine excerpts |
| | | Newspaper clippings, bound about the Sioux War of 1876,
compiled by John H. Josselyn,
taken from a scrapbook kept during the
years 1874-1878. 1930, |
| | | | "Indian Sketches and Pioneer
History," ca. 1876 to late 1880s. |
| | | Newspaper clippings relate to Calamity Jane; Billy Dixon
Wild Bill Hickok, Luther H. North |
| | | Periodicals |
| | | | Dover Index,The Gary Owen Trumpeter, Ft.
Bliss, Photocopy excerpts of
Harpers Weekly July 19, 1976;July 17, 1926;December 6 and 13, 1890. |
| | | | Sagebrush Philosophy, (four
periodicals) Aug. 1908-Nov. 1910 |
| | | | South Dakota Historical Review, (four
periodicals) Oct. 1936-July 1937 |
| | | | The Field Artillery Journal, Jan.-Feb. 1939 |
| | | | The American Rifleman, May 1931 |
| | | | Mount Rushmore National Memorial, 1930-1931. |
| Box |
| 3G474 | | | Printed Material |
| | | Periodicals |
| | | | The Cavalry Journal, published by
the United States Cavalry Association,
Jan.-Feb., 1934 |
| | | | The Journal for American Military History
Foundation, Volume 1,
Spring, Summer, Winter, 1937 |
| | | Texas Publications |
| | | | The Prisoners of Perote, 1844 |
| | | | The Rise and Fall of the Mission San
Saba, 1905 |
| | | | Old Camp Verde, the Home of the
Camels, 1936 |
| | | | "Life of John Wesley Hardin," 1896 |
| | | | Authentic History of Sam Bass and his
Gang, reprinted
1878,1926, 1932 |
| | | | "Heel-Fly Time in Texas," 1931 |
| | | | The Life of 'Big Foot' Wallace, 1899 |
| | | | Life of John Wesley Hardin written by
Himself, reprinted with addition 1896, |
| | | | Military History |
| | | | 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 |
| | | | 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. |
| | | | The Sinking of the 'Merrimac,'
Richmond P. Hobson,
1898 |
| | | | Across the Plains with the Donner Party in
1846, no author,
undated |
| | | | The Custer Battlefield National
Cemetery, Quartermaser General, U.S. Army,
1937 |
| | | | Incidents in Aguinaldo's Capture,
Colonel W.C. Brown, Retired,
1925 |
| | | | Gettysburg, Robert Bruce,
1920 |
| | | | My Personal Story, Lieut. Charles C.
DeRudio, 1876 |
| | | | Fourth Cavalry United States Army, 1855-1930 |
| | | Army Documents, Orders, Musters, Memos,
1881-1914 |
| | | Miscellaneous Indian Publications |
| | | | The Ghost Dance 'War', 1890 |
| | | | Gen. Nelson A. Miles' Indian
Campaigns |
| | | | When War Came to the Indian, 1932 |
| | | | From Dogs to Horses Among the Western
Indian Tribes, 1939 |
| | | | The Teepee Book, 1916 |
| | | | The Beecher Island Annual, 1930 |
| | | | Tragedy of the Wahk-Shum, 1937 |
| Box |
| 3G475 | | | The Indian Warrior, P.E. Byrne,
1928 |
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| | | | Universal Indian Sign Language,
William Tompkins,
1927 |
| | | | Sully's Expedition Against Southern Plains
Indians in 1868, General E.S. Godfrey |
| | | | Report of the Board of Indian Commissioners, Ex. Doc.
No. 39, 41st Congress, 3d Session,
bound as
Speeches of 'Red
Cloud.' Feb. 10, 1971, |
| | | | "Some of the Indian Battles and
Battlefields." |
| | | | "Adobe Walls Indian
Ceremonials," 1941 |
| | | | The Carlisle Arrow, 1912 |
| | | Miscellaneous Western Publications |
| | | | The Last Days of Kit Carson, H.R.
Tilton,
1939 |
| | | | The Jayhawkers of Death Valley,
John G. Ellenbecker,
1938 |
| | | | Makers of History, compiled by F.
Romer,
1926 |
| | | | Personal Experiences on the oregon Trail
Sixty Years Ago, Ezra Meeker,
1912 |
| | | | Complete Story of Omaha's Disastrous
Tornado, Easter Sunday, Charles B. Driscoll,
March 23, 1912,1913 |
| | | | Across The Plains by Prairie
Schooner, Frank Lockley,
undated |
| | | | Buffalo Bone Days, M.I. McCreight,
1939 |
| | | | Frontier Days, Cheyenne Wyoming 49th
Annual Celebration, July 22-25,
1936 |
| | | | Early Days in Wyoming--A Short History of
Old Fort Laramie, John Hunton,
1928 |
| | | | The W.M. Bogg's Manuscript About Bent's
Fort, Kit Carson, The Far West and Life Among, the Indians, LeRoy R.
Hafen,
1930 |
| | | | Through Yellowstone park with Gen.
Sherman, 1883 |
| | | | A Souvenir History of Fort Robinson,
Nebraska, Lieutenant Colonel Laurin L. Lawson,
1930 |
| | | | A Journal Across the Plains in
1836, a journal of Mrs. Marcus Whitman |
| | | Miscellaneous printed material (includes several pamphlets
about the Overland Stage) |
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| 2.325/D33c | | Correspondence: Schlesinger,
"The Beecher Island Fight" Snyder,
John F.
(undated),(Mar 15, 1909) |
| | | Map of Wounded Knee Battlefield |
| | | Third and Fourth Quarterly Returns of Quartermaster
Stores, New Mexico
(1851) |
| | | Estimate for Subsistence Stores at Las Pinos, NM
(July 6, 1866 to June 30, 1867) |
| | | Estimate for Subsistence Stores Fort Wingate, NM
(Apr - June 30,
1866) |
| | | Special Requisition for Subsistence Stores, Fort Marcy, NM
(May 1, 1866 to July 31, 1866)
Extent (2 original copies) |
| | | Requisition for Subsistence Stores at Los Pinos, NM
(Apr 1, 1866, - June 30,
1866) |
| | | List of Reports Eminating From and Going Through or
Required at Commanding Officers Office
(undated) |
| | | Sunday Magazine and Womans' World
(June 5, 1898) |
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| 2.325/OD11 | | | Return of Provisions, Fort Union, N. M.,
January 1864 |
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