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Pearce, Gladys M., 1893-1966. Papers, 1936, 1956-1957.

Title: Papers, 1936, 1956-1957.

Correspondence, clipping and a typed carbon copy of "Claimed by the prairies" (187 leaves), Pearce's biography of her grandmother, Winnieford Winston Nicholls (1830-1914), a Bismarck pioneer, dealing particularly with her life after 1873 when they arrived at Bismarck. It also covers her life in Wales, England, New York, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. Mentions Alexander McKenzie, Calamity Jane, General George A. Custer and the Little Big Horn battle, Comanche, the horse who survived the battle, Indians, traveling by covered wagon, Fort Seward, gambling halls, removal of the territorial capital to Bismarck, the 1898 fire in Bismarck, Black settlements, statehood, Marquis de Mores, Camp Hancock, early schools, and social life in Bismarck.

ArchivalResource: .2 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/29932309 View

Waldo, Edna LaMoore, 1893-. Collection, 1931-1956.

Title: Collection, 1931-1956.

Review of "Dakota", copies of "Pageant of the Missouri", "Sunbonnet Trail", unbound first printing of "Dakota", several letters, biographical and genealogical material on the Dearborn, Freeman, and LaMoore families, and several articles from her "Way Back When" series including Fort Rice, Fort Lincoln, Linda Slaughter, Custer, 7th Cavalry, and expeditions to survey for expansion of the railroads.

ArchivalResource: 11 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/30378562 View

Barrett, Edward H. Edward H. Barrett personal book, 1876-1892.

Title: Edward H. Barrett personal book, 1876-1892.

The collection consists of two volumes of copies or transcriptions of proceedings of the Bismarck Townsite commissioners' meetings from November 13, 1876 to February 21,1877, and a register of townsite claims and their disposition for the same dates. Barrett, the city clerk, made the copies in 1891 from the original proceedings on file in the city clerk's office. Also includes one volume containing Barrett's transcription of Bismarck City Council or Commission resolutions, appointments to office, petitions and assessments from 1876 to 1892.

ArchivalResource: 3 v. and microfilm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/319546944 View

Smith, C. C. Sheet music collection, 1876-1940.

Title: Sheet music collection, 1876-1940.

Includes "Northern Route March" by C. C. Smith, 1876; "My Soldier" by Linda Slaughter, 1904; . "Sacajawea" by George A. Perley, 1905; "A Prisoner's Redemption" (North Dakota State Penitentiary) by William Norton, 1915; "Barndomsminder" by Oscar O. Ødegaard, 1936; and "Our Governor" (march) by A. A. Guimont, 1940.

ArchivalResource: 6 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78791435 View

North Dakota Humanities Council. North Dakota Humanities Council Larry Remele Memorial Fellow reports, 1997-2009.

Title: North Dakota Humanities Council Larry Remele Memorial Fellow reports, 1997-2009.

Consists of reports to the people of North Dakota by Larry Remele Memorial Fellows of the North Dakota Humanities Council that were handouts at the Heritage Center presentations.

ArchivalResource: 0.5 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/779846723 View

Linda Slaughter family photograph collection, 1891-1897.

Title: Linda Slaughter family photograph collection, 1891-1897.

Copy photographs (front & back) of some of the members of the Linda Slaughter family.

ArchivalResource: 2 photographs.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/759406352 View

Slaughter, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1842-1896. Journal.

Title: Journal.

In his journal, B. Franklin Slaughter gives an eyewitness account of an Indian raid on the fort's livestock, which was repelled by soldiers and Indian scouts. There is a partial account of a trail-marking expedition between Fort Rice and Painted Woods, Dakota Territory. The entry for July 1 is by the surgeon's wife, Linda Slaughter, commenting on the content of her husband's journal.

ArchivalResource: 10 p. ; 25 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702688998 View