Robert Spurrier Ellison papers 1865-1925

Camp, Walter Mason, 1867-1925

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Born in 1867, Walter Mason Camp was a civil engineer who worked for the railroad and spent many summers traveling throughout the country interviewing various participants and survivors of the Indian wars. He died in 1925. From the guide to the Camp mss., 1873-1918, (Lilly Library (Indiana University, Bloomington)) Railway engineer; editor; and, (avocationally) a historian of the Indian Wars of the U.S. Plains, 1865-1890. He avidly researched the Indian wars from 1890 to 1925...

Bridger, Jim, 1804-1881

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Custer, George Armstrong, 1839-1876

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Custer's paternal ancestors, Paulus and Gertrude Küster, came to the North American English colonies around 1693 from the Rhineland in Germany, probably among thousands of Palatines whose passage was arranged by the English government to gain settlers in New York and Pennsylvania. According to family letters, Custer was named after George Armstrong, a minister, in his devout mother's hope that her son might join the clergy. Custer was born in New Rumley, Ohio, to Emanuel Henry Custer (1806...

Crazy Horse, approximately 1842-1877

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Crazy Horse (b. approximetly 1840-d. September 5, 1877) was a Native American war leader of the Oglala Lakota in the 19th century. He took up arms against the United States government to fight against encroachment by white American settlers on Indian territory and to preserve the traditional way of life of the Lakota people. His participation in several famous battles of the American Indian Wars on the northern Great Plains, among them the Fetterman massacre in 1866, in which he acted as a deco...

Ellison, Robert Spurrier

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Historian. From the guide to the Charles Kuhlman collection on the Battle of the Little Big Horn, 1933-1959, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) Ellison (1875-1947) was a prominent Colorado lawyer, businessman, politician, historian, and author. From the description of Papers, 1833-1951. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122497370 From the guide to the Robert Spurrier Ellison papers, 1865-1925, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) Ellison (1875-1947) ...