Frank T. Kelsey Papers 1906-1934

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Frank T. Kelsey Papers 1906-1934

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The Frank T. Kelsey Papers contains the correspondence of Frank T. Kelsey with retired general William Carey Brown. The letters, beginning in December 1933, discuss the placement of headstones to commemorate four soldiers killed during the Battle of Powder River, as well as an interest in having Kelsey deed a small tract of his land to the government to assure the location of the markers would remain in the future. In the course of his three month's correspondence with Kelsey, Brown mentioned maps and resources used to research the battle. Copies of these documents, along with some land ownership papers and photographs of the Kelsey family, complete this collection.

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MSU-Bozeman Library, Merrill G Burlingame Special Collections

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Brown, W. C. (William Carey), 1854-1939

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William Carey Brown (1854-1939) was a distinguished military officer, inventor, and historical researcher. His lifelong service in the U.S. Army took him to the American West and many countries around the world. A graduate of the U.S. Military Academy in 1877, he returned to West Point in 1885-90 as Adjutant. His notable military service after the American West was during the Spanish American War in Cuba, the Philippine Insurrection, the Punitive Expedition in Mexico, and World War I. After reti...

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...

Kelsey, Frank T. (Frank Theodore), 1874-1937

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Frank T. Kelsey was born in Kansas in 1874 and moved to Montana when he was thirteen years old. He initially worked as a school teacher in Rosebud County, but he eventually filed a desert claim for land along the Powder River is what is today Powder River County. Part of his claim encompassed the battle site of a March 17, 1876 military engagement against the Cheyenne Indians led by Col. Joseph J. Reynolds. Kelsey eventually became a Montana state senator and held a number of other ...

Kelsey family-Photographs

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