Edith Stuart Jackson papers, 1860-1978.

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Edith Stuart Jackson papers, 1860-1978.

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Collection contains Edith Stuart Jackson's notebooks and research files (which contain correspondence, oral histories, and notes) about the Cripple Creek area. Collection also contains photographs and photograph negatives of the Cripple Creek area and its inhabitants, photographs from the Spanish-American War, Cripple Creek area newspapers (including "Cripple Creek Times Record" and "Cripple Creek Gold Rush"), and microfilm reels of Cripple Creek area newspapers. More than twenty maps of the Cripple Creek area, twenty-five U.S. Bureau of Mining reports, more than two hundred books (mainly concerning the Cripple Creek area), a transcript of a 1914 account by Robert Gardiner concerning the discovery of the Cresson Vug gold vein, and a copy of Jackson's thesis "The History of Journalism at Victor, Colorado: In the Cripple Creek Mining District" are in this collection as well.

42.07 cubic ft. (43 boxes)

Univerisity of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6922215

Univerisity of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.

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Jackson, Edith Stuart.

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Edith Stuart Jackson (1906-1982) was a history enthusiast and expert on the history of Cripple Creek, Colorado. Born in Colorado Springs, Colorado and raised in the Cripple Creek Mining District, Jackson graduated from Colorado Teacher's College in 1928. She had a lifelong interest in Cripple Creek and spent her life researching the history of the area and its inhabitants. She earned an M.A. in history from Ohio State University in 1960, where she was author of the thesis "The History of Journal...