Musical scores, 1864.

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Musical scores, 1864.

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Transcriptions taken by Beemer, a Warren, Idaho, miner, from songs whistled, hummed, or sang by local residents. Also enclosed is a reminiscence by Taylor Smith.

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Idaho State Archives, Idaho State Historical Society

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Idaho State Archives, Idaho State Historical Society

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Beemer, Peter

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The first written history of the Beemer manuscript is found in a manuscript by Taylor Smith donated by Smith to the Idaho State Historical Society in 1961. Smith's history is published as an appendix in The Peter Beemer manuscript : dance music collected in the gold mining camp of Warren’s Diggins, Idaho in the 1860’s, edited by Vivian Williams (Seattle, Wash.: Voyager Recordings and Publications, 2008), which also contains transcripts of the music. Other histories are found in: The Warren colle...

Smith, T. C. (Taylor Clarence), 1915-

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