Ruffner scrapbooks : [collection] : 1917-1919.

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Ruffner scrapbooks : [collection] : 1917-1919.

Scrapbooks containing newspaper clippings and other ephemera on a variety of topics, including Colorado servicemen in World War I, Mesa Verde, Bent's Fort, and Buffalo Bill Cody. The compiler of these scrapbooks is indentified only as "Ruffner."

1 v. : ill. ; [linear ft.].

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SNAC Resource ID: 7550921

History Colorado

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Bent, William, 1809-1869

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Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917

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Buffalo Bill was employed as a scout by the United States 5th Cavalry, 1868-1872. In 1869 he participated in the Battle of Summit Springs, Colorado, in which the 5th Cavalry defeated Cheyenne Indians. From the description of Letter : Saint Louis, Missouri, to Joseph Witherspoon Cook, Greenwood, South Dakota, 1896 May 23. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702162229 From the description of Letter : Saint Louis, Mo., to Joseph Witherspoon Cook, Greenwood, S.D., 1896 May 23. (Unkno...

Bent, George, 1843-1918

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George Bent (1843-1918), son of Colonel William Bent, fur trader and founder of Bent's Fort, and Owl Woman, a Cheyenne, daughter of White Thunder, went to school in St. Louis. By 1904 he was living in Colony, Oklahoma. From the description of George Bent papers, 1904-1926. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702127533 George Bent, born in Bent's Fort in 1843, the son of William Bent and his Cheyenne wife. As a witness of the Indian wars and conflicts in Colorado during the late 1...