Gerald J. McIntosh western ephemera collection, 1877?-1977.

Rogers, Will, 1879-1935

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The youngest of eight children, William Penn Adair Rogers was born on November 4, 1879 at Rogers Ranch in Oologah, Indian Territory (what is now Oklahoma). His parents, Clement Vann Rogers and Mary Schrimsher, were partly of Cherokee descent. While growing up on the family ranch, Will worked with cattle and learned to ride and lasso from a young age. He grew so talented with a rope, in fact, that he was placed in the Guiness Book of World Records for throwing three lassos at once. One went ar...

Miles, Nelson Appleton, 1839-1925

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Miles was born in Westminster, Massachusetts, on his family's farm. He worked in Boston, read military history, and mastered military principles and techniques, including battle drills. Miles was working as a crockery store clerk in Boston when the American Civil War began. He entered the Union Army as a volunteer on September 9, 1861, and fought in many crucial battles. He became a lieutenant in the 22nd Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry and was commissioned a lieutenant colonel of t...

Sherman, Josepha.

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Murray, William H. (William Henry), 1869-1956

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Murray, frequently known as Alfalfa Bill, had an illustrious career in Oklahoma territorial and state politics. He was a legal advisor to Chickasaw Governor Douglas H. Johnston, president of the Oklahoma Constitutional Convention, member of the Oklahoma State House of Representatives, 1907-1908, member of the U. S. House of Representatives, representing Oklahoma's Fourth District, 1913-1917, founder of an agricultural colony in Bolivia, 1919-1929, governor of Oklahoma, 1931-1934, national direct...

National Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center

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Crawford, Jack, 1847-1917

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Frontier scout, writer, and performer, known as "Captain Jack Crawford, the poet scout." B. John Wallace Crawford, Mar. 4, 1847 County Donegal, Ireland; d. Feb. 28, 1917 Brooklyn, N.Y. From the description of John Wallace Crawford papers, 1877-1917. (Denver Public Library). WorldCat record id: 13307258 Author. From the description of Jack Crawford correspondence, 1901. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79450015 "The poet scout"; scout for the Black Hills Ra...

McIntosh, Gerald J., 1894-

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Gerald J. McIntosh was born in 1894 and moved to Indian Territory in 1904. In 1919, McIntosh moved to Little Rock, Arkansas where he was employed as a tie and timber inspector for the Rock Island Railroad, a position he held throughout his working life. Partly because of his early days in Indian Territory, he was a lifelong collector of books, periodicals, and ephemera relating to the West, and he donated a substantial portion of his collection to the museum. From the description of ...

Jennings, N. A. (Napoleon Augustus), 1856-1919

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Buffalo Bill's Wild West Company

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Sells-Floto Circus

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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...

Pawnee Bill, 1860-1942

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Pawnee Bill was a Wild West show impresario and late contemporary of Buffalo Bill Cody, with whom he was in partnership between 1908 and 1913. From the description of Pawnee Bill letter, 1931. (National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum). WorldCat record id: 61257714 Gordon W. Lillie (1860-1942) was born in Illinois and worked as an interpreter and schoolteacher at the Pawnee Indian Agency in what is now Oklahoma, starting in 1878. He later worked as an interpreter for th...

Buntline, Ned, 1822 or 1823-1886

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Adventurer and author. From the description of Note of Ned Buntline, undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79452244 ...

Miller Bros. & Arlington 101 Ranch Real Wild West (Organization)

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Williams, James Robert, 1888-1957

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Syndicated cartoonist whose cartoons appeared in Rocky Mountain News for over thirty years. Spent time as a cowboy and used those experiences for characters. From the description of Out our way : Clipping file. (Denver Public Library). WorldCat record id: 39033819 Cartoonist, soldier, machinist, mule-skinner and cowboy; Williams lived at Walnut Creek, Arizona for many years. He had many comic strips beginning in the 1920s including "Born Years Too Soon," "Why Mothers Get Gre...

Gardner, Raymond Hatfield, d. 1939.

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