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Manuscripts, American

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Elmo Scott Watson papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ayer-Modern-MS-Watson
Abstract

Personal papers of journalist, professor of journalism, and western / frontier historian Elmo Scott Watson, consisting mainly of topical files on western subjects and journalism. Also included are Watson's manuscripts and published writings, and his correspondence and teaching-related files.

Dates: 1816-1951; Majority of material found within 1920-1951

Irving Samuel Cutter Papers

 Collection
Identifier: VAULT-Ayer-MS-3221
Abstract

Mainly research materials (correspondence, biographical information, articles) gathered for an article on Henry Rinalda Porter, a surgeon at the Battle of Little Big Horn, with photographs of Porter, the Custer battlefield, and Indians involved in the fight. Also includes a George Crook letter and sketches by Charles M. Russell.

Dates: 1884-1934

Olin D. Wheeler papers

 Collection
Identifier: VAULT-Ayer-MS-3220
Abstract

Mainly correspondence, notes, and writings of author, topographer, and Northern Pacific Railway executive Olin Dunbar Wheeler regarding Custer and the Battle of Little Big Horn; also articles about Wheeler and reviews of his work.

Dates: 1892-1924