Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885

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Teacher. A diary (1886-1892) kept by DeKnight, relating her experiences as a teacher at the Chilocco Indian School and the Otoe School at the Red Rock Indian Agency, both in Indian Territory. The primary emphasis of the diary is on the time Deknight spent among the Otos and includes a list (1887) of her Oto students.

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Material from Bass's participation with the Oklahoma Civil War Centennial Commission, including general correspondence and correspondence regarding Abraham Lincoln (1962-1965); subject files regarding Civil War historical sites, events and personalities; and programs received from other state commissions. Also, Bass's travel diaries (1943-1966); correspondence (1933-1936) to and from patriotic societies; correspondence (1935-1940) from J. Edgar Hoover regarding conferences on crime; speeches (1935-1940) by Hoover; and reports from conferences regarding crime. Henry Benjamin Bass Photograph Collection also in repository.

Black and white copy prints from the original nitrate negatives of early Texas history, Texas Rangers, lawmen, outlaws, gunfighters, and wild west shows. Also included are photographs of ranchers, cattlemen and cowboys of the Southwest, the U.S. Army during the Apache campaigns, the Little Big Horn battlefield and the Indian Wars of 1876 and 1890-1891, along with churches, cathedrals, and missions of Texas, California and Arizona. The collection also contains images of Comanche, Sioux, Shoshoni, Pueblo, Creek, Chippewa, Maricopa, Arapaho, Papago, Kickapoo, Yuma, Modoc, Cheyenne, Pawnee, Kiowa, Navajo, Apache, and Crow Indians. Prominent western personalities include Wild Bill Hickok, Buffalo Bill, Geronimo, Quanah Parker, Sitting Bull, Frank and Jesse James, Heck Thomas, Bill Tilghman, Chris Madsen, Pat Garrett, Billy the Kid, the Daltons and Youngers, Judge Roy Bean, George A. Custer, California Joe, the Sundance Kid, Butch Cassidy, and the Earp brothers.

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Railroad manager. Typescripts of letters to and from Stevens regarding his management of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad, of which Stevens was General Manager. Included in the collection is a letter to Stevens from President U.S. Grant regarding a trip Grant made from St. Louis to Springfield and the Indian Territory. The originals of the letters are preserved in the Stevens Family Papers, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library, Ithaca, N.Y.

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Oil producer and lawyer. Correspondence between Grisso, Arthur McAnally, and Colonel John Virden on various subjects, including the American Southwest, the Albert Jennings Fountain murder case, the Maxwell Land Grant, the University of Oklahoma Board of Regents, western saloons, and the oil industry in Oklahoma. Walker D. Grisso Photograph Collection also in repository.

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Editor. Typescripts of articles by and about William P. Boudinot from various Cherokee Indian newspapers.