Walter Stanley Campbell Collection
Scope and Contents
Professor. Personal correspondence (1897–1957); correspondence with Campbell’s relatives (1822–1896); correspondence with publishers and literary agents (1920–1958); literary manuscripts (circa 1914–1957); diaries, notebooks, and journals (1901–1926); and business papers (circa 1925–1959) regarding Campbell’s writings on the West, Indians, and Oklahoma, with emphasis on transportation, fortifications, cowboys, wars and battles, criminals and outlaws, and American Indian chiefs, along with original Indian art by Carl Sweezy. [Boxes 104 through 121 of this collection are available online at the OU Libraries website.]FULL FINDING AID (PDF)
Dates
- Creation: 1800-1964
Conditions Governing Access
On June 26, 2023, the Western History Collections began a preservation project that has made many of its collections unavailable for a period of time. This collection is among the materials temporarily unavailable. Please contact Western History Collections if you wish to be added to a contact list to be notified when this collection becomes available.
Open for public research.
Extent
77 Cubic Feet
Language of Materials
English
Custodial History
Gift of Walter Stanley Campbell
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Papers: Source of acquisition--Campbell, Walter Stanley. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1951.
Alternate Form Available
Also available online. (http://digital.libraries.ou.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/CampbellWS)
Subject
- Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941 (Person)
- Armitage, Harry (Person)
- Bacon Rind, (Osage Indian), 1860-1932 (Person)
- Bent, George, 1843-1918 (Person)
- Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917 (Person)
- Caldwell, Erskine, 1903-1987 (Person)
- Carson, Kit, 1809-1868 (Person)
- Crazy Horse, approximately 1842-1877 (Person)
- Dalton family (Family)
- Dalton Gang (Organization)
- Debo, Angie, 1890-1988 (Person)
- Dixon, Billy, 1850-1913 (Person)
- Dobie, J. Frank (James Frank), 1888-1964 (Person)
- Doolin, Bill, 1858-1896 (Person)
- Dull Knife, approximately 1828-1879 or 1883 (Person)
- Earp, Wyatt, 1848-1929 (Person)
- Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968 (Person)
- King, Charles Francis Xavier, - approximately 1981 (Person)
- Garland, Hamlin, 1860-1940 (Person)
- Geronimo, 1829-1909 (Person)
- Goodnight, Charles, 1836-1929 (Person)
- Hardin, John Wesley, 1853-1895 (Person)
- Holliday, John Henry, 1851-1887 (Person)
- James, Frank, 1844-1915 (Person)
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Death and burial (Person)
- Meek, Joseph Lafayette, 1810-1875 (Person)
- Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956 (Person)
- Miles, Nelson Appleton, 1839-1925 (Person)
- Parker, Ely Samuel, 1828-1895 (Person)
- Raine, William MacLeod, 1871-1954 (Person)
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 (Person)
- Masterson, Bat, 1853-1921 (Person)
- Seger, John H. (John Homer), 1846-1928 (Person)
- Sheridan, Philip Henry, 1831-1888 (Person)
- Sherwood, Robert E. (Robert Emmet), 1896-1955 (Person)
- Sitting Bull, 1831-1890 (Person)
- Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton), 1841-1904 (Person)
- Thomas, Heck, 1850-1912 (Person)
- Tilghman, William Matthew, 1854-1924 (Person)
- United States. Army. Field Artillery Battalion, 335th (Organization)
- United States. Treaties, etc. (1867 October 21) (Organization)
- University of Oklahoma -- History (Organization)
- University of Oxford (Organization)
- Vestal, Stanley, 1887-1957 (Person)
- Webb, Walter Prescott, 1888-1963 (Person)
- White Bull, Joseph, 1849-1947 (Person)
- White, William Allen, 1868-1944 (Person)
- Masterson, Ed, 1852-1878 (Person)
- McGillycuddy, Valentine, 1849-1939 (Person)
- Nixon, Tom (Person)
- Pierce, Abel Head, 1834-1900 (Person)
- Wallace, Big-Foot, 1817-1899 (Person)
- Yellow Hand, 1850?-1876 (Person)
Genre / Form
Geographic
- Black Hills (S.D. and Wyo.) -- History
- Bozeman Trail
- Cherokee Strip (Okla. and Kan.)
- Detroit (Mich.)
- Dodge City (Kan.)
- Fort Brady (Mich.)
- Fort Bridger (Wyo.)
- Fort Clark (Tex.)
- Fort Dodge (Kan.)
- Fort Duncan (Tex.)
- Fort Garland (Colo.)
- Fort Gibson (Okla.)
- Fort Laramie (Wyo.)
- Fort Leavenworth (Kan.)
- Fort Lyon (Colo.)
- Fort Omaha (Neb.)
- Fort Peck (Mont.)
- Fort Phil Kearny (Wyo.)
- Fort Reno (Okla.)
- Fort Ringgold (Tex.)
- Fort Slocum (N.Y.)
- Fort Smith (Ark.)
- Fort Snelling (Minn.)
- Fort Supply (Okla.)
- Fort Wallace (Kan.)
- Kansas -- History
- Mt. Vernon Barracks (Ala.)
- Oklahoma -- History -- 1907-
- Oklahoma -- History -- 19th century
- Perry (Okla.)
- Saint Joseph (Mo.)
- Santa Fe National Historic Trail
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental histories
Topical
- American bison
- Arapaho Indians
- Authors, American -- Oklahoma
- Cattle -- Kansas
- Cattle -- Texas
- Cattle trails
- Cemeteries -- Oklahoma
- Cheyenne Indians
- Cheyenne Indians -- Wars
- Court records -- Dodge City (Kan.)
- Cowboys -- Southwest, New
- Crow Indians
- Crow Indians -- Wars
- Dakota Indians -- Folklore
- Dakota Indians -- Music
- Dakota Indians -- Religion
- Dakota Indians -- Rites and ceremonies
- Dakota Indians -- Wars
- Dakota calendar
- Dakota dance
- Dakota language
- Delaware Indians
- Fetterman Fight, Wyo., 1866
- Ghost dance
- Horses
- Hotels -- Kansas
- Indian art -- North America
- Indian calendar -- North America
- Indian dance -- North America
- Indian ponies
- Indians of North America -- Burial
- Indians of North America -- Dwellings
- Indians of North America -- Folklore
- Indians of North America -- Languages
- Indians of North America -- Medicine
- Indians of North America -- Music
- Indians of North America -- Religion
- Indians of North America -- Rites and ceremonies
- Indians of North America -- Statistics, Vital
- Indians of North America -- Wars
- Lakota Indians -- Treaties
- Lakota Indians -- Wars
- Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876
- Manuscripts
- Munsee Indians
- Outlaws
- Poetry
- Poets -- Oklahoma
- Pony express
- Powder River, Battle of the, 1876
- Rosebud, Battle of the, Mont., 1876
- Sand Creek Massacre, Colo., 1864
- Scalping
- Shoshoni Indians -- Language
- Sihasapa Indians
- Slim Buttes, Battle of, S.D., 1876
- Steamboats -- Missouri River
- Trails
- United States marshals
- Wagon Box Fight, Wyo., 1867
- Wagon Mound Massacre
- Washita, Battle of the, 1868
- Wild west shows
- World War, 1914-1918
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, British
- Wounded Knee Massacre, S.D., 1890
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Repository Details
Part of the Western History Collections Repository
630 Parrington Oval
Room 300
Norman Oklahoma 73019 United States
westernhistorycollections@ou.edu