Mary Griffith Hoops Collection
Item
Identifier: WHC-M-1028
Scope and Contents
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Pioneer. Photocopy of a typescript memoir (1887) by Mary Griffith Hoops, published in the Marion Record in 1925, describing the settlement in 1864-1865 of her family in Marion, Kansas. Includes information on the early history of the area, life on the frontier, a meeting with Kit Carson, and a trading post on the Santa Fe Trail.
Dates
- 1887
Creator
- Hoops, Mary Griffith, 1842-1898 (Person)
Restrictions on Access
Available for public access.
Extent
1 item (1 item)
Language of Materials
English
Ownership and Custodial History
Gift of Katherine Billings.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Memoirs: Source of acquisition--Billings, Katherine. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1986.
- Carson, Kit, 1809-1868
- Frontier and pioneer life -- Kansas Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Kansas -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Land settlement -- Kansas Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Marion (Kan.) -- History Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Memoirs Subject Source: Ftamc
- Pioneers -- Kansas Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Santa Fe National Historic Trail Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Trails Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Description rules
- Appm
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Western History Collections Repository
Contact:
630 Parrington Oval
Room 300
Norman Oklahoma 73019 United States
westernhistorycollections@ou.edu
630 Parrington Oval
Room 300
Norman Oklahoma 73019 United States
westernhistorycollections@ou.edu
