Elizabeth Mehaffey Howe (1860-1942) was the author of the 1931 book Frontiersmen. The Elizabeth Mehaffey Howe photograph collection contains one tintype of an unidentified man.

The collection consists of an unpublished manuscript written by Elizabeth Mehaffy Howe (b. 1860), author of Frontiersmen, published in 1931. The manuscript concerns the nineteenth-century American Indian Wars. Of particular interest are chapters on Latter-day Saints and Women in the West.