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Program: "Inventing the West"

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 7

Scope and Contents

  1. 189: Poster (oversize negative only)
  2. 190: Street in Ketchum, Idaho with banner announcing program. Book plates, engravings, and lithographs
  3. 191: Satirical drawing of the scene of the Mountain Meadow Massacre
  4. 192: Title page from Beadle's Boy's Library of Sport, Story and Adventure, Vol. I, no. 11, "Old Grizzly Adams," by Dr. Frank Powell
  5. 193: "Across the Continent. Westward the course of empire takes its way,"
  6. 194: "Entrance of Santa Fe River to the valley of Rio Grande, near Pena Blanca," Lossing and Barritt
  7. 195: "Plano Geographico, de la tierra descubierta, nueba mente, a los Rumbos Norte Noroesta y Oesta, del Nuebo Mexico..."
  8. 196: "Mojave Ratt," Roberts
  9. 197: "Camp scene in the Mojave Valley of Rio Colorado," Lieutenant J.C. Tidball
  10. 198: "Artillery Peak," W. Roberts
  11. 199: "Despair," Spiegle
  12. 200: "Tontos," J.W. Orr
  13. 201: "Akaninili ready for the journey"
  14. 202: "Fig. 54. Dancer holding up the great plumed arrow. Dancer swallowing' the great plumed arrow"
  15. 203: "Wolves on the Trail," from Mayne Reid, Adventures Among the Indians
  16. 204: "Besieged by Peccaries," from Mayne Reid, The Desert Home
  17. 205: "Basil and the Bison Bull," from Mayne Reid, The Young Voyagers
  18. 206: "The Toughest Struggle of My Life," from Mayne Reid, Adventures Among the Indians
  19. 207: "Stir a Finger and I Spur On," Mayne Reid, The Headless Horseman
  20. 208: "No Ye Don't," from Mayne Reid, The Headless Horseman
  21. 209: "Indian altar and ruins of old Zuni," H.E. Mollhausen
  22. 210: "Rock Mary," Roberts
  23. 211: "A mountain trapper," Alfred Jacob Miller
  24. 212: "Products of the textile art"
  25. 213: "Fire dance," H.H. Nichols
  26. 214: "Dance of Nahikai," H.H. Nichols
  27. 215: "Use of wampum belts in Indian Council," facsimile plate in Lafitau
  28. 216: "A mound," from De Bry
  29. 217: "Amerigo Vespucci encounters America" depicted as an Indian woman in a sixteenth-century engraving
  30. 218: "Honkeytonk Sue," a cartoon character drawn by Bob "Boze" Bell
  31. 219: "Gathering to Zion"-life on the plains
  32. 220: "Navajos," H.B. Mollhausen
  33. 220a: "Over at Last"
  34. 221-30: Unidentified engravings
  35. 231: La Grange Mine crew
  36. 232: Unidentified photo of a man and two boys walking towards a cabin
  37. 233-34: Vera McGinnis, bronc and trick rider and jockey, roping the mayor of Riverside, California, 1924
  38. 235: Movie still of Terence Hill and Stewart Granger in "Flaming Frontier"
  39. 236: still of Terence Hill, Stewart Granger in "Frontier Hellcat"
  40. 237: Maurice Chevalier and William A. Harte
  41. 238: Mr. Billington
  42. 239: Mr. Evans

Dates

  • 1886-1985

Language of Materials

From the Collection: Collection materials are in English.

Conditions Governing Access

Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.

Extent

From the Collection: 2 Boxes

Repository Details

Part of the J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collections Repository

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