Collection Overview
Title: Aaron McGaffey Beede and Ralph Gordon Beede Papers, 1899-1969
ID: OGLMC/206
Creator: Beede, Aaron McGaffey (1859-1934)
Extent: 5.0 Linear Feet
Arrangement:
The Aaron McGaffey Beede and Ralph Gordon Beede Papers (1899-1969) has been arranged so that material related to Aaron McGaffey Beede is first. This includes his extensive personal and professional correspondence, dating from 1915 to 1934.
Materials for Ralph Gordon Beede, son of Aaron McGaffey Beede, are arranged last. This consists primarily of personal and professional correspondence (1925-1965). One folder containing the text of speeches delivered by Ralph Gordon Beede, as well as a folder of legislative materials, is also included.
The collection was rearranged in December 2004, so that similar files were arranged together. Please note that no material was discarded during this process.
Date Acquired: 06/20/1972
Languages: English [eng]
Abstract
Personal papers of Aaron McGaffey Beede, an Episcopal Church missionary to Native Americans, and his son Ralph Gordon Beede, a politician and newspaper publisher
Scope and Contents of the Materials
Included are four ledgers: the first ledger, “A,” is undated and consists of an untitled literary manuscript. Ledger “B” contains the handwritten text of Beede’s speeches, as well as newspaper clippings consisting of the text of speeches. Ledger “C” consists of miscellaneous documents and entries regarding Beede’s missionary work. The final ledger, “D,” contains diary entries for 1919.
Arranged third are Beede’s eighteen handwritten journals, which date 1912-1922. The journals record his activities as an Indian missionary, as well as reflections on his life and times. Weather reports and local happenings were also frequent entries. Researchers are urged to note that the end date for some of the journals was difficult to determine. The listed dates in the Box and Folder Inventory should not be viewed as absolute.
Several of his unpublished manuscripts, including a lengthy one on Indian customs, are also included. The manuscripts also include two essays written on the Dakota Indian Victory Dance, one mystery play, and one article written for possible publication. Beede’s finished publications are arranged next. Duplicate copies of publications were cataloged and added to the North Dakota Book Collection. Material related to Aaron McGaffey Beede ends with two folders of miscellaneous material located following the publications.
Administrative Information
Accruals:
Additional material was received from William McGaffey Beede on June 14, 1983 (83-1173)
Access Restrictions:
Open for inspection under the rules and regulations of the Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections.
Acquisition Source:
William McGaffey Beede, Minot, North Dakota
Acquisition Method:
Donation
Separated Materials:
Sitting Bull & Custer by Aaron McGaffey Beede. Bismarck Tribune: 1913. Call Number: E83.876 B4
Large Indian Cornfields in North Dakota Long Ago, and an Indian Drama Petite for School Children by Aaron McGaffey Beede. Bismarck Tribune: 1914. Call Number: E78.N75 B4
Heart-in-the-Lodge, “All a Mistake” by Aaron McGaffey Beede. Bismarck Tribune: 1915. Call Number: E99.D1 B4
Toward the Sun, Poems by A. McG Beede, Ph.D., with Commentary Notes by Melvin R. Gilmore. Bismarck Tribune: 1916. Call Number: PS3503.E243 T6 1916
Self Sloughed-Off Person Free: Heart and Pluck in this Epoch by Aaron McGaffey Beede. Grant County News: 1934 Call Number: PS3503.E243 B43
Preferred Citation:
(Description of Item). Aaron McGaffey Beede and Ralph Gordon Beede Papers. OGLMC 206, Box #, Folder #. Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections. Chester Fritz Library. University of North Dakota, Grand Forks.
Finding Aid Revision History:
Finding aid added to Archon in July 2012.
Other URL:
http://library.und.edu/holdings.php?id=ODIN_ALEPH006840242
Box and Folder Listing
- Series 1: Introductory Materials

- Box 1

- Folder 1: Correspondence regarding donation of collection, 1971

- Folder 2: Newspaper Clippings and Obituaries: Aaron McGaffey Beede (1934), Ralph Gordon Beede (1969)

- Series 2: Aaron McGaffey Beede

- Box 1

- Folder 3: Correspondence, 1915-1919

- Folder 4: Correspondence, 1920-1922

- Folder 5: Correspondence: Citizens State Bank vs. Olaf G. Smealand, 1921

- Folder 6: Correspondence, 1923

- Folder 7: Correspondence: Bearpaw Land Papers, including sale to Ordway and correspondence with the Bank of North Dakota, 1923-1928

- Folder 8: Correspondence, 1924

- Folder 9: Correspondence, 1925

- Folder 10: Correspondence, 1926

- Folder 11: Correspondence, 1927

- Folder 12: Correspondence, 1928

- Folder 13: Correspondence, 1929

- Folder 14: Correspondence, 1930

- Folder 15: Correspondence, 1931

- Folder 16: Correspondence, 1932

- Folder 17: Correspondence, 1933

- Folder 18: Correspondence, 1934

- Folder 19: Correspondence, undated

- Folder 20: Ledgers: “A”, undated literary manuscript

- Folder 21: Ledgers: “B”, undated, text and clippings of speeches

- Folder 22: Ledgers: “C”, 1900-1902

- Folder 23: Ledgers: “D”, 1919

- Folder 24: Journal 1, 1912 - August 1913

- Folder 25: Journal 2, December 18, 1913 - February 21, 1914

- Folder 26: Journal 3, February 22, 1914 - August 15, 1914

- Folder 27: Journal 4, August 25, 1914 - February 11, 1915

- Folder 28: Journal 5, February 11, 1915 - May 16, 1915

- Box 2

- Folder 1: Journal 6, May 17, 1915 - June 1915

- Folder 2: Journal 7, October 28, 1915 - December 4, 1915

- Folder 3: Journal 8, December 5, 1915 - February 12, 1916

- Folder 4: Journal 9, February 12, 1916 - June 11, 1916

- Folder 5: Journal 10, June 14, 1916 - August 8, 1916

- Folder 6: Journal 11, August 10, 1916 - September 26, 1916

- Folder 7: Journal 12, September 25, 1916 - October 21, 1916

- Folder 8: Journal 13, October 21, 1916 - December 18, 1916

- Folder 9: Journal 14, (plus loose sheets from August 1914), December 19, 1916 - July 13, 1917

- Folder 10: Journal 15, July 14, 1917 - September 2, 1917

- Folder 11: Journal 16, September 4, 1917 - November 27, 1918

- Folder 12: Journal 17, January 24, 1919 - April 29, 1920

- Folder 13: Journal 18, March 28, 1920 - January 30, 1922

- Folder 14: “Extract’s from Dad’s Journal,” article submission to Atlantic Monthly, 1943

- Box 3

- Folder 1: Manuscript: “Private File,” outline and manuscript regarding Indians

- Folder 2: Manuscript: “The Dakota Indian Victory-Dance”

- Folder 3: Manuscript: “Sioux Indian Victory-Dance.", November 1918

- Folder 4: Manuscript: “The Man Soul: Indian View of Life, Death, Flower, Animals, Ghosts, and Whitemen, A Mystery Play in Four Acts”

- Folder 5: Manuscript: “Western Sioux Cosmology and Letting Go of the Ghost.", August 1919

- Folder 6: Manuscript on Indian customs: A-Z

- Folder 7: Manuscript on Indian customs: A-B

- Folder 8: Manuscript on Indian customs: A-B

- Folder 9: Manuscript on Indian customs: C-E

- Folder 10: Manuscript on Indian customs: E

- Folder 11: Manuscript on Indian customs: F-H

- Folder 12: Manuscript on Indian customs: I-L

- Folder 13: Manuscript on Indian customs: I

- Folder 14: Manuscript on Indian customs: M-Q

- Folder 15: Manuscript on Indian customs: M-Q

- Folder 16: Manuscript on Indian customs: R-U

- Folder 17: Manuscript on Indian customs: R

- Folder 18: Manuscript on Indian customs: V-Z

- Folder 19: Manuscript on Indian customs: V-Z

- Folder 20: Publication: Heart-in-the-Lodge, 1915

- Folder 21: Publication: Large Indian Cornfields in North Dakota Long Ago and an Indian Drama Petite for School Children, 1914

- Folder 22: Publication: Self Sloughed-Off Person Free: Heart and Pluck in this Epoch, (includes publicity materials), 1934

- Folder 23: Publication: Sitting Bull & Custer, 1913

- Folder 24: Publication: Social Teaching of Paul, undated

- Folder 25: Publication: Some Hindrances to Social Progress in the United States, 1899

- Folder 26: Publication: The Terrible Rat: The Lost Calf, and a North Dakota Congressman, undated

- Folder 27: Publication: Toward the Sun, 1916

- Folder 28: Miscellaneous: Newspaper clippings, assorted lodge and pocket cards, check stubs

- Folder 29: Miscellaneous: Maps of New Leipzig, North Dakota, Street Improvements; Public Programs, North Dakota Agricultural College, 1914-1916; Bird Lore and Bird Songs of the North American Indian by N.W. Jipson; Manual for the State of North Dakota, 1926; North Dakota Historical Quarterly, October 1940; A History of... (essay book written by E. Helen, 1925; A Buffalo Sweatlodge and Early Cheyenne Villages, both written by George Bird Grinnell; The School Bell; Souvenir Programs, Department of Public Speaking, North Dakota Agricultural College, 1913-1914

- Box 4

- Folder 9: Newspaper clippings and other materials on Aaron McGaffey Beede, 1906, 1926, 1934, 1962, undated

- Series 3: Ralph Gordon Beede

- Box 4

- Folder 1: Correspondence, 1925-1939

- Folder 2: Correspondence: William G. Bek to R.O. Wilson regarding Beede’s Ph.B degree; lesson sheets for a short story correspondence course at UND, undated

- Folder 3: Correspondence, 1940-1943

- Folder 4: Correspondence, 1944-1948

- Folder 5: Correspondence, 1950-1959

- Folder 6: Correspondence, 1960-1965

- Folder 7: House and Senate Bills and Miscellaneous

- Folder 8: Speeches, undated

- Folder 10: Correspondence and other material relating to the induction of Ralph Gordon Beede into the North Dakota Newspaper Hall of Fame, 1983

- Series 4: Photographs

- Photograph 1: Two unidentified Dakota Indians

- Photograph 2: Hokanson Brothers Store, Fort Yates, North Dakota

- Photograph 3: Black Hills Council, Fort Yates, North Dakota, September 1923

- Photograph 4: Gray Hawk, a Dakota, 1923

- Photograph 5: Aaron McGaffey Beede, Francis Zahn and two unidentified Indians: Probably taken about 1917-1918 in Wahpeton, North Dakota

- Photograph 6: Ralph Gordon Beede and U.S. Representative Usher Burdick
