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Joseph C. Meyers Memoirs

Collection Overview

Title: Joseph C. Meyers Memoirs

ID: OGLMC/0074

Extent: 0.25 Linear Feet

Date Acquired: 00/00/1958

Languages: English [eng]

Scope and Contents of the Materials

The Joseph C. Meyers Papers consist of autobiographical vignettes written by Meyers. The accounts relate to many subjects, including buffalo hunting, Indians, ranching, the Marquis de Mores, Theodore Roosevelt, Sitting Bull, the Battle of the Little Bighorn, and early settlements in western Dakota Territory. Some of the sketches include articles from western North Dakota newspapers.

All of the material in the collection were duplicated on thermofax paper and are not of high quality.

Administrative Information

Access Restrictions: Open for inspection under the rules and regulations of the Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections.

Acquisition Source: Mrs. Fred Wojahn, Sentinel Butte, North Dakota

Acquisition Method: Donation

Preferred Citation: (Description of Item). Joseph C. Meyers Papers. OGLMC 74, Box #, Folder #.  Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections, Chester Fritz Library, University of North Dakota.

Finding Aid Revision History: Finding aid input to Archon in November 2018.

Box and Folder Listing

Box 1Add to your cart.
Section 1: Accounts 1-2Add to your cart.

1. The American Bison Called Buffalo

2. Autobiography

Section 2: Accounts 3-7Add to your cart.

3. "Buffalo Bill" Cody as I Knew Him

4. Buffalo Hunters that I Knew

5. Copperheads

6. Dakota Territory; Yankton; First Capitol; Wild Bill's Slayer; Jack McCall Tried and Hung at Yankton, 1876

7. The Doings of My Two Old Partners: Old Ben (aka "Single Eye") and Old Jack (aka "Three Fingered Jack")

Section 3: Accounts 8-25Add to your cart.

8. Don't Go Native and Become the Squaw Man

9. The First Community Photographer West of Mandan

10, The First Dude Ranch - Howard Eaton and Three Brothers

11. The First Permanent Settler in Billings County

12. The First Settlement West of the Missouri

13. The First Trail Herd from Texas

14. Fort "Sauer Kraut;" the Last Sioux Outbreak; the Death of Sitting Bull

15. Frozen Foot Andy - a Two Bit Horse Thief

16. Glen Ullin in 1885

17. First Family in Golden Valley

18. How the Sioux Indian Liked His Meat

19. Hunted Buffalo in Bowman County

20. The Indian Burial Tree

21. Joe Beaubeau

22. Large Range Cattle Outfits That Started in from the South to Little Missouri River Points

23. Lew Stone

24. Liver Eating Johnson

25. The Lone Ace Buffalo Hunter

Section 4: Account 26Add to your cart.
26. Marquis de Mores
Section 5: Accounts 27-37Add to your cart.

27. My 1883 Christmas Present

28. -------

29. My First and Only Remittance Man

30. My Grass Widow Romance

31. My Second Meeting with Sitting Bull

32. My Two Old Partners

33. My Two Old Partners - Ben Ferriss, Joke Tuters

34. The Old Fort Lincoln - Fort Keoger Trail

35. The Old Oak Tree Ranch

36. Our Extinct Passenger Pigeons

37. Our Persecuted Coyotes or Prairie Wolf

Section 6: Accounts 38-55Add to your cart.

38. Our Pretty, Chattering, Mischievous, Destructive Magpies Who Do More Damage than All of our Coyotes

39. A Pioneer Family

40. Primitive Packers

41. The Prong Horned Antelope

42. Rattlesnakes and More Rattlesnakes

43. Sam Heintz and His Tame Buffalo Wolf

44. Sims, North Dakota

45. Sitting Bull as I First Saw Him

46. Some Early History of New Salem

47. Theodore Roosevelt as I Knew Him While in Dakota Territory

48. Three Hardest Winters

49. Trapper Johnstone

50. Trapper Johnstone (identical to above)

51. A Trapper Johnstone Story; the German Russian Settlers and When They Came to North Dakota

52. The Two Saddle Partners

53. What I Know About the Sioux Indians and the Custer Battle

54. When and Where I First Saw Theodore Roosevelt

55. The Winters of 1886-1887 and 1896-1897 and After