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.