Joseph C. Meyers Memoirs
Collection Overview
Title: Joseph C. Meyers Memoirs
ID: OGLMC0074
Extent: 0.25 Linear Feet
Date Acquired: 00/00/1958
Subjects: Dakota Territory
Languages: English
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.
Subject/Index Terms
Administrative Information
Repository: Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections
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
Browse by Box:
[Box 1],
[All]
- Box 1
- Section 1: Accounts 1-2
1. The American Bison Called Buffalo
2. Autobiography
- Section 2: Accounts 3-7
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 8-25
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 26
- 26. Marquis de Mores
- Section 5: Accounts 27-37
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 38-55
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
- Section 1: Accounts 1-2