Elmo Scott Watson papers, 1816-1951 bulk 1920-1951 | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary:Watson's papers, 1816-1851 (bulk 1920-1951) include extensive topical files on western history subjects and journalism, his own newspaper columns, articles, and longer writings; and his correspondence, research, and teaching files. Subject files, containing newspaper clippings, scholarly and magazine articles, photographs, notes, and correspondence, include information on the history of journalism, 19th century western journalists, frontiersmen, explorers, Native Americans and Native American tribes, Remington forgeries, and early western photographers, artists, and writers. Among the subjects are D.F. Barry, Matthew Brady, Brave Bear, E.A. Brininstool, Badger Clark, Crazy Horse, G.A. Custer, Emmet Dalton, Geronimo, Valentine McGillycuddy, Lucullus Virgil McWhorter, Nelson A. Miles, Pawnee Bill, Sitting Bull, the Ghost Dance, Little Bighorn, and Wounded Knee. In Watson's research files are materials he assembled for biographies of William Wells, Timothy Murphy, and John Wesley Powell. His writings include a series of lectures written for the American Newspaper Union, 1923-1941