Collection
M 064:
Durango (Colo.)
personages
collection inventory
Years this material was created:
1870-[200-]
Quantity: .6 linear shelf feet (in
1.5 document cases)
Arranged and described by student archival assistants
Renee Robbins and Kendra
Webber with
J. Todd Ellison, Archivist, Feb. 2003.
C 2003 by Fort
Lewis College Foundation, Center of Southwest Studies account
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| Rose Fanto at Joe's Bar (534 Main Ave., Durango, Colo.), circa 1950-1959. |
M 064
Durango
(Colo.) personages collection inventory
1870 - [200-]
.6 linear shelf feet (in 1.5 document cases)
This is an example of an "artificial" collection -- one that was constituted by drawing records from various disparate sources. The materials pertain to notable individuals in the history of Durango and vicinity.
In using this collection, each user is asked to be careful to maintain the existing order of the records.
Administrative information
Acquisition of this collection: The collection is the Center of Southwest Studies' accession x2002:03036.
Provenance of this collection: The collection was mostly compiled prior to November of 1979.
About the organization of this collection: The collection is in a single series of folders, basically arranged alphabetical order by name of Durango personage.
Processing information: In January-February of 2003, Center of Southwest Studies student archival assistant Renee Robbins refoldered the collection and Kendra Webber listed the folder titles. This inventory was produced by Todd Ellison in February of 2003 (last revised October 2005).
Box 1: Surnames A-I
Folder 1 Ballantine, Arthur, obituaries, 1975 Nov.
Folder 2 Baker, Earl A., obituary, 1968 Apr. 10
Folder 3 Bowman, Thomas Evans, biography, 1975 Aug. 4
Folder 4 Board, F. N. Broad, 1912 Dec. 11
Folder 4a Brimhall, Clayborn, notes from personal interview by Mrs. R. T. F. Simpson, August 15, 1936, print out from American Memory
Folder 5 Broomwell, Jeanne, family history, 1969 Nov. 8
Folder 5 Broomwell, Jeanne, class paper, 1962
Folder 6 Brown, Uvah “Nurse”, doll collecting newspaper clippings, 1953-1973
Folder 7 Camp, Alfred M., obituaries and legal correspondence, 1891-1970
Folder 8 Camp, Alfred P., biographical sketch and obituary, 1925
Folder 9 
Cather family papers, 1870-1966. This folder includes a
letter written by Willa Cather’s father Charles F. Cather to his sister
Jennie Cather (left) who 
was the grandmother of Mrs. Sam Gilchrist of Durango. The letter (digitized by the Center of Southwest Studies for viewing online) is dated Oct. 30, 1970, written in Pueblo, Colorado, but mailed in
Cheyenne, Wyoming, to Jennie in Winchester, Virginia. He tells mainly of a
trip he took from the Wyoming Territory to New Mexico, which includes some
firsthand information about the early history of Colorado. Mrs. Gilchrist
donated this letter to the Center of Southwest Studies on September 25,
1964. The letter is one sheet of paper, written on both sides as four
pages. She also donated a black and white portrait photo of Charles
Cather in this folder that she believes may have been taken about twenty
years after he wrote the letter. She noted that “I remember him only as an
old man with grey hair and mustache.” Also in the folder are a
photo of a woman (possibly Willa Cather's Aunt Jennie) and a copy of the
Fort Lewis College 5-page press release dated July 20, [1966?] in which the
Center's first director, Robert Delaney, recounts the biographical
information Mrs. Gilchrist had reported to him about her famous cousin Willa
Cather. (Accession 1964:09001) A paper about Willa Cather by one of
Duane Smith's Fort Lewis College Colorado History undergraduate students is in the Southwest Student Papers collection.
Folder 10 Chitwood, Andy, “Over the years with Andy Chitwood,” 1959 July 26
Folder 11 Cummins, M. J., correspondence, 1966-1967
Folder 12 Daniels, Helen S., correspondence and newspaper clippings, 1959-1979
Folder 13 Day, Dave, newspaper clippings, 1906 Sept. 21
Folder 13 Day, Dave, newspaper clippings, 1971 June
Folder 14 Dwyer, Sheriff Bob, letter to Bob Dwyer, 1881 June 8
Folder 14 Article about Bob Dwyer, 1952; July 27
Folder 15 Emigh, A. M., incoming correspondence from "The D.A.", 1944 May 20. (1 page)
Folder 15 Brook, Bill, incoming correspondence from "this D. A.", 1945 May 31. (1 page)
Folder 15 Fassbinder family history leaflet, ca. 1944-1945. (1 two-sided-page)
Folder 16 Foley, Ralph E. and Amanda E., correspondence, 1923-1924
Folder 17 Galbreath, Judge John & Mrs., photographs and cookbook, 1952
Folder 18 Gonner, Frank and Henry, family history and obituary, 1912 Feb. 25
Folder 19 Hickman, Mrs. Laurence, correspondence, 1958
Folder 20 Hogue, Parson, history of St. Mark’s Church, 1990-1992
Folder 21 Isgar, George, legal documents, 1892-1920
Box 2: Surnames P-W
Folder 1 Lester, Vincil, biographical sketch, (undated)
Folder 2 Little, Olga, biographical sketches and newspaper clippings, 1953
Folder 3 Lloyd, Leo, newspaper article, 1989 Oct. 13
Folder 4 McCloud, Richard, brief history of his involvement in Durango, 1945. This folder contains 1 page, which is a paragraph-long account of Richard McCloud's involvement in a Ute land dispute. Chronology: 1886 -- he comes to Durango after being appointed as Register of the U.S. Land Office; 1894 -- he is reappointed; 1899 -- he becomes a partner of McCloud & Witter, formed in response to Ute land being thrown open for settlement when Utes went to the La Plata County courts.
Folder 5 McNeil, John Lloyd, history of public life, 1900s
Folder 6 Durango Herald obituaries, 2000 Nov.
Folder 7 Ochsner, Dr. B. J., newspaper clippings, 1917 and1972 Jan. 23
Folder 8 Oldershausen, Conrad and Elizabeth, marriage certificate, 1888 Jan. 24
Folder 9 Pearson, Charles, excerpt from History of Colorado, Vol. IV (undated)
Folder 10 Pennington, William M., biographical sketches, 1980 May 18
Folder 11 Peterson, Theodore Eric, biographical sketch and family history, 1981 Mar.
Folder 12 Pfeiffer, Gladys, autobiography, 1989
Folder 13 Pinkert, Leta, writings about Durango’s history, 1963
Folder 13a Prewitt, Joe, notes from interview by Mrs. R. T. F. Simpson, circa 1936, print out from American Memory
Folder 14 Root, Homer, church notices and newspaper clippings, 1940 and 1954
Folder 15 Sarris, Olive Crawley, oral historical biography, 1982 fall
Folder 16 Sylvester, Jack, newsletter (undated)
Folder 17 Thayer, Cora E., biography, 1975
Folder 18 Updike, Lisle, newspaper clippings, 1967-1976
Folder 19 Webb, Walter, obituaries, 1963 Mar. 10-17
Folder 20 Wigglesworth, Thomas, newspaper clippings, 1900s
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