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The Maud Mary Lawson certificate (1894) enabled her to teach school in the Utah territories for five years.

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The Harry Longabaugh Jr. speech [transcript] (1970) was given by Longabaugh on 25 June 1970, at Weber County Library, Ogden, Utah. Longabaugh claims to be the son of Harry Longabaugh, the Sundance Kid. In this speech he talks about Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid, and their respective gang, and dispels some of the myths brought on by Twentieth Century Fox's movie, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

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The Stanley D. Lyman papers (1923-1979) contain the records of Lyman's assignments with the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs, including his superintendency at Pine Ridge Indian Agency. Materials resulting from June Lyman's work with American Indians is also present, as are some personal materials.

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The Tom McCarty autobiography (1890s) consist of an account of McCarty's "latest exploits as related by himself." McCarty was essentially an outlaw in the late nineteenth century, his expolits conducted in Utah, surrounding states, and Kentucky. These dictated adventures were later published around 1986 as Tom McCarty's Own Story.

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The Nathan Cook Meeker papers (1873-1879) consist of transcribed correspondence and telegrams, copied onto a microfilm reel, from Meeker and his predecessors, including Charles Adams, at the White River Indian Agency in Colorado. Much of the material surrounds the events of the Meeker massacre.

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The Montana Territorial Penitentiary ledger (1876-1880) shows the board bill accounts for prisoners in the Territorial Penitentiary. Prisoners were boarded for $2.50 per day. Total bill to the U. S. Government was $8619.50.

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Certificate (1865) signed by James Duane Doty, governor of Utah Territory, appointing Charles Nettleton as a commissioner to administer oaths.

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The Benjamin Morgan Roberts papers (1841-2002) consist of a homestead certificate signed by President James A. Garfield, Nauvoo House Association stock share notes, a Provo Volunteer Hose and Engine Co. note to his son-in-law, James Farrer, a biography, post cards, photocopied photographs, and news clippings. Roberts was a private in Company D of the Mormon Battalion under the command of Capt. Nelson Higgins.

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The Harold Stanley Sanders collection consists of his personal research and memorabilia collections about sports, breweries, dairies, postcards, and other materials focused on Utah. The matchbook collection has been digitized and is available online.

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The George B. Sanderson journal (1846-1847) was written by Sanderson who was a doctor assigned by the U.S. Army to accompany the Mormon Battalion on the 2000 mile march from Missouri down the Santa Fe Trail and ultimately to California. The Mormon Battalion was initially under the command of Col. Allen, and after his death was under the command of Phillip St. George Cooke. Included in the collection is a typescript (1995) version of the journal.

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The Charles Sheppard homestead certificate reproduction (1894) confirms his right to land in the Utah territory.

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The William C. Staines certificate of appointment (1854) consist of a Territory of Utah certificate, signed by Brigham Young as governor, documenting the nomination of Staines by the legislative assembly to the office of librarian.

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The R. R. Stevens papers (1885) consists of bound drawings, route maps, and written details of a journey from Ute Springs, Utah, via the Blue Mountain region to Bluff City, Utah, under the command of Lt. Col. N. W. Osborne, 6th Infantry. The trip took place in September and October of 1885.

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The L. M. Sutton papers (1906-1907) contain correspondence regarding the homesteading of certain lands in Colorado and a copy of H.R. 24134 a bill introduced in the House of Representatives January 14, 1907.

Abstract The C. B. Suzen Timentwa papers (1893-1999) consist of correspondence, writings, financial records, meeting minutes, reports, and publications that C. B. Suzen Timentwa (1883-1949) collected during his tenure as hereditary chief of the Methow Tribe on the Colville Indian Reservation in eastern Washington. The papers, which were found in a traditional Methow basket, had no apparent order. Through processing the collection, many documents were reunited into wholes. However, several incomplete...

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The S. Lyman Tyler papers (circa 1694-1973) consists of evidentiary files from Pima-Maricopa decision of 1962 (Indian Claims Commission Docket No.228) and hearing transcripts; drafts of Tyler's books; drafts of books by others; research files on Western Indian tribes; clippings from newspapers throughout the United States concerning American Indian tribes.

Abstract The Whiterocks trading post records (1878-1915) consist of six ledgers (1878-1898) kept by various Indian Agents on the Uintah and Ouray Reservation, eleven ledgers (1902-1915) kept by members of the R. L. Marimon family and clerks at the trading post on the reservation, one ledger detailing transactions at a Marimon family-owned trading post in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, and one volume with entries related to the Marimon ranch. Robert Lee Marimon took over the trading post from a Mr. Cardwell...

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This report is titled, "Journal of a scouting expedition against marauding Navajo Indians, Feb. 25th, 1869 to March 12th, 1869, 1917 Aug. 21 / Willis Copelan, Captain, Edwin G. Woolley, Adjutant, St. George, Utah."