By Samantha L. Harper
Title: MS 322 - Captain Jack Crawford Collection, 1868-1950
Creator: Crawford, John Wallace "Captain Jack"
Extent: 36.0 Boxes
Arrangement:
The collection (No. 322) is arranged into seven series by type of record, as follows:
Biographical Information – Box 1
Family Information – Box 1
Correspondence
Personal (Non-Business) – Box 1-3
Business – Box 4-5
Business Affairs – Box 6
Financial Documents – Box 7
Business – Box 7
Family – Box 7
Literary Works
Poems – Box 8-10
Songs – Box 10
Plays – By Captain Jack – Box 10-12
Plays – By Others – Box 13
Stories – Box 14
Articles – Personal Accounts – Box 14-15
Articles – By Others – (About CJ, Contemporaries, or Family) – Box 16
Newspaper Clippings – Box 17
Books – By Captain Jack – Box 17
Diaries – By Captain Jack – Box 17
Notebooks & Scrapbooks – Box 17-20, 23-24(oversize)
Printed Materials – Captain Jack – Box 21-22
Entertainment, Mining, and General
Oversize Manuscript Materials – Box 23-26, 36
Photographs – Box 27-35
Oversize Photographs – Box 33-35
Date Acquired: 01/01/2008
Languages: English [eng]
Access Restrictions: McCracken Library staff may determine use restrictions dependent on the physical condition of manuscript materials. Restrictions may exist on reproduction, quotation or publication. Contact McCracken Research Library for more information.
Acquisition Source: Harriet Crawford Richardson
Acquisition Method: Gift
Related Publications:
BY: CRAWFORD, JACK.
The Broncho Book. The Roycrofters, 1908. [PS1469 .C73 1908 – Russell Collection]
The Poet Scout. Funk and Wagnalls, 1886. [PS 1469 .C73 1886 – Russell Collection]
The Poet Scout. H. Keller & Co., 1879. [PS 1469 .C3 1879 – Russell Collection]
ABOUT:
Miller, Darlis A. Captain Jack Crawford : buckskin poet, scout, and showman. University of New Mexico Press, 1993. [F 594 .C73 M55 1993]
Rezatto, Helen. Tales of the Black Hills. North Plains Press, c1983. [F 657 .B6 R46 1983]
Sagala, Sandra K. Buffalo Bill on Stage. University of New Mexico Press, c2008. [F 594 .B94 S23 2008]
Spotts, David L. Campaigning with Custer : and the Nineteenth Kansas Volunteer Cavalry on the Washita Campaign, 1868-69. University of Nebraska Press, 1988. [E 83.869 .S76 1988]
Preferred Citation: John Wallace "Captain Jack" Crawford Collection, MS 322, Harold McCracken Research Library, Buffalo Bill Historical Center.