MS 013 - W.H.D. Koerner Studio Collection, 1884-1938 | McCracken Research Library

By Kathleen Pardee, Betty Skalsky, Gail Giroux, and Christina Stopka (with additions by Frances B. Clymer [2/6/01]) (with additions by Samantha Harper [11/11/2010])

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Administrative Information

Box and Folder Listing

Series 5: Ruth Koerner Oliver Research Papers

This group of material was received from Ruth Koerner Oliver in November of 1995.  The papers include photographs of Koerner paintings as well as sales and owenership information.

Box MS13.17

Folder MS13.17.01: Shoshone Scouting Party

Folder MS13.17.02: Prairie Storm- Blue norther A comin’

Folder MS13.17.03: Crow and Pinto

Folder MS13.17.04: Trek of the Mountain men

Folder MS13.17.05: Rocky mountain House

Folder MS13.17.06: Sioux Circle

Folder MS13.17.07: Dividing The Loot

Folder MS13.17.08: Tomahawk and Long Rifle

Folder MS13.17.09: The overlanders

Folder MS13.17.10: On the River of the West

Folder MS13.17.11: Squaw Train

Folder MS13.17.12: Pioneer Mother

Folder MS13.17.13: Rock Crusher

Folder MS13.17.14: All Hoof and Horn

Folder MS13.17.15: Praire Sun

Folder MS13.17.16: Palaver

Folder MS13.17.17: Lookin’ for Gold

Folder MS13.17.18: Rocks leave No tracks

Folder MS13.17.19: Mesa Vigil

Folder MS13.17.20: Crow Chief And Warriors

Folder MS13.17.21: Blackfoot raiding Party

Folder MS13.17.22: Ceremony Of the Sun Horse

Folder MS13.17.23: Dispute At Lime-Cut Crossing

Folder MS13.17.24: When Men Rode Free

Folder MS13.17.25: Spear-O outfit

Folder MS13.17.26: Holding The Herd

Folder MS13.17.27: The Posse- law in Action

Folder MS13.17.28: Arapaha Attack

Folder MS13.17.29: Twin Calves Rafter Cross Bar

Folder MS13.17.30: Alcade’s welcome to Taos

Folder MS13.17.31: Primal Woman

Folder MS13.17.32: Cold Drive

Folder MS13.17.33: Tomahawk Rights

Folder MS13.17.34: Good Ride At Cheyenne

Folder MS13.17.35: West of the Sierras

Folder MS13.17.36: Two Tie-Fast men

Folder MS13.17.37: Request for Lodging

Folder MS13.17.38: His Serenade

Folder MS13.17.39: Ranchero

Folder MS13.17.40: Buckskin and Foofaraw

Folder MS13.17.41: Vaqueros

Folder MS13.17.42: Squaw Man

Folder MS13.17.43: Squaw Man

Folder MS13.17.44: Rights to The Land

Folder MS13.17.45: Bar cross man

Folder MS13.17.46: Lumberjacks Brawl

Folder MS13.17.47: A welcome to the Casa

Folder MS13.17.48: Beyond the Desert

Folder MS13.17.49: Ganaderos-Andalusia

Folder MS13.17.50: West of Fort Pitt

Folder MS13.17.51: The lynchers

Folder MS13.17.52: Bringing Him In

Folder MS13.17.53: Indian Map

Folder MS13.17.54: High Country Rider

Folder MS13.17.55: Tell in the Saddle

Folder MS13.17.56: When a saddle is No Obstacle

Folder MS13.17.57: Welcome For the First Trial Heard

Folder MS13.17.58: Night Riders

Folder MS13.17.59: Three Tepes

Folder MS13.17.60: The man Who Fenced Free Range

Folder MS13.17.61: On the Alert

Folder MS13.17.62: Sauk’s Demand

Folder MS13.17.63: The Rustlers

Folder MS13.17.64: Im Bridger-“Good as any Injun”

Folder MS13.17.65: The Strike Breakers

Folder MS13.17.66: When Trouble May Be Comin’

Folder MS13.17.67: The Trader Who Cheated

Folder MS13.17.68: No Mercy

Folder MS13.17.69: The Shaggy Stampede

Folder MS13.17.70: Heading Him off

Folder MS13.17.71: Tight Defense

Folder MS13.17.72: Heading for Winter Quarters

Folder MS13.17.73: Stage to Nowhere

Folder MS13.17.74: Blackfoot Massacre

Folder MS13.17.75: Buffalo Hunter

Folder MS13.17.76: Sleep Trail

Folder MS13.17.77: Escort Through Pawnee Territory

Folder MS13.17.78: A squaw’s Revenge

Folder MS13.17.79: Ride ‘Em Down

Folder MS13.17.80: Spare Mount

Folder MS13.17.81: Scouting The next Trough

Folder MS13.17.82: Slicker Weather

Folder MS13.17.83: Indian Head

Folder MS13.17.84: Indian head (faces left)

Folder MS13.17.85: Stolen Ponies

Folder MS13.17.86: No Folder

Folder MS13.17.87: Feathers Bucksin And Beads

Folder MS13.17.88: Fighting Fury

Folder MS13.17.89: In Search of Coups

Folder MS13.17.90: Quest for Aztec Gold

Folder MS13.17.91: Scouting The Enemy

Folder MS13.17.92: Stolen Bull Boats

Box MS13.18

Folder MS13.18.01: Blackfoot Hostage

Folder MS13.18.02: Under Mexican Rule

Folder MS13.18.03: Their Petries Traded

Folder MS13.18.04: Crow Hand of Recognition 104 A

Folder MS13.18.05: Crow hand Of Recognition 104 B

Folder MS13.18.06: Fremont’s Courier

Folder MS13.18.07: New Horizons

Folder MS13.18.08: War Dance

Folder MS13.18.09: Traveling the Early Trails

Folder MS13.18.10: Fiesta

Folder MS13.18.11: La Reata

Folder MS13.18.12: The Heat of the Battle

Folder MS13.18.13: Indian Territory Demand for Tribute

Folder MS13.18.14: Warrior’s Hand of Battle

Folder MS13.18.15: Shawnee Palauer

Folder MS13.18.16: Confrontation

Folder MS13.18.17: Boone’s Daughter

Folder MS13.18.18: Boone Gun

Folder MS13.18.19: The Wharf At Pittsburgh

Folder MS13.18.20: Swift In Action

Folder MS13.18.21: Traders man Their Raft

Folder MS13.18.22: New England Sea Port Tavern-1690, 1690

Folder MS13.18.23: War Plumes and Muskets

Folder MS13.18.24: Before The Long Rifle Triumphed

Folder MS13.18.25: El Baile (The Ball)

Folder MS13.18.26: By Carreta to the Fiesta

Folder MS13.18.27: Fremont At Monterey

Folder MS13.18.28: Comin’ Home

Folder MS13.18.29: Pitcairn Islander

Folder MS13.18.30: Fiathful Pedro

Folder MS13.18.31: Double Rush

Folder MS13.18.32: Crow Raiders

Folder MS13.18.33: In the Money

Folder MS13.18.34: Sutter’s Fort

Folder MS13.18.35: Trapper’s Salute

Folder MS13.18.36: Navajo Country

Folder MS13.18.37: Wagon Train Justice

Folder MS13.18.38: Umatilla

Folder MS13.18.39: Ramon’s Guitar

Folder MS13.18.40: Spanish Guitar

Folder MS13.18.41: Hah! Oso!

Folder MS13.18.42: Beaver Men

Folder MS13.18.43: Sioux War Chief

Folder MS13.18.44: Bucking Horse And Cowboy Ink Sketch

Folder MS13.18.45: Four Horses Ink Sketch

Folder MS13.18.46: Chuck Wagon Ink Sketch

Folder MS13.18.47: Bucking Horse Ink Sketch

Folder MS13.18.48: Little Elk

Folder MS13.18.49: Trapper’s Run For His Life

Folder MS13.18.50: The Long Rifles

Folder MS13.18.51: Two Riders Ink Sketch

Folder MS13.18.52: Miner’s Cabin Cooke City- 1924, 1924

Folder MS13.18.53: Traders Bound For Bent’s Fort

Folder MS13.18.54: A Wild Yelp

Folder MS13.18.55: No Folder

Folder MS13.18.56: Little Bull Buffalo of The Loup- Pawnee

Folder MS13.18.57: Boone Gun And Buffalo

Folder MS13.18.58: Navajo Herder

Folder MS13.18.59: Mt. Republic, Cooke City, Montana-1924, 1924

Folder MS13.18.60: Ranch Foreman

Folder MS13.18.61: Fort Bridger

Folder MS13.18.62: Old Fort Laramie

Folder MS13.18.63: Chuck Wagon

Folder MS13.18.64: Roping Wild Cattle

Folder MS13.18.65: Outlaws

Folder MS13.18.66: Rancho De Los folded Hills

Folder MS13.18.67: Cavalry Triumph Fort Sill officers

Folder MS13.18.68: Cannons For Castro At Cahuenga Pass, Ca-1845, 1845

Folder MS13.18.69: Fast Hoss

Folder MS13.18.70: Shotgun and The law

Folder MS13.18.71: Making A Break

Folder MS13.18.72: No Luck On the Draw

Folder MS13.18.73: The Caballero’s way

Folder MS13.18.74: Cook Cart And Commanches

Folder MS13.18.75: Headin’ For the Rendezvous

Folder MS13.18.76: Woman At Yellow Wells

Folder MS13.18.77: Spree At Green River

Folder MS13.18.78: Trading hides CA-1846, 1846

Folder MS13.18.79: Winter Meat

Folder MS13.18.80: Fremont at Monterey Sketchs

Folder MS13.18.81: Covered Wagon- Indians Sketch

Folder MS13.18.82: Preliminary Sketch For Alcade’s Welcome To Tao’s

Folder MS13.18.83: Horses’ Head Sketch

Folder MS13.18.84: Quick Pencil Sketch Rodeo

Folder MS13.18.85: Indians dancing watercolors sketch

Folder MS13.18.86: Keepin’ Things Quiet

Folder MS13.18.87: Jim Bridger, Mountain Man

Folder MS13.18.88: Kit Carson

Folder MS13.18.89: The Old Foreman

Box MS13.19

Folder MS13.19.01: Bobby of the Barcross

Folder MS13.19.02: They Rode Together

Folder MS13.19.03: The evidence

Folder MS13.19.04: Ready Guns

Folder MS13.19.05: John C. Fremont Ca- 1848, 1848

Folder MS13.19.06: Thomas Clarkin

Folder MS13.19.07: John A. Sutter Ca-1848, 1848

Folder MS13.19.08: Mariano Gaudalupe Vallejo CA-1848, 1848

Folder MS13.19.09: Old-Time Cowboy

Folder MS13.19.10: Trading For Moccassins

Folder MS13.19.11: Long In the Saddle

Folder MS13.19.12: A Bucking horse of Ability

Folder MS13.19.13: All hat and Chaps

Folder MS13.19.14: Deputy

Folder MS13.19.15: The Man Who Runs The Wagon

Folder MS13.19.16: Prelude to Chuck

Folder MS13.19.17: Takin’ in Old Jeb

Folder MS13.19.18: The posse- A goodly Cavalcade

Folder MS13.19.19: Watassi Tribesmen Africa

Folder MS13.19.20: Chuckwagon/ Cowboy Roping (Calf Sketches)

Folder MS13.19.21: Angorra Chaps Sketch

Folder MS13.19.22: Rider Heading off a Steer Sketch

Folder MS13.19.23: Composition For #85 steep Trail sketch

Folder MS13.19.24: Four Horse Heads Sketches

Folder MS13.19.25: Rider/ Cow and Calf Sketches

Folder MS13.19.26: Cow With two Calves Sketch

Folder MS13.19.27: Team Pulling Wagon Sketch

Folder MS13.19.28: Sketch of a Bronc

Folder MS13.19.29: Composition for Too Deep For a Rig Sketch

Folder MS13.19.30: Back of Beyond Africa

Folder MS13.19.31: Wild Frenzy Africa

Folder MS13.19.32: Maurouki, Gun Bearer- Africa

Folder MS13.19.33: Simba! Simba! Africa

Folder MS13.19.34: Chief Umbala Of the Meanzas Africa

Folder MS13.19.35: Elephant Trackers

Folder MS13.19.36: House Boy Africa

Folder MS13.19.37: The Covered Wagon

Folder MS13.19.38: Trappers Wintering Near Monterey

Folder MS13.19.39: Outing in the New Machine

Folder MS13.19.40: Bunch Quitters

Folder MS13.19.41: Promise of new Life

Folder MS13.19.42: Before The Railroad Came

Folder MS13.19.43: Through Short Grass Country

Folder MS13.19.44: Boilin’ Over

Folder MS13.19.45: General Grant

Folder MS13.19.46: The Texas Queen

Folder MS13.19.47: On The Westward Current

Folder MS13.19.48: Sherriff And the Citizens of The Law

Folder MS13.19.49: Testing the Bride

Folder MS13.19.50: Power

Folder MS13.19.51: Hooch

Folder MS13.19.52: Rifle Match Poster

Folder MS13.19.53: This Gun Says Quit

Folder MS13.19.54: Her Demand For Revenge

Folder MS13.19.55: His Tropical Paradise

Folder MS13.19.56: Hard pressed

Folder MS13.19.57: Wild Geese

Folder MS13.19.58: Pollen

Folder MS13.19.59: The Forgotten Document

Folder MS13.19.60: The River’s Risin’

Folder MS13.19.61: When Rocks Crumble

Folder MS13.19.62: The Castaways

Folder MS13.19.63: The War Club

Folder MS13.19.64: Scared Of The Dark

Folder MS13.19.65: Saloon on His Beat

Folder MS13.19.66: Mississippi rescue

Folder MS13.19.67: The Biplane

Folder MS13.19.68: Fast Action

Folder MS13.19.69: On A Carib Beach

Folder MS13.19.70: We Sail When laden

Folder MS13.19.71: The Old Law Man

Folder MS13.19.72: The Painted Stallion

Folder MS13.19.73: A Strange and Peaceful Land

Folder MS13.19.74: No Substitute For Experience

Folder MS13.19.75: The Price of The Old North West

Folder MS13.19.76: Red Man’s Heat

Folder MS13.19.77: Serenity

Folder MS13.19.78: Snow Shoe Hunter

Folder MS13.19.79: The Knot Hole

Folder MS13.19.80: Ahead of The law

Folder MS13.19.81: When Steam Plowed Through

Folder MS13.19.82: When Tracks Are Lost

Folder MS13.19.83: Roll of The Dice

Folder MS13.19.84: A Tough Game

Folder MS13.19.85: The Wild Catter

Folder MS13.19.86: The Spell of His Guitar

Folder MS13.19.87: Especting Trouble

Folder MS13.19.88: Stayin’ out of It

Folder MS13.19.89: The Squall

Folder MS13.19.90: Sheriff Wants To Know

Folder MS13.19.91: The Troublemaker

Folder MS13.19.92: Who Got Him?

Folder MS13.19.93: The Horse Thieves

Box MS13.20

Folder MS13.20.01: Calling His Bluff

Folder MS13.20.02: Bold Promises

Folder MS13.20.03: A possible Route

Folder MS13.20.04: The Flyer

Folder MS13.20.05: Close To The Vest

Folder MS13.20.06: The Bandidos

Folder MS13.20.07: Bucking on Dime

Folder MS13.20.08: When Guns Spit Fire

Folder MS13.20.09: His Vantage Point

Folder MS13.20.10: Sunday Courtin’

Folder MS13.20.11: Squatter’s rights

Folder MS13.20.12: Wild Geese-Indian on Horseback

Folder MS13.20.13: Buck, squaw, papoose, horse, trauois, 2 Cover Ideas

Folder MS13.20.14: 3 Indians On Horseback Cover Idea

Folder MS13.20.15: Bronc Sketch/ Dudes on Corral Cover Idea

Folder MS13.20.16: Indian Pony Race Cover Idea

Folder MS13.20.17: Indian holds Buffalo Skull Cover Idea

Folder MS13.20.18: Indian Dancing Feather Coup Cover Idea

Folder MS13.20.19: Indian Dance-Bustle Cover Idea

Folder MS13.20.20: Pinto Horse-Colti- Indian Sign language Cover Idea

Folder MS13.20.21: The Trust Knaves

Folder MS13.20.22: When Knives Flashed In Savage Combat

Folder MS13.20.23: The Oil Pioneers

Folder MS13.20.24: In Old Toledo, Spain

Folder MS13.20.25: His Tradin Stock

Folder MS13.20.26: Dream Of His Own Spread

Folder MS13.20.27: Something To learn From Each Other

Folder MS13.20.28: Lumber Oxen

Folder MS13.20.29: Phil’s Place

Folder MS13.20.30: His Need for Shade

Folder MS13.20.31: Cooke City-1924, 1924

Folder MS13.20.32: Cooke City-1924, 1924

Folder MS13.20.33: Parlor Talk

Folder MS13.20.34: Sizing Up The Stranger

Folder MS13.20.35: The New Hand

Folder MS13.20.36: When Shots Were Cheap

Folder MS13.20.37: Dead Aim

Folder MS13.20.38: When Rocks Made Fences

Folder MS13.20.39: A Desperado’s Demand

Folder MS13.20.40: Tempers And Guns

Folder MS13.20.41: The Red Bull of San Lucar

Folder MS13.20.42: Matadors

Folder MS13.20.43: A Playin’ “old Dan Tucker”

Folder MS13.20.44: Guest’s Gold

Folder MS13.20.45: When Knighthood Flourished

Folder MS13.20.46: Swagger And Threat

Folder MS13.20.47: Wading In the Shallows

Folder MS13.20.48: Seabirds’ Domain

Folder MS13.20.49: More Smoke Than Talk

Folder MS13.20.50: Bass Rocks

Folder MS13.20.51: Composition For Stolen Ponies

Folder MS13.20.52: Phil Spear

Folder MS13.20.53: Phile Spear (Head)

Folder MS13.20.54: Gold Miner

Folder MS13.20.55: Spear Cooktent for Pack Trip

Folder MS13.20.56: Hunters Cabin- Black Canyon

Folder MS13.20.57: Dan Ross Cabin

Folder MS13.20.58: Prospector’s Cabin (sod roof)

Folder MS13.20.59: Republic Smelter

Folder MS13.20.60: Rambler

Folder MS13.20.61: George Ogden

Folder MS13.20.62: Gene Underwood

Folder MS13.20.63: Ideas For Covers

Folder MS13.20.64: Spear Corral

Folder MS13.20.65: A O Saloon

Folder MS13.20.66: Curl house

Folder MS13.20.67: Cosmopolitan Hotel