Box A20

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection contains a typewritten account of Frederick Etrick's life, including topics such as his childhood in Prussia, his emigration to the United States, politics and the presidential election of 1884, and farming. There is a great deal of information regarding his move to Dodge City in the 1880s, including descriptions of the town and its inhabitants, information about buffalo hunting, cowboys, sod houses, gambling, contemporary fashion and dress, the blizzard of 1886, saloons, and...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection contains a typewritten account of Frederick Etrick's life, including topics such as his childhood in Prussia, his emigration to the United States, politics and the presidential election of 1884, and farming. There is a great deal of information regarding his move to Dodge City in the 1880s, including descriptions of the town and its inhabitants, information about buffalo hunting, cowboys, sod houses, gambling, contemporary fashion and dress, the blizzard of 1886, saloons, and...

Scope and Contents The collection contains a typewritten account of Frederick Etrick's life, including topics such as his childhood in Prussia, his emigration to the United States, politics and the presidential election of 1884, and farming. There is a great deal of information regarding his move to Dodge City in the 1880s, including descriptions of the town and its inhabitants, information about buffalo hunting, cowboys, sod houses, gambling, contemporary fashion and dress, the blizzard of 1886, saloons, and...

Scope and Contents This collection contains one copy of The Illustrated American, a "pictorial monthly magazine devoted to everything American." This collection contains a copy of the July 1900 issue, which covers the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia, in which William McKinley was selected as the Republican Party's nominee with Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt selected as his running mate. The issue has photographs of the candidates, the convention, and the...