Frank B. Linderman Memorial Collection, 1885-2005, MSS 007
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Title
Frank B. Linderman Memorial Collection, 1885-2005, MSS 007
Description
This collection represents the productive and collective efforts of Frank Linderman and his many careers as writer, politician, assayer, and Native American ally and ethnographer. The correspondence and photographs are especially extensive and represent his many important and significant friends and acquaintances.
Creator
Linderman, Frank Bird, 1869-1938
Publisher
University of Montana, Mansfield Library, Archives and Special Collections
Date
1885-2005
Rights
Copyright not transferred to the University of Montana—Missoula. Copyright is managed by the Linderman heirs.Permission may be required for use. For more information, please contact Archives and Special Collections at the University of Montana, Mansfield Library.
Identifier
MSS 007
Collection Items
Swede Sam's Luck, page 1
This is the first page from a story by Frank Bird Linderman titled "Swede Sam's Luck." The story, which begins in Helena, Montana, tells the story of a "Swede from America" and his return to Sweden. The story was told to Linderman by Dr. O.M.…
Yong Sing, page 1
This is the first page from a story by Frank Bird Linderman titled "Yong Sing." The title character is a restaurateur in Marysville, Montana who goes broke when the local miner's union boycott decide to boycott Chinese owned establishments. The…
Letter to Frank Bird Linderman from Grace Stone Coates
Coates regularly exchanged letters with Montana author Frank Bird Linderman.
Alaxchíiahush with a buffalo robe over his shoulders seated facing the left and holding his biography.
Alaxchíiahush holding an original copy of "American: The Life Story of a Great Indian: Plenty-coups, Chief of the Crows"
Alaxchíiahush with his hair unbraided seated and facing left.
Alaxchíiahush with his hair unbraided.
Alaxchíiahush wearing his war shirt decorated with ermines and a feathered headdress, sitting astride a white horse.
Alaxchíiahush on his war horse and wearing his war shirt decorated with ermines.
Alaxchíiahush standing facing the camera with a blanket wrapped around his torso and a pipe in his right hand.
Alaxchíiahush at Fort Custer holding a pipe
Handwriting on faded yellow paper.
Frank Linderman's notes on the tobacco planting ceremony as told to him by Alaxchíiahush.
Group of six bison grazing in the foreground with sagebrush-covered hills and mountains in the background.
Herd of bison.
Kukúwish
Kukúwish / Squash was Shitchísh's interpreter when Linderman interviewed her for her biography.
Shitchísh by a tree at Crow Agency, Montana
Shitchísh by a tree at Crow Agency, Montana, wrapped in a blanket.