Box 1

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The Joseph C. Meyers Papers consist of autobiographical vignettes written by Meyers. The accounts relate to many subjects, including buffalo hunting, Indians, ranching, the Marquis de Mores, Theodore Roosevelt, Sitting Bull, the Battle of the Little Bighorn, and early settlements in western Dakota Territory. Some of the sketches include articles from western North Dakota newspapers. All of the material in the collection were duplicated on thermofax paper and are not of high quality.

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1. The American Bison Called Buffalo 2. Autobiography

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3. "Buffalo Bill" Cody as I Knew Him 4. Buffalo Hunters that I Knew 5. Copperheads 6. Dakota Territory; Yankton; First Capitol; Wild Bill's Slayer; Jack McCall Tried and Hung at Yankton, 1876 7. The Doings of My Two Old Partners: Old Ben (aka "Single Eye") and Old Jack (aka "Three Fingered Jack")

Scope and Contents 8. Don't Go Native and Become the Squaw Man 9. The First Community Photographer West of Mandan 10, The First Dude Ranch - Howard Eaton and Three Brothers 11. The First Permanent Settler in Billings County 12. The First Settlement West of the Missouri 13. The First Trail Herd from Texas 14. Fort "Sauer Kraut;" the Last Sioux Outbreak; the Death of Sitting Bull 15. Frozen Foot Andy - a Two Bit Horse Thief 16. Glen Ullin in 1885 17. First Family in Golden Valley 18. How the Sioux...

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26. Marquis de Mores

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27. My 1883 Christmas Present 28. ------- 29. My First and Only Remittance Man 30. My Grass Widow Romance 31. My Second Meeting with Sitting Bull 32. My Two Old Partners 33. My Two Old Partners - Ben Ferriss, Joke Tuters 34. The Old Fort Lincoln - Fort Keoger Trail 35. The Old Oak Tree Ranch 36. Our Extinct Passenger Pigeons 37. Our Persecuted Coyotes or Prairie Wolf

Scope and Contents 38. Our Pretty, Chattering, Mischievous, Destructive Magpies Who Do More Damage than All of our Coyotes 39. A Pioneer Family 40. Primitive Packers 41. The Prong Horned Antelope 42. Rattlesnakes and More Rattlesnakes 43. Sam Heintz and His Tame Buffalo Wolf 44. Sims, North Dakota 45. Sitting Bull as I First Saw Him 46. Some Early History of New Salem 47. Theodore Roosevelt as I Knew Him While in Dakota Territory 48. Three Hardest Winters 49. Trapper Johnstone 50. Trapper Johnstone...