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Title: Wachsmann Marker at Union Cemetery
Description: Louise Davis, great granddaughter of Jim Bridger (right), and Adrienne Christopher at Wachsmann marker, Union Cemetery.
Date: 1968
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Virginia Bridger Wachsmann
Description: Photograph of Virginia Bridger Wachsmann with Mr. Charles W. Hel?
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Louise Catherine Wachsmann
Description: Louise Catherine Wachsmann, daughter of Virginia Bridger Wachsmann and Albert Wachsmann, when she was five years old. "The picture was taken by Williams and Thomson Studio, Kansas City, Missouri. This copy was made by Western Blueprint from a picture loaned to the Missouri Valley Room by Mrs. Louise Davis, Riverside, Missouri."
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Virginia Bridger Wachsmann
Description: Photograph of Virginia Bridger Wachsmann by photographer Gilliland at S. W. Cor. 11th and Walnut.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Albert Wachsmann
Description: Inscription on back of photograph: Laura Mills, Westport, Missouri, Great friend of Captain A. Wachsmann. Printed on back: Ragan & Winan's Gallery of Art, Cor. Third and Main Sts., Over Leively's Store, Kansas City, Mo.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Louise Catherine Wachsmann
Description: Louise Wachsmann, daughter of Virginia Bridger Wachsmann and Albert Wachsmann. Photo taken at 1042 Main Street, Kansas City, Missouri. She was seven years old.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Mr. and Mrs. Lightle
Description: Inscription on back: Photographer - Carpenter, 615 Main Street, Kansas City, Missouri. Father and mother of Edward J. Lightle; Father - Perry Lightle; Mother - Mary Jane Hampton Lightle. Their children were Edward J., Luella, and William. Edward's twin brother (never named, died at birth).
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Karst
Description: Inscription on back of picture: ""Louise, this is my mother's father. His name is Karst.""
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Jim Bridger Monument
Description: Postcard of the Jim Bridger Monument in Mount Washington Cemetery.
Object Type: Postcard

Title: SC42 Jim Bridger Collection Finding Aid
Description: This one box, 16 folder collection includes photographs, photocopied correspondence, newspaper clippings, and charts. The 24 photographs in this collection are primarily of Bridger relatives including Bridger's daughter, Virginia. Genealogy charts for the family and correspondence between relatives is also included. There are photographs taken in 1923 of Ezra Meeker and the ruins of Fort Bridger in Wyoming as well as of Oregon Trail remaining ruts.
Date: 1804/1881
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: Jim Bridger
Description: A collection of 54 pages of photocopied articles concerning Jim Bridger, his grave and his monument in Kansas City. These clippings were orginally located in the Special Collections mounted newspaper clippings primarily in the Missouri section.
Date: 1904/1950
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Mrs. Virginia Bridger Hahn, Born in Wyoming in 1849, Comes to Make Permanent Home in Thermopolis
Description: Article about the daughter of Jim Bridger returning to live in Wyoming at the age of 84.
Date: 1932-01-29
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Historical Notes and Comments
Description: One paragraph about the grave of James Bridger, commonly known as Jim Bridger.
Date: 1932-10
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Virginia Bridger Wachsmann
Description: Photograph of Virginia Bridger Wachsmann, on right in picture and Mrs. W. S. Metz at Big Horn Hot Spring, Thermopolis, Wyoming Feb. 19, 1932
Date: 1932-02-19
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Summer Picnic Aug. 9: Outing to Be in Historic Setting at Red Bridge
Description: Article about the centennial picnic at Red Bridge honoring Jim Bridger's death in 1881 in Jackson County, with photo and description of Bridger's role on the Santa Fe Trail and in Jackson County as a Westport merchant and as a blind old man next to Watts Mill.
Date: 1981
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Utah's Official Boogey Man
Description: Biographical article describing the life of Orrin Porter Rockwell, a Latter Day Saint pioneer who was known as the "Mormon Assassin" for his alleged role in the attempted murder of Missouri Governor Lilburn Boggs. The article focuses on Rockwell's life after his release from "a dungeon-like cell in Independence" when a grand jury found no evidence of his guilt in the Boggs assassination attempt.
Date: 2005-04
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Best of Missouri: Jim Bridger's Granchild Honored
Description: Photo and biographical article about the ceremonies for the dedication of a gravestone for Louise Wachsman Lightle, or Louise Lightle (ca. 1876-1907), granddaughter of mountain man Jim Bridger, at Mount Saint Mary's Cemetery with performances by "the Jim Bridger Eighth Grade Center choir" and "Preston Tone-Pah-Hote of the Kiowa tribe."
Date: 2001-10
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Biography of Jim Bridger (1804-1881), Frontiersman
Date: 2003
Object Type: Biography

Title: The Far Horizons of Jim Bridger
Description: Originally published in The Denver Post, August 27, 1972, the article portrays a 70 year-old Bridger and reflections on his past.
Date: 2003
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Ruins of Old Fort Bridger
Description: Fort Bridger rock wall built by Mormons. Taken by Albert Park, Casper, Wyoming.
Date: 1923-08-21
Object Type: Photograph

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