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Title: Albert Wachsmann
Description: Albert Wachsmann, husband of Virginia Bridger.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Helen Elizabeth Lightle
Description: Inscription on back reads: Helen Elizabeth Lightle about two years old; brown eyes and brown curly hair. Now Mrs. Dody Mead, Rapid City, South Dakota. Picture taken in Kansas City, MO., Phares Studio, 549 1/2 Walnut. Reproduced by Western Blueprint Co. from a photograph loaned by Mrs. Louise Davis. Granddaughter of Virginia Bridger Wachsmann and Albert Wachsmann; daughter of Edward Jackson Lightle and Louise Catherine Wachsmann; sister of Louise Marie Edna Lightle; now Mrs. Louise Davis of Riverside, Missouri.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Mrs. Virginia Bridger Wachsmann Hahn
Description: Mrs. Virginia Bridger Wachsmann Hahn 1849-1933, Thermopolis, Wyoming, Mr. Jones of Nebraska
Object Type: Photograph

Title: James Bridger
Description: Extensive information on Jim Bridger (1804-1881), one of the greatest Western guides from the early 1820s to the Civil War, including the founding of Fort Bridger and the site selection for the first railroad across the Rocky Mountains, buried in Mount Washington Cemetery in Kansas City. Description of his life, including plotting one of the first trails across the Great Plains called the Overland Trail and later the Oregon Trail, killing of thousands of Indians, business location in mid-1800s Westport, and farm residence near 103rd and State Line in Kansas City, with illustrations, maps, articles, etc.
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: Bridger Family
Description: Information about the Bridger family, including the ancestry of Western explorer Jim Bridger, starting with Colonel Joseph Bridger (1628-1688), an emigrant to Virginia.
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: An Old Frontiersman: Jim Bridger, Hunter, Guide and Scout, Dies Near New Santa Fe
Description: Obituary for Jim Bridger (1804-1881), "known as old frontiersman, plainsman and guide for over a quarter of a century" before dying "near New Santa Fe, in this county." Native of Virginia traveling to the Rocky Mountains in the 1820s as a fur trader, mountain man, and western guide before retiring to south of Westport after the Civil War in New Santa Fe, Missouri.
Date: 1881-07-19
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Surveying the History of the American West
Description: Captioned picture of the bronze statue of frontier scout Jim Bridger placed at the National Frontier Trails Museum in Independence, Missouri. The sculpture was done by Tom Beard and an official dedication is to be held Sunday, March 14, 2004.
Date: 2004-03-12
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: The Jim Bridger Bridge Opens, Replacing Treacherous Causeway
Description: The former Lydia Bridge which passes over Indian Creek and connects Bannister Road to the Linden Hills neighborhood to the south is now known as the Jim Bridger Bridge. The bridge spans 272 feet and stands 15 feet higher thean the original structure. The project was paid for by the Jackson County Urban Road System and cost $3.3 million. Ceremonies for the opening were held on July 22, 2004, with Dr. Bill Worley impersonating Jim Bridger.
Date: 2004-07-28
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Fraeb's Last Fight and How Battle Creek Got Its Name
Description: Historical article about Henry Fraeb, "partner in the famous Rocky Mountain Fur Company and subsequently proprietor on the South Platte River." Fraeb was a mountain man in northern Colorado and a German from Saint Louis who worked with Thomas Fitzpatrick, Jim Bridger, Milton Sublette, and Old Bill Williams, from 1829 through the 1830s. He co-founded the Rocky Mountain Fur Company, which dissolved in 1834, and was killed in a battle with Indians in 1841 on the Snake River while a partner of Jim Bridger at a Green River trading post.
Date: 1930-05
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Jim Bridger
Description: Sseated portrait of Jim Bridger. Description on the reverse side of the image reads: "James Bridger, father of Mrs. Wachsman. Taken for sons in 1857. Granddaughter, Mrs. Louise C. Lightle."
Date: 1857
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Experiences at Fort Bridger with the Shoshones
Description: Autobiographical account of the author, pictured as the son of Louis Vasquez (1798-1868), Jim Bridger's partner at Fort Bridger and in Westport, including their encounters with Shoshone Indians there, with photos of friends and relations of Jim Bridger (1804-1881).
Date: 1968-09
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: James Bridger as Westport Knew Him
Description: Article collecting "a few local stories not usually found in print" about Jim Bridger, known of or living in the Kansas City area from the 1850s to the early 1880s, telling briefly of his various wives, including Indians, children, and explorations of the West, including the discovery of the area of Yellowstone National Park.
Date: 1968-09
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Washakie--Chief of the Shoshones, Father-in-Law of James Bridger
Description: Article about Jim Bridger's relationship to Washakie, chief of the Shoshone Indians of Montana, starting with Bridger's marriage to his daughter, Little Fawn, in 1850, bringing her back to Dallas, Missouri.
Date: 1968-09
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Bridger Genealogy
Description: One page of genealogical information about Jim Bridger and his family.
Date: 1968-09
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: A Friend of ''Jim'' Bridger
Description: Article describes a man's encounter with legendary explorer Jim Bridger in the Spring of 1850. William Walker, of Scandia, Kansas, was welcomed by Bridger in a small Indian village in Utah while travelling West to California.
Date: 2005-11-21
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Louise Marie Edna Lightle
Description: Inscription on back of photo: Blue eyes and blond hair, about two months old; now Mrs. Louise Davis, Riverside, Missouri. Granddaughter of Virginia Bridger Wachsmann and Albert Wachsmann, daughter of Edward Jackson Lightle and Louise Catherine Wachsmann.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Virginia Bridger Wachsmann
Description: Inscription on back of photograph: July 1927, To James Bridger Zane from Aunt Virginia Brown eyes, grey hair
Date: 1927-07
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Virginia Bridger Wachsmann
Description: Photograph of Virginia Bridger Wachsmann. Picture taken in 1875. Was living on farm near Dallas, Missouri, Jackson County. Daughter of Jim Bridger and his Indian wife from Ute tribe
Date: 1875
Object Type: Photograph

Title: What I Remember of Virginia Bridger Wachsmann-Hahn
Description: Reminiscences about Jim Bridger and his daughter, Virginia Bridger Wachsmann-Hahn, or Virginia Wachsmann, discussing disputes over accuracy of Jim's character and actions, including a 1923 motion picture, "The Covered Wagon," portraying him as a drunkard with two Indian squaws.
Date: 1968-09
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Edward Jackson Lightle
Description: Inscription on back: Edward Jackson Lightle married Louise Catherine Wachsmann, daughter of Virginia Bridger Wachsmann and Albert Wachsmann. Father of Helen Elizabeth Lightle and Louise Marie Edna Lightle.
Object Type: Photograph

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