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Title
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Louise Catherine Wachsmann
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Description
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Louise Wachsmann, daughter of Virginia Bridger Wachsmann and Albert Wachsmann. Photo taken at 1042 Main Street, Kansas City, Missouri. She was seven years old.
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Mr. and Mrs. Lightle
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Description
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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).
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Karst
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Description
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Inscription on back of picture: ""Louise, this is my mother's father. His name is Karst.""
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Jim Bridger Monument
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Description
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Postcard of the Jim Bridger Monument in Mount Washington Cemetery.
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Object Type
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Postcard
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Title
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SC42 Jim Bridger Collection Finding Aid
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Description
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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.
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Date
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1804/1881
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
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Title
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Jim Bridger
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Description
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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.
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Date
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1904/1950
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Dust of Oblivion Is Gathering on This Area's Forgotten Mountain Men
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Description
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Biographical article about local mountain men and former residents of the Kansas City area, especially Major Andrew Drips (here listed as "Andrew J. Dripps"), Louis Vasquez, and Jim Bridger, among others starting west from Saint Louis to the Rocky Mountains in 1823 with William Ashley's expedition, including Old Bill Williams, Thomas Fitzpatrick, William Sublette, Jedediah Smith, Thomas Smith, and Francois Vasquez, Louis's brother, a Kansas Indian agent in the Kansas City area from 1826 to 1828, with portrait of Louis Vasquez.
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Date
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1946-04-15
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Historical Notes and Comments
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Description
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One paragraph about the grave of James Bridger, commonly known as Jim Bridger.
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Date
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1932-10
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Virginia Bridger Wachsmann
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Description
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Photograph of Virginia Bridger Wachsmann, on right in picture and Mrs. W. S. Metz at Big Horn Hot Spring, Thermopolis, Wyoming Feb. 19, 1932
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Date
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1932-02-19
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Summer Picnic Aug. 9: Outing to Be in Historic Setting at Red Bridge
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Description
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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.
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Date
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1981
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Utah's Official Boogey Man
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Description
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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.
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Date
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2005-04
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Best of Missouri: Jim Bridger's Granchild Honored
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Description
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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."
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Date
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2001-10
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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The Far Horizons of Jim Bridger
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Description
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Originally published in The Denver Post, August 27, 1972, the article portrays a 70 year-old Bridger and reflections on his past.
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Date
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2003
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Ruins of Old Fort Bridger
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Description
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Fort Bridger rock wall built by Mormons. Taken by Albert Park, Casper, Wyoming.
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Date
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1923-08-21
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Ezra Meeker
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Description
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Inscription on back of photo reads, "Old Oregon Trail in solid rock, Sweetwater Valley, Wyo. Ezra Meeker in reminiscent attitude-taken August 20, 1923 by Albert Park, Casper, Wyo."
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Date
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1923-08-20
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Sweetwater Crossing
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Description
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Inscription on back of photo reads, "Site of Sweetwater Crossing, taken Aug. 20, 1923 by Albert Park, County Surveyor of Casper, Wyo., Independence Rock in distance. Granite mountains in background. Devil's Gate can be seen at left end of granite ridge. Ezra Meeker looking for relics."
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Date
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1923-08-20
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Object Type
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Photograph
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