Collection Guide

Guide Contents Administrative Information Biographical and Historical Information Scope and Contents of the Collection Related Materials Acquisition and Processing Information Box Contents List

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Administrative Information

Access and Restrictions: This collection is open for research.

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Biographical Note

Grace Hebard was born in Clinton, Iowa, on July 2, 1861. She took her B.S. at the University of Iowa in 1882 and her M.A. at the same institution in 1885. A paper in the collection states that she was the first woman to "be graduated from the Civil Engineering Dep(artment) of the University." She received her Ph.D. from Illinois Wesleyan in 1893. She subsequently spent over forty years at the University of Wyoming, much of this time as librarian and Head of the Department of Political Economy. She collected on the topic of Wyoming history, and on her death in 1936, she bequeathed her collection to the University of Wyoming at Laramie. She also wrote on the topic of Wyoming history. Her works include The Bozeman Trail, The Government of Wyoming, The Pathbreakers, Sacajawea, and Washakie.

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Scope and Contents

The collection consists of four folders that largely contain photographs, letters, drawings, and manuscripts. This material served as actual or potential illustrations for Hebard's research on Sacajawea and the Lewis and Clark Expedition, which she conducted for her book Sacajawea: Guide of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, which was published in 1933.

Folder 1 contains material that was not used as illustration. Folder 2 is the typed manuscript, including a bibliography and corrections. Folder 3 consists of copies while Folder 4 contains the respective originals. For the most part, these illustrations were used in the book.

C. Pummer and J. Roethler, August 2004

Photographs: The vast majority of the collection is made of photographs.

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Related Materials

Most of Hebard's letters are in the American Heritage Center at the University of Wyoming.

There are letters between Levi Leonard and Miss Hebard in the Leonard collection. MsC 159

Anderson, Irving W. "Probing the Riddle of the Bird Woman." Montana, 23:4 (Autumn 1973), pp. 2 -- 17

Brown, Larry K. "In Old Wyoming: Grace Raymond Hebard." Wyoming Annals, 66:3 (Fall 1994), pp. 6 -- 7

Fleck, Richard F. and Robert A. Campbell. "A Selected Literary Bibliography of Wyoming." Annals of Wyoming, 45 (Spring 1974), pp. 75 -- 112. Includes five items by Hebard

Wenzell, Janell M. "Dr. Grace Raymond Hebard as Western Historian." M.A. thesis, American Civilization, University of Wyoming, 1960

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Acquisition and Processing Information

Guide posted to Internet: August 2004

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Box Contents List

Clippings and publicity

Hebard letters in the Levi O. Leonard collection: an index

Manuscripts

Sacajawea: Guide of the Lewis and Clark Expedition

FOLDER 1: ILLUSTRATIONS NOT USED IN PUBLISHED EDITION

Photo of Maggie Baptiste Meyers, daughter of Baptiste, son of Sacajawea. March 28, 1925

Photo of Andrew Bazil, son of Bazil, son of Sacajawea, March 28, 1925

Photo of Quantan Quay

Photo of Sage Weetchie, great-grandson of Sacajawea

Photo of Andrew Bazil and Maggie Baptiste Weejans, "grandchildren ? Sacajawea"

Photo of Shoshone moccasins

Photo of "the graves of Sacajawea; Bazil, her son; and Barbara Baptiste Meyers, daughter of papoose of the Lewis and Clark Expedition"

Photo of the cemetery in which Sacajawea is buried

Photo of Bishop Randall Chapel

Photo of burial record of Sacajawea, August 19, 1873

Photo of record of the baptism of four great-grandchildren of Sacajawea, April 9, 1884

Photo of bronze tablet in memory of Reverend George Maxwell Randall [?]

Photo of Fred Laiga, great-grandson of Sacajawea

FOLDER 2: TYPED MANUSCRIPT WITH CORRECTIONS

401 typed leaves

Bibliography

FOLDER 3: COPIES OF PHOTOS OF ILLUSTRATIONS USED IN PUBLISHED EDITION

Photo of Reverend John Roberts and Andrew Bazil at grave of Sacajawea

Reproduction of drawing of Fort Supply / Photo of Bazil, adopted son of Sacajawea (extreme left, standing) and Chief Washakie (mounted, ?)

Photo of Sacajawea's "comanche kinfolk." Includes Hi-we-nah's eldest daughter and her family

Photo of painting of "Prince Paul, Baptiste, and the Indians" / reproduction of painting "Reunion of Sacajawea and her Shoshone People"

Reproduction of Indian drawing of the Custer battle. June 15, 1876 / photo of We-se-paie, George Ko-we-na and wife, and Hi-we-nah, descendants of Sacajawea

Reproduction of map of Washakie National Forest, Wyoming [drawn by the author]

Photo of letter from William Clark requesting a passport for Prince Paul

Facsimile of original De Smet manuscript, describing the meeting on the Oregon Trail of Prince Paul, September 1951 / facsimile of Boggs' manuscript describing Baptiste and his half-brother "Tessou," 1845

Reproduction of a map of a section of the Lewis and Clark expedition. The sources of the Missouri River and the meeting place of the white men with the Shoshone Indians. Sketched by Laura Tolman Scott

Reproduction of painting of statue of Sacajawea by Henry Altman, 1905

Facsimile of letter to General William Clark from Prince Paul requesting a passport to ascend the Missouri River, May 5, 1823

Reproduction of original drawing by [Heinrich Balduin] Moellhausen of "Race of the Cheyenne Maidens," dated October 26, 1851 / reproduction of sketch by Moellhausen of the attack on Prince Paul, October 26, 1851, by the Kiawas

Photo of Susan Perry (friend of Sacajawea) and the author

FOLDER 4: ILLUSTRATIONS PARTIALLY USED IN PUBLISHED EDITION (ORIGINALS)

Photo of Reverend John Roberts and Andrew Bazil at grave of Sacajawea

Reproduction of drawing of Fort Supply

Photo of Sacajawea's "Comanche kinfolk." Includes Hi-we-nah's eldest daughter and her family

Photo of We-se-paie, mother-in-law of Tah-cu-tine, Sacajawea's Comanche grand-daughter

Photo of George Ko-we-nah, first cousin of Tah-cu-tine

Photo of Andrew Bazil and his cousin Barbara Baptiste Meyers

Photo of Bazil, adopted son of Sacajawea (extreme left, standing) and Chief Washakie (mounted, ?)

Reproduction of Bogg's manuscript describing Baptiste and his half-brother "Tessou," 1845

Photo of letter from William Clark requesting a passport for Prince Paul

Reproduction of letter from Prince Paul to General William Clark requesting a passport to ascend the Missouri River, May 5, 1823

Map of Washakie National Forest, Wyoming [drawn by the author]

Photo of original De Smet manuscript, describing the meeting on the Oregon Trail of Prince Paul, September 1851

Map of a section of the Lewis and Clark expedition. The sources of the Missouri River and the meeting place of the white men with the Shoshone indians. Sketched by Laura Tolman Scott

Photo of Susan Perry (friend of Sacajawea) and author

Photo of manuscript of Prince Paul recalling pleasant remembrances of "B. Charbaneau, whose mother was a 'Schoschone'," written August 10, 1850

Photo of manuscript of Father De Smet, describing meeting with Prince Paul of Wuertemberg in 1851 on "La Platte"

Photo of translated manuscript of Father De Smet's Life, Letters, and Travel (sample page)

1 leaf with instructions on how illustrations should be included in text

4 leaves on how particular individual photographs will be organized on 4 pages in text

 

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