Finding Aid to the Mormon Difficulties at Tuba City in the Hopi Country, Arizona Scrapbook MS.562

Holly Rose Larson

Library and Archives at the Autry

2012 October 5

210 South Victory Blvd.

Burbank, CA 91502

rroom@theautry.org

URL: https://theautry.org/research-collections/library-and-archives

Contributing Institution: Library and Archives at the Autry

Title: Mormon Difficulties at Tuba City in the Hopi Country, Arizona Scrapbook

Creator: United States. Office of Indian Affairs

Creator: Tanner, George S

source: Van Valkenburgh, Richard

Identifier/Call Number: MS.562

Physical Description: 0.1 Linear Feet (1 folder)

Date (inclusive): 1894-1902

Abstract: This collection contains correspondence, legal documents, drawings, and maps from 1894-1902 regarding charges that polygamous Mormons forced Hopi Indians from land and water that they had used for years.

Language of Material: English .

Processing History

Processed by Glenna Schroeder, circa 1977-1981. Final processing and finding aid completed by Holly Rose Larson, NHPRC Processing Archivist, 2012 October 5, made possible through grant funding from the National Historical Publications and Records Commissions (NHPRC).

Related Archival Materials

MSS SC 805, Mormon difficulties at Tuba City in the Hopi country, Arizona, 1895-1903, Harold B. Lee Library, BYU.

Scope and Contents

This collection contains correspondence, legal documents, drawings, and maps from 1894-1902 regarding charges that polygamous Mormons forced Hopi Indians from land and water that they had used for years. Materials consist of 18 letters, 15 legal documents, 2 drawings and maps in a scrapbook. Names on a list of Mormons at Tuba include Ashton Nebeker, J.L. Foutz, Bishop L.D. Brinkerhoff, J.H. Lee Jr. and Sr., Henry Despain, Wm. Hunt Sr. and Jr., Fred Tanner (post master), S.B. Tanner, Earnest Lee, J.A. Allen, Steve Heward, John Tanner, and Joe Tanner.

Acquisition

Donation from Richard Van Valkenburgh, 1942 June.

Preferred Citation

Mormon Difficulties at Tuba City in the Hopi Country, Arizona Scrapbook, 1894-1902, Braun Research Library Collection, Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles; MS.562.

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Subjects and Indexing Terms

Indians of North America -- Arizona

Mormons -- Arizona

Fort Defiance (Ariz.)

Tuba City (Ariz.)

Mormon Church -- Arizona

Legal documents

Drawings

Maps

Indians, Treatment of

Water rights -- Arizona

Hopi Indians

Correspondence

Scrapbooks

Hunt, William, Jr.

Hunt, William, Sr.

Despain, Henry

Tanner, Fred

Lee, Earnest

Tanner, S. B.

Heward, Steve

Allen, J. A.

Tanner, Joe

Tanner, John

Nebeker, Ashton

Van Valkenburgh, Richard

Lee, J. H., Jr.

Lee, J. H., Sr.

Brinkerhoff, L. D., Bishop

Foutz, J. L.