Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Houser, Hannah Jane
- Abstract:
- Loose manuscript sheets, including a fifteen page memoir and travelogue, by Hannah Jane Houser recollecting the Civil War and Army life on the Texas frontier during Reconstruction and the Indian Wars, 1866-1871, 1916.
- Extent:
- 0.02 Linear Feet (1 folder)
- Language:
- English.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of Item], Hannah Jane Houser memoirs, Wyles SC 1127. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Background
- Scope and content:
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Loose manuscript sheets, including a fifteen page memoir and travelogue, by Hannah Jane Houser recollecting the Civil War and Army life on the Texas frontier during Reconstruction and the Indian Wars, 1866-1871, 1916.
Included are various narratives and commentary on the Buffalo Soldiers, enforcement of U.S. forts again Indian attacks, as well as attacks by white American rebels.
- Physical location:
- Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
- Subjects:
- Frontier and pioneer life -- Texas
African American soldiers -- Texas -- History -- 19th century
Indians of North America -- Wars -- 1866-1895
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- Texas
Memoirs
Travelers' writings - Names:
- Houser, Hannah Jane -- Archives
- Places:
- Texas -- Social conditions -- 19th century
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Women
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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The collection is open for research.
- Terms of access:
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Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Research Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Research Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Department of Special Research Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of Item], Hannah Jane Houser memoirs, Wyles SC 1127. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
- Location of this collection:
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UC Santa Barbara LibrarySanta Barbara, CA 93106-9010, US
- Contact:
- (805) 893-3062