Finding Aid to the Parkin Store Ledger Books MS.880
Holly Rose Larson
Library and Archives at the Autry
2012 December 13
210 South Victory Blvd.
Burbank, CA 91502
rroom@theautry.org
Contributing Institution:
Library and Archives at the Autry
Title: Parkin Store ledger books
Creator:
Parkin, Henry S.
Identifier/Call Number: MS.880
Physical Description:
1.3 Linear Feet
(1 box)
Date (inclusive): 1913-1918
Abstract: Henry S. Parkin was a trader and married to a Sioux woman. The Parkin Store, later called the Cannonball Mercantile Company,
operated in Standing Rock Agency, North Dakota from 1879 to 1930. A majority of their clientele were Sioux Indians. The collection
consists of two leather-bound ledgers from the Parkin Store from 1913-1916 and 1915-1918.
Language of Material:
English
.
Henry S. Parkin was a trader and married to a Sioux woman. The Parkin Store, later called the Cannonball Mercantile Company,
operated in Standing Rock Agency, North Dakota from 1879 to 1930.
This is a collection of two leather-bound ledgers from the Parkin Store, later called the Cannonball Mercantile Company, from
the Standing Rock Agency, North Dakota. The ledgers are marked "Ledger B," 1913-1916 and "B Ledger," 1915-1918, and contain
the accounts of the Parkin Store customers, most of whom were Sioux Indians. The collection also includes a couple of photocopied
pages of biographical information from the Indian Office Reports of 1891 and 1894.
Parkin Store Ledger Books, 1913-1918, Braun Research Library Collection, Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles; MS.880; [folder number] [folder
title][date].
Processed by Library staff before 1981. Finding aid completed by Holly Rose Larson, NHPRC Processing Archivist, 2012 December
13, made possible through grant funding from the National Historical Publications and Records Commissions (NHPRC).
Donated by Mr. and Mrs. Lee Nichols, 1959 April 9.
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Subjects and Indexing Terms
Trading posts
Standing Rock Indian Reservation (N.D. and S.D.)
Dakota Indians
Indians of North America -- North Dakota
Ledgers
Fiske, Frank
Parkin Store
Cannonball Mercantile Company
United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency