Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Access Points
Biography
Descriptive Summary
Title: Small Rocky Mountain States Collections,
Date (inclusive): 1898-1953
Collection number: Mss2
Creator:
Extent: 0.1 linear ft.
Repository:
University of the Pacific. Library. Holt-Atherton Department of
Special Collections
Shelf location: For current information on the location of
these materials, please consult the library's online catalog.
Language: English.
Administrative Information
Access
Collection is open for research.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Small Rocky Mountain States Collections, Mss2,
Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections, University of the Pacific
Library
Access Points
Personal Names
Spurgeon, W.E.
Cassidy, Henry E.
Clarke, Harry G.
Couturier, J.J.
Couturier, Nicholas
Towlerton, Angelia Couturier
Corporate Names
Colorado Midland Railway Company
Bellevue Hudson Company
Colorado -Description and travel
Clear Creek County (Colo.) -History -Sources
Idaho -Description and travel
Montana -Description and travel
Montana -Fiction
Utah -Description and travel
Traveling sales personnel -West (U.S.) -Correspondence
Cowboys -Fiction
Authors, American -California
Mines and mineral resources -Colorado -Clear Creek
County
Personal Names
Hoffman, Hans
Biography
Henry F. "Harry" Cassidy was an auctioneer and traveling salesman based
in Stockton California during the first decade of the twentieth century. His
sales "territory" seems to have been the Mountain states: Colorado, Utah, Idaho
and Montana. While traveling in the region he wrote to family and friends about
life in the region (1902-1913). [Ms2.C345]
Little is known about writer Harry G. Clarke save that he lived in Twain
Hart (Calif.) and wrote a "cowboy novel" titled Buffalo Grass (1953).
[Ms2.C599]
J. J. Couturier was a placer miner in the Montana District near Empire,
Clear Creek County, Colo. (c1890-1910). He had a son, Nicholas, and a daughter,
Angelita Towlerton, to whom he tried to leave a claim, the Klondike Placer, in
which he owned a half-interest. Correspondence in the Couturier Papers indicate
that his ownership of this claim was disputed after his death by the Bellevue
Hudson Company, which apparently took over the diggings and denied Couturier
heirs access to the property. [Ms2.C871]