Collection context
Summary
Background
- Scope and content:
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The Brame Papers consist principally of correspondence files with readers or contributors to the Pony Express Courier (1934-1936) touching on lives or events important in 19th c. California and the West.
- Biographical / historical:
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Herbert Brame, journalist and historian, founded the Pony Express Courier in Placerville (Calif.) to foster public interest in California and Western history (1934). Although Brame died two years later, his wife Verna continued the journal, which was published as late as 1977.
- Physical location:
- For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the library's online catalog.
- Physical description:
- 0.5 linear ft.
Indexed terms
- Subjects:
- Voyages to the Pacific coast
Chinese Americans -California -History
Mines and mineral resources -California
Mines and mineral resources -Nevada
Authors -Correspondence, reminiscences, etc.
West (U.S.) -History
California -History
Journalists -California -Correspondence, reminiscences, etc.
Nevada -History
Calaveras County (Calif.) -History
Women as pioneers
About this collection guide
- Date Prepared:
- © 1998
- Date Encoded:
- Machine-readable finding aid derived from paper by means of scanning and OCR; OCR file edited for typographical errors before encoding. Date of source: October 1998.
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Collection is open for research.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Brame (Herbert) Papers, Mss60, Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library
- Location of this collection:
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University of the Pacific, Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections, University LibraryStockton, CA 95211, US
- Contact:
- (209) 946-2404