Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Digital Collections

- Fiftyniners' directory : Colorado Argonauts of 1858-1859. A directory of their arrivals, removals, deaths, marriages, children, property, mines, ranches; with names of old towns, mining camps, gulches, mountains, rivers, creeks, and other matters.
- A transcription of two volumes originally created by Henrietta Bromwell pertaining to the lives and events surrounding the early settlers of Colorado.
- Pioneers--Colorado.; Colorado--Biography.
- 2004
- Place names of Colorado : a genealogical & historical guide to Colorado sites
- The primary objective of this index is to contain a comprehensive listing of place names or sites in Colorado that would direct the researcher to recent and readily available publications. Included in this publication for each site or place name,...
- Names, Geographical--Colorado.; Colorado--History, Local.
- 1999
- The Cosmopolitan Club of Denver, official records.
- Western History Subject Index
- Alcoholism. Denver
- "Home of Mrs. American Horse" visiting at Mrs. A's home in hostile camp
- View of American Horse's wife with other Native American Sioux (Lakota) women and children sitting around a cooking pot on an iron tripod inside a pole tepee framework with the canvas lowered. Other tepees, cooking pots, wagons, show in the camp.
- American Horse, Dakota Chief, 1840-1908--Family.; Dakota Indians--Women--1890-1900.; Indians of North America--Women--1890-1900.; Teton Indians--Children--1890-1900.; Indian encampments--1890-1900.; Tipis--1890-1900.
- 1891
- Western History Subject Index
- American Indian Tepee Association
- Chief Garfield & family
- Native American (Apache) Chief Garfield and his family (man, woman, and girl) pose near a tepee. He wears beaded moccasins, leggings, a breechcloth, vest with a medal, bead necklace, and a feather war bonnet headdress. His wife and daughter wear...
- Apache Indians--1880-1900.; Indians of North America--1880-1900.; Headdresses--1880-1900.; Families--1880-1900.; Girls--1880-1900.; Tribal chiefs--1880-1900.; Women--1880-1900.; James A. Garfield, Apache Chief.
- [between 1880 and 1900]
- Garfield & family
- Chief Garfield and his family pose near a tepee. He wears beaded moccasins, leggings, a breechcloth, vest with a medal, bead necklace, and a feather war bonnet headdress. His wife and daughter wear dresses and blanket shawls.
- Apache Indians--1880-1900.; Indians of North America--1880-1900.; Headdresses--1880-1900.; Families--1880-1900.; Girls--1880-1900.; Tribal chiefs--1880-1900.; Women--1880-1900.; James A. Garfield, Apache Chief.
- [between 1880 and 1900]
- Man, woman, and two girls standing
- A Native American (possibly Apache) man, woman and two girls pose in front of a tepee frame at a fair in New Mexico. The man wears a feather headdress, a print shirt with an embroidered yoke and cuffs, a George Washington Peace Medal, beaded...
- Apache Indians--New Mexico--1900-1910.; Indians of North America--New Mexico--1900-1910.; Girls--New Mexico--1900-1910.; Tipis--New Mexico--1900-1910.; Women--New Mexico--1900-1910.
- [1900?]
- Native American man
- A Native American (Arapaho) man poses with a wooden staff near a tepee. He wears moccasins, fringed leggings, a quill-work vest, armbands, fur pelts over his braids, and a warbonnet feather headdress.
- Arapaho Indians--1880-1900.; Indians of North America--1880-1900.; Headdresses--1880-1900.; Clothing & dress--1880-1900.
- [between 1880 and 1900?]
- Native American man
- A Native American (Arapaho) man poses with a bow, arrows, and quiver near a tepee. He wears beaded leggings, a breechcloth, quill-work vest, armbands, fur pelts over his braids, and feather headdress. White boys and a girl stand nearby.
- Arapaho Indians--1880-1900.; Indians of North America--1880-1900.; Headdresses--1880-1900.; Quivers--1880-1900.; Children--1880-1900.
- [between 1880 and 1900?]
- Native American man
- A Native American (Arapaho) man poses by a tepee. He holds a bow and arrows and wears moccasins, leggings, a bead bandolier, necklace, and a beaded feather headdress. The tepee is painted with images of birds and horses.
- Arapaho Indians--1880-1900.; Indians of North America--1880-1900.; Headdresses--1880-1900.; Tipis--1880-1900.
- [between 1880 and 1900?]
- Yellow Calf Chief of Arapahoes
- Yellow Calf, a Native American (Arapaho) man poses outdoors near a tepee. He holds a bow and arrows and wears beaded moccasins, leggings, a bandolier, necklace, and feather headdress.
- Arapaho Indians--1880-1900.; Indians of North America--1880-1900.; Headdresses--1880-1900.; Tribal chiefs--1880-1900.; Yellow Calf.
- [between 1880 and 1900?]
- Arapahoe lodge and squaws
- Four Native American (Arapahoe) women sit by a large tepee in Fort Sill, Indian Territory (Oklahoma). They wear dresses with blankets over their shoulders and branches are scattered around their feet. A child stands at the tepee entrance next to a...
- Arapaho Indians--Women--Oklahoma--Fort Sill--1860-1880.; Indians of North America--Oklahoma--Fort Sill--1860-1880.; Fort Sill (Okla.)--1860-1880.; Children--Oklahoma--Fort Sill--1860-1880.; Indian encampments--Oklahoma--Fort Sill--1860-1880.;...
- [between 1869 and 1874]
- Western History Subject Index
- Architecture. Colorado
- Bannock Indians
- A Native American (Bannock) man, women and a baby in a cradle board pose in front of a tepee, probably Wyoming..
- Bannock Indians--Wyoming--1870-1880.; Indians of North America--Wyoming--1870-1880.; Cradleboards--Wyoming--1870-1880.; Indian encampments--Wyoming--1870-1880.; Mothers & children--Wyoming--1870-1880.; Tipis--Wyoming--1870-1880.; Geological and...
- [between 1871 and 1878]
- Boston Ranch, Colo
- Men and boys at the Boston Ranch, Crowley County, Colorado, are identified as (l to r): Kilborn, Ed McGee from Sheridan, Wyoming; "Mexico" from Arizona; Johnny (Blocker) Dodge and Ben McKinney, Buffalo Bill's showman roper and rider, from Sheridan,...
- Boston Ranch (Crowley County, Colo.)--People--1900-1910.; Crowley County (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Boys--Colorado--Crowley County--1900-1910.; Cowboys--Colorado--Crowley County--1900-1910.; Men--Colorado--Crowley County--1900-1910.
- 1902, February
- A Song of the woodland
- A man and a boy sit near a campfire in a heavily wooded area possibly on St. Vrain Mountain in Boulder County, Colorado. A wooden pole suspends a cast iron pot over the fire and a frying pan hangs off to the side. Firelight illuminates a tepee...
- Boulder County (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Camping--Colorado--Boulder County--1920-1930.; Night--Colorado--Boulder County--1920-1930.; Tipis--Colorado--Boulder County--1920-1930.
- [between 1920 and 1930?]
- Pahaska Tepee
- Men and women hike past the Pahaska Tepee, a spruce tree lodge located at Lookout Mountain Park, a Denver Mountain Park located on the top of Lookout Mountain in Jefferson County west of Denver, Colorado. The women wear jodhpurs, boots and sweaters...
- Buffalo Bill Memorial Museum--1920-1930.; Denver Mountain Parks--1920-1930.; Jefferson County (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Lookout Mountain Park (Jefferson County, Colo.)--1920-1930.; Chalets--Colorado--Jefferson County--1920-1930.;...
- [between 1924 and 1930?]
- Pahaska Tepee front view
- A front view of the Pahaska Tepee, a spruce tree lodge located at Lookout Mountain Park, A Denver Mountain Park located 17 miles west of Denver, Colorado. The building was dedicated in May of 1921 and contained the artifacts of Buffalo Bill until...
- Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917--Monuments.; Buffalo Bill Memorial Museum--1930-1950.; Denver Mountain Parks--1930-1950.; Pahaska Tepee (Colo.)--1930-1950.; Denver (Colo.)--1930-1950.; Lookout Mountain Park (Denver, Colo.)--1930-1950.; Galleries &...
- [between 1930 and 1950?]
- Pahaska Tepee side view
- A side view of the Pahaska Tepee at Lookout Mountain Park, a Denver Mountain Park located 17 miles west of Denver, Colorado. The spruce log lodge was built in 1921 and housed the Buffalo Bill museum until 1977. It now serves as a gift shop and...
- Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917--Monuments.; Buffalo Bill Memorial Museum--1930-1950.; Denver Mountain Parks--1930-1950.; Pahaska Tepee (Colo.)--1930-1950.; Denver (Colo.)--1930-1950.; Lookout Mountain Park (Denver, Colo.)--1930-1950.; Galleries &...
- [between 1930 and 1950?]
- Pahaska Tepee
- The original Buffalo Bill's Memorial Museum, Pahaske Tepee, Lookout Mountain, Colorado.
- Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917--Monuments.; Galleries & museums--Colorado--1920-1930.
- [1925]
- Panhaska Tepee
- The original Buffalo Bill's Memorial Museum, Pahaska Tepee, Lookout Mountain, Colorado; Denver Mountain Parks.
- Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917--Monuments.; Galleries & museums--Colorado--1920-1930.
- [1925]
- Buffalo Bill's grave and Pahaska Tepee on Lookout Mountain, Denver Mountain Parks
- View of Buffalo Bill's grave and the Pahaska Tepee, a gift shop and museum, located in Lookout Mountain Park on Lookout Mountain in Jefferson County, Colorado. The tepee is a spruce log and shingled building with two wings, balconies and a pitch...
- Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917--Tomb.; Pahaska Tepee (Colo.)--1920-1940.; Jefferson County (Colo.)--1920-1940.; Lookout Mountain (Jefferson County, Colo.)--1920-1940.; Lookout Mountain Park (Jefferson County, Colo.)--1920-1940.; Galleries &...
- [between 1927 and 1931?]
- Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show
- Sam Lone Bear, Cy Compton, Belnapp, and Hank Goodwin stand near a tepee with other Native American (Sioux) men. The Sioux men wear beaded moccasins, leggings, and blankets. They are members of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
- Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show--1890-1910.; Dakota Indians--1890-1910.; Indians of North America--1890-1910.; Clothing & dress--1890-1910.; Tipis--1890-1910.; Wild west shows--1890-1910.; Belnapp.; Compton, Cy.; Goodwin, Hank.; Lone Bear, Sam.
- [between 1890 and 1907]
- Colonel Wm F. Cody (Buffalo Bill) rehearses Summit Springs Battle
- Native Americans, Carlo Myles, Nobby Clark, and William F. Cody rehearse for a reenactment of the Battle of Summit Springs. A Native American man and woman stand near a partially constructed tepee. The woman wears a dress decorated with elk teeth...
- Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show--1900-1910.; Cheyenne Indians--Performances & portrayals--1900-1910.; Indians of North America--1900-1910.; Summit Springs (Colo.), Battle of, 1869--Commemoration.; Historical reenactments--1900-1910.; Horseback...
- [between 1900 and 1910]
- London tour
- A reenactment with Native American (Sioux)men and women in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, London, England; they pose near a tepee and a painted background, shows a travois hitched to a horse with a girl on it's back. The men wear moccasins,...
- Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show--1900-1910.; Dakota Indians--England--London--1900-1910.; Indians of North America--England--London--1900-1910.; London (England)--19090-1910.; Girls--England--London--1900-1910.; Historical...
- [between 1900 and 1907]
- Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show
- Native American (Sioux) men, participants in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, wash themselves from a metal basin in a tepee camp. A feather headdress is on the ground near a tepee.
- Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show--People--1890-1910.; Dakota Indians--1890-1910.; Indians of North America--1890-1910.; Bathing--1890-1910.; Tipis--1890-1910.
- [between 1920 and 1935]
- Buffalo Bill's Wild West
- A Native American (Sioux) family (a man, woman, and children), members of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, sit near a tepee. A metal pot hangs over a fire.
- Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show--People--1890-1910.; Dakota Indians--1890-1910.; Indians of North America--1890-1910.; Children--1890-1910.; Families--1890-1910.; Tipis--1890-1910.; Women--1890-1910.
- [between 1890 and 1910]
- Indians, Dakota
- Two white women wearing long skirts and necklaces with crosses pose outside a tepee with a Native American Sioux man with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, he wears a hair pipe breastplate, vest with quillwork and leggings.
- Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show--People--1900-1910.; Dakota Indians--1900-1910.; Indians of North America--1900-1910.; Women--1900-1910.
- 1909
- Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show
- A Native American (Sioux) man leans out of a tepee and hands a feather to a boy in Penzance, Cornwall, England. The boy wears beaded moccasins and leggings, and a shirt decorated with elk teeth.
- Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.--People--1900-1910.; Dakota Indians--England--Penzance--1900-1910.; Indians of North America--England--Penzance--1900-1910.; Penzance (England)--1900-1910.; Boys--England--Penzance--1900-1910.;...
- 1904 May 30
- Cheyenne men
- Native American (Cheyenne) men stand, sit, and ride on horseback near a U. S. flag. A tepee, camp, and a wagon are nearby.
- Cheyenne Indians--1880-1900.; Indians of North America--1880-1900.; Headdresses--1880-1900.; Horseback riding--1880-1900.
- [between 1880 and 1900]
- "Cheyenne Lodge" (& surroundings)
- A Native American (Cheyenne) woman sits near a tepee. Near the tepee is a wood cooking tripod and a wood and brush drying rack from which meat and hide hangs. A metal pot is on the ground near the tripod. Other tepees are in the distance.
- Cheyenne Indians--1880-1910.; Indians of North America--1880-1910.; Tipis--1880-1910.; Women--1880-1910.
- [between 1880 and 1910?]
- Chief Two Moons addressing the council
- Native American Cheyenne Chief Two Moons (Ish Hayu Nishus) stands beside seated men next to a large tepee probably in Big Horn County, Montana; the men wear feather headdresses, hide shirts, beads, sashes, hair pipe breastplates, and ermine fringe....
- Cheyenne Indians--1900-1920.; Indians of North America--1900-1920.; Clothing & dress--1900-1920.; Headdresses--1900-1920.; Meetings--Montana--1900-1920.; Tribal chiefs--United States--1900-1920.; Two Moons, Cheyenne chief.; Rodman Wanamaker...
- [between 1908 and 1913]
- Capt Taylor and his noted Indian scouts on drill at Pine Ridge S.D.
- Captain Charles William Taylor poses with Philip Wells and his Native American Oglala Sioux and Cheyenne scouts in formation on the Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota. They wear uniforms with fur hat and hold rifles. A tepee camp shows in...
- Cheyenne Indians--Military service--South Dakota--Pine Ridge--1890-1900.; Dakota Indians--Military service--South Dakota--Pine Ridge--1890-1900.; Indian scouts--South Dakota--Pine Ridge--1890-1900.; Indians of North America--Military service--South...
- [1891]
- Plenty Bird and wife beside their tepee, Cheyenne res
- Plenty Bird, a Native American (Cheyenne) man stands near a tepee on the Cheyenne Indian reservation in Montana. His wife stands under a long pole on which meat hangs; a horse stands nearby. Plenty Bird holds a bow and arrows; he wears leggings, a...
- Cheyenne Indians--Montana--1900-1910.; Indians of North America--Montana--1900-1910.; Clothing & dress--Montana--1900-1910.; Tipis--Montana--1900-1910.; Women--Montana--1900-1910.; Plenty Bird--Family.; Plenty Bird.
- 1905
- Cheyenne 'Plenty Bird' in dance costume
- Cheyenne Indians--Montana--1900-1910.; Indians of North America--Montana--1900-1910.; Costumes--Montana--1900-1910.; Tipis--Montana--1900-1910.; Women--Montana--1900-1910.; Plenty Bird.
- 1901
- Two Moon's [i. e. Moons'] lodge
- Two Moons' wife and children, Native American (Cheyenne) woman and girls, sit near a tepee frame in Lame Deer, Montana. Metal pots and pails are on the ground. A tepee and meat that dries on a rack are nearby.
- Cheyenne Indians--Montana--Lame Deer--1890-1900.; Indians of North America--Montana--Lame Deer--1890-1900.; Lame Deer (Mont.)--1890-1900.; Girls--Montana--Lame Deer--1890-1900.; Tipis--Montana--Lame Deer--1890-1900.; Women--Montana--Lame...
- [1896]
- Drawing of Summit Springs battleground
- A map of the area where the Battle of Summit Springs took place. Included are the placements of Native American (Cheyenne) tepees along the stream, the direction from whence came the attack by soldiers and Pawnee scouts, the location of Tall Bull's...
- Cheyenne Indians--War--1860-1870.; Indians of North America--War--1860-1870.; Summit Springs (Colo.), Battle of, 1869.
- 1929?
- Western History Subject Index
- Cheyenne Indians. Colorado
- Chipeta teepee in eastern Utah
- A woman wearing a hat and dress stands outside of a Native American Ute tepee belonging to Chipeta, somewhere in eastern Utah.
- Chipeta--Homes & haunts--1890-1900.; Indians of North America--Structures--Utah--1890-1900.; Ute Indians--Structures--Utah--1890-1900.; Tipis--Utah--1890-1900.; Women--Utah--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Ouray Spring
- View of Ouray Spring Tepee, Ouray Memorial Park, near Montrose, Montrose County, Colorado, shows markers with "Ouray" and "Spring" and a rock wall around the site.
- Chipeta--Monuments.; Ouray--Monuments.; Ouray (Colo.)--1920-1940.; Indians of North America--Commemoration--Colorado--Montrose--1920-1940.; Springs--Colorado--Montrose--1920-1940.
- [between 1926 and 1935?]
- Apache chief, Fort Apache, Ariz.
- A Native American man, probably Chiricahua Apache, smokes a cigarette in front of a tepee at Fort Apache (Navajo County), Arizona. He wears a red bandanna on his head, cloth shirt and breechcloth, and high-topped buckskin boots.
- Chiricahua Indians--Men--Arizona--Fort Apache--1900-1910.; Indians of North America--Men--Arizona--Fort Apache--1900-1910.; Fort Apache (Ariz.)--1900-1910.; Smoking--Arizona--Fort Apache--1900-1910.; Tipis--Arizona--Fort Apache--1900-1910.; Tribal...
- [between 1900 and 1905?]
- History of Denver
- Gourd Clan camp
- View of the Gourd Clan (some of its members are descendants of the Kiowa Chief Satanta or White Bear Person) camp in Carnegie, Oklahoma. Automobiles and trucks are parked near tents and canopies. A tepee is between two tents. A group of trees is...
- Clans--Oklahoma--Carnegie--1960-1970.; Indians of North America--Oklahoma--Carnegie--1960-1970.; Kiowa Indians--Oklahoma--Carnegie--1960-1970.; Carnegie (Okla.)--1960-1970.; Indian encampments--Oklahoma--Carnegie--1960-1970.;...
- [July, 1969]
- Western History Subject Index
- Cody, William Frederick (Buffalo Bill)
- Western History Subject Index
- Cody. William Frederick (Buffalo Bill)
- Colorado scenery
- View of a tepee, poles, and pine trees somewhere in Colorado.
- Colorado--1930-1970.; Pines--Colorado--1930-1970.; Tipis--Colorado--1930-1970.
- [between 1933 and 1970]
- Col. Mills, and officers of his Battallion, 3rd Cavalry
- Captain Anson Mills poses in front of a trophy tepee from the Slim Buttes battle in the southern Black Hills, Dakota Territory, with Lieutenant Colonel William B. Royall, Captain William H. Andrews, First Lieutenant Joseph Lawson, scout Frank...
- Crook, George, 1829-1890--Journeys--Dakota Territory--1870-1880.; United States. Army. Cavalry, 3rd--1870-1880.; Dakota Indians--War--Dakota Territory--1870-1880.; Indians of North America--War--Dakota Territory--1870-1880.; Slim Buttes (S.D.),...
- 1876
- Buckskin Lodge, Sioux prisoners, Gen. Custer's battle flag, captured at the Battle of Slim Buttes, and the Officers in command of the charge
- View of seven Native American Sioux captured during the Slim Buttes battle in the southern Black Hills, Dakota Territory. General Crook's head scout, Frank Grouard is on their left and Second Lieutenant Frederick Schwatka, Third Cavalry is on the...
- Crook, George, 1829-1890--Journeys--Dakota Territory--1870-1880.; United States. Army. Cavalry, 3rd--1870-1880.; Dakota Indians--War--Dakota Territory--1870-1880.; Indians of North America--War--Dakota Territory--1870-1880.; Slim Buttes (S.D.),...
- 1876 October 24