Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Digital Collections

- Denver Municipal Facts: Volume 2 Number 46, 1910 November 12
- The Good Old Days: Grigsby Family History
- Intensive document covering the Grisby family history starting in the early 1870's in Iowa.
- 2012 June 20
- Index to the Western History Department sheet music collection
- Music--scores.;
- 2013
- 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
- Colorado portrait and biography index : gathered and arranged from histories, magazines, newspaper files, land records, and many other sources, 1931, 1932, 1933, Denver.
- Index originally created by Henrietta Bromwell in 1933 of 31,000 items regarding biographies and portraits of politicians, miners, club women, newspaper editors, artists, businessmen, legislators, early settlers, settlements, mines, geographical...
- Colorado--Biography.
- 1933, 2005
- Western History Subject Index
- Little Big Horn, Battle of the, 1876
- East Denver High School Annual: 1909
- 1909 Yearbook from East Denver High School.
- East High School (Denver, Colo.)--Students--Yearbooks.; Denver Public Schools--Students--Yearbooks.; School yearbooks--Colorado--Denver.
- 1909
- East Denver High School Annual: 1911
- 1911 Yearbook from East Denver High School.
- East High School (Denver, Colo.)--Students--Yearbooks.; Denver Public Schools--Students--Yearbooks.; School yearbooks--Colorado--Denver.
- 1911
- Annual: East Denver High School, 1917
- 1917 Yearbook from East Denver High School.
- East High School (Denver, Colo.)--Students--Yearbooks.; Denver Public Schools--Students--Yearbooks.; School yearbooks--Colorado--Denver.
- 1917
- Headdress
- Native American (Sioux) headdress found at the Custer battlefield at Little Bighorn; made of red wool, buckskin, fur, twill fabric, and feathers.
- Dakota Indians--Clothing & dress--1870-1880.; Indians of North America--Clothing & dress--1870-1880.; Headdress--1870-1880.
- [between 1870 and 1880]
- Death, the victor
- In this painting, death is portrayed as a skeleton in a military uniform on a horse, he holds a bloody sword and rides over the dead soldiers and Native Americans who cover the battlefield.
- Indians, Treatment of--North America--1930-1940.; Death--1930-1940.; Skeletons--1930-1940.
- 1930
- The Monument, Custer Battlefield, Mont.
- View of gravestones at Little Bighorn Battlefield in Montana. Gravestones are on Last Stand Hill beside a stone marker for a mass grave. A wrought iron fence surrounds the marker. Buildings are in the distance.
- Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876--Monuments.; Little Bighorn Battlefield (Mont.)--1880-1900.; Battlefields--Montana--1880-1900.; Cemeteries--Montana--1880-1900.; Monuments & memorials--Montana--1880-1900.; Tombs & sepulchral...
- [between 1881 and 1900?]
- Custer Battlefield
- View of gravestones at Little Bighorn Battlefield in Montana. Trees are in the distance near the Little Bighorn River and buildings. Gravestones are on Last Stand Hill and on a distant hill at National Cemetery Military Reservation. Buildings are...
- Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876--Cemeteries.; Little Bighorn Battlefield (Mont.)--1880-1900.; Battlefields--Montana--1880-1900.; Cemeteries--Montana--1880-1900.
- [between 1881 and 1900?]
- Custer battlefield, Crow Agency, Mont.
- Panoramic view of prairie and hills at Little Bighorn Battlefield near Crow Agency Montana. Trees are in the distance near the Little Bighorn River and buildings.
- Little Bighorn Battlefield (Mont.)--1880-1900.; Battlefields--Montana--1880-1900.; Prairies--Montana--1880-1900.
- [between 1880 and 1900?]
- Western History Subject Index
- Beecher Island, Battle of
- Western History Subject Index
- Big Hole Battlefield (Montana)
- The Kidder Massacre
- General George A. Custer finds the bodies of Lieutenant Kidder and other members of the Seventh Cavalry on a battlefield in Kansas.
- Dakota Indians--War--1860-1870.; Indians of North America--War--1860-1870.; Massacres--1860-1870.; Custer, George Armstrong, 1839-1876.
- [1876]
- Western History Subject Index
- Brazito Battlefield, New Mexico
- Western History Subject Index
- Little Big Horn, Battle of the, 1876
- Western History Subject Index
- Little Big Horn, Battle of the, 1876
- Western History Subject Index
- Picture writing, Indian
- Western History Subject Index
- Little Big Horn, Battle of the, 1876
- Western History Subject Index
- Little Big Horn, Battle of the, 1876
- Indian battlefield from Federal Blvd.
- A group of women stand on a knoll and look over a low flat plain identified as a Native American battlefield in Denver, Colorado. A woman who wears a white sweater and jodphur points. The other women wear jodphur, boots, and hats. Smoke rises from...
- Denver (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Battlefields--Colorado--Denver--1920-1930.; Meadows--Colorado--Denver--1920-1930.; Sheds--Colorado--Denver--1920-1930.; Women--Colorado--Denver--1920-1930.
- [between 1920 and 1930?]
- Birds eye view of Battle Field at Wounded Knee S.D., S.E. view
- View to the southeast from hill where Native American Lakota Sioux were buried after the Wounded Knee battle on December 29, South Dakota. Includes tepee poles marking location of Sioux camp, men loading frozen bodies into wagons, center, where the...
- Dakota Indians--South Dakota--1890-1900.; Indians of North America--South Dakota--1890-1900.; Teton Indians--South Dakota--1890-1900.; Wounded Knee Massacre, S.D., 1890.; Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (S.D.)--1890-1900.; Battlefields--South...
- [1891? January 3]
- The Medacine [i.e. Medicine] Man taken at the battle of Wound Knee S.D.
- View of the slain frozen body of a Native American Lakota Sioux medicine man on the battlefield at the site of the Wounded Knee Massacre, Wounded Knee Creek, Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota. The body has clenched arms and is posed with a rifle.
- Dakota Indians--South Dakota--Wounded Knee--1890-1900.; Indians of North America--South Dakota--Wounded Knee--1890-1900.; Teton Indians--War--South Dakota--Wounded Knee--1890-1900.; Wounded Knee Massacre, S.D., 1890.; Wounded Knee...
- [1891? January 3]
- The battle of Custer's last charge, 2 miles from Crow Agency, Montana
- View of the grave stones and the enclosed monument at the Little Big Horn Battlefield in Montana. Script on front of mat board reads: "The battle was fought June 25th, 1876. The cross marks the place General Custer fell. This battle was fought on...
- Dakota Indians--Commemoration--Montana--1880-1910.; Indians of North America--Commemoration--Montana--1880-1910.; Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876--Monuments.; Little Bighorn Battlefield (Mont.)--1880-1910.;...
- [between 1880 and 1910?]
- Thornburgs [sic] monument and battlefield
- View of the sandstone monument commemorating the battle between Major Thomas T. Thornburgh's troops and Native American Utes at Milk Creek, Rio Blanco County, Colorado.
- Thornburgh, Thomas Tipton, 1843-1879--Monuments.; Indians of North America--Colorado--1880-1920.; Milk Creek (Rio Blanco County and Moffat County, Colo.), Battle of, 1879--Monuments.; Ute Indians--War--Colorado--1880-1920.;...
- [between 1880 and 1920?]
- Custer's last battle, "boots and saddles"
- General Custer's Seventh Cavalrymen in uniforms in tall boots, rifles, and securing saddles for the battle with Native American Lakota Sioux, Crow, Northern, and Cheyenne, Little Bighorn Battlefield, June 26, 1876, Little Bighorn River, Montana.
- Cheyenne Indians--War--Montana--1870-1880.; Crow Indians--War--Montana--1870-1880.; Dakota Indians--War--Montana--1870-1880.; Indians of North America--War--Montana--1870-1880.; Teton Indians--War--Montana--1870-1880.;...
- January 1892
- Sunrise on Custer Battle field, the Custer scouts are Indians who were with Custer the morning of the fight
- View at sunrise of tombstones and three mounted Native American Arapaho or Arikara scouts with rifles at the Little Bighorn Battlefield, Little Bighorn River, Montana, site of the Battle of the Little Bighorn between United States soldiers and...
- Arapaho Indians--Montana--1900-1910.; Arikara Indians--Montana--1900-1910.; Dakota Indians--War--Montana--1900-1910.; Indians of North America--Montana--1900-1910.; Little Bighorn Battlefield (Mont.)--1900-1910.; Military scouts--Montana--1900-1910.
- 1908
- Custer's last stand
- General Custer, and a few armed soldiers of the Seventh Cavalry, are surrounded by Native American Lakota Sioux, Crow, Northern, and Cheyenne, Little Bighorn Battlefield, June 26, 1876 Little Bighorn River, Montana.
- Cheyenne Indians--Montana--1870-1880.; Crow Indians--Montana--1870-1880.; Dakota Indians--Montana--1870-1880.; Indians of North America--Montana--1870-1880.; Teton Indians--Montana--1870-1880.; Campaigns & battles--Montana--1870-1880.; Custer,...
- July 1926
- Birds eeye [i.e. eye] view of battlefield at Wounded Knee S. D. looking north
- Bird's eye view from center of Native American Lakota Sioux camp to the northeast, across the council circle, after the fight at Wound Knee creek, Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota; shows scattered frozen bodies in the snow, tepee poles; one...
- United States. Army.--People--1890-1900.; Dakota Indians--War--South Dakota--Wounded Knee--1890-1900.; Indians of North America--War--South Dakota--Wounded Knee--1890-1900.; Teton Indians--War--South Dakota--Wounded Knee--1890-1900.; Wounded Knee...
- [1891]
- Bureal [i.e. Burial] of the dead at the battlefield of Wounded Knee S.D.
- A civilian burial party and U.S. Army officers pose over a mass grave trench with bodies of Native American Lakota Sioux killed at Wounded Knee, Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota.
- Dakota Indians--War--South Dakota--Wounded Knee--1890-1900.; Indians of North America--War--South Dakota--Wounded Knee--189-1900.; Teton Indians--War--South Dakota--Wounded Knee--1890-1900.; Wounded Knee Massacre, S.D., 1890.; Pine Ridge Indian...
- [1891 January 3?]
- Gathering up the dead of the battlefield of Wounded Knee S.D.
- A civilian burial party stands by their wagon filled with the frozen bodies of Native American Lakota Sioux, in a ravine south of the camp at Wounded Knee Creek, Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota. Mounted U.S. Army officers look on from hill...
- Dakota Indians--War--South Dakota--Wounded Knee--1890-1900.; Indians of North America--War--South Dakota--Wounded Knee--1890-1900.; Teton Indians--War--South Dakota--Wounded Knee--1890-1900.; Wounded Knee Massacre, S.D., 1890.; Wounded Knee...
- [1891? January 3]
- Custer's last charge
- Shows General Custer on horseback with his U. S. Army troops in battle with Native American Lakota Sioux, Crow, Northern, and Cheyenne, Little Bighorn Battlefield, June 26, 1875, Little Bighorn River, Montana.
- Dakota Indians--Montana--1870-1880.; Indians of North America--Montana--1870-1880.; Teton Indians--Montana--1870-1880.; Campaigns & battles--Montana--1870-1880.; Horseback riding--Montana--1870-1880.; Custer, George Armstrong, 1839-1876.; Little...
- [between 1940 and 1960?]
- Birds eys [i.e. eye] view of battlefield at Wounded Knee S.D. looking S.W.
- View northwest over the battle field at Wounded Knee Creek, Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota, shows the burial party, including a Native American Sioux woman, at the west end of the snow covered camp with frozen bodies and tepee pole...
- Dakota Indians--Women--South Dakota--Wounded Knee--1890-1900.; Indians of North America--War--South Dakota--Wounded Knee--1890-1900.; Wounded Knee Massacre, S.D., 1890.; Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (S.D.)--1890-1900.; Wounded Knee...
- [1891? January 3]
- Birds eeye [i.e. eye] view of the battle field at Wounded Knee S.D., Dec. 1890
- View over the battlefield at Wounded Knee Creek, Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota, shows frozen bodies of Native American Lakota Sioux on the snow covered ground with the civilian burial party with horses and a wagon in the distance.
- Dakota Indians--War--South Dakota--Wounded Knee--1890-1900.; Indians of North America--War--South Dakota--Wounded Knee--1890-1900.; Teton Indians--War--South Dakota--Wounded Knee--1890-1900.; Wounded Knee Massacre, S.D., 1890.; Wounded Knee...
- [January 1891]
- Custer Battlefield from Custer's position
- View from Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer's memorial at the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, Montana; shows gravestones of 7th Cavalry troopers who died in the fight against Native American Sioux and Northern Cheyenne.
- Cheyenne Indians--History--Montana--1930-1940.; Dakota Indians--History--Montana--1930-1940.; Indians of North America--History--Montana--1930-1940.; Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument (Mont.)--1930-1940.; Cemeteries--Montana--1930-1940.;...
- [1936]
- Custer Battlefield from Custer's position
- View from Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer's memorial at the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, Montana; site of the fight against Native American Sioux and Northern Cheyenne.
- Cheyenne Indians--History--Montana--1930-1940.; Dakota Indians--History--Montana--1930-1940.; Indians of North America--History--Montana--1930-1940.; Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument (Mont.)--1930-1940.;...
- [1936]
- Grave on Custer Battlefield showing human bones
- View of human bones in an area with disturbed soil and brush, Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, Montana, site of the fight against Native American Sioux and Northern Cheyenne.
- Cheyenne Indians--History--Montana--1930-1940.; Dakota Indians--History--Montana--1930-1940.; Indians of North America--History--Montana--1930-1940.; Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument (Mont.)--1930-1940.;...
- August 1936
- Custer Battlefield looking across Little Bighorn River to ridges on East side
- View across the Little Bighorn River to ridges on the east side, Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, Montana, site of the fight against Native American Sioux and Northern Cheyenne.
- Cheyenne Indians--History--Montana--1930-1940.; Dakota Indians--History--Montana--1930-1940.; Indians of North America--History--Montana--1930-1940.; Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument (Mont.)--1930-1940.; Little Bighorn River (Wyo. and...
- 1936
- Custer Battle, Little Big Horn at mouth of Big Horn, Medicine Tail Creek (look northeast to Custer's position) where Indians crossed the river to attack Custer, Crow scouts had come down to this point to inspect Indian camp, one of hills where...
- View of Medicine Tail Creek and the Little Bighorn River at the Little Bighorn Battlefield Monument, Montana, shows cattle and horses grazing and, in the distance, the hill where Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer's fought against Native American...
- Cheyenne Indians--History--Montana--1930-1940.; Dakota Indians--History--Montana--1930-1940.; Indians of North America--History--Montana--1930-1940.; Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument (Mont.)--1930-1940.; Little Bighorn River (Wyo. and...
- August 1936
- Custer Battle Field Reno's position
- View of Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, Montana, shows the bluffs of Major Marcus A. Reno's position with the right wing of the 7th Cavalry; site of the fight against Native American Sioux and Northern Cheyenne.
- Cheyenne Indians--History--Montana--1930-1940.; Dakota Indians--History--Montana--1930-1940.; Indians of North America--History--Montana--1930-1940.; Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument (Mont.)--1930-1940.;...
- 1936
- Looking east across Little Big Horn - steep hill climbed by Reno's men
- View across Little Bighorn River to the hill climbed by Major Marcus A. Reno's right wing of the 7th Cavalry, site of the fight against Native American Sioux and Northern Cheyenne, Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, Montana.
- Cheyenne Indians--History--Montana--1930-1940.; Dakota Indians--History--Montana--1930-1940.; Indians of North America--History--Montana--1930-1940.; Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument (Mont.)--1930-1940.;...
- 1936
- Custer Battle looking west into Little Big Horn from High Ridge near Reno Hill
- View west over Little Bighorn River from bluffs near Major Marcus A. Reno's hill position, site of the fight against Native American Sioux and Northern Cheyenne, Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, Montana.
- Cheyenne Indians--History--Montana--1930-1940.; Dakota Indians--History--Montana--1930-1940.; Indians of North America--History--Montana--1930-1940.; Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument (Mont.)--1930-1940.; Little Bighorn River (Wyo. and...
- August 1936
- Custer Battle looking west into Little Big Horn and Reno's position in the Battle
- View over the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, Montana, shows the bluffs of Major Marcus A. Reno's position with the right wing of the 7th Cavalry, site of the fight against Native American Sioux and Northern Cheyenne, and a gravestone...
- Cheyenne Indians--History--Montana--1930-1940.; Dakota Indians--History--Montana--1930-1940.; Indians of North America--History--Montana--1930-1940.; Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument (Mont.)--1930-1940.;...
- 1936
- Grave of doctor who fell with Reno down hill from Reno Hill
- View of a weathered wooden grave marker of a doctor who was killed below Major Marcus A. Reno's position, site of the fight against Native American Sioux and Northern Cheyenne; marker reads: "Trooper 7 U. S. Cav. Fell Here June 25, 1876," Little...
- Cheyenne Indians--History--Montana--1930-1940.; Dakota Indians--History--Montana--1930-1940.; Indians of North America--History--Montana--1930-1940.; Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument (Mont.)--1930-1940.;...
- 1936
- The capture and killing of Sitting Bull
- Shows the arrest attempt of Sitting Bull on December 15, 1890 and the fight that broke out between Native American Sioux and U.S. Army soldiers wearing uniforms. Sitting Bull, the Hunkpapa Lakota leader was killed by Agency police.
- Dakota Indians--1890-1900.; Indians of North America--1890-1900.; Fighting--1890-1900.; Soldiers--1890-1900.; Sitting Bull, 1834?-1890--Death & burial.
- 1890
- Decorating the graves on the Custer Battlefield, Little Big Horn
- Men in cavalry uniforms place flowers on a grave at the Little Bighorn Battlefield (Big Horn County), Montana. Wooden grave marker reads: "Col. Keogh and 38 Soldiers of Co. 17 Cav. Killed Here June 25, 1876." Horse bones are to the side.
- Keogh, Myles Walter, 1840-1876--Tomb.; Little Bighorn Battlefield (Mont.)--1910-1920.; Cavalry--Montana--1910-1920.; Cemeteries--Montana--1910-1920.; Tombs & sepulchral monuments--Montana--1910-1920.
- [between 1910 and 1920?]