Frontier and pioneer life
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Goldsmith Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: B313
Abstract
The Goldsmith brothers Henry and Abraham, and their wives, sisters Clara and Rosa Straus Goodstein came to Denver, Kansas Territory in 1859. The next year, Clara Goldsmith was the first Jewish girl born in Denver. Her mother Clara Goldsmith died when she was born and her father Henry, uncle Abraham and aunt Rosa moved to Pueblo, Colorado. She was briefly kidnapped by the Ute Indians, but was traded back for a bolt of calico, flour, and pork rinds. Lena, the daughter of Abraham and Rosa...
Dates:
1854-1992
Incidents of Travel and Adventures in the Far West by Carvalho
Collection
Identifier: B388
Abstract
Memoir by Solomon Nunez Carvalho about his five-month journey on an expedition west over the Rocky Mountains with Colonel John C. Fremont.
Dates:
Publication: 1857
Rose Brown Papers
Collection
Identifier: B336
Abstract
Rose Lenore Cohn Brown and her father Mose Cohn write about the Cohn and Ittleson families. Mose Cohn and his family lived in Carbondale, Colorado from 1890 to 1903. The Ittleson family moved from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and arrived in Kansas around 1886. In 1887, Emma Ittleson married Mose Cohn in Kansas and Rose Lenore was born in 1888. The Cohn family (originally Kimchi) emigrated from Lithuania and settled in Ravana, Kansas. Mose Cohn writes about some of his adventures in the western...
Dates:
1971
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
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Rose Brown Papers