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UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections 

Manuscripts Division 

Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library 

Box 951575 

Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575 

Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu 

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Finding Aid for the Lorraine Miller Sherer Papers, ca. 1860-1980 

Collection number: 1225 



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Descriptive Summary 

Title: Lorraine Miller Sherer Papers, 

Date (inclusive): ca. 1860-1980 

Collection number: 1225 

Creator: Sherer, Lorraine M. (Lorraine Miller), b. 1898 

Extent: 111 boxes (55.5 linear ft.)11 cartons (11 linear ft.) 5 oversize boxes 

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections. 

Los Angeles, California 90095-1575 

Abstract: Lorraine Miller Sherer (1898-1985) was the superintendent of elementary education for Los Angeles County and 

a specialist in early childhood development at the UCLA School of Education. After her retirement, Sherer began compiling 

the first history of the Mohave people of California and Arizona. The collection consists of research materials on Mohave 

Indian culture and history from the early Spanish period to 1976. Included is a large collection of books and articles, 

manuscripts, maps, tape recordings and notes. 

Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA 

Library, Department of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information. 

Language: English. 

Restrictions on Use and Reproduction 

Copyright to portions of this collection has been assigned to the UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections. The 

library can grant permission to publish for materials to which it holds the copyright. All requests for permission to publish or 

quote must be submitted in writing to the Manuscripts Librarian, Department of Special Collections.] Credit shall be given 

as follows: [c in circle] The Regents of the University of California on behalf of the UCLA Library, Department of Special 

Collections. 

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COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Advance notice required for access. 

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Provenance/Source of Acquisition 

Gift of Lorraine Miller Sherer, 1976-83. 

Preferred Citation 

[Identification of item], Lorraine Miller Sherer Papers (Collection 1225). Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young 

Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles. 

Biography 

Born June 25, 1898 in Missouri; graduated in 1918 from Los Angeles Normal School with diploma in education; became 

superintendant of elementary education for Los Angeles County after teaching in Long Beach and serving as principal in 

South Santa Anita school; specialist in early childhood development at UCLA School of Education; longtime friend of Mohave 

nation, Sherer dedicated her retirement to compiling the first history of the Mohave people of California and Arizona; died 

March 16, 1985. 

Scope and Content 

Collection consists of research materials on Mohave Indian culture and history from the early Spanish period to 1976, which 

relates to Sherer's work on Mohave ethno-history and language. Includes large collection of books and articles as well as 

manuscripts, maps, tape recordings and notes. 

Organization and Arrangement 

Arranged in the following series: 

1. Clippings and periodicals (Boxes 1-10). 

2. Books (Boxes 11-16, 30-35, 37-39). 

3. Research files (Boxes 17-21, 36, 60-119). 

4. Documents and correspondence (Boxes 22-29). 

Indexing Terms 

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog. 

Sherer, Lorraine M. (Lorraine Miller), b. 1898--Archives. 

Women historians--California, Southern--Archival resources. 

Mohave Indians--Research. 

Mohave language--Research. 

Audiotapes. 



Books, as Follows: 

Box 11 Land in California. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1948. 

Creator/Collector: W.W. Robinson 

Box 11 Scrapbook of a Western Pioneer. Los Angeles: Times-Mirror Press, 1934. 

Creator/Collector: Herman W. Frank 

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Box 11 Edward Fitzgerald Beale, a Pioneer in the Path of Empire, 1822-1903. New York: the 



Knickerbocker Press, 1912. 

Creator/Collector: Stephen Bonsal 

Box 11 Kit Carson Days, 1809-1868. New York: the Press of the Pioneers Incorporated, 1935. 

Creator/Collector: Edwin L. Sabin 

Box 11 Report Upon the Colorado River of the West, Explored in 1857 & 1858 by Lt. Joseph 

C. Ives. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1861. 

Creator/Collector: U.S. Army Corps of Topographical Engineers 

Box 12 Spanish and Indian Place Names of California, Their Meaning and Their Romance. San 

Francisco: A.M. Robertson, 1930. 

Creator/Collector: Nellie Van De Grift Sanchez 

Box 12 A Century of Dishonor, a Sketch of the United States Government's Dealings With 

Some of the Indian Tribes. New York: Harper and Brothers, Franklin Square, 1881. 

Creator/Collector: H.H. 

Box 12 The Amerindians from Acuera to Sitting Bull, from Donnacona to Big Bear. New York: 

Frederick A. Skokes Company, 1937. 

Creator/Collector: Donald M. McNicol 

Box 13 The Six Turnings, Major Changes in the American West, 1806-1834. Glendale: 

California: the Arthur H. Clark Company, 1968. 

Creator/Collector: John Upton Terrell 

Box 12 Man's Rise to Civilisation, as Shown by the Indians of North America from Primeval 

Times to the Coming of the Industrial State. New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 

Incorporated, 1968. 

Creator/Collector: Peter Farb 

Box 12 The Savages of America, a Study of the Indian and the Idea of Civilisation. Baltimore: 

Johns Hopkins Press, 1965. 

Creator/Collector: Roy Harvey Pearce 

Box 12 On the Trail to Santa Fe. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin Company. 

Creator/Collector: H.H. Violette & Ada Claire Darby 

Box 13 Bent's Stockade Hidden in the Hills. [Las Animas? Colorado, 1960]. 

Creator/Collector: C.W. Hurd 

Box 13 The Old San Gabriel Mission. Historical Notes ... San Gabriel, 1909. 

Creator/Collector: Eugene Sugranes 

Box 13 Building a State in Apache Land. the Story of Arizona's Founding Told by Arizona's 

Founder. Tempe, Arizona: Aztec Press, 1963. 

Creator/Collector: Charles D. Poston 

Box 13 Man of the West; Reminiscences of George Washington Oaks, 1840-1917. Recorded 

by Ben Jaastad; Edited & Annotated by Arthur Woodward. [Tucson, Arizona: Pioneer 

Historical Society, 1956]. 

Creator/Collector: George Washington Oaks 

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Box 13 Be it Enacted: the Creation of the Territory of Arizona. Phoenix, Arizona: Historical 



Foundation, 1964. 

Creator/Collector: B. Sacks 

Box 13 With General Crook in the Indian Wars. Palo Alto: Lewis Osborne, 1968. 

Creator/Collector: John G. Bourke 

Box 13 Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Mayor C. Bolin, Alias David Butler, as Related 

by Himself to A.A. Sargent. Palo Alto: Lewis Osborne, 1966. 

Creator/Collector: C. Bolin 

Box 13 Languages, Territories and Names of California Indian Tribes. Berkeley: University of 

California Press, 1966. 

Creator/Collector: Robert F. Heizer 

Box 13 The Hudson's Bay Company's First Fur Brigade to the Sacramento Valley: Alexander 

McLeod's 1829 Hunt. Introduced and edited by Doyce B. Nunes, Jr. [Fair Oaks,] 

California: Sacramento Book Collectors Club, 1968. 

Creator/Collector: Alexander Roderick McLeod 

Box 13 The Call to California. the Epic Journey of the Portola-Sierra Expedition in 1769. San 

Diego: Union-Tribune Publishing Company, 1968. 

Creator/Collector: Richard F. Pourade 

Box 14 Charles D. Poston, Sunland Seer. Globe, Arizona: Dale Stuart King, 1961. 

Creator/Collector: A.W. Gressinger 

Box 14 Founding a Wilderness Capital: Prescott, A.T. 1864. Flagstaff: Northland Press, 1965. 

Creator/Collector: Pauline Henson 

Box 14 Kit Carson Days 1809-1868. Adventures in the Path of Empire. New York: Press of the 

Pioneers, Incorporated, 1935. vol.2. 

Creator/Collector: Edwin L. Sabin 

Box 14 Dear Old Kit. the Historical Kit Carson. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1968. 

Creator/Collector: Harvey Lewis Carter 

Box 14 A History of California: the Spanish Period. New York: Macmillan, 1926. 

Creator/Collector: Charles E. Chapman 

Box 14 Indians of the United States. Four Centuries of Their History and Culture. Garden 

City: Doubleday, Doran and Company Incorporated, 1944. 

Creator/Collector: Clark Wissler 

Box 14 Camels to California. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1950. 

Creator/Collector: Harlan D. Fowler 

Box 15 Reports of Explorations and Surveys, to Ascertain the Most Practicable and 

Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean ... 

1853-54 . Washington: A.O.P. Nicholson, Printer, 1856. vol.3. 

Creator/Collector: U.S. War Department 

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Box 15 Report Upon United States Geographical Surveys West of the One-Hundredth 



Meridian, in Charge of First Lieut. George M. Wheeler .. . Washington: U.S. 

Government Printing Office, 1879. vol.3 - Archaeology. 

Creator/Collector: U.S. Army. Engineer Department 

Box 16 Contributions to North American Ethnology. U.S. Geographical and Geological Survey 

of the Rocky Mountain Region. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1877. 

vol.3. 

Creator/Collector: U.S. Department of the Interior 

Oversize Box 29 Frèmont's Fourth Expedition. A Documentary Account of the Disaster of 1848-1849 

With Diaries, Letters, and Reports by Participants in the Tragedy... Edited by Leroy 

R. Hafen and Ann W. Hafen. Glendale: the Arthur H. Clark Company, 1960. 

Creator/Collector: Leroy R. Hafen, Ed. 

Oversize Box 29 On the Border With Crook. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1892. 


Oversize Box 29 The Clan System of the Fort Mojave Indians. Los Angeles: the Historical Society of 

Southern California, 1965. 

Creator/Collector: Lorraine M. Sherer 

Oversize Box 29 On the Bloody Trail of Geronimo. Los Angeles: Western Lore Press, 1958. 

Creator/Collector: John Bigelow, Jr. 

Oversize Box 29 The Adventures of Captain Bonneville. U.S.A. in the Rocky Mountains and the Far 

West ... New York: G.P. Putman's Sons, 1868. 

Creator/Collector: Washington Irving 

Oversize Box 30 A Handbook for Californians. A Key to Meaning and Pronunciation of Spanish and 

Indian Place Names. San Francisco: Harr Wagner Publishing Company, 1926. 

Creator/Collector: Gertrude Mott 

Oversize Box 30 Girl from Williamsburg. Richmond: the Dietz Press Incorporated, 1951. 

Creator/Collector: Minnie B. Jenkins 

Oversize Box 30 The North American Indians. New York: the Series Publishers Incorporated, 1949. 

Creator/Collector: Rose A. Palmer 

Oversize Box 30 Autobiography. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1960. 

Creator/Collector: George Crook 

Oversize Box 30 The Smithsonian Institution. New York: the Series Publishers Incorporated, 1949. 

Creator/Collector: Webster P. True 

Oversize Box 30 Report of An Expedition Down the Zuni and Colorado Rivers in 1851. Chicago: the Rio 

Grande Press, Incorporated, 1962. 

Creator/Collector: Lorenzo Sitgreaves 

Oversize Box 30 The Truth About Geronimo. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1929. 

Creator/Collector: Britton Davis 

Oversize Box 30 The Coming of Justice to California. Three Documents Translated from the Spanish by 

Adelaide Smithers. San Francisco: John Howell Books, 1963. 

Creator/Collector: John Galvin, Ed. 

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Oversize Box 30 Report On the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey, Made Under the 



Direction of the Secretary of the Interior. Washington: A.O.P. Nicholson, Printer, 

1857. vol.1. 

Creator/Collector: William H. Emory 

Oversize Box 30 The West of William H. Ashley. the International Struggle for the Fur Trade of the 

Missouri, the Rocky Mountains, and the Columbia, With Explorations Beyond the 

Continental Divide Recorded in the Diaries and Letters of William H. Ashley and His 

Contemporaries, 1822-1838. Denver: the Old West Publishing Company, 1964. 

Creator/Collector: Dale L. Morgan 

Oversize Box 31 George C. Yount and His Chronicles of the West ... Denver: Old West Publishing 

Company, 1966. 

Creator/Collector: Charles L. Camp 

Oversize Box 31 The Life of Kit Carson. New York: A.L. Burt Company, 1902. 

Creator/Collector: Charles Burdett 

Oversize Box 31 Christopher Carson, Familiarly Known as Kit Carson. New York: Dodd, Mead & 


Creator/Collector: John S.C. Abbott 

Oversize Box 31 Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico. New York: Pageant Books 


Creator/Collector: Frederick W. Hodge 

Oversize Box 31 Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, to the Secretary of 

the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-95. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 

1897. 

Creator/Collector: J.W. Powell 

Oversize Box 31 Personal Narrative of Explorations and Incidents in Texas, New Mexico, California, 

Sonora and Chihuahua ... New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1854. 

Creator/Collector: John R.Bartlett 

Oversize Box 31 The Memoirs of Francesco Crispi, translated by Mary Prichard-Agnetti from the 

documents collected and edited by Thomas Palamenghi-Crispi. New York: Hodder 

and Stoughton, 1912. 

Creator/Collector: Francesco Crispi 

Oversize Box 32 The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains from Facts 

Narrated by Himself. New York: W.R.C. Clark & Company, 1859. 

Creator/Collector: Dewitt C. Peters 

Oversize Box 32 The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and 

Confederate Armies. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1900. vol.1,3 & 5. 

Creator/Collector: Fred C. Ainsworth & Joseph W. Kirkley 

Oversize Box 32 Personal Memoirs. New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1888. 

Creator/Collector: P.H. Sheridan 

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Oversize Box 32 Down the Colorado. Diary of the First Trip Through the Grand Canyon, 1869. 



Photographs and Epilogue [By] Eliot Porter. New York: F.P. Dutton & Company 


Creator/Collector: John Wesley Porter 

Oversize Box 34 This Reckless Breed of Men. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1952. 

Creator/Collector: Robert G. Cleland 

Oversize Box 34 The Sage of the Desert & Other Cacti. Boston: the Stratford Company, 1930. 

Creator/Collector: Frances Bonker and John J. Thornber 

Oversize Box 34 Joseph Reddeford Walker and the Arizona Adventure. Norman: University of 

Oklahoma Press, 1956. 

Creator/Collector: Daniel E. Conner 

Oversize Box 34 An Apache Campaign in the Sierra Madre. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1958. 


Oversize Box 34 Life Among the Apaches. Tucson: Arizona Silhouettes, 1954. 

Creator/Collector: John C. Cremony 

Oversize Box 34 Santa Fe; the Railroad That Built An Empire. New York: Random House, 1945. 

Creator/Collector: James Marshall 

Oversize Box 34 New Tracks in North America. A Journal of Travel and Adventure Whilst Engaged in 

the Survey for a Southern Railroad to the Pacific Ocean During 1867-88. 

Albuquerque: Horn & Wallace, 1965. 

Creator/Collector: William A. Bell 

Oversize Box 34 Albert Sidney Johnston, Soldier of Three Republics. Austin: University of Texas Press, 

1964. 

Creator/Collector: Charles P. Roland 

Oversize Box 34 Memoir of the Life and Public Services of John Charles Frémont. New York: Derby and 

Jackson, 1856. 

Creator/Collector: John Bigelow 

Oversize Box 34 The Personal Narrative of James O. Pattie of Kentucky ... Cleveland: the Arthur H. 

Clark Company, 1905. 

Creator/Collector: Reuben G. Thwaites 

Oversize Box 34 The Ashley-Smith Explorations and the Discovery of a Central Route to the Pacific, 

1822-1829. Glendale: the Arthur H. Clark Company, 1941. 

Creator/Collector: Harrison C. Dale 

Oversize Box 34 Railways Today. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1938. 

Creator/Collector: J.W. Williamson 

Oversize Box 34 Kit Carson's Life and Adventures from Facts Narrated by Himself ... Hartford: Dustin 

Gilman & Company, 1874. 

Creator/Collector: Dewitt C. Peters 

Oversize Box 34 Newspapers and Periodicals of Arizona, 1859-1911. Tucson: University of Arizona, 

1950. 

Creator/Collector: Estelle Lutrell 

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Oversize Box 34 Carleton's Pah-Ute Campaign. Norco, California: Dennis G. Casebier, 1972. 



Creator/Collector: Dennis G. Casebier 

Oversize Box 34 Anza's California Expeditions. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1930. vol.1, 

3-4. 

Creator/Collector: Herbert G. Bolton 

Oversize Box 34 The Cattle of a Thousand Hills. Southern California, 1850-1880. San Marino: the 

Huntington Library, 1951. 

Creator/Collector: Robert G. Cleland 

Oversize Box 34 Kit Carson's Own Story of His Life as Dictated to Col. and Mrs. D.C. Peters About 

1856-57, and Never Before Published. Taos: [Kit Carson Memorial Foundation 

Incorporated], 1955. 

Creator/Collector: Blanche C. Grant, Ed. 

Oversize Box 34 Frontier Military Posts of Arizona. Globe: Dale Stuart King, 1960. 

Creator/Collector: Ray Brandes 

Oversize Box 35 Arizona in the '50s. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1954. 

Creator/Collector: James H. Tevis 

Oversize Box 35 Power of the Colorado. Princeton University Press, 1951. 

Creator/Collector: William C. Darrah 

Oversize Box 35 Adventures in the Apache Country: a Tour Through Arizona and Sonora, With Notes 

On the Silver Regions of Nevada. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1869. 

Creator/Collector: J. Ross Browne 

Oversize Box 35 Commerce of the Pirates by Josiah Gregg. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 

1954. 

Creator/Collector: Max L. Moorhead, Ed. 

Oversize Box 35 Hunting for Gold. Palo Alto: American West Publishing Company, 1971. 

Creator/Collector: William Downie 

Oversize Box 35 Memoirs of General William T. Sherman by Himself. Bloomington: Indiana University 

Press, 1957. 

Creator/Collector: William T. Sherman 

Oversize Box 35 The Saga of the Comstock Lode: Boom Days in Virginia City. New York: Charles 

Scribner's Sons, 1934. 

Creator/Collector: George D. Lyman 

Oversize Box 35 Heritage of the Valley. San Bernardino's First Century. Oakland: Biobooks, 1951. 

Creator/Collector: George W. Beattie & Helen P. Beattie 

Oversize Box 35 Turmoil in New Mexico, 1846-1868. Santa Fe: the Rydal Press, 1952. 

Creator/Collector: William A. Keleher 

Oversize Box 35 Will C. Barnes' Arizona Place Names, Revised and Enlarged by Byrd H. Granger. 

Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1960. 

Creator/Collector: Barnes, Will C. 

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Oversize Box 35 Robert Brewer Stanton: Down the Colorado. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 



1965. 

Creator/Collector: Dwight L. Smith 

Oversize Box 35 Anza's California Expeditions. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1930. vol.5. 

Creator/Collector: Herbert E. Bolton 

Oversize Box 35 Wild Life in the Far West; Personal Adventures of a Border Mountain Man ... 

Hartford: Wiley, Waterman and Eaton, 1875. 

Creator/Collector: James Hobbs 

Oversize Box 35 Massacres of the Mountains. A History of the Indian Wars of the Far West, 

1815-1875. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1965. 

Creator/Collector: J.P. Dunn 

Oversize Box 35 The Arizona Story Compiled and Edited from Original Newspaper Sources. New York: 

Hastings House, 1952. 

Creator/Collector: Joseph Miller 

Box 37 Journey of James H. Bull, Baja Baja California, October 1843 to January 1844. Los 

Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1965. 

Creator/Collector: Doyce B. Nunis, Jr. 

Box 37 The Great Reconnaissance, Soldiers, Artists and Scientists On the Frontier 

1848-1861. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1955. 

Creator/Collector: Edward S. Wallace 

Box 37 Arizona and the West, a Quarterly Journal of History. Tucson, Arizona: the University 

of Arizona Press, 1979. 

Creator/Collector: Harwood P. Hinton 

Box 37 Edward Kern and American Expansion. New Haven and London: Yale University 

Press, 1962. 

Creator/Collector: Robert V. Hine 

Box 37 Vanished Arizona, Recollections of the Army Life of a New England Woman. Salem, 

Massachusetts: the Salem Press Company, 1911. 

Creator/Collector: Martha Summerhayes 

Box 37 The Desert, Further Studies in Natural Appearances. New York: Charles Scribner's 

Sons, 1913. 

Creator/Collector: John C. Van Dyke 

Box 37 Earth-Lore, Geology Without Jargon. New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 


Creator/Collector: Professor S.J. Shand 

Box 37 Weather and the Ocean of Air. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1942. 

Creator/Collector: William Holmes Wenstrom 

Box 37 Anthropological Papers Numbers 19-26. Washington: United States Government 

Printing Office, 1943. 

Creator/Collector: Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 133 

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Box 37 Feud On the Colorado. Los Angeles, California: Westernlore Press, 1955. 



Creator/Collector: Arthur Woodward 

Box 38 The Personal Narrative of James O. Pattie of Kentucky. Chicago: R.R. Donnelley & 

Sons Company, the Lakeside Press, 1930. 

Creator/Collector: Timothy Flint 

Box 38 Trees and Shrubs of the Rocky Mountain Region With Keys and Descriptions for Their 

Identification. New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, the Knickerbocker Press, 

1927. 

Creator/Collector: Burton O. Longyear 

Box 38 The Truth About Geronimo. Chicago: R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company, the Lakeside 

Press, 1951. 

Creator/Collector: Britton Davis 

Box 38 The Mormons, or Latter-Day Saints, in the Valley of the Great Salt Lake: a History of 

Their Rise and Progress, Peculiar Doctrines, Present Condition, and Prospects, 

Derived from Personal Observation; During Residence Among Them . Philadelphia: 

J.B. Lippincott & Company, 1860. 

Creator/Collector: Lieutenant J.W. Gunnison 

Box 38 Kit Carson's Autobiography. Chicago: R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company, the Lakeside 

Press, 1935. 

Creator/Collector: Milo Milton Quaife 

Box 38 From San Diego to the Colorado in 1849, the Journal and Maps of Cave J. Couts. Los 

Angeles, California: Arthur M. Ellis, 1932. 

Creator/Collector: William McPherson 

Box 38 The Paiute People. Phoenix, Arizona: Indian Tribal Series, 1972. 

Creator/Collector: Robert C. Euler 

Box 38 Antoine Robidoux, 1794-1860, a Biography of a Western Venturer. Los Angeles: Glen 

Dawson, 1953. 

Creator/Collector: William Swilling Wallace 

Box 38 A Guidebook to the Mojave Desert of California Including Death Valley, Joshua Tree 

National Monument and the Antelope Valley. Los Angeles, California: the Ward 

Ritchie Press, 1966. 

Creator/Collector: Russ Leadabrand 

Box 38 Sketches of a Journey On the Two Oceans and to the Interior of America and of a Civil 

War in Northern Lower California. Los Angeles, California: Dawson's Book Shop, 

1971. 

Creator/Collector: The Abbé Henry J.A. Alric 

Box 38 History of Arizona, vol.4. Phoenix, Arizona: the Filmer Brothers Electrotype Company, 

1916. 

Creator/Collector: Thomas Edwin Farish 

Box 38 Medicine in Territorial Arizona. Phoenix: Arizona Historical Foundation, 1966. 

Creator/Collector: Frances E. Quebbeman 

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Box 39 The Colorado (The Rivers of America Series Edited by Hervey Allen and Carl Carmer). 



New York and Toronto: Rinehart and Company Incorporated, 1946. 

Creator/Collector: Frank Waters 


1918. 


Box 39 History of Arizona, vol.7. Phoenix, Arizona: Filmer Brothers Electrotype Company, 



Box 39 Medicine Power: the American Indian's Revival of His Spiritual Heritage and Its 

Relevance for Modern Man. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 


Creator/Collector: Brad Steiger 

Box 39 Medicine Talk: a Guide to Walking in Balance and Surviving On the Earth Mother. 

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Incorporated, 1975. 

Creator/Collector: Brad Steiger 

Box 39 Peter Eugene Ogden: Fur Trader. Portland, Oregon: Binfords & Mort, Publishers, 

1967. 

Creator/Collector: Archie Binns 

Box 39 The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States. Washington: Government 


Creator/Collector: Henry Gannett 

Box 39 The Cahuilla Indians. United States: Westernlore Press, 1960. 

Creator/Collector: Harry C. James 

Box 40 A Voyage On the Colorado - 1878. Los Angeles: Glen Dawson, 1953. 

Creator/Collector: Francis Berton 


1915. 


Box 40 History of Arizona, vol.6. Phoenix, Arizona, the Filmer Brothers Electrotype Co., 

1918. 



1918. 


Box 40 Mojave: a Book of Stories. New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 1934. 

Creator/Collector: Edwin Corle 

Box 40 Experiences of a Special Indian Agent. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma, 

Press 1965. 

Creator/Collector: E.E. White 

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1915. 


Box 41 Arizona and Sonora: the Geography, History, and Resources of the Silver Region of 

North America. New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1864. 

Creator/Collector: Sylvester Mowry 

Box 41 History of Arizona, vol.8. Phoenix, Arizona: Filmer Brothers Electrotype Company, 

1918. 


Box 41 Photographer of the Southwest, Adam Clark Vroman, 1856-1916. New York: Bonanza 

Books, 1961. 

Creator/Collector: Ruth I. Mahood 

Box 41 Clouds, Air and Wind. New York; Devin-Adair Company, 1941. 

Creator/Collector: Eric Sloane 

Box 41 Fort Mojave, 1859-1890, Letters of the Commanding Officers. Manhattan, Kansas: 

Ma/Ah Publishing Company, 1980. 

Creator/Collector: Irene J. Brennan 

Box 41 Mohahve 2. Apple Valley, California: Mohahve Historical Society, 1965. 

Creator/Collector: Mohahve Historical Society 

Box 41 Early Newspapers and Periodicals of California and the West. San Francisco: John 

Howell-Books, 1970. 

Creator/Collector: Catalog 39 

Box 41 The American Heritage History of Railroads in America. New York: American Heritage 

Publishing Company, 1975. 

Creator/Collector: Oliver Jensen 

Box 41 Weather in the West, from the Midcontinent to the Pacific. Palo Alto, California: 

American West Publishing Company, 1975. 

Creator/Collector: Bette Roda Anderson 

Box 42 Rivers of the West. Menlo Park, California: Lane Publishing Company, 1974. 

Creator/Collector: A Sunset Pictorial 

Box 42 Cactus. Los Angeles: Abbey San Encino Press, 1935. 

Creator/Collector: A.J. Van Laren 

Box 42 A Record of Travels in Arizona and California, 1775-1776, Father Francísco Gàrces. 

San Francisco: John Howell-Books, 1965. 

Creator/Collector: John Galvin 

Box 42 Hepah, California! the Journey of Cave Johnson Couts from Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, 

Mexico to Los Angeles, California During the Years 1848-1849 . Tucson, Arizona: 

Arizona Pioneer's Historical Society, 1961. 

Creator/Collector: Henry F. Dobyns 

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Box 42 The First Spanish Entry Into San Francisco Bay, 1775. San Francisco: John 



Howell-Books, 1971. 

Creator/Collector: John Galvin 

Box 43 North American Indian Mythology. London: John Hamlyn, 1968. 

Creator/Collector: Cottie Burland 

Box 43 Doctors of the Old West, a Pictorial History of Medicine On the Frontier. New York: 

Bonanza Books, 1967. 

Creator/Collector: Robert F. Karolevitz 

Box 43 Report Upon the Colorado River of the West, Explored in 1857 and 1858 by 

Lieutenant Joseph C. Ives ... Washington: Government Printing Office, 1861. 

Creator/Collector: Government Printing Office 

Box 43 Introduction to the Study of Indian Languages With Words Phrases and Sentences to 

Be Collected. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1880. 

Creator/Collector: J.W. Powell 

Box 44 Report On Aboriginal Territory and Occupancy of the Mohave Tribe. New York: 

Clearwater Publishing Company, 1953. 

Creator/Collector: A.L. Kroeber 

Box 44 Western Wayfaring Routes of Exploration and Trade in the American Southwest. Los 

Angeles: Automobile Club of Southern California, 1954. 

Creator/Collector: J. Gregg Layne 

Box 44 Background to Historic and Prehistoric Resources of the East Mojave Desert Region. 

Riverside, California: U.S. Department of Interior Bureau of Land Management, 1976. 

Creator/Collector: Chester King and Dennis G. Casebier 

Box 44 Anza Conquers the Desert, the Anza Expeditions from Mexico to California and the 

Founding of San Francisco, 1774 to 1776. San Diego, California: Copley Press, 1971. 

Creator/Collector: Richard F. Pourade 

Box 44 Almost Ancestors, the First Californians. San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1968. 

Creator/Collector: Theodora Kroeber and Robert F. Heizer 

Box 45 A Pioneer of 1850, George Willis Read, 1819-1880. Boston: Little, Brown, and 


Creator/Collector: Georgia Willis Read 

Box 45 The Blazed Trail of Antoine Leroux. Los Angeles: Westernlore Press, 1965. 

Creator/Collector: Forbes Parkhill 

Box 45 Crazy Weather. New York: the Macmillan Company, 1944. 

Creator/Collector: Charles L. McNichols 

Box 45 Spanish Exploration in the Southwest, 1542-1706 (Original Narratives of Early 

American History Series). New York: Barnes & Noble, Incorporated, 1908. 

Creator/Collector: Herbert Eugene Bolton 

Box 45 Adobe and Iron, the Story of the Arizona Territorial Prison. La Jolla, California: 

Prospect Avenue Press, 1969. 

Creator/Collector: John Mason Jeffrey 

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Box 45 Tuberculosis Among Certain Indian Tribes of the United States (Smithsonian 



Institution Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 42). Washington: Government 


Creator/Collector: Alês Hrdlika 

Box 45 Historic Indians of San Bernardino County, the Mohaves (San Bernardino County 

Museum Association Quarterly, vol.14 no.1). Fall 1966. 

Creator/Collector: Gerald Smith 

Box 45 Mohahve Book no.3. Mojave River Basin, Connecticut: Mohahve Historical Society, 

1966. 


Box 45 Almost Ancestors, the First Californians. San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1968. 

Creator/Collector: Theodora Kroeber and Robert F. Heizer 

Box 46 The Medicine Show. Mount Vernon, New York: Consumers Union, 1980. 

Creator/Collector: Consumer Reports Books 

Box 46 Yuman Tribes of the Gila River. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1933. 

Creator/Collector: Leslie Spier 

Box 46 The California Deserts, a Visitor's Handbook. Stanford University, California: 

Stanford University Press, 1938. 

Creator/Collector: Edmund C. Jaeger 

Box 46 Hubert Howe Bancroft, Historian of the West. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University 

of California Press, 1946. 

Creator/Collector: John Walton Caughey 

Box 46 Fort Yuma On the Colorado River. El Cajon, California: Colonel H.B. Wharfield, 1968. 

Creator/Collector: Colonel H.B. Wharfield 

Box 46 Mohave People. San Antonio, Texas: the Naylor Company, 1970. 

Creator/Collector: Fulsom Charles Scrivner 

Box 46 The A.B. Gray Report. Los Angeles: Westernlore Press, 1963. 

Creator/Collector: L.R. Bailey 

Box 46 The Whipple Report. Los Angeles: Westernlore Press, 1961. 

Creator/Collector: A.W. Whipple 

Box 46 Tales from the Mohaves. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1970. 

Creator/Collector: Herman Grey 

Box 46 The Exploration of the Colorado River. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1957. 

Creator/Collector: John Wesley Powell 

Box 47 The Brand Book (The English Westerners' Society). London: the English Westerners' 

Society, 1972. 

Creator/Collector: Francis B. Taunton 

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Box 47 Journal of Lieutenant Thomas W. Sweeny, 1849-1853. Los Angeles: Westernlore 



Press, 1956. 

Creator/Collector: Arthur Woodward 

Box 47 The Mojave River and its Valley. Glendale, California: the Arthur H. Clark Company, 

1970. 

Creator/Collector: Erma Peirson 

Box 47 L.J. Rose of Sunny Slope, 1827-1899, California Pioneer, Fruit Grower, Wine Maker, 

Horse Breeder. San Marino, California: the Huntington Library, 1959. 

Creator/Collector: L.J. Rose, Jr. 

Box 47 San Gabriel Mission and the Beginnings of Los Angeles. San Gabriel, Clifornia: 

Mission San Gabriel, 1927. 

Creator/Collector: Father Zephyrin Engelhardt 

Box 47 Relaciones. Translated by Alicia Ronstadt Milich. Albuquerque, New Mexico: Horn & 

Wallace, 1966. 

Creator/Collector: Zarate- Salmeron 

Box 47 A Mohave War Reminiscence, 1854-1880. Berkeley: University of California Press, 

1973. 

Creator/Collector: A.L. Kroeber and C.B. Kroeber 

Box 47 Guidebook of the Western United States (Bulletin 613). Washington: Government 


Creator/Collector: N.H. Darton 

Box 47 A Scotch Paisano. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1939. 

Creator/Collector: Susanna Bryant Dakin 

Box 47 Building a State in Apache Land. Tempe, Arizona: Aztec Press Incorporated, 1963. 

Creator/Collector: Charles D. Poston 

Box 48 The States and Their Indian Citizens. Washington, D.C.: United States Department of 

the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1972. 

Creator/Collector: Theodore W. Taylor 

Box 48 Frontier Military Posts of Arizona. Six Shooter Canyon, Globe, Arizona: Dale Stuart 

King, 1960. 

Creator/Collector: Ray Brandes 

Box 48 Death Valley, the Facts. Stanford University, California: Stanford University Press, 

1936. 

Creator/Collector: W.A. Chalfant 

Box 48 Fig Tree John, an Indian in Fact and Fiction. Tucson, Arizona: University of Arizona 

Press, 1977. 

Creator/Collector: Peter G. Beidler 

Box 48 Fig Tree John. United States of America: the Ward Ritchie Press, 1935. 

Creator/Collector: Edwin Corle 

Box 48 The Hand-Book to Arizona. Tucson, Arizona: Arizona Silhouettes, 1954. 

Creator/Collector: Richard J. Hinton 

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Box 48 John Doyle Lee, Zealot - Pioneer Builder - Scapegoat (Western Frontiersmen Series 



9). Glendale, California: the Arthur H. Clark Company, 1972. 

Creator/Collector: Juanita Brooks 

Box 48 The Colorado River Campaign, 1781-1782, Diary of Pedro Fages (Publications of the 

Academy of Pacific Coast History, vol.3 no.2). Berkeley: University of California, 

1913. 

Creator/Collector: Herbert Ingram Priestley 

Box 48 The Mojave Road in Newspapers (Tales of the Mojave Road, no.6 -- January 1976). 

Norco, California: Tales of the Mojave Road Publishing Company, 1976. 


Box 49 The Lives of a Cell, Notes of a Biology Watcher. Toronto: Bantam Books, 


Creator/Collector: Lewis Thomas 

Box 49 Mukat's People, the Cahuilla Indians of Southern California. Berkeley: University of 


Creator/Collector: Lowell John Bean 

Box 49 A Pathfinder in the Southwest. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 

1941. 

Creator/Collector: Grant Foreman 

Box 49 Mohahve 2. Mojave River Basin, California: Mohahve Historical Society, 1965. 


Box 49 Carleton's Pah-Ute Campaign (Tales of the Mojave Road, no.1, June 1972). Norco, 

California: Tales of the Mojave Road Publishing Company, Dennis G. Casebier, 1972. 


Box 49 The Battle at Camp Cody (Tales of the Mojave Road, no.2, September 1972). Norco, 

California: Tales of the Mojave Road Publishing Company, 1972. 


Box 49 Camp Rock Spring California (Tales of the Mojave Road, no.3 - January 1973). Norco, 

California: Tales of the Mojave Road Publishing Company, 1973. 


Box 49 The California Deserts. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1977. 

Creator/Collector: Edmund C. Jaeger 

Box 49 The Missions and Missionaries of California. Index to vol.2-4. San Francisco, 

California: the James H. Barry Company, 1916. 

Creator/Collector: Father Zephyrin Engelhardt 

Box 49 Forgotten Frontiers. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1932. 

Creator/Collector: Alfred Barnaby Thomas 

Box 49 Old Spanish Trail, Santa Fè to Los Angeles. Glendale, California: the Arthur H. Clark 


Creator/Collector: Leroy R. Hafen and Ann W. Hafen 

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Box 50 Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army. vol.2. Urbana, Illinois: 



University of Illinois Press, 1965. 

Creator/Collector: Francis B. Heitman 

Box 50 The Los Angeles Star, 1851-1864. Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 

1947. 

Creator/Collector: William B. Rice 

Box 50 Report of an Expedition Down the Zuni and the Colorado Rivers in 1851 (A Rio 

Grande Classic). Chicago, Illinois: Rio Grande Press, 1962. 

Creator/Collector: Captain Lorenzo Sitgreaves 

Box 50 Central Route to the Pacific, from the Valley of the Mississippi to California: Journal 

of the Expedition. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Lippincott, Grambo, and Company, 

1854. 

Creator/Collector: Gwinn Harris Heap 

Box 50 Mohave Indians. New York & London: Garland Publishing Company, 1974. 

Creator/Collector: A.L. Kroeber 

Box 50 The North American Indian. vol.2. New York: Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1976. 

Creator/Collector: Edward S. Curtis 

Box 50 Uncle Sam's Camels. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1929. 

Creator/Collector: Lewis Burt Lesley 

Box 50 Anza's California Expeditions. vol.2. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1930. 

Creator/Collector: Herbert Eugene Bolton 

Box 50 The Historical Society of Southern California Bibliography of All Published Works, 

1884-1957. Los Angeles: the Historical Society of Southern California, 1958. 

Creator/Collector: Anne Marie Hager and Everett Gordon Hager 

Box 51 The Mojave of the Colorado. Sausalito, California: Pages of History, 1960. 

Creator/Collector: Pages of History 

Box 51 Heitman and the Old Army ( The Brand Book. vol.16 no.1). London: the English 

Westerners' Society, 1973. 

Creator/Collector: Barry C. Johnson 

Box 51 Utah Historical Quarterly. vol.38 no.3. Salt Lake City, Utah: Utah State Historical 


Creator/Collector: Utah State Historical Society 

Box 51 Indians, Yesterday and Today. Chilocco, Oklahoma: Chilocco Agricultural School, 

1941. 

Creator/Collector: United States Department of the Interior, Office of Indian Affairs, 

Education Division 

Box 51 Salvador Or Martinez? (The English Westerners Society. Brand Book. vol.14 no.2). 

London: the English Westerners' Society, 1972. 

Creator/Collector: Allan Radbourne 

Box 51 Camels New York-London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1927. 

Creator/Collector: Daniel W. Streeter 

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Box 51 Annual Report Upon the Geographical Surveys West of the One -Hundredth Meridian 



in California ... Montana. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1876. 

Creator/Collector: George M. Wheeler 

Box 51 Yuma Crossing. Albuquerque, New Mexico: the University of New Mexico Press, 1954. 

Creator/Collector: Douglas D. Martin 

Box 51 Jedediah Smith and the Opening of the West. Indianapolis, Indiana: the Bobbs-Merrill 

Company, Incorporated, 1953. 

Creator/Collector: Dale L. Morgan 

Box 51 Jedediah Smith, Trader and Trail Breaker. New York: Press of the Pioneers, 


Creator/Collector: Maurice S. Sullivan 

Box 51 Railroads in the West, Hear That Lonesome Whistle Blow. New York: Holt, Rinehart & 

Winston, 1977. 

Creator/Collector: Dee Brown 

Box 51 First Citizen of Prescott, Pauline Weaver, Trapper and Mountain Man. Colorado 

Springs, Colorado: J.J. Lipsey Western Books, n.d.. 

Creator/Collector: Sharlot M. Hall 

Box 51 Merritt and the Indian Wars. London: the Johnson-Taunton Military Press, 1972. 

Creator/Collector: General Wesley Merritt 

Box 51 Coronado's Seven Cities. Albuquerque, New Mexico: United States Coronado 

Exposition Commission, 1940. 

Creator/Collector: George P. Hammond 

Box 51 Crook's Resume of Operations Against Apache Indians, 1882 to 1886. London: the 

Johnson-Taunton Military Press, 1971. 

Creator/Collector: Brigadier General George Crook 

Box 52 By the Prophet of the Earth. Santa Fe, New Mexico: San Vicente Foundation, 


Creator/Collector: L.S.M. Curtin 

Box 52 Francisan Missionaries in Hispanic California, 1769-1848. San Marino, California: 

Huntington Library, 1969. 

Creator/Collector: Maynard Geiger 

Box 52 The Original Journals of Henry Smith Turner With Stephen Watts Kearny to New 

Mexico and California, 1846-1847. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 

1966. 

Creator/Collector: Dwight L. Clarke 

Box 52 The Changing Culture of an Indian Tribe. New York: Columbia University Press, 1932. 

Creator/Collector: Margaret Mead 

Box 52 The Journal of California Anthropology. vol.4 no.1 (Summer 1977). Banning, 

California: Malki Museum Incorporated, Morongo Indian Reservation, 1977. 

Creator/Collector: Malki Museum Inc. 

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Box 52 Derby's Report On Opening the Colorado, 1850-1851. New Mexico: University of New 



Mexico Press, 1969. 

Creator/Collector: Odie B. Faulk 

Box 52 The Travels of Jedediah Smith. Santa Ana, California: the Fine Arts Press, 1934. 

Creator/Collector: Maurice S. Sullivan 

Box 52 Pioneer Notes from the Diaries of Judge Benjamin Hayes, 1849-1875. Los Angeles, 

California: McBride Printing Company, 1929. 

Creator/Collector: Marjorie Tisdale Wolcott 

Box 52 Southern California Quarterly. vol.69 no.3 (Fall 1979). Los Angeles, California: 

Historical Society of Southern California, 1979. 

Creator/Collector: Historical Society of Southern California 

Box 52 The Clan System of the Fort Mojave Indians. Los Angeles, California: Historical 

Society of Southern California. 


Box 53 The Far Western Frontier 1830-1860. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1956. 

Creator/Collector: Ray Allen Billington 

Box 53 Narrative of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains ... New York: D. 

Appleton and Company, 1846. 

Creator/Collector: Brevet Captain Jos. Fremont 

Box 53 Dictionary of Prehistoric Indian Artifacts of the American Southwest. Flagstaff, 

Arizona: Northland Press, 1973. 

Creator/Collector: Franklin Barnett 

Box 53 Girl from Williamsburg. Richmond, Virginia: the Dietz Press, Incorporated, 1951. 

Creator/Collector: Minnie Braithwaite Jenkins 

Box 53 On the Trail of a Spanish Pioneer, the Diary and Itinerary of Francisco Garces. New 

York: Francis P. Harper, 1900. 

Creator/Collector: Elliott Coues 

Box 53 Camp El Dorado, Arizona Territory. Tempe, Arizona: Arizona Historical Foundation, 

1970 (Arizona Monographs no.2). 


Box 53 Newspapers and Periodicals of Arizona, 1859-1911 (University of Arizona Bulletin, 

General Bulletin no.15, vol.20 no.3, July 1949). Tucson, Arizona: University of 

Arizona, 1950. 

Creator/Collector: Estelle Lutrell 

Box 53 Ewing Young and His Estate With Documentary Records (The Quarterly of the Oregon 

Historical Society, vol.21 no.2, September 1920). Portland, Oregon: Oregon Historical 


Creator/Collector: F.G. Young 

Box 53 Diary of a Journey from the Mississippi to the Coasts of the Pacific. vol.1. London: 

Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans and Roberts, 1858. 

Creator/Collector: Baldwin Möllhausen 

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Box 54 Diary of a Journey from the Mississippi to the Coasts of the Pacific. vol.2. London: 



Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans and Roberts, 1858. 

Creator/Collector: Baldwin Möllhausen 

Box 54 Old Bill Williams, Mountain Man. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 

1962. 

Creator/Collector: Alpheus H. Favour 

Box 54 Mapping the American West, 1540-1857. Worcester, Massachusetts: American 

Antiquarian Society, 1954. 

Creator/Collector: Carl I. Wheat 

Box 54 Soldiers, Indians and Silver ... Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California 

Press, 1952. 

Creator/Collector: Philip Wayne Powell 

Box 54 General Crook and the Apache Wars. Flagstaff, Arizona: Northland Press, 1966. 

Creator/Collector: Charles F. Lummis 

Box 54 Condition of the Indian Tribes. Report of the Joint Special Committee ... Washington 

D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1867. 


Box 54 Men of El Tejon. Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie Press, 1957. 

Creator/Collector: Earle Crowe 

Box 55 Bill Sublette, Mountain Man. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 

1959. 

Creator/Collector: John E. Sunder 

Box 55 Wagon Roads West ... Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1952. 

Creator/Collector: W. Turrentine Jackson 

Box 55 Warriors of the Colorado ... Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1965 

(The Civilization of the American Indian Series). 

Creator/Collector: Jack D. Forbes 

Box 55 William Wolfskill, 1798-1866.... Glendale, California: the Arthur H. Clark Company, 

1965. 

Creator/Collector: Iris Higbie Wilson 

Box 55 The Clan System of the Fort Mojave Indians. Los Angeles, California: the Historical 

Society of Southern California, 1971. 


Box 55 The Taos Trappers ... Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1971. 

Creator/Collector: David J. Weber 

Box 55 Mojave Ethnopsychiatry: the Psychic Disturbances of an Indian Tribe. City of 

Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1969. 

Creator/Collector: George Devereux 

Box 55 Forts of the West ... Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1965. 

Creator/Collector: Robert W. Frazer 

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Box 56 Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army ... by Francis B. 



Heitman. vol.1. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1903. 


Box 56 Pioneers in American Anthropology, the Bandelier-Morgan Letters, 1873-1883. vol.1. 

Albuquerque, New Mexico: the University of New Mexico Press, 1940. 

Creator/Collector: Leslie A. White 

Box 56 On the Trail of a Spanish Pioneer, the Diary and Itinerary of Francisco GarcèS ... 

vol.2. New York: Francis P. Harper, 1900. 

Creator/Collector: Elliott Coues 

Box 56 Army Exploration in the American West, 1803-1863 (Yale Publications in American 

Studies, 4). New Haven: Yale University Press, 1959. 

Creator/Collector: William H. Goetzmann 

Box 56 Frontiersmen in Blue, the United States Army and the Indian, 1848-1865. New York: 

the Macmillan Company, 1967. 

Creator/Collector: Robert M. Utley 

Box 57 Pioneers in American Anthropology. Albuquerque, New Mexico: University of New 

Mexico Press, 1940. 

Creator/Collector: Leslie A. White 

Box 57 A Child Is Born. New York: Merloyd Lawrence, 1977. 

Creator/Collector: Lennart Nilsson 

Box 58 Biographical Register of the Officers and Graduates of the U.S. Military Academy at 

West Point, New York. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Company, 1891. 

vol.1. 

Creator/Collector: Bvt. Maj. - Gen. George W. Cullum 


West Point, New York. vol.2. 








Box 58 Indian Affairs Territories. 1916. vol.2. Washington: Government Printing Office, 

1917. 

Creator/Collector: Reports of the Department of the Interior 

Box 58 Exploring With Fremont. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1958. 

Creator/Collector: Charles Preuss 

Box 58 The Indians of Southern California in 1852. San Marino, California: Huntington 

Library, 1952. 

Creator/Collector: John Walton Caughey 

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Box 58 Major General James Henry Carleton, 1814-1873, Western Frontier Dragoon. 



Glendale, California: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1958. 

Creator/Collector: Aurora Hunt 

Box 58 The Problem of Indian Administration. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins Press, 

1928. 

Creator/Collector: Institute for Government Research, Studies in Administration 

Box 58 The California Indians, a Source Book. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of 


Creator/Collector: R.F. Heizer and M.A. Whipple 

Box 60 The California Indians, a Source Book. Second Edition. Berkeley, Los Angeles and 

London: University of California Press, 1973. 

Creator/Collector: R.F. Heizer and M.A. Whipple 

[Miscellaneous Publications and Books] 

Box 12 U.S. Congress. Senate Committee On Interior & Insular Affairs. Indian Land 

Transactions; Memorandum of the Chairman to the Committee On Interior & Insular 

Affairs, United States Senate. An Analysis of the Problems and Effects of Our 

Diminishing Indian Land Base, 1948-57. Washington: U.S. Government Printing 

Office, 1958. 

Box 14 The Westerners Brand Book, no.11. [Los Angeles]: Ward Ritchie Press, 1964. 

Box 16 Report Upon United States Geographical Surveys West of the One-Hundredth 

Meridian, in Charge of First Lieut. George M. Wheeler .. . Washington: U.S. 

Government Printing Office, 1879. vol.1 - Geographical Report. 

Oversize Box 32 U.S. Commissioner of Indian Affairs. Report of the Comissioner of Indian Affairs for 

the Year 1863. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1864. 

Oversize Box 32 Harper's New Monthly Magazine. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1864. vol.29. 

Box 45 San Bernardino County Museum Association Quarterly. vol.18 no.2 & 3 (Winter 

1970). 

Box 45 San Bernardino County Museum Association Quarterly. vol.13 no.3 & 4 (Spring & 

Summer 1966). 

Box 47 Twenty-Fifth Annual Report of the Board of Indian Commissioners, 1893. 

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1894. 

Box 53 Don Pio Pico's Historical Narrative. Glendale, California: Arthur H. Clark Company, 

1973. 

Box 54 Journal of John Udell .. (Facsimile of the 1859 Edition). Suisun City, California, Solano 

County Herald. Print, 1952 (Yale University Library, Western Historical Series no.1, 

December 1952). 

Box 55 The Indians of Los Angeles County. Hugo Reid's Letters of 1852 ( Southwest Museum 

Papers no.21). Highland Park, Los Angeles, California, 1968. 

Box 57 The War of the Rebellion. Series 1, vol.50. Part One. Washington: Government 


Box 57 The War of the Rebellion. Series 1, vol.50. Part Two. Washington: Government 


Research Files, Including Notes, Manuscripts and Clippings 

Boxes 1-10 Newspaper Clippings of and Issues Containing Articles Written by Dr. Sherer, or 

Relating to her Research Interests, mostly 1962-1977. 

Physical Description: Includes Duplicates. 

Oversize Box 35 Envelope of Clippings from the Needles Desert Star, 1980. 

Box 104 Newspaper clippings. 

Box 17 Clippings Depicting Flora & Fauna. 

Physical Description: Envelope. 

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Box Files 

Box 17 Clan System Data. 

Box 18 Whipple Mojave Vocabulary .. 

Box 19 Clan System of the Mojaves; Statistical Data, Colored Photos. 

Box 20 Apache. 

Box 21 Arizona Highways, Mojave Clans - Photos. 

Scope and Content Note 

Used in LMS' research to identify clan & women's names. 

Box 22 U.S. Documents. Reports of the Secretary of War, 1886-1932. 

Physical Description: [Copies]. 

Oversize Box 23 Post Returns - Fort Mojave, 1859-73. 

Physical Description: 3 Box Files [Copies]. 

Oversize Box 24 Post Returns - Fort Mojave, 1874-90. 


Oversize Box 25 U.S. Documents. Reports of the Secretary of the Interior, 1848-1892. 


Box 25 U.S. Documents. Reports of the Secretary of War. 1848-85. 


Oversize Box 26 U.S. Documents. Indian Affairs, 1848-1939. 


Box 26 U.S. Documents. Reports of U.S. Presidents. 1841-1893. 


Box 27 Post Returns - Fort Mojave. Duplicates. 


Oversize Box 27 Post Commander's Letters, Fort Mojave, 1881-90. 


Oversize Box 28 Post Commander's Letters, Fort Mojave, 1859-1880. 

Oversize Box 23 Microfilm. 


Physical Description: 3 reels. 

Tape Recordings 

Oversize Box 29 Mojave Religious Songs. 

Box 33 Back-Up Material for Dr. Sherer's Research. 

Box 36 In order, arranged by Dr. Sherer. 

Boxes 108, 

120-123 

Boxes 74, 

115-116, 119 

Physical Description: 1 suitcase. 

[No further description available]. 

Various [No further description available]. 

Physical Description: Casettes. 

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Box 111 [No further description available]. 



[Miscellaneous] 

Fort Mojave 

Physical Description: Reel-to-reel tapes. 

Box 64 Old manuscripts and documentation including maps, serials and correspondence. 

Box 65 Indian Village. 

Box 69 School. 

Boxes 71, 84 [No further description available]. 



Listing inside the box. 

Boxes 76, 79 Establishment of Fort Mojave. 

Box 88 Tribal Records. 

Box 106 Photos. 

Box 106 Leaders & Important Persons (photographs). 

Box 109 Tribal notes. 

Mojave 

Box 77 Lorraine Miller Sherer. 


Listing inside the box. 

Box 81 School - photos and manuscripts. 

Box 82 Research, H - O. 

Box 83 History. 

Box 86 Material. 

Box 87 History - Bitterness Road. 

Box 89 Letters, Documents and various books. 

Box 114 Notes, excerpts etc. for manuscript. 

Box 125 Records. 

Box 65 Apache - Yuma (Mojaves). 

Physical Description: Photocopies from microfilm. 

Box 75 Meanings of Mojave clan (simulye) names and daughters' names. 

Box 90 Dictionary. 

Box 92 School. 

Box 60 Mojave Note Books. 

Box 107 Photographs of Mojave Indian Lands. 

Various 

Box 67 Catalogs. 

Boxes 92, 93, 101 Books. 

Box 103 Printed materials. 

Box 110 Serials. 

Box 113 Notebooks. 

Files 

Boxes 61-62 Miscellaneous. 

Box 98 Various. 

Box 100 Various. 


Listing in the box. 

Box 63 re A.L. Kroeber, including monographs, unbound manuscripts and clippings. 

Box 78 re Ceremonies. 

Box 92 Old Ways. 

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Box 96 re Chaos. 



Material 

Box 65 re Trains. 

Box 65 re Old Ways. 

[Magazines] 


Boxes 65, 67 Desert Star articles. 

Box 86 Desert Star. 

Box 68 The Masterkey. 

Boxes 68, 105 Southern California Quarterly. 

Box 85 Arizona and the West. 

Box 109 Arizona Highways. 

Box 109 Terra. 

Box 65 Abstract and Biography - Lorraine Miller Sherer. 

Box 65 Agriculture. 

Box 65 Correspondence and unbound manuscripts. 

Box 65 Creation. 

Box 65 A.P. Miller Write-up re Petroglyphs. 

Box 65 Lorraine Miller Sherer original manuscript addendum. 

Box 66 K loaned by C.K. 

Box 66 Motion for rehearing - Docket 295. 

Box 66 A loaned by C. Kroeber F.M. vs. U.S. 

Box 66 A.L. Kroeber, Report on Aboriginal Territory 1953. 

Box 70 Kroeber. 

Box 66 Drawn for Reference - several unmarked folders. 

Box 69 Colorado River Agency. 

Box 69 Reports of Secretary of Interior - Arizona Superintendancy. 

Box 71 Old Ways. 

Box 72 Surveys for Railroad from M. Israel. 

Box 74 Pamphlets. 

Box 75 Pictorial data. 

Box 76 Research - Lorraine Miller Sherer. 

Box 76 Trappers. 

Box 76 U.S.A. Employees. 

Box 76 Sitgreaves, Whipple, Beale. 

Boxes 76, 83 Attack on Wagon Train. 

Box 78 Vocabulary. 

Box 81 Commissioner of Indian Affairs. 

Box 83 Sitgreaves. 

Box 83 Beale. 

Box 84 Games. 

Box 84 Place Names. 

Box 90 A.W. Whipple Books (2). 

Box 80 A.W. Whipple. 

Box 91 The Indians Book. 

Box 93 Sitgreaves. 

Box 94 Tribal Records - part 1. 

Box 95 Tribal Records - part 2. 

Box 97 Dams - manuscripts and documentation. 

Box 99 Inventory. 

Box 102 Chaos, and other files. 

Boxes 86, 104, 

117-118 

Photographs 

Various photographs. 

Box 60 This & That, Now & Then, Here & There, A.P. Miller, Needles - Calif. 

Box 108 Various rocks. 

Physical Description: 1 Scrapbook of photos. 

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Boxes 110, 112 Manuscripts. 

Box 114 Documentation. 

Box 124 Record Book, 1929-48. 

Boxes 78, 104, 

110, 114 



Maps. 

Box 126 Rolled Maps and Plans. 

Box 127 Hand-Drawn Map[?]. 

Note 

Unfit for production in the Reading Room. Condition of the item is extremely fragile 

and crumbling to the touch. Cannot be fully unrolled. 

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