Buckskin and Blanket Days
Object Details
- Collection Creator
- Tibbles, Thomas Henry, 1840-1928
- See more items in
- Thomas Henry Tibbles papers
- Extent
- 1 Linear foot
- Date
- 1934-1956
- Archival Repository
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Identifier
- NMAI.AC.066, Series 2
- Type
- Archival materials
- Collection Citation
- Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Thomas Henry Tibbles papers, Box and Folder Number; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.
- Collection Rights
- Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. Permission to publish or broadbast materials from the collection must be requested from National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center. Please submit a written request to [email protected].
- Scope and Contents
- This series contains material related to the publication of Tibbles' autobiography Buckskin and Blanket Days in 1957. This includes several drafts of the manuscript as well as correspondence between Chester Barris and publishing houses between 1939 and 1956 in the search for a willing publisher. There is also correspondence between Barris and his aunt Theadora "Dora" Cogswell who worked on editing the manuscript. Cogswell conducted a large amount of research on the historicity of the events described by Tibbles and her research notes, including clippings and articles related to events described in the book, are included in this series.
- Collection Restrictions
- Access to NMAI Archive Center collections is by appointment only, Monday - Friday, 9:30 am - 4:30 pm. Please contact the archives to make an appointment (phone: 301-238-1400, email: [email protected]).
- Record ID
- ebl-1503512122233-1503512122257-4
- Metadata Usage
- CC0