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Cage 203
Cull A. White
Papers, 1885-1970
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Cage 203
Cull A. White
Papers, 1885-1970
Washington State University acquired the Cull A. White papers on two occasions. It received the initial accession in the 1950s and maintained it as Cage 203. Katherine Hartley of Freeland, Washington donated the second accession in June 1983 (MS83-22). Ling Jinqi and Robert W. Hadlow processed the collection in 1991. Photographs were separated in 1991 and constituted as a distinct photographic collection, PC 86.
BIOGRAPHY
Cull A. White was born on December 17, 1889 in Omaha, Nebraska. He later attended Miami University, in Ohio. White moved to Washington in 1909. Other than a brief time in military service during the first world war, White made this state his lifetime home. He was associated with the Coffin Brothers Sheep Company of Yakima from 1918 to 1936. White also worked for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation as an inspector at Grand Coulee Dam, assigned to locate all of the Indian burials that would be inundated by the dam. He died on August 21, 1964 at his home in Elmer City. Throughout the 1950s and early 1960s White researched and wrote about the history of the peoples of north-central Washington. He focussed on the lives of Indians, especially the descendants of Chief Moses and Chief Kamiakin, and the lives of whites who inhabited the region in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
ARRANGEMENT AND DESCRIPTION
The papers of Cull A. White consist of manuscripts and notes by White and others on the history of Indians and whites who lived in north-central Washington in the late nineteenth century. They include White's incoming and outgoing correspondence on this subject, personal correspondence of other parties, and photographs and negatives that White collected on images of the region. The papers were received with no particular filing arrangement in use. Accordingly, the Libraries have arranged the papers. This arrangement preserves enough original order so that the first and second accessions remain distinct. (The first accession is Series 6, Correspondence, etc.) Otherwise arrangement is basically a separation of in several series of items such as drafts of essays, correspondence, notes and other materials. Further order is added by alphabetization within each sequence.
SERIES LIST
CONTAINER NO.
Series 1. Notes and Manuscripts by White 1
Series 2. Manuscripts and published material 2
by other authors
Series 3. Incoming correspondence, correspondence of 3
others
Series 4. Newspaper clippings 3
Series 5. White's notepads, horn 3
Series 6. Miscellaneous correspondence, manuscripts, 4
notes, and newspaper clippings
BOX FOLDER DESCRIPTION ITEMS
MANUSCRIPTS AND NOTES BY CULL A. WHITE
1 1 Arcasa, Isabel Friedlander 6
2 Bergevin Bros. Resuce Virginia City; Montana 1
Territory; 1865;
3 Brown, Charley, 1
4 Burge, Milt 13
5 Chinese Source Material 3
6 Columbia Joe 1
7 Colville Tribe 2
8 Condon, Wild Goose Bill Samuel Wilbur 2
Condit
9 "Conversation between Mr. Mrs. Pete Wheeler, 1
Cull White, John Brown, Made July, 1961"
10 Covington, John Calvert "Virginia Bill" 8
11 Curlew, Billy 7
12 Damman, Art, "Wagon Trip to the Dalles" 1
13 Dolan, P. H. 1
14 Drumheller, Jerome 3
15 Dunn, William and Dunn, Millie Harshman 1
"Marriage Return, January 20th 1892"
16 "Father Davis Recalls Church's History in 1
Pacific Northwest"
17 "Ft. Okanogan Museum Dedication, Aug. 27, 1960" 1
18 "Gathering No Moss Bergevin Bros." 2
19 George, Coxit (Coxit George) 5
20 Grant County History 1
21 Green Foot Sophy, "Return Journey of Green Foot 1
Sophy After Her Escape From Blackfeet Captors"
22 Hutchinson, Sam and Ben 4
23 James, Jim, "Funeral of Chief Jim James" 1
24 Joseph (Chief Joseph) 4
25 Lynch, Jenny McDonald 12
26 Miscellaneous Notes--part 1 34
27 Miscellaneous Notes--part 2 67
28 Miscellaneous Notes--part 3 120
29 Miscellaneous Notes--part 4 72
30 Miscellaneous Notes--part 5 24
31 Miscellaneous Notes--part 6 91
32 Moore, Clara 2
2 33 Moses (Chief Moses) 14
34 Moses, Mary 1
35 Moses, Peter Dan 12
36 Olney, Nathan and Cyrus 1
37 Osborne, Charley 17
38 "Research Among Indians, with Dr. Robert Ruby 1
Moses Lake Prof. John Arthur Brown, Wenatchee"
39 St. Mary's Mission, Omak, Washington 5
40 Sensentzqh Sin Scintq, Sin-Sintq older 1
sister of Chief Moses
41 "The Sheriff's Star" 1
42 Shotwell, Harry 3
43 Smith, Hiram F., "'Okanogan Smith' and 1
'Smith's Point'" 1
44 "Strawmen and U.S. Marshals . . ." 2
45 Thorp Children 3
46 Tucker, Dave 1
47 Unidentified Manuscript 1
48 Wood, Erskine Craig 3
MANUSCRIPTS NOT AUTHORED BY CULL A. WHITE
BOX FOLDER DESCRIPTION ITEMS
2 49 Alcorn, Rowena L., "Art Exhibit: Portrait of 1
Nez Perce Indians," June-September 1962
50 Bergevin, Clem, "Canadians and French Aided 1
In This Section"
51 Case, Robert O., "Christmas Eve at Whitman's 1
Mission"
52 Clark, Ella E. "Dry Falls of the Columbia" 2
and "The Grand Coulee Dam," poems
53 "Constitution and By-Laws of the Confederated 1
Tribes of the Colville Reservation"
54 Davin, Mrs. Lionel, "The Early History of 1
Frenchtown"
55 Descendants of Frenchtown, "Frenchtown 1
Rendezvous, April 24, 1949"
56 "Fruit in Kittitas" 1
57 Hibben, Frank, "Buffalo Hunt: Oklahoma 1
City Style"
58 "Historical Monuments and Markers and Their 1
Respective Locations in the State of
Washington, up to 1949"
59 Jerome-Grubbs, Ferne, poems; 2
60 Kingston, C. S., "Samuel Wilbur Condit: 1
Frontiersman"
61 Kreitz, Mabel Patrick, "'Thunder Rolling In 1
the Mountains', Presenting the Indian's
point of view on the removal of Chief
Joseph's body . . ."
62 Lehighton, Caroline C., excerpt from "Life at 1
Puget Sound" by Lehighton
63 Lewis, William, S., "Lured West by Hudson's
Bay Company,"
64 Lugenbeel, Major Pinkney, Letter to 1
Commissioners of Spokane County, July 1861 1
65 The Madre D'Oro, vol. 1, no. 1, journal 1
66 Palmer, Mrs. Lou, "Narrative of James Longmire, 3
A Pioneer of 1853"
67 Petition--"Land Needs of the Colville Indians 2
68 "The Pilgrimage to Old Fort Okanogan" 1
69 Pingston, Captain Alfred T., "Diary of 2
Steamer 'Alpha'"
70 Richardson, Albert D., "Beyond the Mississippi" 1
71 Sagebrush Annie, "Riding the Range," 1906 1
72 Schoenberg, Wilfred, S.J., Jesuits in Montana 1
1840-1960
73 Snyder, Charles and Mary Gillel, Marriage 2
Certificate, November 29, 1874
74 Storch, Carl Friedrich Rudolph, "Auszug aus 1
dem Geburts und Taufbuche," 1867
75 "Treaty with the Yakima, 1855" 1
76 United States Indian Service, correspondence 5
77 United States, Congress, 88th, 1st session, 1
S-1442, May 2, 1963, a bill to close roll
of Colville Indian Reservation
78 United States, Congress, House, Committee 1
on Indian Affairs, Letter to All Indian
Members of the Reservation, June 10, 1944
79 United States, Department of the Interior, 1
Office of Indian Affairs, "Indians at Work,
July 1939."
80 "Walla Walla, 1856-1952, Historical Landmarks" 3
pamphlet
81 "Walla Walla: Cradle of Pacific Northwest 1
History," brochure
82 "Washington at a Glance" 1
83 Washington, Secretary of State, "Monuments in 1
the State of Washington"
84 Weaver, Harold, "A Tour of the Old Indian Camp 1
Grounds of Central Washington"
3 85 Winans, William P. letter 1
86 Wood, C. E. S. "An Indian Horse-Race," 3
"as it appeared in Century Magazine, January
1887, vol. 33, pp. 447-450"
CORRESPONDENCE FILES
BOX FOLDER DESCRIPTION ITEMS
3 87 Bills of Sale, Livestock 3
88 Converse, Mrs. George L., Letter from E. O. 1
Holland President Emeritus, WSC, 3-21-49
89 Curlew, Billy, correspondence 82
90 Huggins, E. L., U.S. Indian Service, 1
Camp Wenachiem sic, 5-18-1885
91 Kingston, Mrs. C. S., Letter from J. E. Sykes 1
10-15-51
92 White, Cull A., incoming correspondence 35
NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS
BOX FOLDER DESCRIPTION ITEMS
3 93 Brown, Judge William Compton 1
94 Curlew, Billy 1
95 Grand Coulee Dam, September 9, 1933 1
96 Indian Chiefs 2
97 James, Jim (Chief Jim James) 5
98 "Last Survivors Recall Nez Perce Retreat" 1
99 Miscellaneous Newspaper Clippings 10
100 Moses, Peter Dan 1
101 Palisades Potlatch 1
102 St. Mary's Mission, near Omak 3
103 Sensentzqh (Sin Scinto) 1
MISCELLANEOUS MATERIAL
BOX FOLDER DESCRIPTION ITEMS
3 104 Notepads--Cull A. White, part 1 7
105 Notepads--Cull A. White, part 2 6
106 Notepads--Cull A. White, part 3 5
107 Animal Horn 1
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS FROM FIRST ACCESSION
BOX FOLDER DESCRIPTION ITEMS
4 108 Manuscripts 13
109 Miscellaneous Notes, Clippings, Letters 29
110 Correspondence, Clippings 72
111 Correspondence with Mary Avery, WSU Archivist 27
112 Miscellaneous Photographs, Clippings 8
113 Oral History on Reel-to-Reel Cassette Tape 2
Oversize Green Foot Sophy Manuscript, n.d.