BOYD, ROBERT K.:
An Inventory of His Papers at the Minnesota Historical Society
Manuscripts Collection
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| Creator: |
Boyd, Robert K., 1845?-,
creator.
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| Title: | Robert Knowles Boyd papers. |
| Dates: | undated and 1925-1931. |
| Language: | Materials in English. |
| Abstract: | Manuscripts by Boyd recalling and discussing the U.S.-Dakota
War of 1862, particularly the battle at Birch Coulee, accompanied by maps. Includes
oversized sketch and map of a ground plan of the corral at Birch Coulee. Other
manuscripts discuss a sheer boom used in logging operations on the Chippewa River in
Wisconsin (circa 1860s), the Ojibwe language, and Jonathan Carver's explorations and
map of the Northwest. |
| Quantity: | 0.35 cubic feet (1 box and 3 oversize
items). |
| Location: | See Detailed Description for shelf
locations. |
Availability:
The collection is open for research use.
Preferred Citation:
[Indicate the cited item and/or series here].
Robert Knowles Boyd Papers. Minnesota Historical Society.
See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional
examples.
Accession Information:
Accession number: 2507; 2544; 2567; 2627; 2698; 3223; 3305; 3362; 6092; 8054;
10,732; 16,660
Processing Information:
Catalog ID number: 990017174800104294
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION
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| P694 | | Volume 1. Battle of Birch Coulée: personal recollections and
remarks, 1925?, 1927. 72 pages: holograph + 1 letter. |
| | | Originally given to Edward Chenery Gale by Boyd, includes Boyd's
transmittal letter to Gale, February 11, 1927. Maps tipped in on pages
37 and 49. |
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| | Volume 2. Birch Coulée: some highlights on the history of this
battle with the Indians, story and picture of Mrs. Krueger the wounded
woman, ground plan of the corral where men were killed and wounded,
saved by a miracle, the sound of musketry heard at Fort Ridgley 14 miles
away, November 1925. 27 pages: holograph. |
| | | "Maps tipped in on pages 25 and 27. Includes a photograph of Justina
Meyer (Mrs. Krueger), circa 1900, page 3; and a news clipping from a
September 1900 St. Paul newspaper reciting an account given by Meyer's
son John Lehn (Lane), pages 5-6. |
| | | Although Boyd consistently spells the name of the wounded woman as
"Krueger" throughout his papers, the same name is variantly spelled as
"Krieger" or "Kreiger" in accounts by others." |
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| | Volume 3. Birch Coulée: articles written by Robert K. Boyd,
published in 1926 in the "Morton
Enterprise" containing some items of history not heretofore
published, September 13, 1926. 19 pages: holograph. |
| | | Includes a note and map explaining how Boyd marked the location of
wagons, tents, and horses on May 30 and September 2, 1926. |
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| | Volume 4. Captain Grant at Birch Coulée: who was in command and
who should bear the blame of the disaster?, March 1927. 39 pages: holograph. |
| | | Maps tipped in on pages 13 and 31. |
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| | Volume 5. The Battle of Birch Coulée: a supplement to Dr.
Folwells History of Minnesota, volume 2. November 1928. 48 pages: holograph. |
| | | Maps tipped in on pages 5 and 29. Includes a photograph of Boyd taken in
January 1863, page 2. |
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| | Volume 6. The Battle of Birch Coulee: a wounded man’s description
of a battle with the Indians. By Robert K. Boyd. An address given at a
meeting of the Sons of veterans at Eau Claire, Wisconsin, in January
1925. Eau Claire, Wisconsin: Herges Printing Company,
1925, 1927. 24 pages + 1 letter. |
| | | Printed address originally given to Frank Hopkins by Boyd. Includes
Boyd's letter to Hopkins, February 15, 1927. The volume includes Boyd's
annotations providing added footnotes as well as manuscript maps tipped
in on front cover and on pages 13 and 15; a 33-page handwritten
supplement, Battle of Birch Coulee: some personal recollections and
experiences, and a record of small events and conditions now shown in
written history, also, some criticisms, sewn onto back cover; and a news
clipping, "Hon. J.J. Egan's version of the Battle of Birch Cooley,"
Morton Enterprise, February 24, 1927,
tipped in on back cover. |
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| P694 | | Letter to Mr. Editor, June 20, 1926. 4 leaves: holograph + 1 photocopy. |
| | | Copy of Boyd's letter published in the Morton
Enterprise and appearing as the first article in volume 3 of
his papers. |
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| | The Birch Coulee monument: are the inscriptions true to
history, December 1930. 6 leaves: typescript carbon copy + 1 photocopy. |
| | | Map tipped in on leaf 5. |
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| | Birch Coulee: the expedition and battle, March 1931. 18 leaves: typescript + 1 photocopy. |
| | | Maps tipped in on leaves 7 and 18. |
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| P694 | | A mechanical wonder: the sheer boom, February 28, 1926. 4 leaves: holograph. |
| | | Maps tipped in on verso of leaf 1 and on leaf 4. Illustrates and
describes the sheer boom, first used on the Chippewa River at Eau
Claire, Wisconsin and patented by Levi Pond around 1860. |
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| | Carver's explorations, August 1928. 7 pages: holograph. |
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| | Notes in regards to the explorations of Jonathan
Carver, July 1930. 13 pages: holograph. |
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| | Indian languages, undated. 2 leaves: holograph. |
| | | A brief manuscript describing the Ojibwe language. |
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| C26 | | Battle of Birch Coulée: ground plan of the corral. circa 1926. 1 map: ink and colored pencil on paper; 14 x 17.5 in. |
| | | A sketch. |
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Digital version
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| | Ground plan of corral: Battle of Birch Coulée, Sept. 2nd and 3rd,
1862, January 1926. 1 map: ink and colored pencil on paper; 14.75 x 21 in. + 1
card. |
| | | A more complete map heavily annotated by Boyd showing the location of
wagons, tents, horses, attacks, and relief troops as well as his own
positions throughout the battle. The map's accuracy was affirmed in an
undated note card left by R.F. Kennedy when the map was displayed at the
Minnesota Historical Society museum. |
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Digital version
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This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the
Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics,
persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.
- Topics:
- Birch Coulee, Battle of, Minn., 1862 -- Map.
- Booms (Log transportation)
- Dakota Indians -- Wars, 1862-1865.
- Dakota War, Minnesota, 1862.
- Inventions.
- Lumbering -- Wisconsin.
- Ojibwa Indians -- Language.
- Persons:
- Brown, Joseph Renshaw,
1805-1870.
- Carver, Jonathan,
1710-1780.
- Grant, Hiram Perry,
1828-1897.
- Pond, Levi.
- Places:
- Chippewa River (Wis.)
- Document Types:
- Maps -- Minnesota.
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