National Museum of the American Indian

John Upton Terrell manuscripts

Summary

Collection ID:
NMAI.AC.400
Creators:
Terrell, John Upton
Dates:
circa 1975
Languages:
English
.
Physical Description:
0.42 Linear feet
Repository:
This collection consists of 2 unpublished book manuscripts,
Shawnee Chronicle
and
Frontier Soldier
, written by John Upton Terrell in approximately 1975.

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents
The John Upton Terrell manuscripts consist of 2 unpublished book manuscripts,
Shawnee Chronicle
and
Frontier Soldier
, written by author and historian John Upton Terrell in approximately 1975. His manuscript
Shawnee Chronicle
provides a history of the Shawnee peoples, their migrations, and their interactions with other Native and non-Native groups up until the early 19th century. Terrell's other manuscript in this collection,
Frontier Soldier
, chronicles the life of U.S. Army Major General George Crook, known for his involvement in the "Indian Wars" in the decades directly following the Civil War.

Arrangement

Arrangement
The materials in this collection maintain their original order.

Biographical / Historical

Biographical / Historical
John Upton Terrell was born in 1900 in Chicago, Illinois. During his teenage years he moved west, working first as a ranch hand in Montana, before later becoming a journalist and author in California. Terrell eventually published over three dozen books, many on the history of the Old West and various Native American communities. He died in 1988 at age 87.

Administration

Author
Nathan Sowry
Processing Information
Processed by Nathan Sowry, Reference Archivist, in 2020.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated to the Smithsonian Institution Libraries by John Upton Terrell's daughter, Nena Terrell in 2019. Transferred from Smithsonian Institution Libraries to the NMAI Archives Center in 2019.

Using the Collection

Conditions Governing Access
Access to NMAI Archives 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: nmaiarchives@si.edu).
Conditions Governing Use
Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from National Museum of the American Indian Archives Center. Please submit a written request to nmaiphotos@si.edu. For personal or classroom use, users are invited to download, print, photocopy, and distribute the images that are available online without prior written permission, provided that the files are not modified in any way, the Smithsonian Institution copyright notice (where applicable) is included, and the source of the image is identified as the National Museum of the American Indian. For more information please see the Smithsonian's Terms of Use and NMAI Archive Center's Digital Image request website.
Preferred Citation
Identification of specific item; circa 1975; John Upton Terrell manuscripts, Box and Folder Number, NMAI.AC.400; National Museum of the American Indian Archives Center, Smithsonian Institution.

Related Materials
Many of John Upton Terrell's published works on the history of Native American peoples are in the collections of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian Library.

Keywords

Keywords table of terms and types.
Keyword Terms Keyword Types
Shawnee Cultural Context Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Crook, George, 1829-1890 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid

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