Alfred J. Mokler Letterboxes
Collection Metadata
Title
Alfred J. Mokler Letterboxes
Subject
Local authors -- Wyoming -- Natrona County -- Casper
Casper (Wyo.) -- History
Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.)
Natrona County (Wyo.) -- History
Description
The Alfred J. Mokler Letterboxes are a series of the larger archival collection that are his papers. Both his Letterboxes and his Notebooks available in this digital repository include holograph manuscripts, which is to say, manuscripts written in the author's hand. Much of the material in Mokler's Letterboxes dates to the 1920s and 1930s.
Collection Items
Letterbox 1-A
Among several items, this letterbox contains information on grain futures with a view from the Chicago Board of Trade, a handwritten account of early Natrona County Pioneers, an article by Don Russell on Buffalo Bill, and an article by Arthur Chapman…
Letterbox 1-B
Letterbox 1-B contains a short essay titled "The Days of the Week," a Tribune-Herald article titled "Earl Durand's Freshman Class in Powell High School," and a manuscript copy of an essay titled "Fable of Mateo Tepee, or the Devil's Tower."
Letterbox 1-C
This Letterbox contains a short essay titled "Good Fortune Does Not Always Mean Success."
Letterbox 1-E
This Letterbox contains an essay titled "Roundup of Historical Mavericks," Cow Country (January 25, 1947), a Visit Hell's Half Acre mailing card (1940), a handwritten article, and an article published in The Mountain States Monitor (March, 1927).…
Letterbox 1-F
This Letterbox contains an article titled "Frank Julian Writes of Some Early Ranches," an issue of Wyoming Roads (September, 1925), a paper titled "The Blackfeet Indians," and a copy of the Oregon Trail Memorial Association's December 29, 1930…
Letterbox 1-H
This Letterbox contains an article by Malcolm Campbell, published in the Casper Tribune-Herald on Sunday, March, 14, titled Packer, the Man-Eater, and a February 1926 issue of Motor Travel, titled "The Wagon-Boss: A Picturesque and Efficient…
Letterbox 1-I
This Letterbox contains newspaper clippings of articles written by Frances Seely Webb on Casper's first homes. There is also a paper on Shoshone Cavern National Monument.
Letterbox 1-K
This Letterbox contains a handwritten paper on Steve Tobin, who came to Wyoming from Ireland in the fall of 1895 and "in charge of 120 blooded rams." He met friends of his from Ireland in Casper and it is here he came to be engaged in the sheep…
Letterbox 1-L
This Letterbox contains an address to the Casper Literary Club on April 26, 1945, titled "This Changing World," a State of Wyoming Agricultural and Industrial Production and Miscellaneous Statistical Report, sections of the Casper Tribune-Herald from…