MS 225 - Mrs. Troup E. Saxon Collection

Buffalo Bill Center of the West

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Buffalo Bill Center of the West


Repository

Title: Mrs. Troup E. Saxon Collection
Dates (Inclusive) 1909-1914
Manuscript #: MS 255
Quantity 1 oversize box, 1/4 c.f.
Repository: McCracken Research Library, Buffalo Bill Center of the West

Collection Description

Letters, photographs, and news reports about Mrs. Troup E. Saxon of Claremore, Oklahoma, 1909-1914. She was a representative of and featured shooter in advertisements for the Ithaca Gun Company. She and her husband, Capt. Troup E. Saxon, held shooting demonstrations at trap shoots and helped organize shooting clubs in Oklahoma and northern Texas.

Restrictions

Access Restrictions

All collection materials are used under staff supervision within the Reference and Research Rooms of the McCracken Research Library during stated public service hours. Research appointments are strongly encouraged, especially for primary documents.

Copy Restrictions

User is responsible for all copyright compliance.

Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

MS 255, Mrs. Troup E. Saxon Collection, McCracken Research Library, Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, Wyoming.

Acquistion Information

Collection was donated in April, 2000.

Access Points

Ithaca Gun Company.

Pepple, Ruth Alexander.

Saxon family.

Saxon, Mrs. Troup E.

Saxon, Rose.

Saxon, Worth.

Sharpshooters.

Sharpshooting -- Exhibitions.

Shooters of firearms.

Shooting -- Exhibitions.

Wiltse, Dick.

Description Container

Mrs. Troup E. Saxon documents 

 

Photographs of Mrs Troup E. Saxon:

P.255.1, b&w postcard;
P.255.2, matted b&w print. 

Box 1 Folder 1

Publicity correspondence,  1910-1911.
Box 1 Folder 2

Ithaca Gun Company advertisements
 

Box 1 Folder 3

Correspondence, Ithaca Gun Company and Mrs. Troup Saxon,  1909-1910
Box 1 Folder 4

Correspondence, Ithaca Gun Company and Mrs Troup Saxon,  1911
Box 1 Folder 5

Correspondence, Ithaca Gun Company and Mrs Troup Saxon,  1912, 1914
Box 1 Folder 6

Publicity articles,  1910-1911

  

"The Outdoor Woman and Her Gun," by Ruth Alexander Pepple, Field & Stream, Incomplete, pp.44-46,  1910/05.
Box 1 Folder 7

"Trap Shooting and Its Lady Devotees," by Dick Wiltse [Mrs. Ruth C. Pepple], The Sportsmen's Review, v. 38, no. 25, pp. 584-586,  1910/12/17.
Box 1 Folder 7

"The Outdoor Woman," by Ruth Alexander Pepple, Outdoor Life, v. 28, no. 1, pp. 2-9,  1911.
Box 1 Folder 7

News report -- 2 copies,Sports Afield, p. 274,  1911/09.
Box 1 Folder 7

"Master Worth Saxon," The Sportsmen's Review, p. 64,  1911?
Box 1 Folder 7

"Miss Rose Sexon [sic] at Ely Gun Shoot" -- news clipping,  1914?
Box 1 Folder 7

News reports of Mrs. Troup Saxon's trap scores from various pages of :
The Sportsmen's Review;
The American Field;
and an issue of The Ely Daily Mining Explorer,   June 5, 1914
Box 1 Folder 8