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Cassius Irwin Leedy(1882-1960) was born at Leedy Springs on Lime Creek, South Dakota, and was a lifelong resident of Rapid City. He married Nora Fitzgerald in 1920, lived on St. Joseph Street, became the City Auditor for Rapid City, and was buried in Mountain View Cemetery. He was also involved in civic organizations and was the leader of the local historical society for many years. His collection was amassed over many years, and incudes items from pre-pioneer days in the Black Hills to the 1960's. The first items from his collection were donated to the Minnilusa Pioneer Association in 1960, and the last in 1995.His collection is one of the foundational collections for the Minnilusa Historical Archives and the Journey Museum displays. His collection items are designated CIL. His identified text collection takes 20 linear feet of shelf space. Donated objects are yet to be quantified.
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Notes
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This binder is filled with historical articles reprinted by Alice Gossage and Ed Lemmon out of old newspapers in the Black Hills area, or other sources mentioning Black Hills history. The scrapbook totals 81 pages, and most pages have several articles on each page, front and back, although some are typewritten essays.Titles are numerous and varied, such as; mining life in the Black Hills, Custer's Report on the Black HIlls in 1874, the Trip of the Gordon Party to the Black Hills, the Red Cloud Agency 1876, The History of Tin and Mica Mining in the Hills, Scenes and incidents in the early Settlement of the Rapid Valley, Towns of Pennington County, City Topics, Tales of the Hills, The Peno Flatt Clean-up, Extermination of the Buffalo, Developing the West, When Mountain Sheep were Plentiful Here. Pawnee Indians As Soldiers, Applegates Expedition, The Killing of Chief Spotted Tail by Crow Dog, Buffalo Bones, Migratory birds-the Pigeon and Turkey, Texas Trail Drives, Bill Fugate and Bill Carson, Killing of Ike Lowe by Charley Ensley and Stealing of Tisler Bros. Horses, 1938, Chips and Whetstones-Sioux Uprising of 1890, Annihilation of the Few Tails Band, Freighting Days, 1876-1886, Abe Jones. Articles date from 1874-1950. Handtyped index in front pocket of binder. Approximatewly 200 pages.
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