Jerome C. Burnett

Burnett, Jerome C.
L24
1872
1 mss box

Manuscript & Rare Books Division
Indiana State Library

Processed by: Marcia R. Caudell, August 2010

Jerome C. Burnett was born in New Jersey, May 15, 1833 and moved to Terre Haute Indiana when a child. He was a newspapers correspondent, poet, lecturer, banker, and Deputy State Auditor. He married Elizabeth Lange in 1870.

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Parker, Benjamin Strattan, and Enos Boyd Heiney. 1900. Poets and poetry of Indiana; a representative collection of the poetry of Indiana during the first hundred years of its history as territory and state, 1800 to 1900. New York: Silver, Burdett and Co.

The collection consists of Burnett’s account, written in 1872, of a trip to Denver Colorado and the Rocky Mountains, which he titled “Six months in the saddle and camp, or roughing it in the Rockies in 1870.”

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Box 1.  The collection is 18 folders and each folder is a chapter of the account.

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