Browse Collections (8 total)

Newspapers Connected to the Tynan vs. Sweet Case

sweets confesssions .pdf

Correspondence between Governor William Sweet and Inmates Regarding Corruption in the Colorado State Penitentiary

shurtliff.pdf

Ku Klux Klan in Cañon City

klansmen creed.pdf

Governor William Sweet's Anti-Ku Klux Klan Stance

Box one Speeches 4, Klan .pdf

Governor William Sweet's Discourse on Law and Order

law enforcement .pdf

Governor William Sweet’s political advertisements and speeches stressed the importance of the state’s maintenance of order and the enforcement of law.…

Prison Reports

REAL Biennal Report .pdf

Prison reports, prepared by the National Society of Penal Information, were a thorough examination of the Colorado State Penitentiary in 1924.…

Correspondence between Governor William Sweet and Various Political Reformers

BIC 39.pdf

Governor William Sweet corresponded with several political reformers that were also interested in removing Warden Thomas Tynan from the Colorado State…

Correspondence Between Klan Member Frederick Arnold and Governor William Sweet

letter to Sweet, suggested reform for CSP .pdf

The chaplain of the Colorado State Penitentiary, who was also a member of the Ku Klux Klan and eventually became the Grand Dragon in Colorado,…