Collection: Elsie Kray Riddle papers | ArchivesSpace Public Interface

Content Description

Elsie Kray Riddle papers (undated) Collection consists of unpublished manuscript of "Hell on Horses and Women" by Elsie Kray Riddle. Non-fiction autobiography detailing Elsie's youth spent working and living in Hardin, MT and norther Wyoming during the 1910's. Includes names of local members of the Hardin community including her husband, Dewey Riddle, who served two terms as the Big Horn County Sheriff. Throughout the writing brief histories of the areas are included.

Dates

Creation: undated

Creator

Riddle, Elsie Kray, 1894-1971 (Author, Person)

Biographical / Historical

Elsie Riddle (nee Krajicek) was born November 5, 1894. By 1915 she was living Hardin, MT working as the Big Horn County stenographer. Not long after her arrival she met Dewey Stilley Riddle. The two were married June 1915 while visiting her parents in Sheridan County, WY. Dewey Riddle was the first sherrif of Big Horn County. The couple started a homestead in Big Horn County but by 1920 the couple was recorded in the US Census as living in the Cody, WY area. Elsie passed away November 15, 1971 in Palm Desert, CA.