Collector. A typewritten manuscript (n.d.) in which Homer W. Wheeler describes his life as a U.S. Army scout; numerous broadsides, newspapers, and handbills (1840–1966) regarding the settlement of Kansas, along with a wide variety of other documents (1833–1965) collected by Farley and relating to the Civil War, settlement of Kansas, Indian battles on the Great Plains, with an emphasis on Kansas and on the history of the West in general.