The old timers : a social history of the way of life of the homesteading pioneers in the prairie states during the first few years of settlement, as shown by a typical community, the 'Old-Timers' of Beadle county in South Dakota / written in Huron, State of South Dakota, by J. L. Carr.

Carr has interleaved photocopies of a series of gouache drawings of the landscape and architecture, presumably his own, as well as photocopies of March 1957 photographs of houses. A newspaper clipping about the book from The Daily Plainsman, May 26, 1957, is mounted on inside front cover. Original and photocopied notes and drafts, chiefly typewritten with some ink emendations, pasted or laid in; author's autograph statement about the book, dated in ink November 1983. Formerly mounted to the verso of the last leaf is a carbon copy of a typewritten letter or article, titled "How J. L. Carr's 'The Old Timers' enriched my appreciation of pioneers," and signed in ink Ella Evans. With 9 leaves of Carr's typewritten transcriptions of primary sources mounted to the inside back cover (see description below).
Attached to the inside back cover are 9 leaves of reprographic typewritten notes on the verso of Kiwanis Club or Izaak Walton League letterhead, side-stapled, with a few added handwritten notes and marks made by Carr in ink. The dossier is titled 'Statements of Mr and Mrs Albert Hoy, as given to the Secretary of the Beadle County Historical Society March 13, 1935,' and contains a detailed account of the Hoy family history and the conditions they lived in after settling in the Dakotas in the early 1880s. Within that narrative is a transcription of a letter dated 11 January 1863 from Joseph Hoy, Moscow, Tennessee, relating his experience fighting for the Union in the American Civil War, notably the 'Holly Springs Raid' in Mississippi in December 1862 and the Union's seizure of food from local inhabitants.
Designated by the author as one of 10 copies remaining from 40, though the edition size is stated variously by Carr elsewhere in handwritten and typed inserts as between 50 and 100.
Bound by Elmer Collins, according to author's note laid in; Collins likely produced the reprographic copies from Carr's stencils.
Pagination has been supplied in ink by the author, when lacking.