The Western History Collections Library has over 80,000 volumes. It is one of the leading special collections of published Western Americana in the world. The Library has a general collection known as the Frank Phillips Collection, plus smaller collection and private libraries on specialized topics:

• Henry B. Bass Collection on Abraham Lincoln and the U.S. Civil War
• J. M. Bell Collection on Alaska and Arctic history
• B. M. Bower Collection of western fiction
• Glen Bradley Collection of OU Press books
• Norman Brillhart Collection on Indian wars in the Trans-Mississippi West and General George Armstrong Custer
• Edward Everett Dale Collection of western history and Oklahoma history
• Alan Farley Collection of Kansas and Oklahoma history, and the U.S. Civil War
• Frank and Patty Grass Collection of OU Press books
• Robert O. Fay and Helen S. Fay Collection on the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair
• Conrad Masterson Western Ranch History Collection and Study Room
• John W. Morris Collection on Oklahoma geography and history, and U.S./world geography
• Fred Schonwald Collection on the American Southwest and Native American art

The WHC Library has extensive holdings of scholarly journals in the field of western history, as well as a complete set of Reports and Bulletins of the Bureau of American Ethnology, and a collection of contemporary Native American newspapers.

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