Scope and Contents From the Collection: The John F. Bannon Manuscript Collection documents the research, writing, and teaching of a prominent Jesuit professor who was associated with the Department of History at Saint Louis University for 34 years (1939-1973), with 28 of them as chairman. Bannon's writings and memoirs comment on his life as a priest, his academic community, the local Jesuit community, SLU's Department of History, and the history of the University. As a scholar, his research focused on the trans-Mississippi West...

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Bannon wrote this citation for the awarding to Burrus of an honorary doctor of letters degree.

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"Father Charles Nerinckx and the Missouri Province Jesuits" was published in "Loretto," volume 4, number 2 (Fall 1962).

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The two volumes, "The Great American West to 1848" and "The Great American West after 1848," were Bannon's syllabus texts for telecourse History 90a TV, offered by the University and KETC Channel 9.

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"Herbert Eugene Bolton—Western Historian" appeared in "The Western Historical Quarterly," volume 2, number 3 (July 1971).

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"History below the Jet Trails: St. Louis to Los Angeles" written by Bannon was booklet number two in American Airlines' historical series.

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Bannon, chairman of the Committee on Latin-American Relations of the Jesuit Education Association, issued this report on Latin-American students in Jesuit high schools, colleges, and universities.

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This article was published in "Missouri Historical Review," volume 64, number 1 (October 1969). It was originally presented at the commemoration of the three hundredth anniversary of Marquette's voyage down the Missouri River, celebrated in 1968.

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This article appeared in "South Dakota History," volume 4, number 2 (spring 1974). It was originally presented as a speech at the annual meeting of the South Dakota State Historical Society in 1973.

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Bannon delivered this address, later issued in pamphlet form, at the Creighton University Faculty Dinner in honor of the founders of the school in December 1950.