The Crookston collection spans four generations, beginning with Robert Crookston and ending with Burns Ballantyne Crookston, his great-grandson. The majority of the collection consists of the records of Nicholas Welch Crookston, including correspondence (1917-1927); personal papers (1886-1932); scrapbooks, diaries and memoranda (1857-1930); an autobiography concerning his activities as Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Bishop of the Greenville Ward; Crookston family genealogy; and papers concerning a business deal with the Boston Land Company and Frederick Steigmeyer in Huron, Calif. (1917-1918) to develop the desert in the San Joaquin Valley.

Also includes Alice Melvina Rice Crookston correspondence (1897-1918) and personal papers (1892-1925); Nicholas Oscar Crookston correspondence (1917-1927), personal papers, and diaries (1905-1919), including one recording his daily activities as a soldier in WWI (1918); Spencer Cleveland Crookston correspondence (1917-1918); Newell James Crookston writings (1890-1976) including his autobiography and North Logan community history; Burns Ballantyne Crookton writings (1960-1976); and Robert Crookston autobiography (ca. 1910).