Letter : Santa Fe, New Mexico Territory, to Brantz Mayer, Baltimore, Maryland

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Title: Letter : Santa Fe, New Mexico Territory, to Brantz Mayer, Baltimore, Maryland
Creator: Donaldson, James Lowry, 1814-1885
Contributor: Donaldson, James Lowry, 1814-1885
Mayer, Brantz, 1809-1879
Published / Created: 1860 May
Abstract: ALS relating news of the Navajo attack on Fort Defiance, Arizona Territory, April 30, 1860, and discussing Donaldson's views on relations between the United States and the Navajos. The letter is bound with a typed transcript.
Description: Gift of Frederick W. Beinecke, 1960.
James Lowry Donaldson was an officer in the United States Army, 1836-1869, who served in the Second Seminole War, military occupation of Texas, the Mexican War, and the Civil War. He was chief quartermaster of the Department of New Mexico from 1858 to 1862.
Extent: 1 item (4 p.) ; 25 cm., bound in v., 29 cm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Format: text
Genre: Correspondence
Typescripts
Resource Type: Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Geographic): Fort Defiance (Ariz.)
Subject (Name): Donaldson, James Lowry, 1814-1885
Mayer, Brantz, 1809-1879
Subject (Topic): Indians of North America--Arizona--Government relations
Indians of North America--New Mexico--Government relations
Indians of North America--Wars--Arizona
Navajo Indians--Government relations
Navajo Indians--Wars

Access: Public
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Citation: James Lowry Donaldson, Letter to Brantz Mayer. Western Americana Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.