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- Call Number:
- WA MSS S-1905
- Collection Title:
- Samuel F. Tappan papers relating to the Sand Creek Massacre
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1 | Folder 4
- Image Count:
- 4
- Abstract:
- Manuscript and typescript carbon letters, clippings and other documents relating to the Massacre at Sand Creek, Colorado. Included in the papers is a holograph manuscript draft of a letter to the editor of the New York Times dated July 26, 1897, in w...
- Description:
- Born in 1831 in Manchester, Massachusetts, Tappan went to Kansas in 1854 and joined the movement to make Kansas a free state. In 1860, after holding various state offices in Kansas, he moved to Colorado and commanded the First Colorado Cavalry Regime...
- Subject (Name):
- Chivington, John M. (John Milton), 1821-1894
- Subject (Topic):
- Indians of North America--Colorado
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > "The Indian Question"