George Suckley's correspondence with family, Isaac Stevens, and colleagues, describes the Stevens expedition to survey a northern route for a Pacific railroad in 1853, his life on the west coast 1854-56, the northwest Indian wars of 1854-58, and an 1859 overland journey to Utah with troops in 1859. Some letters document a controversy with Stevens over publication of Suckley's natural history of Washington Territory.
Description:
Accompanied by several leaves from Isaac Stevens's Narrative and Final Report, 1860, which describes the railway survey from Fort Owen to Vancouver., Dr. George Suckley, born in New York, graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York and became an army doctor. In 1853 he joined the Isaac I. Stevens railway survey as surgeon and naturalist and served in the Indian wars and at Fort Steilacoom as an assistant surgeon until 1858. The following year he was back east but returned across the Plains with recruits for the Utah regiment., and Gift of William Robertson Coe.
Subject (Geographic):
Washington (State)--Description and travel and West (U.S.)--Description and travel
Subject (Name):
Stevens, Isaac Ingalls,m1818-1862, Suckley, George, 1830-1869, Suckley, John H, and Suckley, Mary
Subject (Topic):
Railroads--Washington (State)--Surveying and Yakama Indians--Wars, 1855-1859
