Circa thirty letters, most autograph, signed, to George LeRoy Brown, primarily concerning his term as acting Indian agent of Pine Ridge Agency in South Dakota. Brown's dispute with writer and activist Charles Eastman is particularly well documented. B...
Description:
George LeRoy Brown (1849-1921) was acting Indian agent at the Pine Ridge Agency from 1891 to 1893, following the Wounded Knee Massacre in 1890. An 1872 graduate of West Point, Brown served as professor of military science at Delaware College, later th...
Subject (Geographic):
South Dakota. and Pine Ridge (S.D.)
Subject (Name):
Brown, George LeRoy, 1849-1921., Cutcheon, Byron M., 1836-1908., Eastman, Charles A., 1858-1939., Hare, William Hobart, 1838-1909., Pratt, Richard Henry, 1840-1924., Sanford, George B. 1842-1908. (George Bliss),, Welsh, Herbert, 1851-1941., and United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Pine Ridge Agency.
Subject (Topic):
Dakota Indians, Government relations, Indian agents, and Indian reservations
The collection consists of journals, financial documents, account books, correspondence, photographs and maps that document the professional and personal life of George W. Conover. The bulk of the material dates from the turn of the twentieth century,...
Description:
George W. Conover (1848-1936), a native of Philadelphia, was a merchant, rancher and Indian agent in southwestern Oklahoma. From 1870 to 1873 he worked at the Indian commissary at Fort Sill, after which he moved to the area of Andarko to become a ranc...
Subject (Geographic):
Oklahoma., Andarko (Okla.), Caddo County (Okla.), Indian Territory., Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Indian Reservation (Okla.), Oklahoma, Wichita Reservation (Okla.), and Indian Territory
Subject (Name):
Conover, George W., 1848- and Conover, Tomasa.
Subject (Topic):
Businessmen, Caddo Indians, Comanche Indians, Delaware Indians, Indian agents, Kiowa Indians, Land settlement, Indians of North America, Ranchers, Statehood (American politics), Wichita Indians, Government relations, Land tenure, Indian reservations, Politics and government, and Social life and customs
Manuscript diary in the hand of Henry Ridinger, 1878-1882. Ridinger describes his work as a herder in Colorado, landscapes and topography in Colorado, Navajo settlements, working in the hay trade, a shooting and arrest in Colorado, and his travel thr...
Description:
Henry Ridinger (1851-1938) was born in either Iowa or Illinois in 1851. His family moved to Kansas in 1857 and he left home at the age of 11, circa 1862. He worked as a cattle herder and hay farmer in Colorado, Kansas, and Oklahoma for several years i...
Subject (Geographic):
Colorado., Oklahoma., Oklahoma, Colorado, Indian Territory, and Kansas
Subject (Name):
Ridinger, Henry, 1851-1938. and Ridinger, Sam
Subject (Topic):
Agriculture, Cherokee Indians, Crime, Hay trade, Herders, Hunting, Indians of North America, Government relations, Jews, Navajo Indians, Osage Indians, Pawnee Indians, Ute Indians, Waco Indians, and Description and travel
The papers consist of correspondence, maps and documents relating to two delegations led by John Coffee to negotiate with the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations. The first delegation (in 1829) was to gather information on a Cherokee and Cr...
Description:
General John Coffee (1772-1833), born in Tennessee, was a delegate of the United States Government in negotiations with Indian nations of the southern states during the Andrew Jackson administration, and was a friend and business partner of President ...
Subject (Geographic):
Southern States., Cherokee Nation, and Creek Nation
Subject (Name):
Cass, Lewis, 1782-1866., Coffee, John, 1772-1833., Eaton, John., Forsyth, John., and Long, George W.
Subject (Topic):
Cherokee Indians, Government relations, Chickasaw Indians, Relocation, Chocktaw Indians, Creek Indians, Indians of North America, Indian Removal, 1813-1903, and Boundaries
The papers consist of correspondence, maps and documents relating to two delegations led by John Coffee to negotiate with the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations. The first delegation (in 1829) was to gather information on a Cherokee and Cr...
Description:
General John Coffee (1772-1833), born in Tennessee, was a delegate of the United States Government in negotiations with Indian nations of the southern states during the Andrew Jackson administration, and was a friend and business partner of President ...
Subject (Geographic):
Southern States., Cherokee Nation, and Creek Nation
Subject (Name):
Cass, Lewis, 1782-1866., Coffee, John, 1772-1833., Eaton, John., Forsyth, John., and Long, George W.
Subject (Topic):
Cherokee Indians, Government relations, Chickasaw Indians, Relocation, Chocktaw Indians, Creek Indians, Indians of North America, Indian Removal, 1813-1903, and Boundaries
The letters to John Flett, special sub-Indian agent at Wapato Lake, request information about the Indians in his area and their attitude toward the hostile Indians, and give instructions on gathering the Indians in encampments. There is a letter from ...
Description:
General Joel Palmer, first superintendent of Indian affairs for Oregon Territory.
Subject (Geographic):
Oregon
Subject (Name):
Blanchard, P. D., Flett, John, 1815-1892., Jennings, Berryman., and Palmer, Joel, 1810-1881.
An incomplete set of images from a portfolio of studio portrait photographs of Indian delegates to the United States created by the photographic studio of Alexander Gardner in Washington, D.C., for the Blackmore Museum, Salisbury, England, 1872. Indi...
Description:
Photographs are mounted on boards with typescript captions and image numbers 82, 86, 94, 95, 97, 102, 106, 111, 114, 117, and 120.
Subject (Name):
Alvord, Henry E. 1844-1904. (Henry Elijah),, Antelope, Big Foot, d. 1890, Black Crow, Cayote, Chewing Elk, Esquitzchew, Gap In The Salt, Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882., Gray Leggings, Jim Comanche Indian, Knee-War-War, Blackmore Museum (Salisbury, England), and Keeche Tribe
Subject (Topic):
Arapaho Indians, Caddo Indians, Comanche Indians, Indians of North America, Government relations, Kiowa Indians, Tawakoni Indians, and Wichita Indians
Studio portrait photographs of Dakota Indian delegates to the United States created by the photographic studio of Alexander Gardner in Washington, D.C., for the Blackmore Museum, Salisbury, England, 1872. The imprints for the leaves, which include th...
Description:
Title from accompanying title and contents leaves.
Publisher:
Gibson Brothers, printers
Subject (Name):
Big Foot, d. 1890, Blackmore, William, 1827-1878, Blue Horse, Cayote, Dirt Face, Ear of Corn, Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882., Hard Heart, Lone Wolf, Dakota Indian, One Afraid of the Eagle, Poor Elk, Red Cloud, 1822-1909, Red Dog, Dakota Indian, Slow Bull, Two Elks, White Hawk, and Blackmore Museum (Salisbury, England)
Subject (Topic):
Dakota Indians, Indians of North America, and Government relations
