ALS written by Captain Stuart from Fort Smith on the eastern boundary of the Arkansas frontier, to his commanding officer at Fort Gibson, expressing his regret that he and Arbuckle do not agree on the need for troops at Fort Smith. Stuart states that the Indians are not hostile, and that Arkansas frontiersmen have petitioned the government for troops only for political and economic reasons. He explains that he has reported his opinions directly to the Secretary of War as he is the commander of a separate post, just as Arbuckle is, and that in addition to letters written in opposition to the posting of troops at Fort Smith, he has suggested an alternate site at S[wallow?] Rock. He concludes his letter by stating that although he knew Arbuckle was in favour of having troops stationed at Fort Smith in the past, the deaths of six soldiers, one surgeon and four citizens since August might have induced him to change his opinion. Accompanied by typed transcript.
Description:
Purchased by Goodspeed's Book Shop, Inc., on the Walter McClintock Memorial Fund, 1982.
Subject (Geographic):
Fort Smith (Ark.)
Subject (Name):
Arbuckle, Matthew, 1776-1851, Stuart, John, active 1837, United States Army Infantry Regiment, 7th, and United States Army--Military life--History--19th century
Subject (Topic):
Frontier and pioneer life--Arkansas, Indians of North America--Arkansas, and Soldiers--United States
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. and 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.
Subject (Geographic):
Fort Defiance (Ariz.)
Subject (Name):
Donaldson, James Lowry, 1814-1885 and 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, and Navajo Indians--Wars
Dawes, Henry L. (Henry Laurens), 1816-1903 Welsh, Herbert, 1851-1941
Published / Created:
[1885]
Call Number:
WA MSS 243
Collection Title:
William Hobart Hare papers
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 3
Image Count:
13
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
The papers, primarily correspondence, deal with the rights of Indians to the land in the reservation under the treaty of 1868 and the agreement of 1882, the influx of settlers under President Arthur's executive order of Feb. 27, 1885, and the rights of settlers dispossessed by President Cleveland's proclamation of April 17, 1885.
Subject (Name):
Hare, William Hobart, 1838-1909 and Indian Rights Association
Subject (Topic):
Dakota Indians--Government relations--1869-1934 and Dakota Indians--Reservations
Samuel F. Tappan papers relating to the Sand Creek Massacre
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 2
Image Count:
2
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 which Tappan corrects statements made in the newspaper regarding the massacre; an undated typescript carbon letter to an unidentified recipient in which Tappan discusses the military commission that investigated the massacre; a photocopy of a notarized statement dated June 1, 1957, by Frank M. Wynkoop which describes a meeting with the commander of the Sand Creek troops, Colonel John M. Chivington; a photocopy of a broadside entitled The Indian Question; a clipping of Tappan's letter to the editor of the New York Tribune dated September 16, 1867, regarding the "origins of the Indian War"; and newspaper clippings relating to the Massacre and Tappan obituary notices.
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 Regiment. Tappan presided over the first investigation of the Sand Creek Massacre in which hundreds of surrendered and partially disarmed Cheyenne and Arapaho were killed in a surprise attack by troops under the command of Colonel John M. Chivington in 1864. After attaining the rank of colonel in 1865, he was mustered out of the Army and appointed a member of the United States Indian Peace Commission. He promoted emigration to Oregon while employed by the Oregon Steamship and Railroad Company, and was superintendent of the Nebraska Indian Industrial School. He was a correspondent to major newspapers throughout the United States, and wrote frequently on American Indian human rights issues. He died in Washington, D.C. in 1913.
Letter requests William Hickey to draw a bill providing for the governments of California, New Mexico, and Utah.
Description:
Gift of William Robertson Coe. and Henry Stuart Foote (1804-1880), elected United States senator from Mississippi in 1847 and later governor, supported the Compromise of 1850. He spent part of the 1850's in California but returned to Mississippi.
Subject (Name):
Foote, Henry S. (Henry Stuart), 1804-1880 and Hickey, William, 1798-1866
Franklin Richards's letter describes his westward journey from St. Louis, the hostility of settlers, the massacre at Haun's Mill, and his stay in the West. He also writes about the Mormon war, relatives in the West, his faith, the fertility of the country, and his return to Illinois Town, where he worked cutting timber.
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.)--Description and travel
Subject (Name):
Richards, Phineas. 1788-1874 and Richards, Wealthy Dewey, 1786-
George Kendall's letters relate to the Texan Santa Fe expedition and his book, The War between the United States and Mexico. Accompanying these are a draft of a letter from Kendall's family to Daniel Webster, Secretary of State, and his answer.
Subject (Name):
Kendall, Geo. Wilkins (George Wilkins), 1809-1867, Kendall, Thaddeus, Rix, Catherine F. Kendall, Rix, William, 1811-1892, and United States Department of State
Subject (Topic):
Mexican War, 1846-1848, Texan Santa Fé Expedition, 1841, and The War between the United States and Mexico