37 ALS, 23 of them written by Smith to his brother John Curtis Bowen and his sisters Marcia and Lucia Smith, while he attended Middlebury College, Andover Theological Seminary, and Yale Theological Seminary. These letters carry local news and religiou...
Description:
Smith was a missionary in Oregon and Hawaii. He was sent in 1838 to Oregon by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. In 1842 he became a missionary in Hawaii. He returned to the Northeast in 1846, and became a pastor of the Buckland...
Subject (Geographic):
United States., Oregon., and Hawaii.
Subject (Name):
Smith, Asa Bowen, 1809-1886., Smith, John Curtis., Smith, Lucia., Smith, Marcia., American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions., Andover Theological Seminary., First Congregational Church (Buckland, Mass.), and Yale College (1718-1887). Theological Department.
Circa 80 items, mostly ALS written to Alice M. Bement Fletcher in Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, by members of her family. Thirty-three letters, 1865-1886, were written to Fletcher by Charles H. Bement, most discussing his life as a rancher near Kan...
Description:
Alice M. Bement Fletcher was born ca. 1855 and was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. She married William Fletcher in the 1870s. Family members who corresponded with Alice M. Bement Fletcher included her brothers, Charles H...
Subject (Geographic):
Middle West., Utah., Millard County (Utah), Utah, Millard County., and Nauvoo (Ill.)
Subject (Name):
Adams, Rosa., Bement family., Bement, Arthur., Bement, Bingham., Bement, Charles H., Bement, Sarah J., Cook, Jessie, fl. 1886-1889., Cook, Mary., Fletcher, Addie L., Fletcher, Alice M. Bement., Fletcher, Jasper., Forbes family., Forbush family., Pierce, Fred C., Rogers, Annie., Searle, Ida A., Searle, Maria J., Twiss, John S., Warburton, Sarah., Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints., and Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Subject (Topic):
Missions, Mormons, Frontier and pioneer life, and Ranch life
11 manuscript letters, most signed, documenting the work of early missionaries in Oregon. Most of the letters from Harvey Clark are addressed to fellow unaffiliated missionary Alvin T. Smith. Clark describes his overland journey to Oregon Territory,...
Description:
Harvey Clark (1807-1858) was a missionary and pioneer in Oregon. Born in Vermont, Clark trained as a stone mason before studying theology at Oberlin College. Clark and his wife Emmeline Caldwell Clark went to Oregon as unaffiliated missionaries in 18...
Subject (Geographic):
Oregon. and Oregon
Subject (Name):
Clark, Emmeline Caldwell., Clark, Harvey, 1807-1858., Littlejohn, P. B., Munger, Asahel., Smith, Alvin Thompson, 1802-1888., Spalding, Henry Harmon, 1803-1874., Whitman, Marcus, 1802-1847., and Tualatin Academy.
Subject (Topic):
Frontier and pioneer life, Indians of North America, Education, Missions Oregon, Missionaries, Missions, Overland journeys to the Pacific, Pioneers, and Discovery and exploration
Correspondence relating to Jonathan Edwards's mission to Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Includes a letter from Edwards to Elisha Williams stating the reasons why Abigail Williams Sergeant Dwight should not be made headmistress of a Native American female...
Description:
Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) was a theologian and leader of the Great Awakening. He served as minister of the Congregationalist Church at Northampton, Massachusetts from 1726-1750 and became a missionary to the Mahican and Mohawk Indians at Stockbridg...
Subject (Geographic):
Massachusetts, Stockbridge, United States, Massachusetts., and Stockbridge (Mass.)
Calvinism, Clergy, Dissenters, Religious, Girls' schools, Indians of North America, Education, Missions, Mahican Indians, Missions, American, Mohawk Indians, Off-reservation boarding schools, Stockbridge Indians, Women, Women school principals, and Church history
Journal kept in a composition book by clerks of the Pawnee Indian Baptist Church, Pawnee, Oklahoma, and related photographs depicting Pawnee Indian members of the church and other Native Americans, 1907-1920
Description:
Reverend Joseph Greenberry Brendel (1862-1926) founded the Pawnee Indian Baptist Church on September 20, 1908 and served as its minister until April 20, 1911, when Harry Bock (1865-1949) took charge of the church. Bock worked many years with western ...
Subject (Geographic):
Oklahoma., Oklahoma, Anadarko (Okla.), Darrow (Okla.), and Pawnee (Okla.)
Subject (Name):
Bock, Harry V., 1865-1949., Brendel, Allwilda Belle Griffith., Brendel, Joseph Greenberry., Burns, Hattie Smith., Dillon, Vince., Gillingham, David, Gray Eagle., Hole in the Ground., Knife Chief, Charles., Knife Chief, Maggie., Long Wolf, Jenny., Moses, John., Moses, Nettie., Peters, Robert., Pratt, Lester., As-sau-Taw-Ka., Chilocco Indian Agricultural School., Oklahoma Indian Baptist Association., Pawnee Indian Baptist Church., St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad Company., and United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Kiowa Agency.
Subject (Topic):
Baptists, Missions, Indians of North America, Kiowa Indians, Missionaries, Osage Indians, Oto Indians, Pawnee Indians, Peyotism, and Ponca Indians
Photographs of gold mining operations in the Yukon, including views of hydraulic mining, dredging, and the use of steam to thaw the ground. The journey to the Yukon used both steamer and rail travel, and there are views from aboard boat of the shore...
Description:
Manuscript captions on versos.
Subject (Geographic):
Alaska, Yukon River Valley (Yukon and Alaska), and Dawson (Yukon)
Subject (Name):
White Pass & Yukon Route (Firm)
Subject (Topic):
Fortification, Gold mines and mining, Hydraulic mining, Missions, and Gold discoveries
United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Shoshone Agency
Call Number:
WA MSS S-2205
Container / Volume:
Volume 10
Image Count:
5
Abstract:
Seven volumes of letterpress copies of ALS and TLS concerning business of the Shoshone Agency at the Wind River Indian Reservation, 1903-1907; two volumes of letterpress copies of manuscript and typescript letters and receipts relating to financial bu...
Description:
The Wind River Indian Reservation, located in Fremont County, Wyoming, was created for the Eastern Shoshoni Indians under provisions of the Treaty of Fort Bridger in 1868. Part of the Reservation was occupied by Northern Arapaho Indians in 1878. Har...
Subject (Geographic):
Eastern Shoshone Tribe of the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming., Northern Arapaho Tribe., Wyoming., Fort Washakie (Wyo.), and Wind River Indian Reservation (Wyo.)
Subject (Name):
Burnett, Fincelius G., 1844-1933., Nickerson, H. G., Ryder, James P., Wadsworth, Harry E., and United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Shoshone Agency.
Subject (Topic):
Arapaho Indians, Government relations, Land tenure, Missions, Arapaho reservations, Social life and customs, Indian reservations, Shoshoni Indians, and Shoshoni reservations
