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Creator
Title
Reports, 1858.
Physical Description
2 items (in a case) ; 31 cm.
Language
English
Provenance
Gift of William Robertson Coe.
Biographical / Historical Note
Alexander H. Redfield, United States Indian Agent for the Upper Missouri Agency.
Summary
The reports to Col. A. M. Robinson, Superintendent of Indian Affairs in St. Louis, cover Alexander Redfield's voyage from St. Louis up the Missouri and Yellowstone Rivers to Forts Benton and Sarpy distributing annuities and presents to the Arikarees, Assiniboines, Crees, Crows, Gros Ventres (Atsina Indians), Mandans, and Yanctons, and the attitude of the Indians toward the Treaty of Fort Laramie and recommendations for a peaceful settlement.
Publications
Reports of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs...for the Year 1858, p. 83-94.
Other formats
Typed transcript available.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
References
Withington, M. C. Catalogue of Western Americana Manuscripts, 397.
Alexander H. Redfield Reports. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Cite as
Alexander H. Redfield Reports. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Subjects
Occupation
Indian agents South Dakota.
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