Indian agents
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Ethan Allen Hitchcock collection on Indian removal
Collection
Call Number: WA MSS S-2678
Overview:
The collection documents several episodes in the history of Indian removal in the southeastern United States and Missouri, focusing on the activities of Generals Ethan Allen Hitchcock and Thomas Sidney Jesup in the 1830s and early 1840s. Material includes autograph letters, signed, and manuscript reports, diaries, and maps.
Dates:
1804-1896
O'Fallon family papers
Collection
Call Number: WA MSS S-2729
Scope and Contents:
The papers include correspondence, photographs, and other papers documenting activities of United States Indian Agent Benjamin O'Fallon and his extended family. Most correspondence consists of letters to Benjamin O'Fallon, concerning Indian affairs in Missouri Territory and throughout what is now the western United States, as well as Missouri politics during the transition from territory to statehood; correspondents include Henry Atkinson, Thomas Hart Benton, William Clark, John C. Calhoun,...
Dates:
1803-1910