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Oklahoma -- Description and travel

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

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Henry Leavitt Ellsworth papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 196
Abstract:

The papers consist of several letters and two journals of Henry Ellsworth's travels to New Connecticut (1811) and to the West (1832) after his appointment as Commissioner to the Indians. In this capacity, he was to superintend the removal of Indian tribes to the south and west of Arkansas, and his journal of 1832 describes the life of the Indians in eastern Oklahoma. There is also one letter from Henry Leavitt Ellsworth to his son, Henry William Ellsworth, 27 July 1834.

Dates: 1811-1838