Letter to Henry Ross, from Lewis Ross, Fort Gibson, Cherokee Nation, describing raids on Wagon Trains from or to Fort Scott, December 7, 1864
Item — Folder: 29
Identifier: 4026.279-.1
Description
Folder 29
Dates
- Creation: December 7, 1864
Language of Materials
From the Collection:
Materials in English and Cherokee
Access Restrictions
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Full Extent
From the Collection: 82 item(s)
Medium
ink on paper
Cultural context
Genre / Form
- Letter
- manuscripts
- battles -- battle -- fighting
- bread -- breads
- buckboards -- buckboard -- buck wagons
- buggies (carriages) -- buggy
- corn (seed)
- deaths -- death
- fathers -- father
- letters (correspondence) -- Letter
- mothers -- mother
- schools -- school
- security guards -- security guard -- security officers -- security personnel
- sons -- son
- trains -- train -- railroad trains -- railway trains
Geographic
- Baxter Springs
- Cherokee Nation -- tsalagi ayeli -- tsalagiyi
- Fort Gibson -- Uweti Disoyv
- Fort Scott
- Fort Smith
- Kansas
- Pennsylvania
- Red River
- Walnut Creek
Style / Period
- Cherokee (culture or style) -- Keetoowah
- Native American (culture or style) -- American Indian -- Indigenous American
- post-Removal
Topical
Repository Details
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