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Biography reads: "Born 1818, Served as a guide and hunter for Col Fremont in 1846, been in several engagements with the mountain Indians and in one against the Sioux and Shians and one against the Pawnees, Isha'-la-wis". Folder 255A

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Biography reads: "Born 1819, Interpreter to the Dellawares [sic] formerly interpreter to the Shawnees and Kickapoo, was educated at the Shawnee Methodist Mission, and recommended to the U. S. Government as interpreter in 1837 by the Rev. Thomas Johnson, a great advocate of Education and Religion among the Indians, One of the Delegation of Delaware in January 1859." Folder 255A

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Biography reads: "Born 1819, Brother to the Head Chief of the Dellawares [sic], Served as a guide and hunter to Col Fremont in 1846, Engaged in several skirmishes with the Indians of the mountains and survived a wound in the leg in one of the engagements." Folder 255A

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Longhand biography of Sequoyah with transcription by Levi Gritts. Folder 11

Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: A treaty of several tribes of Indians, primarily Seneca, Wyandotte, Delaware and Shawnee. Concluded at St Mary's, Ohio, in 1818, signed by John C. Calhoun in 1826. Accompanying the treaty is a large plat showing the allotment of lands, signed by Josiah Meigs.[Filed in Flat Storage - Cabinet B, Drawer 5, Folder 4]. Also contains an unsigned typescript entitled "Henry Turkeyfoot" comprising a two page biography of the Seneca...

Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: William de la Montagne Cary (1841-1922), artist and traveler, was born in Tappan, New York, and was apprenticed to an engineer. When twenty years old, he made his first trip to the West and in 1861 he explored the Missouri River Country. In 1874 he accompanied the Northern Boundary Survey party on their return to Bismark. In this collection is a hard-bound notebook containing comments about his trip with this party. Other...

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Folder 197

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Folder 3423

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Moran Papers comprise handwritten and typewritten primary sources as well as typed transcriptions of these sources. The collection includes correspondence, account books, published and unpublished manuscripts, autobiographical and biographical sketches, miscellaneous notes, published and unpublished articles, drafts of articles and manuscripts, diaries, newspaper and periodical clippings, photographs, pamphlets, and inventories of paintings and etchings, all related to the life and...