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Native Americans

A number of themes touch upon the history of Native Americans. Few emigrants’ guidebooks fail to mention an indigenous presence, and most accounts of overland travel include an encounter with the ‘Indians’. As the history of Native Americans so permeates that of the West, the Graff Collection holds an abundance of material specifically documenting their history and culture.

Title	Date	Document Type	Region

Title	Date	Document Type	Region
The accompanying map, was reduced from the original...	1835	Broadside	Minnesota; Canada
An account of the remarkable occurrences in the life and travels of Col. James Smith…	1799	Rare Book	Ohio; Pennsylvania
[An address to the Chickasaw, Mingo, and Choctaw Indians]	1831	Pamphlet	Tennessee; Mississippi; Alabama
Adventures with Indians and game, or twenty years in the Rocky Mountains	1903	Rare Book
An affecting narrative of the captivity and sufferings of Mrs. Mary Smith who with her husband and three daughters, were taken prisoners by the Indians, in August last	1814	Pamphlet	Illinois
An affecting narrative of the captivity and sufferings of Mrs. Mary Smith who with her husband and three daughters, were taken prisoners by the Indians, in August last	1814	Pamphlet	Illinois
After forty years	1906	Pamphlet	California; Mexico; Montana
Among the Indians: eight years in the far West, 1858-1866: embracing sketches of Montana and Salt Lake	1868	Rare Book	Montana; Utah
Among the Shoshones	1910	Rare Book	Utah
[Announcement of resumption of publication of the newspaper on 26 April 1884]	1884	Broadside	Oklahoma
Annual report of Brigadier General George Cook, U.S. Army: commanding Department of Arizona	1885	Pamphlet	Arizona
Annual report of Brigadier General George Cook, U.S. Army: commanding Department of Arizona	1883	Pamphlet	Arizona; Mexico
Annual Report of the Quartermaster General, of the operations of the quartermaster's department, for the fiscal year ending on the 30th June, 1850	1851	Rare Book	Kansas; Nebraska; Wyoming; Idaho; Oregon; Texas; California; Pacific Northwest
Army sacrifices; or, Briefs from official pigeon-holes. Sketches based on official reports, grouped together for the purpose of illustrating the services and experiences of the regular army of the United States on the Indian frontier	1879	Rare Book	The Dakotas; New Mexico; Mexico; Wyoming; Colorado; Texas
Autobiography of Henry W. Blodgett	1906	Rare Book	Illinois; Michigan
Autobiography, family history and various reminiscences of the life of Jonas Pettijohn, among the Sioux or Dakota Indians. His escape during the massacre of August, 1862. Causes that led to the massacre	1890	Rare Book	Illinois; Wisconsin; Minnesota; Kansas
[Autograph letter signed, addressed to Culbertson’s daughter, Julia (Culbertson) Roberts]	1856	Correspondence	Missouri
[Autograph letter signed, addressed to Culbertson’s son-in-law, George H. Roberts]	1875	Correspondence	Missouri
[Autograph letter signed, addressed to Daniel Bissell]	1807	Correspondence	Illinois
[Autograph letter signed, addressed to Dr. Charles Terry of Cleveland, Ohio]	1866	Correspondence	Wyoming
[Autograph letter signed, addressed to Edward Eberstadt]	1936	Correspondence
[Autograph letter signed, addressed to General B.H. Grierson]	1871	Correspondence	Oklahoma; Texas
[Autograph letter signed, addressed to General U.S. Grant]	1862	Correspondence
[Autograph letter signed, addressed to Henry Heald]	1811	Correspondence
[Autograph letter signed, addressed to John Bell]	1841	Correspondence
[Autograph letter signed, addressed to William Clark]	1812	Correspondence	Washington
[Autograph letter signed, addressed to William Clark]	1824	Correspondence	Missouri
[Autograph letter signed, addressed to William Clark]	1811	Correspondence	Illinois
[Autograph postcard, addressed to Peter Decker]	1 Mar 1939	Correspondence	Illinois; California; Nebraska
B.C., 1887. A ramble in British Columbia, by J.A. Lees and W.J. Clutterbuck... with map and 75 illustrations from sketches and photographs by the authors.	1888	Rare Book	Canada
Ballad of Love's Independence	1865	Broadside	The Dakotas
The battle of Birch Coulee; a wounded man’s description of a battle with the Indians. By Robert K. Boyd. An address given at a meeting of the Sons of veterans at Eau Claire, Wisconsin, in January 1925...	1925	Rare Book	Minnesota
Beyond the West…	1870	Rare Book	Wyoming; New Mexico; Arizona; Idaho; Oregon; Utah; Nevada; California; Montana; Nebraska; Colorado; Oklahoma
Bismarck tribune, v.3, no.52; July 6, 1876	1876	Periodical	Montana; The Dakotas
Black Bob Indian lands: supplement to the Tribune	21 Jul 1870	Periodical	Kansas
Border tales: around the camp fire, in the Rocky Mountains	1878	Rare Book	Wyoming; Montana; Idaho; Nebraska
Buffalo Bill's Wild West; America's national entertainment	1884	Pamphlet
[Business card] D. L. Payne, Oklahoma, President, Payne Oklahoma Colony Co. Indian Territory	c.1860	Ephemera	Oklahoma
Campaigning against the Sioux. Being extracts from a diary kept during one of the three expeditions participated in by the author against the Sioux, under General Alfred Sully in 1863-4-5...	1906	Pamphlet	The Dakotas; Montana
The Cattle Queen of Montana. A story of the personal experience of Mrs. Nat. Collins...	1894	Pamphlet	Montana
Cherokee citizenship and a brief history of internal affairs in the Cherokee Nation...	1895	Rare Book	Oklahoma; Arkansas; Tennessee
The Chisholm trail; a history of the world’s greatest cattle trail, together with a description of the persons, a narrative of the events, and reminiscences associated with the same	c.1936	Rare Book	Texas; Kansas; Oklahoma
The Cincinnati Directory, containing the names, profession and occupation of the inhabitants of the town, alphabetically arranged…	1819	Directory	Ohio; Kentucky
Circular to Indian Agents and others. State Department of the Territory of Cal. Monterey, September, 6th 1847	1847	Broadside	California
City of Keokuk in 1856	1856	Pamphlet	Iowa
Collection of blueprint photographs of Indians and scenes in and near Fort Custer, Montana, ca. 1896	1896	Photograph	Montana
[A collection of miscellaneous general orders and circulars, September 22, 1856 to October 20, 1861. 1856-1861]	1856-1861	Rare Book; Correspondence	California; Texas
[Collection of published and manuscript writings]	1841-1848	Rare Book; Ephemera	Colorado; Mexico; Oregon
Colonel Carrington's official report of the Phil Kearney Massacre	1867	Broadside
Commerce of the prairies, or, the journal of a Santa Fe trader: during eight expeditions across the great western prairies, and a residence of nearly nine years in northern Mexico, volume I	1844	Rare Book	Mexico; New Mexico
Commerce of the prairies, or, the journal of a Santa Fe trader: during eight expeditions across the great western prairies, and a residence of nearly nine years in northern Mexico, volume II	1844	Rare Book	Mexico; New Mexico; Texas; Arkansas
Conquering the wilderness, or, New pictorial history of the life and times of the pioneer heroes and heroines of America	1883	Rare Book	Kentucky; New Mexico; California
Constitution and by-laws, of the M. E. Grand Royal Arch Chapter of Indian Territory also the by-laws, for the Government of Subordinate Chapters, in Indian Territory	c.1890	Pamphlet
Constitution of the State of Sequoyah	1905	Pamphlet	Oklahoma
Cuarteles generales, depto. de Nuevo Mejico. Santa Fe, Nuevo Mejico, 12 de Julio de 1864. Ordenes generales, no. 22.	12 Jul 1864	Broadside	New Mexico; Texas; Arizona
D.P. Smith’s Pocket map and write-up of the Kiowa, Gomanche [sic] and Apache reservation...	1894	Broadside; Ephemera	Oklahoma; Texas
Dakota Tawaxitku Kin; or, The Dakota Friend	1852	Periodical	The Dakotas; Canada
A day with the Cow Column in 1843; recollections of my boyhood	1934	Rare Book; Journal	Oregon; Idaho
Department of Arizona, Lieutenant-Colonel George Crook, commanding according to his commission of Brevet Major-General. Headquarters, Prescott, July 1st, 1872.	01 Jul 1872	Pamphlet	Arizona
Diary	1876-1877	Journal	Wyoming
The discovery, settlement and present state of Kentucke…	1784	Rare Book	Kentucky
Diversion dam on the Gila River at a site above Florence, Arizona	1917	Rare Book	Oregon; Oklahoma; Montana; Arizona
Drawings by Frederic Remington	1897	Pamphlet; Ephemera; Drawing; Painting	Colorado; Arizona
Early settlement and growth of Western Iowa; or, Reminiscences	1906	Rare Book	Iowa; Ohio; Kansas; Nebraska; Missouri
Eight hundred miles in an ambulance	1889	Rare Book; Journal	Wyoming
The emigrants’ guide to California, containing every point of information for the emigrant, including routes, distances, water, grass: with a large map of routes, and profile of country, &c. with full directions for testing and assaying gold and other ores	1849	Pamphlet	California; New Mexico; Kansas
The extermination of the American bison, with a sketch of its discovery and life history	1889	Rare Book	Kansas; Texas; Nebraska; The Dakotas
Extracts from the journal of the Commissioners of the United States Appointed to Hold a Treaty at Sandusky, for the purpose of making peace with the western Indians	1793	Correspondence; Journal	Ohio; Pennsylvania
Famous frontiersmen, pioneers and scouts; the vanguards of American civilization	1883	Rare Book	Wyoming; Ohio; Canada; Kentucky; Tennessee; Virginia; California; Washington; New York; Arizona; Colorado; Nebraska; Texas; Pennsylvania
Five years among wild savages. The renowned Apachee captive Miss Olive Oatman…	1859	Broadside
Four years in British Columbia and Vancouver Island: an account of their forests, rivers, coasts, gold fields and resources for colonisation	1862	Rare Book	Canada
Gen. order no.1. Headquarters Dep’t. of Kan: in the field Fort Scott, Kansas, August 12, 1862.	12 Aug 1862	Broadside	Kansas
[General orders and circulars, Department of the Platte, 1867-1882]	1867-1882	Rare Book	Iowa; Nebraska; The Dakotas; Utah; Wyoming
General orders no. 8. Headquarters District of Nevada, Camp McGarry, Nevada, Dec. 31, 1866.	31 Dec 1866	Broadside	Nevada
General orders, No. 19. War Department, Adjutant General's Office, Washington, March 30, 1849...	30 Mar 1849	Pamphlet	Oregon
General orders, no. 22. Headqrs., Dist. of the Upper Arkansas, Fort Riley, Kansas, June 29th, 1865.	29 Jun 1865	Pamphlet	Arkansas; Kansas
General Orders, no. 77. [of H. Clay Wood, Assistant Adjutant General]	1870	Pamphlet	Texas; Louisiana
General Sheridan’s squaw spy, and Mrs. Clara Blynn’s captivity among the wild Indians of the prairies: a thrilling narrative of the daring exploits and hair-breadth escapes of Viroqua…	c.1869	Rare Book	Oklahoma
George Frederick Augustus Ruxton papers	c.1839-1948	Correspondence; Broadside; Photograph	Missouri; Mexico
Head Quarters, Department of the Columbia, Portland, Oregon, July 11th, 1868. General orders, no. 24...	11 Jul 1868	Broadside	Oregon
Head quarters, Department of New Mexico, Santa Fe, N.M., July 31st, 1862. General orders, no.70.	31 Jul 1862	Broadside	New Mexico
Head quarters, Dept. of New Mexico, Fort Craig, N.M., March 13, 1862. General orders no. 18.	13 Mar 1862	Broadside	New Mexico
Head quarters, Dept. of New Mexico, Santa Fe, N.M., Nov. 28, 1862. General orders no.99.	28 Nov 1862	Broadside	New Mexico; Arkansas
Head quarters, East sub-dist. of the plains. Fort Kearney, N.T., June 5th, 1865. General orders, no. 12	1865	Broadside	Nebraska
Head-quarters District of the Border. Kansas City, Mo., October 2, 1863. General orders, no. 16...	02 Oct 1863	Pamphlet	Missouri; Kansas
Head-quarters, Department of New Mexico. Synopsis of Indian scouts and their results, for the year 1864. General orders, Number 4	1865	Pamphlet	New Mexico; Texas; Arizona
Head-quarters, Dept. of New Mexico, Santa, Fé, New Mexico, March 25, 1864. General orders no.8.	25 Mar 1864	Broadside	New Mexico
Head-quarters, Dep’t of New Mexico, Santa Fé, New Mexico, March 7th, 1865. General orders, no. 6	1865	Broadside	New Mexico; Arizona
Headquarters Department of Arizona, Office of the Chief Quartermaster, Whipple Barracks, Prescott, A.T., September 16, 1886. [To] The Assistant Adjutant General, Department of Arizona, Whipple Barracks A. T.... Report of the operations of the Quartermasters Department in the Department of Arizona, during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1886.	1886	Correspondence	Arizona
Headquarters Department of Arizona, Prescott, August 2, 1870. General orders, no. 9. The following summary of successful operations against the Indians in this department... is published for general information...	02 Aug 1870	Pamphlet	Arizona
Headquarters Department of Arizona, Whipple Barracks, Prescott, June 30, 1882	30 Jun 1882	Pamphlet	Arizona
Headquarters Department of the Missouri, St. Louis, Mo., January 8th, 1865. General orders, no.7.	08 Jan 1865	Broadside	Missouri
Headquarters Department of the Platte. Omaha, Nebraska, August 27th, 1867. General orders, no.39	1876	Broadside	Nebraska
Headquarters Department of Texas, San Antonio, Texas, October 1, 1880. To Adjutant General, Military Division of Missouri, Chicago, Illinois	1880	Pamphlet	Texas
Headquarters District of New Mexico, Fort Wingate, N.M., August 22, 1889	1889	Pamphlet	New Mexico; Texas; Arizona
Headquarters east sub-district of Nebraska. Office of Assistant Adjutant General. Fort Kearney, N.T., Nov. 13th, 1865. Circular no.3.	13 Nov 1865	Broadside	Nebraska
Headquarters Mil. Div. of the Missouri, Chicago, Illinois, April 5, 1877. General orders, no. 3.	1877	Broadside	Missouri; Nebraska
Headquarters Military Div. of the Missouri, Chicago, Illinois, November 1, 1869. Brevet Major General E.D. Townsend, Adjutant General U.S. Army, Washington, D.C....	1869	Pamphlet	Missouri; Kansas; Colorado; Montana
Headquarters, Department of Dakota, Saint Paul, Minn., May 19, 1867. General orders, no. 27.	1867	Rare Book	Minnesota; The Dakotas; Iowa; Montana
Headquarters, Department of New Mexico, Fort Union, N.M., July 23, 1863. General orders no.19.	23 Jul 1863	Broadside	New Mexico
Headquarters, Dept. of New Mexico. Santa Fe, N.M., June 15th 1863. General orders no.15.	15 Jun 1863	Broadside	New Mexico; Arizona
Headquarters, East sub-dist. of the plains. Fort Kearny, N.T., May 24th, 1865. General orders, no.10	1865	Broadside	Nebraska
Henry W. Lawton scrapbook, 1874-1900	1874-1900	Ephemera
History and directory of the Black Hills; containing historical sketches pertaining to the first settlement of the Black Hills, descriptions of the various cities, towns, settlements, quartz mills and mines, with a complete business directory of each locality	1878	Directory	The Dakotas; Wyoming; Iowa
The history of the American Indians; particularly those nations adjoining to the Missisippi [!] East and West Florida, Georgia, South and North Carolina, and Virginia	1775	Rare Book	Virginia; North Carolina; South Carolina; Georgia; Florida
History of the expedition under the command of Captains Lewis and Clark, to the sources of the Missouri: volume I	1814	Rare Book	Nebraska; Colorado; Wyoming; Idaho
History of the expedition under the command of Captains Lewis and Clark, to the sources of the Missouri: volume II	1814	Rare Book	Oregon; Washington; Missouri; Wyoming
History of the first Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and Company D, Fourteenth Regiment. Vol I		Rare Book	Illinois; Texas
History of the first Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and Company D, Fourteenth Regiment. Vol. II		Rare Book	Illinois
History of Kansas and emigrant's guide	1855	Rare Book	Kansas
History of Oklahoma and Indian Territory and homeseekekers' [sic] guide	1906	Rare Book	Oklahoma; Texas
History of Tulsa, I. T. Her natural advantages of location, climate, fertile soil, etc. A railroad centre of the Creek, Cherokee, and Osage nations...	1903	Pamphlet	Oklahoma
How we built the Union Pacific Railway and other railway papers and addresses	c.1910	Rare Book
The hunting grounds of the great west. A description of the plains, game, and Indians of the great North American desert...	1877	Rare Book	Oklahoma; The Dakotas; Nebraska
In Senate of the United States, March 18, 1824 Mr. Benton, from the Committee on Indian affairs, communicated the following documents...	1824	Pamphlet; Correspondence	Washington; Missouri; Mississippi; Wyoming
Incidents and events in the life of Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard. Collected from personal narrations and other sources, and arranged by his nephew, Henry E. Hamilton	1888	Rare Book; Correspondence; Ephemera	Michigan; Illinois
Incidents and experience in Iowa from 1840 to 1844	1840-1844	Journal	Iowa
Index of general orders and circulars, Department of Texas, 1874-1882	1874-1882	Pamphlet	Texas
The Indian captive; a narrative of the adventures and sufferings of Matthew Brayton, in his thirty-four years of captivity among the Indians of North-Western America	1860	Rare Book	Ohio; California; Oregon; Utah
Indian captivity; a true narrative of the capture of the Rev. O. M. Spencer, by the Indians, in the neighbourhood of Cincinnati	1835	Rare Book	Pennsylvania
The Indian Council in the valley of the Walla-Walla. 1855	1855	Pamphlet	Washington
Indian sketches, taken during an expedition to the Pawnee tribes, Vol. I	1835	Rare Book	Missouri
Indian sketches, taken during an expedition to the Pawnee tribes, Vol. II	1835	Rare Book	Missouri
Indian territory: compiled under the direction of the Hon. John H. Oberly, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, by C.A. Maxwell	1889	Map	Kansas; Texas; Arkansas; Missouri
The Indian War of 1864 being a fragment of the early history of Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, and Wyoming...	1911	Rare Book	Kansas; Nebraska; Colorado; Wyoming
Indian Wars of the Northwest. A California sketch	1885	Rare Book	California
Interesting scout among White Mountain Apaches, some of whom sue for peace and a reservation	1869	Pamphlet	Arizona; New Mexico
J. B. Bailey's price list	1888	Broadside	The Dakotas
James Henry Twogood papers	1888-1910	Correspondence; Ephemera	Oregon; Idaho
John Hunton’s diary: volumes 1-3 (1873-1879)	1956-1970	Rare Book	Wyoming
John Hunton’s diary: volumes 4-6 (1880-1889)	1956-1970	Rare Book	Wyoming
A journal of the adventures of Matthew Bunn	1796	Pamphlet	Ohio; Michigan
[Journal of an anonymous scout operating out of Fort Kearney, Nebraska Territory]	16 Jun 1865 - 02 Jul 1865	Journal	Nebraska
Journal of expedition against hostile Indians in southern Nebraska, commanded by Lieut. Col. R.H. Brown, 12th Mo. Cav. Vols. January and February	1866	Journal	Nebraska
A journal of Sibley's Indian expedition, during the summer of 1863, and record of the troops employed	1864	Journal	Minnesota
Journal of a trapper, or, Nine years in the Rocky Mountains, 1834-1843: being a general description of the country, climate, rivers, lakes mountains, etc., and a view of the life led by a hunter in those regions	1914	Journal; Rare Book	Wyoming; Idaho; Oregon
A journal of travels into the Arkansas territory, during the year 1819. With occasional observations on the manners of the aborigines. Illustrated by a map and other engravings.	1821	Journal	Arkansas; Pennsylvania; Ohio; Mississippi
L.A. Huffman photographs	1833-1907	Photograph	Montana
Lahcotah	1866	Pamphlet
Last Chance for Cheap Homes!	1880	Broadside	Kansas; Oklahoma
Laws of the Cherokee Nation...	1852	Rare Book
Left by the Indians: story of my life	c.1892	Pamphlet	Oregon; Washington; Wisconsin
Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting the report, journal, & map of Capt. J. Allen…	1846	Pamphlet	Iowa; Minnesota
Letter of Albert Pike to the Choctaw people	1872	Pamphlet	Washington
Letter to Lawrence Barrett, Fort Lincoln, Dacota [sic]	18 Feb 1875	Correspondence	The Dakotas; Montana; Wyoming; Louisiana
Letter: Garrison Bellevue [i.e. Fort Madison, Iowa], to William Clark	12 Apr 1809	Correspondence	Iowa
Life among the Indians: being an interesting narrative of the captivity of the Oatman girls, among the Apache and Mohave Indians...	1857	Rare Book	California
Life among the Piutes: their wrongs and claims	1883	Rare Book	Nevada; Utah; California
Life among the Sioux Indians	c.1889	Pamphlet	Montana
The life and adventures of James P. Beckwourth, mountaineer, scout, and pioneer, and chief of the Crow nation of Indians. With illustrations. Written from his own dictation, by T. D. Bonner	1856	Rare Book	Tennessee; New Mexico; California
The life and adventures of James W. Marshall, the discoverer of gold in California	1870	Rare Book	California
Life and adventures of Nat Love better known in the cattle country as "Deadwood Dick"	1907	Rare Book	Texas; Wyoming; Nebraska; Kansas; Arizona; Tennessee
The life of Henry Dodge, from 1782 to 1833: with portrait by George Catlin and maps of the battles of the Pecatonica and Wisconsin Heights in the Black Hawk War	1890	Pamphlet	Wisconsin; Illinois; Missouri
Life of Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak or Black Hawk…	1833	Rare Book	Illinois
Life of Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak or Black Hawk…	1834	Rare Book	Illinois; Wisconsin
Live Boys; or, Charley and Nasho in Texas	1879	Rare Book	Texas; Oklahoma; Kansas
Long Lance	1929	Rare Book	Montana; Canada
Loren L. Williams journals, 1851-1880: volume I, early reminiscences of south western Oregon	1851-1859	Journal; Ephemera	Oregon
Loren L. Williams journals, 1851-1880: volume II	1859-1862	Journal; Ephemera
Loren L. Williams journals, 1851-1880: volume III	1862-1866	Journal; Ephemera
Loren L. Williams journals, 1851-1880: volume IV	1866-1875	Journal; Ephemera
A los caciques gobernadorcillos y otras autoridades de los pueblos de Indios del Territorio de N. Mejico	1850	Broadside	New Mexico
A los Indios de Pueblo de Nuevo Mejico	1850	Broadside	New Mexico
The Lyon campaign in Missouri: being a history of the First Iowa infantry and of the causes which led up to its organization, and how it earned the thanks of Congress, which it got: together with a birdseye view of the conditions in Iowa preceding the great Civil War of 1861	1907	Rare Book; Journal	Missouri; Iowa
Major General Scott, of the United States Army, sends to the Cherokee people, remaining in North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, and Alabama, this address	1838	Broadside	North Carolina; Georgia; Tennessee; Alabama
Map of the country inhabited by the Western Tribes of Indians	12 Sep 1809	Map	The West; New Mexico
Map of eastern Kansas	1856	Map	Kansas
Map of the extreme southern portion of Oklahoma	1890	Map	Oklahoma
Map of the former territory originally assigned to the Cherokee 'nation of' Indians west of the territory now occupied or owned by them	1884	Map	Oklahoma; Missouri; Kansas; Arkansas
Map of the Indian Reservations within the United States	1884	Map	USA
Map of Kansas and Nebraska territories, giving the location of towns and cities, the Indian reservations by the treaties of 1854, and the original boundaries of the Indian lands	c.1854	Map	Kansas; Nebraska
Map of Kansas Territory	1855	Rare Book; Map	Kansas
Map of the military district, Kansas and the territories	1866	Map	Kansas; The West
Map of the Nez Perce Indian campaign	1878	Map	California; Nevada; Oregon; Washington; The Dakotas; Nebraska; Wyoming; Idaho; Montana
Map of the Nez Perces and Salmon River gold mines in Washington Territory	1862	Pamphlet; Map	Washington; Oregon
Map of the route pursued in 1849 by the U.S. troops... in an expedition against the Navajos Indians	1849	Map	New Mexico
Map of the Territory & Department of Arizona commanded by Brig. Gen. George Crook	1885	Map	Arizona
Map of the territory of Montana with portions of the adjoining territories compiled and drawn by W. W. De Lacy of the Surveyor General's Office, Helena, M.T. 1870	1870	Map	Montana; Wyoming; The Dakotas; Pacific Northwest
Map of the territory west of the Rocky Mountains	1837	Map	Washington; Oregon; California; Nevada; Pacific Northwest
Map showing Indian Reservations within the limits of the United States	c.1894	Map	USA; California
Map showing land grant of the Northern Pacific Railroad Co. in eastern Washington and northern Idaho: corrected up to July 1, 1891	1891	Map	Washington; Idaho; Oregon
Map showing the location of the Indian reservations within the limits of the United States and territories	1888	Map	USA; Alaska; California; Oklahoma
Map showing the proposed irrigating systems on the Crow Indian Reservation in Montana	c.1880	Map	Montana
Map showing proposed reservation for the Jicarilla Apaches in New Mexico. Boundary of New Mexico and Colorado [lower right:] compiled from official sources by H. Hartmann Sante FE, N. M.	Jan 1887	Map	New Mexico; Colorado
Map showing the route of the Hancock and Sherman Indian Campaigns, 1867	1895	Map	Nebraska; Wyoming; Minnesota; Wisconsin; Illinois; Missouri; Kansas; The Dakotas
Map to illustrate Mr Kane's Travels in the territory of the Hudson's Bay Company	1859	Map	Canada; Oregon
Martin J. Feenan papers	1863-1920	Journal; Photograph; Broadside; Ephemera	Nebraska; The Dakotas
Memoirs of a pioneer	c.1929	Pamphlet; Journal	Wyoming; Kansas; Utah
Memoirs of a white Crow Indian (Thomas H. Leforge)	1928	Rare Book	Montana
Memorial and affidavits showing outrages perpetrated by the Apache Indians, in the territory of Arizona, for the years 1869 and 1870 published by authority of the Legislature of the Territory of Arizona	1871	Pamphlet	Arizona
Memorial and joint resolution relative to the Indian policy	1867	Broadside	Nebraska
Memorial in behalf of the "Black Bob" band of Shawnee Indians…	1870	Pamphlet	Kansas
Message from the President of the United States ... communicating a report of an expedition led by Lieutenant Albert on the upper Arkansas and through the country of the Camanche Indians in the fall of the year 1845...	c.1846	Journal	Arkansas
Message of Governor Campbell to the third legislative assembly	1873	Pamphlet	Wyoming
Montana as it is; being a general description of its resources, both mineral and agricultural, including a complete description of the face of the country...	1865	Rare Book	Montana
The Mountain herald. v.1, no.15, Sept. 17, 1852	1852	Periodical	California
The [Mountain] herald. Suppl. Sept. 17, 1853	1853	Periodical	California
[Mounted photograph inscribed on verso:] "Strike The Ree" [i.e. Struck-by-the-Ree]	c.1888	Photograph
[Mounted photograph inscribed:] Genl. G.K. Warren	c.1860	Photograph
[Mounted photograph with caption] (Ta-Ton-Ka-I-Yo-Ton-Ka,) "Sitting Bull"	c.1882	Photograph
[Mounted photograph] Rain-in-the-face	c.1876	Photograph
My friend the Indian	1910	Rare Book	The Dakotas; Oregon
My life on the plains, or, Personal experiences with the Indians	1874	Rare Book	Missouri; Kansas; Arkansas; Oklahoma
Narrative of the adventures of Zenas Leonard, a native of Clearfield County, PA. Who spent five years in trapping for furs, trading with the Indians, &c. &c., of the Rocky Mountains	1839	Rare Book	Canada
Narrative of the captivity and extreme sufferings of Mrs. Clarissa Plummer	1838	Pamphlet	Texas; Louisiana
A narrative of the captivity of Mrs. Horn, and her two children, with Mrs. Harris, by the Camanche Indians, after they had murdered their husbands and travelling companions...	1839	Pamphlet	Texas; New York
Narrative of the exploring expedition to the Rocky mountains in the year 1842: and to Oregon and north California in the years 1843-44	1847	Rare Book; Journal	Oregon; California; Kansas; Utah
Narrative of my captivity among the Sioux Indians...with a brief account of General Sully's Indian expedition in 1864, bearing upon events occurring in my captivity	1871	Rare Book	Wyoming; Idaho; Canada; Kansas
Narrative of a voyage to the northwest coast of America in the years 1811, 1812, 1813, and 1814; or, The first American settlement on the pacific	1854	Rare Book; Journal	Oregon; Canada
Narratives of a late expedition against the Indians; with an account of the barbarous execution of Col. Crawford; and the wonderful escape of Dr. Knight and John Slover from captivity, in 1782	1783	Pamphlet
National map of the territory of the United States from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean	1867	Map	USA
Nebraska - Indian Treaties - and the rights of citizens. From the Missouri Democrat. The Government and the Indians. Independence, MO., July 24, 1844…	1844	Broadside	Nebraska; Missouri
A new map of the Cherokee Nation with the names of the towns and rivers they are situated on	1760	Map	Tennessee; Mississippi; Alabama
Notes of travel through the territory of Arizona; being an account of the trip made by General George Stoneman and others in the Autumn of 1870	1870	Rare Book	Arizona
Notice	1850	Broadside	Iowa
Notice sur les Indiens Ioways et Ojibways qui se sont montrés à Paris en 1849	c.1849	Correspondence
Notice. Whereas we are the owners...of about 800 lots, in the town of Keokuk, and about 50,000 acres of land in the Half Breed Sac and Fox Reservation, in Lee County, Iowa Territory...We hereby give notice to all persons who have "squatted" upon said lots and land...that we will claim rents from the date of said partition...	1846	Broadside	Iowa
Nuova California: (Statti Uniti dell'America Settentrionale)	1851	Map	California
Official map of the territory of Arizona compiled from surveys, reconnaisances and other sources	1880	Map	Arizona
Official report of the Owyhee reconnoissance, made by Lieut. Colonel C.S. Drew, 1st Oregon Cavalry, in the summer of 1864, pursuant to the orders of Brigadier George Wright, commanding Dept. of the Pacific	1865	Pamphlet	Oregon
Oklahoma Colony!	1883	Broadside; Ephemera	Oklahoma
Oklahoma! Politically and topographically described. History and guide to the Indian Territory. Biographical sketches of Capt. David L. Payne, W. L. Couch, WM. H. Osborn, and others	1885	Rare Book	Oklahoma
Omaha daily Nebraskian. v.2, no. 104-105; March 31-April 1, 1863	1863	Periodical	Nebraska; Wyoming
On the border with Crook	1891	Rare Book	Arizona; Montana; Nebraska; The Dakotas
On the plains in '65…	1883	Rare Book	Nebraska; Colorado; The Dakotas; Wyoming; Montana
Orders. No.25. Head quarters, Eastern Division. Cherokee Agency, Ten. May 18, 1838.	1838	Broadside	North Carolina; Georgia; Tennessee; Alabama
The Oregon trail; sketches of prairie and Rocky-mountain life...Illustrated by Frederic Remington	1892	Rare Book	Oregon; Wyoming; Colorado; Kansas; Nebraska
Ornamental map of the United States and Mexico	1847	Map	Oregon; California; Oklahoma; Texas; Missouri; New Mexico; Minnesota; Wisconsin; Iowa; Illinois; Indiana; Ohio; Michigan; Arkansas; Louisiana; Mississippi; Alabama; Tennessee; Kentucky; Georgia; Florida; North Carolina; South Carolina; Virginia; West Virginia; Pennsylvania; New Hampshire; New York; Mexico
Our new West: records of travel between the Mississippi River and the Pacific Ocean…	1869	Rare Book	Colorado; Wyoming; Utah; Idaho; Montana; Nevada; California; Oregon; Washington; Arkansas; Canada
Our Wild Indians: Thirty-three years' personal experience among the Red Men of the great west...	1882	Rare Book	Texas; Nebraska; Colorado; Kansas
Out West, vol. I, no. 2	Aug 1873	Periodical	Colorado; Mexico
Out West, vol. I, no. 3	Sep 1873	Periodical	Colorado; Mexico
Out West, vol. I, no. 4	Oct 1873	Periodical	Colorado; Mexico
Out West, vol. I, no. 5	Nov 1873	Periodical	Colorado; Mexico
Out West, vol. I, no. 6-7	Dec 1873-Jan 1874	Periodical	Colorado; Mexico
Out West, vol. I, no. I	Jul 1873	Periodical	Colorado; Mexico
Outline descriptions of military posts in the military division of the Pacific / Irvin McDowell, commanding	1879	Rare Book	Arizona; California; Idaho; Nevada; Oregon; Washington
Outline descriptions of the posts in the Military Division of the Missouri, commanded by Lieutenant General P. H. Sheridan: accompanied by tabular lists of Indian superintendencies, agencies and reservations, and a summary of certain Indian treaties	1876	Rare Book	Missouri; The Dakotas; Minnesota; Nebraska; Wyoming; Utah; Kansas; New Mexico
Outline Map of Indian Localities in 1833 and 1840	1844	Map	Wisconsin; Michigan; Canada; Texas; Indiana; Illinois; California; Ohio
Outlines of history of the Territory of Dakota, and emigrant’s guide to the free lands of the Northwest. Accompanied with a new sectional map	1870	Pamphlet	The Dakotas
Outskirt episodes. The wild and woolly west of early days was a land of crime in many ways...	1927	Rare Book	Wyoming
The overland stage to California: personal reminiscences and authentic history of the great overland stage line and pony express from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean	1901	Rare Book	California; Kansas; Colorado
Papers of George M. Templeton; diary for 1866	1866	Diary	Kansas; Nebraska; The Dakotas; Montana
Papers of George M. Templeton; diary for 1867	1867	Diary	Montana
Papers of George M. Templeton; diary for 1868	1868	Diary	Montana
Papers of George M. Templeton; index to transcript diary		Diary
Papers of George M. Templeton; miscellaneous		Correspondence; Photograph; Ephemera	Montana
Papers of George M. Templeton; transcript of diaries from 1866-1868	1866-1868	Diary	Montana
The Papers of Richard Irving Dodge; Autograph Manuscript Diary, 1878-1880	1878-1880	Diary
The Papers of Richard Irving Dodge; Autograph Manuscript Diary, Four Volumes, October 31st 1876 to January 8th 1877	1876-1877	Diary
The Papers of Richard Irving Dodge; Autograph Manuscript Diary, May 6th to October 19th, 1875	1875	Diary	The Dakotas
The Papers of Richard Irving Dodge; Autograph Manuscript Diary, September 1st to December 18th 1880, The Ute Campaign of 1880	1880	Diary
The Papers of Richard Irving Dodge; Autograph Manuscript Diary, Two Volumes, June 23rd to September 28, 1883	1883	Diary
The Papers of Richard Irving Dodge; Miscellaneous Manuscript Material		Correspondence; Ephemera; Photograph
Papers relating to expedition against hostile Indians in southern Nebraska	1865-1883	Correspondence; Ephemera	Nebraska
Personal experiences among our North American Indians from 1867 to 1885	1913	Journal; Diary; Ephemera	New Mexico; California; Canada; Kansas
The personal narrative of James O. Pattie, of Kentucky…	1831	Rare Book; Journal	Missouri; California; Colorado; Wyoming; New Mexico; Mexico
The petition of B.F. Dowell and others, asking for pay for two companies of Oregon volunteers, and their expenses, called into service in 1854	1869	Pamphlet	Oregon
[Photograph of Brig.-Gen. George Crook]	1876	Photograph
Pioneer life or, Thirty years a hunter. Being scenes and adventures in the life of Philip Tome.	1854	Rare Book	Pennsylvania
Poetry for the times	1865	Broadside	The Dakotas
Pony tracks	1895	Rare Book	The Dakotas; Mexico
The Powder River Indian Expedition, 1865: a paper read before the Nebraska Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, February 2, 1887	1887	Pamphlet	Nebraska; Wyoming; Montana; Ohio
Proclamation! To the people of Dakota Territory	1867	Broadside	The Dakotas
The Rachel Plummer narrative; a stirring narrative of adventure, hardship and privation in the early days of Texas, depicting struggles with the Indians and other adventures	1926	Rare Book	Texas; Mexico; Colorado; Missouri
Rand, McNally & Co.'s Oklahoma and Indian Territories	1898	Map	Oklahoma
A random historical sketch of Meeker County, Minnesota: from its first settlement to July 4th, 1876... with an accurate map by Henry L. Smith	1877	Rare Book	Minnesota
Recollections of the Mountain Meadow Massacre	1901	Pamphlet	Utah; California; Arkansas
Recollections of my boyhood	1914	Rare Book	Oregon; Missouri; Idaho; Wyoming; Washington
[Reminiscences]	c.1890	Journal	New Mexico
[Report of Brigadier Geneneral George Crook of the operations of troops under his command against the Apache Indians]	1886	Pamphlet; Correspondence	Arizona; Mexico
Report of the Commission appointed by direction of the President of the United States: under instructions of the Honorables the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Interior to meet the Sioux Indian Chief, Sitting Bull, with a view to avert hostile incursions into the territory of the United States from the Dominion of Canada	1877	Pamphlet	Montana; Canada
Report of the committee appointed to inquire whether any, and if any, what, alterations are necessary to be made in the act for establishing trading houses with the Indians, and the several acts supplementary thereto	1810	Pamphlet	Arkansas; Georgia; Illinois; Indiana; Louisiana; Michigan; Mississippi; Ohio; Oklahoma
Report of an expedition up the Yellow Stone River, made in 1875	1875	Pamphlet	The Dakotas
[Report of explorations in and about the Big Horn Mountains, and the valleys of the Big Horn, Grey Bull and Stinking Water, and Clark’s Fork, lying west of and between the Big Horn and the main chain of the Rocky Mountains, and thence crossing the main chain to the National Park]	1881	Pamphlet	Missouri; Wyoming
Report of the first-[fourth] reunion of the Tri-State Old Settlers’ Association, of Illinois, Missouri and Iowa	1884-1887	Rare Book	Illinois; Missouri; Iowa
Report of the Secretary of War, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of February 4, 1867, a copy of the evidence taken at Denver and Fort Lyon, Colorado Territory, by a military commission, ordered to inquire into the Sand Creek massacre, November, 1864.	1867	Rare Book	Colorado
Report under the resolution of the House of Representatives, dated June 25, 1879, relative to certain information connected with his [i.e. Brigadier General Ord’s] department, and the security and protection of the Texas frontier	1879	Pamphlet	Texas; Mexico
Report upon the Colorado River of the West	1861	Rare Book	New Mexico; Utah; California; Mexico
Resume of operations against Apache Indians, 1882 to 1886	1886	Pamphlet; Correspondence	Arizona; Mexico
Richard Irving Dodge papers: transcripts of the diaries	1875-1949	Diary
The rough riders	1899	Rare Book	Texas; Florida; New York
San Carlos Agency, Arizona, February 10, 1883. Medical Director, Department of Arizona, Whipple Barracks, Prescott, A.T.	10 Feb 1883	Pamphlet	Arizona
The Santa Fé trail to California, 1849-1852: the journal and drawings of H. M. T. Powell	1931	Rare Book; Journal	California; Missouri; New Mexico
Saskatchewan and the Rocky Mountains, a diary and narrative of travel, sport, and adventure, during a journey through the Hudson's Bay Company's territories, in 1859 and 1860	1875	Rare Book; Journal	Canada
Schoolcraft and Allen--expedition to northwest Indians: letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a map and report of Lieut. Allen and H.B. [i.e. R.] Schoolcraft’s visit to the northwest Indians in 1832	1832	Pamphlet	Canada; Minnesota
Second annual message of Governor A. J. Faulk, to the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Dakota: delivered, December 1867	1867	Pamphlet	The Dakotas
A selection of visual material from the Newberry Library	1843-1912	Illustration; Front Cover; Painting; Drawing; Photograph
[Sepia photograph of Codsiogo, a Shoshone Indian, in full costume]		Photograph
Seventy years on the frontier: Alexander Majors' memoir of a lifetime on the border… with a preface by "Buffalo Bill"	1893	Rare Book	Mexico; Nebraska; Colorado; Utah
Sir: we have just received the last report of the Hon. L. Lee, Commissioner of Indian Affairs at Washington City…	1851	Broadside	The Dakotas; Minnesota
Sketch indicating the advancement of the surveys of the public lands and military topographical and geological surveys west of the Mississippi	1879	Map	Washington; Oregon; California; Nevada; Idaho; Utah; Arizona; Montana; Wyoming; Colorado; New Mexico; The Dakotas; Nebraska; Kansas; Oklahoma; Texas; Missouri; Minnesota; Wisconsin; Iowa; Illinois; Indiana; Arkansas; Louisiana; Mississippi
Sketch of the life of "Dick" Parr in the far West. Great rough rider on the western plains. General Phil. Sheridan’s private chief of scouts, Indian interpreter and guide during that gallant commander’s Indian campaign, 1868-9	c.1901	Rare Book	Kansas; Wyoming; The West
Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory	1848	Rare Book; Painting; Map	Oregon; Canada; Pacific Northwest
Sketches of the early settlement and present advantages of Princeton, including valuable statistics, etc.: also, a brief sketch of Bureau County, and a business directory	1857	Directory	Illinois
Sketches of frontier and Indian life on the Upper Missouri and Great Plains embracing the author's personal recollections of noted frontier characters, and some observations of wild Indian life during a twenty-five years' residence in the two Dakotas and other territories, between the years 1864 and 1889	1889	Rare Book	Missouri; The Dakotas
Sketches of the life and adventures of Jacob Parkhurst	1842	Rare Book	Ohio; Pennsylvania; Kentucky
Sketches of modern Indian life	1894	Rare Book	Idaho; Montana; Oregon; Washington
The sod house; reminiscent, historical and biographical sketches featuring Nebraska pioneers, 1867-1897	1930	Rare Book	Nebraska; Indiana
Some pioneer recollections, being the autobiography of George Lathrop, one of the first to help in the opening of the West…	1927	Rare Book	Wyoming; The Dakotas; California; Colorado; Montana; Oregon; Utah
Southwestern New Mexico	1720	Map	Canada; Mexico; New Mexico; Louisiana; Virginia; North Carolina; South Carolina; Florida
Spoliations committed by Indians on property of Benjamin Holladay whilst carrying the United States mails…	1872	Pamphlet	Nebraska; Colorado
St. Mary Gazette. Extra. St. Mary, Iowa, Tuesday, January 24, 1854.	24 Jan 1854	Broadside; Periodical	Iowa; Nebraska
The status of Young Joseph and his band of Nez-Perce Indians under the treaties between the United States and the Nez-Perce tribe of Indians: and the Indian title to land	1876	Rare Book	Oregon
The story of my capture and escape during the Minnesota Indian massacre of 1862	1904	Pamphlet	Minnesota
The surrender of Sitting Bull…	1891	Rare Book	The Dakotas
Table of Distances, published for the information of the troops, serving in the district of New Mexico, with remarks and information necessary for camping parties	1878	Pamphlet	New Mexico; Texas; Colorado
Ten thousand miles of travel, sport and adventure	1869	Rare Book
Thirty years on the frontier	1906	Rare Book	Colorado; The Dakotas; Oklahoma; California; Texas
A thousand miles in a canoe, or, A canoe voyage from Denver, Colorado, to Leavenworth, Kansas: during the summer of 1867; a personal adventure by Dean Perceval	1880	Pamphlet	Colorado; Kansas
Three years among the Indians and Mexicans	1846	Pamphlet	Missouri; New Mexico; Montana
A thrilling narrative of Indian captivity	1863	Pamphlet; Correspondence; Journal	Minnesota
To the American public	1874	Broadside
To the inhabitants occupying the frontier of the Indian Country	1849	Broadside	Florida
To the Oregon Indian war claimants	1874	Broadside	Oregon
To our Oklahoma colonists. Those who wish a home in that beautiful country	1882	Broadside; Pamphlet	Oklahoma
To the people of Colorado. Synopsis of the Sand Creek Investigation. Denver, Colorado, June 1865	1865	Broadside	Colorado
To the senators and Members of the House of Representatives of Congress	1870	Broadside	Kansas; Wyoming
To the Senators and members of the House of Representatives of Congress...	c.1860	Broadside	Montana; Kansas
Topographical map of the road from Missouri to Oregon, commencing at the mouth of the Kansas in the Missouri River and ending at the mouth of the Wallah Wallah in the Columbia: in VII sections	c.1846	Map	Missouri; Oregon; The West
Tracks and trails, or, incidents in the life of a Minnesota territorial pioneer	1931	Pamphlet	Minnesota; Illinois; Mississippi
Travels and experiences in America with army, and Indian reminiscences	c.1890	Journal; Diary	Oklahoma; Kansas; Missouri; Canada
Travels through the two Louisianas, and among the savage nations of the Missouri...	1807	Rare Book; Journal	Louisiana; Canada; New York; Pennsylvania; Virginia; Kentucky; Arkansas
The Tribune, Extra	27 Aug 1872	Periodical	Kansas
A trip to the states, by the way of the Yellowstone and Missouri…with a table of distances	1867	Pamphlet	Missouri; Wyoming
True story of the lost shackle, or, seven years with the Indians	1897	Pamphlet	Wyoming; Iowa
True tales of the plains, by Buffalo Bill	1908	Rare Book	Kansas; The Dakotas; Iowa; Nebraska; Wyoming; Colorado
Truth teller: devoted to the dissemination of truth, and the suppression of humbug	1858	Periodical	Washington
Twenty years on the trap line. Being a collection of revised camp notes written at intervals during a twenty years experience in trapping.	1891	Rare Book	Iowa; Minnesota; The Dakotas
[Twenty-three letters and documents]	1864-1865	Correspondence	Nebraska
Uncle Dudley’s odd hours: western sketches, Indian trail echoes, straws of humor	1904	Rare Book	Minnesota
The Ute War: a history of the White River Massacre and the privations and hardships of the captive white women among the hostiles on Grand River	1879	Rare Book	Colorado
A vocabulary of the Snake or Shoshone dialect	1859	Pamphlet	Utah
A vocabulary of the Snake, or, Sho-Sho-Nay dialect	1868	Pamphlet	Wyoming
Voyage dans les deux Louisianes: et chez les nations sauvages du Missouri, par les États-Unis, l’Ohio et les provinces qui le bordent, en 1801, 1802 et 1803	1805	Rare Book	Louisiana
Voyages from Montreal on the river St. Laurence, through the continent of North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans in the years 1789 and 1793: with a preliminary account of the rise, progress, and present state of the fur trade of that country: illustrated with maps	1801	Rare Book	Canada
Western portraiture and emigrants' guide: a description of Wisconsin, Illinois, and Iowa; with remarks on Minnesota, and other territories	1852	Rare Book	Wisconsin; Illinois; Iowa
Whipple Barracks, Prescott, A.T. December 2, 1879. To the Assistant Adjutant General, Department of Arizona, Whipple Barracks, Prescott.	02 Dec 1879	Pamphlet	Arizona
Wild life in the far west; personal adventures of a border mountain man…	1872	Rare Book	California; Mexico; Arizona

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