Geronimo, 1829-1909.
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Accounts and publications about Indians
Collection
Identifier: 9087
Abstract
Correspondence, biographies, and accounts collected in the 1930s, but describing actions from many years previous. Focus is on western Indians, exploration, and pioneers, particularly pertaining to Colorado and Utah. Folder 1: correspondence from Thomas P. Willson of the society. Stories of Indian captivities in Nebraska. Folder 2: accounts about Tascosa Texas, Guatemala, Central America Accounts, E. B. Sopris, William Carroll Riggs, St. Louis, Pierre Laclede, William Campbell, The Pony...
Dates:
1934-1938.
Notes made or collected by Lieutenant Allyn Capron
Collection — Huntington box 8 - folder 1
Identifier: 9015
Scope and content
This collection of letters and notes relates to Geronimo and other Chiricahua Apache prisoners of war. The letters were written at Mount Vernon Barracks and Fort Sill and include documents signed by Geronimo. There is some documentation of the Apache culture. Provenance note from Agnes K. Capron, wife of Allyn Capron, dated March 26, 1938, to George Gustav Heye. Notes by Capron, 7 pages and copies of notes about Apache culture, legends, religion, thoughts about white men. 5 leaves of notes...
Dates:
1884-1896.
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Apache Indians -- Mixed descent 1
- Apache Indians -- Social life and customs. 1
- Apache Indians -- Wars, 1883-1886. 1
- Arkansas River Valley -- History. 1
- Aztecs. 1
- Bent\'s Fort (Colo.) 1
- Deseret alphabet -- Texts. 1
- Deseret. 1
- Folsom points. 1
- Fort Pickens (Fla.) 1
- Fort Sill (Okla.) 1
- Frontier and pioneer life -- Colorado. 1
- Frontier and pioneer life. 1
- Guernsey (Wyo.) 1
- Hopi Indians. 1
- Indian captivities. 1
- Indian women -- North America. 1
- Indians of Central America -- Guatemala. 1
- Indians of Mexico 1
- Indians of North America -- Alabama 1
- Indians of North America -- Alcohol use 1
- Indians of North America -- Arizona 1
- Indians of North America -- Education 1
- Indians of North America -- Folklore 1
- Indians of North America -- Implements 1
- Indians of North America -- Medicine 1
- Indians of North America -- Nebraska 1
- Indians of North America -- Religion 1
- Kiowa Apache Indians. 1
- Lakota Indians 1
- Latter Day Saint churches 1
- Latter Day Saint pioneers 1
- Latter Day Saints 1
- Louisiana -- Boundaries. 1
- Louisiana -- History. 1
- Louisiana Purchase. 1
- Midway Islands. 1
- Mount Vernon (Ala.) 1
- Navajo Indians. 1
- Oregon National Historic Trail. 1
- Peyote. 1
- Pioneers. 1
- Pony express. 1
- Prisoners of war. 1
- Pueblo (Colo.) 1
- Pueblo Indians. 1
- Rose Atoll (American Samoa). 1
- Tascosa (Tex.) 1
- Trinidad (Colo.) 1
- Utah -- History. 1
- Ute Indians. 1 + ∧ less
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