Apache Indians.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 6 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.
Letters of Captain Alexander B. MacGowan
Collection — Huntington box 8 - folder 1
Identifier: 9046
Scope and content
Most letters are addressed to his wife and his son, George P. MacGowan, with some other correspondence as well. Other correspondents include Mrs. S. E. K. Ames, Rev. Cyrus Hamlin, and Mrs. George W. Hazel, who was MacGowan's sister-in-law. Letters from George P. MacGowan to George G. Heye, letter to George MacGowan from Paul D. Moody, President of Middlebury College, VT. Report of Operations by E. A. Carr at Fort Apache mentioning MacGowan's gallant acts. Telegram from E. A. Carr at Fort...
Dates:
1862-1887.
McCormick family papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1312
Abstract
Consists mostly of graphic arts materials of Howard McCormick and correspondence of family and friends.
Dates:
1900-1941.
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.
Notes on Moravian missions
Collection — Huntington box 15a - folder 1
Identifier: 9080
Scope and content
Handwritten notebook. Gives a history of the Moravian Church and missions and their work with Indians. One section deals with the Moravian mission in Dutchess County, New York. There is mention of baptisms and giving Indians names. Works of George Loskiel, a Moravian historian, are used to write parts of the history. A laid in newspaper clipping about the ghost dance of the Cheyenne and Apache Indians is also included.
Dates:
[18--?]
Samuel A. Elliot collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 9165
Abstract
Contains reports to the Board of Indian commissioners, reports 1-107, bulletins regarding Indians to the 70th Congress, and bulletins from the American Indian Defense Association, Inc. The items are typed mimeos. Indexes for the 70th Congress and American Indian Defense association papers and for the Indian Commissioners reports are included. Various authors. A wide variety of topics are covered including Indian and government relations, land tenure, living conditions, laws, and government...
Dates:
1927-1935.