Letter signed Jno. Dougherty, Cantonment Leavenworth, to Hon. L. Cass, Secretary of War. The American Fur Co. has a trading post established. Recommends absolute prohibition of taking spirituous liquors into Indian Country by traders. Subjects mentioned: the Pawnees, the Otoe, the Omahaws, the Ponkawas, the Sioux, the Comanches, the Arapahoes, the Kiowas, the Pichs, the Jatans, the Crows, the Blackfeet, the Kansas, the Delawares, the Shawnees, the Kicapoos, the Ioways, and the Sacks of Mo. Places mentioned: Black Snake Hills, Roy’s Grove, Council Bluffs, Great Platte, Little Missouri, Mandan Village, Yellowstone, Mexico, and the Arkansas River., 1831 Nov 19

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Collection consists mainly of the correspondence of Major John Dougherty in relation to sutling at Fort Kearny, Nebraska, and government transportation of freight between Fort Kearny and Fort Laramie, Wyoming, in the 1840s and 1850s. Also includes numerous bills of sale of slaves; correspondence and reports regarding Indian affairs, including a report from Leavenworth, March 9, 1832; land documents; and correspondence regarding land claims. Correspondents include Dougherty's son Lewis B. Dougherty, Robert Campbell, Henry S. Turner, A.G. Reed, Major C.F. Ruff, and Col. Thomas Swords. Collection also includes two diaries, 1869-1879, and a ledger, 1851-1852, of the medical practice of Dr. William Wallace Dougherty, a Liberty, Missouri, physician and nephew of John Dougherty. The diaries include material on the family.