Indians of North America
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:
Oregon-California Collection
Collection
Identifier: A1162
Scope and Contents
The Oregon-California Collection is an artificial, or subject-based, collection comprising of a variety of documents that have been placed in this collection over the years due to their common subject matter. The collection consists primarily of letters, diaries, and articles from Missouri newspapers relating to overland travel to Oregon and California in the 1840s and 1850s. Most of these items are transcriptions or reproductions, rather than original documents. The collection also includes...
Dates:
1832-1943
Tesson Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: A1610
Scope and Contents
This collection contains papers of the related families of Michel Desravines Tesson and Thomas Forsyth. The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence, accounts, receipts, and bills relating to Thomas Forsyth's work as an Indian agent in Illinois in the early nineteenth century. The collection also contains papers relating to the genealogy of the Tesson, Forsyth, and related families; correspondence (mostly in French) of the Michel Desravines Tesson family and...
Dates:
1797-1958, no date; Majority of material found within 1797-1866
Western Travel Collection
Collection
Identifier: A1734
Scope and Contents
The Western Travel Collection is an artificial, or subject-based, collection comprising a variety of documents that have been placed in this collection over the years due to their common subject matter. The collection consists primarily of accounts of travel in the nineteenth-century American West, but also includes material relating to western travel in the eighteenth and twentieth centuries. The collection includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, and journals and diaries. Many items...
Dates:
1766-1968
James Wilkinson Collection
Collection
Identifier: A1746
Scope and Contents
The collection consists primarily of correspondence to and from General James Wilkinson with several government officials and military officers. The bulk of the correspondence is dated 1805-1806, when Wilkinson served as governor of the Louisiana Territory, and discusses administrative affairs of the territory.
Dates:
1788-1932; Majority of material found within 1788-1824