Michael Steck Papers 1839-1933 (bulk 1852-1880)

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Michael Steck Papers 1839-1933 (bulk 1852-1880)

The Steck Papers contain correspondence and business records relating to Steck's tenure as Indian Agent and Superintendent of Indian Affairs for New Mexico. Also contains records of his involvement with the New Mexico Mining Company and with railroad operations in Pennsylvania.

4 boxes (4.3 cu. ft.)

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SNAC Resource ID: 6403746

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United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs

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The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) was formed in 1824. An agency of the federal government of the United States within the US Department of the Interior, it is responsible for the administration and management of land held in trust by the United States for Native Americans in the United States, Native American Tribes and Alaska Natives. From the guide to the Navajo Land, motion picture, undated, (J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah) A Statistics Section was organ...

Steck, Michael

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Dr. Michael Steck. Part of William A. Keleher Pictorial Collection (000-742-0143) Michael Steck, son of John and Elizabeth Steck, was born in Hughesville, Pennsylvania, on October 6, 1818. He attended the Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia and graduated in 1844. Steck practiced medicine in Mifflinville, Pennsylvania for a number of years before accepting an appointment from President Fillmore as Indian agent for the Mescalero Apache in Southeastern New Mexico in 1...

Pennsylvania Railroad

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The Pennsylvania Railroad Company was the largest railroad in the United States in terms of corporate assets and traffic from the last quarter of the nineteenth century until the decline of the northeast's and midwest's dominance of manufacturing, caused by the evolution of the interstate highway system and the advancements in air transportation. Originally created by Philadelphia merchants in 1846, it sought to build a trunk route from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh via the Allegheny Mountains to c...

New Mexico Mining Company

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