Henry Gates Weeden letters, 1866.

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Henry Gates Weeden letters, 1866.

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Photocopied typescript copies (6 p.) of letters written by Weeden while serving as physician and surgeon on the 1866 expedition to the Montana gold fields led by Captain James L. Fisk.

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Minnesota Historical Society, Division of Archives and Manuscripts

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Fisk, James Liberty, 1835-1902

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Fisk was born in New York of Irish extraction, the eldest of six sons of John B. and Jerusha T. Fisk. He worked as a "raftsman, farmer, carriage maker, and newspaperman" for the Daily Courier of Lafayette, Indiana. Four of his five brothers also became newspapermen. Becoming engrossed with the western frontier, he moved to White Bear Lake, Minnesota, sometime in the 1850s, married Lydia Burson, and started farming. In 1857, he was in the expedition of William H. Nobles which tried unsuccessfu...

Weeden, Henry Gates, d. 1872.

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