Aurora Hunt research materials.

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Aurora Hunt research materials.

Transcripts of letters, photocopies of clippings, photographs, etc., used in the preparation of her books on the Army of the Pacific, the California Column, Kirby Benedict, and Maj. Gen. James H. Carleton. Included also: material relating to Campo Seco, Calif., to Gen. George Wright, and to Philemon T. Herbert; and transcripts of letters written by Tom Goodsell on board the Cyane, 1845-1846.

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Carleton, James Henry, 1814-1873

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Carleton was born in Lubec, Maine. He was commissioned as a lieutenant in the U.S. Army in 1839, during the Aroostook War, and took part in the Mexican–American War. He served in the 1st U.S. Dragoons in the American West, participating as a lieutenant in an 1844 expedition to the Pawnee and the Oto. One of Carleton's children, Henry Guy Carleton (1852–1910) was a journalist, playwright, and inventor. In May 1859, Maj. Carleton and K Company of the 1st Dragoons out of Fort Tejon, California, ...

Cyane (U.S. Sloop of War)

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Hunt, Aurora

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Historian and author, of Whittier, Calif. From the description of Aurora Hunt research materials relating to Maj. Gen. James Henry Carleton, circa 1958. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 317296245 ...

Benedict, Kirby, 1810-1874

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Herbert, Philemon T. (Philemon Thomas), 1825-1864

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