Letters : St. Louis, [Mo.], to Col. J[osiah] Snelling, St. Peters and Fort St. Anthony, [Minn.], 1823-1825.

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Letters : St. Louis, [Mo.], to Col. J[osiah] Snelling, St. Peters and Fort St. Anthony, [Minn.], 1823-1825.

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Two letters (Sept. 7, 1823 and Mar. 10, 1825) from William Clark, writing in his capacity as superintendent of Indian affairs for the St. Louis Superintendency, to Col. Josiah Snelling, commander of Fort St. Anthony (later Fort Snelling), regarding jurisdiction over seized illicit whisky intended for the Indian trade, and departmental efforts to assist the military in capturing Indians implicated in the Lake Pepin murders.

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