Diaries, 1851 May 7-July 18.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Diaries, 1851 May 7-July 18.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38888802

Diary kept by Mayer, beginning May 7, 1851, documenting his trip from Baltimore to Traverse des Sioux, Minn., and concluding July 18, 1851, the day that treaty negotiations began.

3 v. ; 15 cm.

Newberry Library

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7408719

Newberry Library

Related Entities

There are 7 Entities related to this resource.

Little Crow III, ca. 1810-1863

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6fz834k (person)

Little Crow III (Dakota: Thaóyate Dúta; c. 1810 – July 3, 1863) was a Mdewakanton Dakota chief who led a faction of the Dakota in a five-week war against the United States in 1862....

Newberry Library

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6kt7hww (person)

The Newberry was founded on July 1, 1887 and opened for business on September 6 of that year. The Newberry’s establishment came about because of a contingent provision in the will of Chicago businessman Walter L. Newberry (1804-68), which left what later amounted to approximately $2.2 million for the foundation of a “free, public” library on the north side of the Chicago River, if his two children died without issue. After the deaths of Mr. Newberry’s daughters and then, in 1885, of his widow, t...

Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Collection (Newberry Library)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65v4bgx (corporateBody)

Mayer, Frank Blackwell, 1827-1899

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6vt1w3b (person)

Painter, specialized in North American Indian subjects and colonial themes; Baltimore, Md. From the description of Frank B. Mayer letter, 1864 Nov. 21. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79193849 Baltimore artist who traveled independently in 1851 to Minnesota to observe and sketch the Sioux Indians present at treaty negotiations at Traverse des Sioux and Mendota. In May of 1851 Mayer left Maryland and journeyed via the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers to Mis...

Huggan, Nancy McClure, 1836-1927.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61z4xgr (person)

Williamson, Thomas S. (Thomas Smith), 1800-1879

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tm78cc (person)

Prescott, Philander, 1801-1862

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6dv2c1x (person)

Prescott was born (September 17, 1801) in Phelpstown, New York, the son of Joel and Lucy (Reed) Prescott. He joined his brother Zachariah in Detroit in 1820; arrived later that year at Camp New Hope (Fort Snelling, Minn.); married (1823) the daughter of a Dakota chief; engaged in the fur trade with the American and Columbia fur trading companies and in partnership with Alexis Bailly; was associated with Lawrence Taliaferro's Eatonville agricultural colony for the Indians; was an int...