Papers, 1835-1872 [microform] / Ephraim George Squier. 1835-1872.

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Papers, 1835-1872 [microform] / Ephraim George Squier. 1835-1872.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/42860006

Holographs, some signed. Archaeologist, diplomat, and businessman. Contains much documentation on his career, as well as material shedding light on the practice of anthropology, ethnology and archaeology in America; on US relations with Latin American nations; and on the struggles of various groups of entrepreneurs, engineers and adventurers working to bring transportation facilities to the region.

808 items : ill., maps.

University of Alabama

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Squier, E. G. (Ephraim George), 1821-1888

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Ephraim George Squier (1821-1888) and Dr. Edwin Hamilton Davis (1811-1888) of Chillicothe, Ohio were antiquarian authors who became authorities in the field of Indian antiquities. Mr. Squier was editor of the Scioto Gazette in Ohio when he began investigating the moundbuilders of the Scioto Valley under the tutelage of Dr. Davis, an Ohio physician who wrote for several historical and medical journals. Squier was later appointed Charge d'affaires to Guatemala and other Central American states and...