Raymond A. Burnside papers.

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Raymond A. Burnside papers.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/435842239

The bulk of this collection relates to Burnside's research materials related to the Dakota Sioux, Native American associations with French-Canadian explorers, and tribal relations with the U.S. government. It includes a series of original letters and other documentation of Charles E. DeLand, a South Dakota lawyer and local historian who had compiled items of interest to Dr. Burnside. Among topics addressed in these papers are the Verendrye expeditions, the Battle of Little Bighorn (including maps and drawings), government treaties with the Sioux (including print copies of a series of U.S. treaties), frontier forts (Berthold, George, and Loiselle), Indian mound builders, and the Delaware tribe. The collection's correspondence file contains a typescript of a letter from Mrs. Victoria Conroy (a blood relative of Crazy Horse) to the Superintendent of Pine Ridge, S.D. Agency providing information on the family lineage and comments on Crazy Horse's burial.

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State Historical Society of Iowa, Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7527252

State Historical Society of Iowa, Library

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Burnside, Raymond Alexander, 1892-1957.

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Raymond Burnside was a 1923 graduate of the State University of Iowa College of Medicine who later practiced as a physician and surgeon in Des Moines, Iowa. He had an interest in Native American history. From the description of Raymond A. Burnside papers. (State Historical Society of Iowa, Library). WorldCat record id: 435842239 ...

Crazy Horse, approximately 1842-1877

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Crazy Horse (b. approximetly 1840-d. September 5, 1877) was a Native American war leader of the Oglala Lakota in the 19th century. He took up arms against the United States government to fight against encroachment by white American settlers on Indian territory and to preserve the traditional way of life of the Lakota people. His participation in several famous battles of the American Indian Wars on the northern Great Plains, among them the Fetterman massacre in 1866, in which he acted as a deco...

La Vérendrye, Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de, 1685-1749

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DeLand, Charles Edmund, 1854-1935

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Lawyer, historian, author. Deland settled in Pierre in 1883. He served as Hughes County Republican Central Committee chairman; was the law partner of Coe I. Crawford, who was elected governor in 1906; secretary of the Sixth Judicial Circuit Auxiliary Bar Association; authored several law journals, histories of the West, and many novels; and served as president of the South Dakota State Historical Society. From the description of Papers, 1890-1935. (South Dako...