Warren King Moorhead letter to S. S. McClure [manuscript], 1895 December 2.

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Warren King Moorhead letter to S. S. McClure [manuscript], 1895 December 2.

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Moorehead relates that Chief Red Cloud of the Sioux is in poor health and not likely to survive the winter. He describes Red Cloud as "the most prominent Indiean produced west of the Mississippi in the last one hundred years" and compares him to Sitting Bull, Chief Joseph and Geronimo, noting that he controlled the Plains for 40 years and is as revered as Grant, Washington and Lincoln. He solicits financial help from McClure to enable him to go to the Pine Ridge Agency with interpreter and Indian agent George Bartlett in order to interview Red Cloud and his associates for a history of "the wonderful career of this Chief...." He includes the name of Dr. Thomas Wilson of the Smithsonian as his reference and urges McClure to act swiftly.

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Red Cloud, 1822-1909

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Red Cloud was born close to the forks of the Platte River, near the modern-day city of North Platte, Nebraska. His mother, Walks as She Thinks, was an Oglala Lakota and his father, Lone Man, was a Brulé Lakota leader. They came from two of the seven major Lakota divisions. As was traditional among the matrilineal Lakota, in which the children belonged to the mother's clan and people, Red Cloud was mentored as a boy by his maternal uncle, Old Chief Smoke (1774–1864). Old Chief Smoke played a m...

Moorehead, Warren King, 1866-1939

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Warren King Moorehead (1866-1939) grew up in Ohio, where he cultivated a lifelong interest in archaeology and American Indians. He attended Denison University but did not complete his undergraduate studies. In his early career, he worked as a correspondent for The Illustrated American and served as the first curator of the Ohio Archaeological Society. In 1896, he began what would become a personal friendship with Robert S. Peabody, providing the latter with several American Indian artifact colle...

Wilson, Thomas, 1832-1902

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U.S. Consul in Belgium and France (1881-1887) and anthropologist. While in Europe Wilson travelled, recording his observations and conducting archaelogical research. In 1887 he returned to the U.S. to become the Curator of Archaeology at the Smithsonian. Before his appointment as consulate Wilson practiced law in Iowa and served as a Colonel with the 2nd Iowa Infantry during the Civil War. From the description of Papers, 1881-1887. (State Historical Society o...

Bartlett, George Bradford, 1832-1896

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McClure, S. S. (Samuel Sidney), 1857-1949

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Journalist, writer of books for boys. From the description of S.S. McClure check to James Barnes, 1898 June 29. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 53795304 American publisher. From the description of Letter to Edward Sylvester Ellis, 1892 October 27. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 51846140 ...