Cheyenne Indians collection [microform], 1879-1947.

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Cheyenne Indians collection [microform], 1879-1947.

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This collection contains information on the Cheyenne Indian raid of September 1878, by Emerson L. Brown; "Incidents of the Dull Knife Raid" by William D. Street; letter and report describing the wounding and death of Lieutenant Colonel William H. Lewis on October 10, 1878; an account of the 1874 raid by the Cheyenne near Fort Hays Kansas; claims from victims of Cheyenne depredations; an account of the 1867 raid on the Union Pacific Railway near Victoria, Kansas; accounts of the 1875 murder of Cheyenne Indians on Middle Sappa Creek in Rawlins County, Kansas, by Lieutenant Austin Henely; a map of this site; a correction of a report of the Indian Commission concerning the last Indian raid in Kansas in 1878; drawings by Wild Hog and Northern Cheyenne chiefs while in the Dodge City, Kansas, jail in 1879; and accounts of the Cheyenne crossing Kansas in 1878.

partial microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

Kansas State Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 7625277

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Wild Hog.

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Street, William D., 1851-

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Brown, Emerson Lee, b. 1901.

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Henely, Austin, 1847-1878

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Martin, George W. (George Washington), 1841-1914

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George Washington Martin was born in Pennsylvania to David and Mary Howell Martin on 30 June 1841. In 1855 his father went to Kansas, taking a claim near Lecompton, Douglas County, and two years later brought his family back with him. In the meantime, George had started working in the printing trade. He continued in this line in Kansas and finished his apprenticeship back east in Philadelphia. Returning to Kansas in the early 1860s, he started publishing the Republican newspaper the Union in Jun...

Lewis, William H. (William Henry), 1829-1878

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