Papers, 1832-1916. 1832-1916.

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Papers, 1832-1916. 1832-1916.

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The collection includes correspondence related to the lead miners' trespassing; official military documents related to the 1st U.S. Infantry; 1840's field notes and plats of land surveys in Jefferson, Mahaska and Wapello counties; miscellaneous biographical documentation compiled by Wilson's son, George Wilson, Jr.; a tribute to Wilson by Henry Triplett; and an article written by George Wilson, Jr. about General Joseph Montfort Street.

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State Historical Society of Iowa, Library

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State Historical Society of Iowa, Library

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Wilson, George, 1809-1880.

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George Wilson's career included a variety of military, political and civilian positions. He served as the first territorial adjutant of Iowa's state militia; worked with the U.S. War Department to remove lead miners trespassing on property ceded to the government by the Sac and Fox treaty made at Dubuque, Iowa (1832-1833); served as lieutenant and assistant quartermaster with the 1st U.S. Infantry (Ft. Crawford, Prairie du Chien, Wis.), participating in the Black Hawk War; served in the Wisconsi...

Street, Joseph Montfort, 1782-1840

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General Joseph Montfort Street was a lawyer, merchant, U.S. Army officer, and U.S. Indian agent born in 1782 in Lunenburg County, Virginia. He studied law in Henry Clay's office in Kentucky, and subsequently practiced in that state and Tennessee. In 1806 he became editor of the "The Western World" in Frankfort, Kentucky, a newspaper that helped expose Aaron Burr's conspiracy to sieze and detach U.S. lands from the Union. From 1827-1835 Street served as U.S. Indian agent to the Winnebago at Prair...

Fort Crawford (Prairie du Chien, Wis.)

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Triplett, Henry.

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United States. Army. Infantry

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Sac and Fox Nation

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The Sac and Fox Nation is the largest of three federally recognized tribes of Sauk and Meskwaki (Fox) Indian peoples. Originally from the Lake Huron and Lake Michigan area, they were forcibly relocated to Oklahoma in the 1870s and are predominantly Sauk....