Letters to Stand Watie, 1850-1856.

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Letters to Stand Watie, 1850-1856.

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Negative photocopies of four letters to Stand Watie. Two of the letters are from Watie's brothers, John A. Watie and Charles E. Watie. John's letter, dated November 10, 1850, was written just after his arrival in Sonora, California, of which he writes "gold is plenty - everywhere in this neighborhood." He also writes of Henry Hickey Burrows joining a "robbing party" at the Colorado River and mentions a Judge Brown. In his letter of August 19, 1856, Charles Watie asks Stand to fund a printing press devoted to Indian affairs that John Rollin Ridge, the son of the Waties' cousin John Ridge, wants to establish in Arkansas. Charles also writes that he plans to quit mining and leave California. The final two letters were written by a Cherokee woman named Barbara Longknife in 1854 and 1857. Longknife writes from Coloma, California, of the sicknesses her family has endured, the difficulty of her daily work, and her belief that "California is not what it was represented."

4 letters, negative photocopies.

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Ridge, John Rollin, 1827-1867.

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