Correspondence regarding Texas Indians, 1841-1863.

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Correspondence regarding Texas Indians, 1841-1863.

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Negative photocopies of letters relating to Indian "depredations" against American citizens in Texas. Includes letters from Richard Barnes Mason to Indian leaders including Roly McIntosh (Creek), John Ross (Cherokee), and Andrew M. Vann (Cherokee). Also includes correspondence between Mason, James Henry Carleton, and Zachary Taylor regarding the theft (supposedly by Comanche Indians) of two slaves from an American in Texas, and a statement from James Edwards noting that the two slaves were stolen from his daughter Lucinda, whose mother was a Creek Indian. Also includes a list of court-martials and notes on the creation of the New Mexico Volunteers.

11 items, negative photocopies.

Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens

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Spencer, John C. (John Canfield), 1788-1855

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Carleton, James Henry, 1814-1873

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Carleton was born in Lubec, Maine. He was commissioned as a lieutenant in the U.S. Army in 1839, during the Aroostook War, and took part in the Mexican–American War. He served in the 1st U.S. Dragoons in the American West, participating as a lieutenant in an 1844 expedition to the Pawnee and the Oto. One of Carleton's children, Henry Guy Carleton (1852–1910) was a journalist, playwright, and inventor. In May 1859, Maj. Carleton and K Company of the 1st Dragoons out of Fort Tejon, California, ...

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