Letter : to Professor Benjamin Silliman / by Henry Leavitt Ellsworth, 1832 Dec 5.

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Letter : to Professor Benjamin Silliman / by Henry Leavitt Ellsworth, 1832 Dec 5.

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The letter describes the journey to Fort Gibson, meeting Washington Irving, C. J. Latrobe, and Count Pourtalè€s, and the expedition of the Mounted Rangers up the Arkansas and Cimarron Rivers, south to the Canadian River and back, hunting buffalo and wild horses, and the condition of the Indians in that region.

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Silliman, Benjamin, 1779-1864

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Benjamin Silliman was a chemist and naturalist, and was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1805. From the description of Correspondence, 1808-1859. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 173466220 Physician and chemist of New Haven, Connecticut. From the description of Note, 1853, Sept. 28 : New Haven, Connecticut, to Isaac Waldron. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 35359361 Educator and scientist. From the description of Papers of...

Latrobe, Charles Joseph, 1801-1875

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Superintendent, 1839-1851; Lieutenant Governor, 1851-1854 of the Colony of Victoria. From the description of Papers. 1822-1855. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 222231046 From the description of Papers. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225756942 Charles Joseph Latrobe became Lieutenant Governor of Victoria during the gold rush. Mary Ford's father, Sir William Molesworth, had been prominent in a parliamentary campaign in the 1830's to end the tran...

Ellsworth, Henry Leavitt, 1791-1858

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Henry Leavitt Ellsworth graduated from Yale in 1810. He studied law at Litchfield Law School, and in 1832 he was appointed Commissioner of Indian tribes in Arkansas and Oklahoma. In 1835, Ellsworth was elected mayor of Hartford, Connecticut, but only served one month. In 1835, he was appointed U.S. Commissioner of Patents, remaining until 1845. Following this, Ellsworth settled in Lafayette, Indiana, acting as an agent for purchase and settlement of public land. From the description ...

Pourtales, Count.

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Irving, Washington, 1783-1859

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Washington Irving (b. April 3, 1783, New York City-d. November 28, 1859, Sunnyside, Tarrytown, New York), American author, wrote his first popular work, A History of New York, under the pseudonym Diedrich Knickerbocker. He continued to write stories and essays which made him the outstanding figure in American literature of his time and established his reputation abroad. In 1826 Irving went to Spain to work at the American embassy in Madrid, then at the American legation in London, before returni...