Fisk Expedition journal /by Samuel R. Bond, 1862.

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Fisk Expedition journal /by Samuel R. Bond, 1862.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702689029

A full and detailed account of the expedition, including the trip home by part of the escort by way of San Francisco, and Panama to New York by steamer.

1 v. ; 29 cm.

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8028915

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Bond, Samuel R.

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The Fisk Expedition, commanded by Capt. James Liberty Fisk, with Samuel Bond as secretary, was authorized by Congress in 1862 to provide an escort for emigrant trains going westward through Indian country. From the description of Fisk Expedition journal /by Samuel R. Bond, 1862. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702689029 ...

Fisk, James Liberty, 1835-1902

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Fisk was born in New York of Irish extraction, the eldest of six sons of John B. and Jerusha T. Fisk. He worked as a "raftsman, farmer, carriage maker, and newspaperman" for the Daily Courier of Lafayette, Indiana. Four of his five brothers also became newspapermen. Becoming engrossed with the western frontier, he moved to White Bear Lake, Minnesota, sometime in the 1850s, married Lydia Burson, and started farming. In 1857, he was in the expedition of William H. Nobles which tried unsuccessfu...