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De Smet, P. J.; Victor, Frances Fuller : Original Typescript - "Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs for the Year 1862" (and) "The Early Indian Wars of Oregon"

Original typescript in black ink on white paper. Stapled in upper-left corner. No date, circa 1920s-1950s. 8 1/2" x 11." Six pages, complete. Folded horizontally at the bottom. Pages are very clean and intact except for slight wrinkling. A Very Good copy. Noted as "a copy" and may be a collection of transcribed notes copied from published materials. Page 1 appears to be a transcription from part of a book titled, "Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs for the Year 1862," which was published in 1862 by the Government Printing Office in Washington, D.C. Page 1 includes a transcribed letter that was originally written on September 5, 1862 in Washington City by missionary Pierre-Jean De Smet. De Smet informs the addressee that different Indigenous tribes, including the Gros Ventre, Arikaree, Mandan, Assinaboine, Blackfeet, were asked by British fur traders to only trade with them and not American traders in exchange for a promise to drive Americans away from their homeland. Page 2 onward is likely composed exclusively of transcribed excerpts from Frances Fuller Victor's "The Early Indian Wars of Oregon." One of the excerpts quotes a 1856 letter by Isaac I. Stevens, Governor and Superintendent of Indian Affairs in Washington Territory in which several Indigenous tribes, including the Cayuse, Palouse, Spokane, Okinikane, Coeur d'Alene, Colville, and Nez Perce, are mentioned. The rest of the pages seem to refer to the Coeur d'Alene War of 1858 which was part of the Yakima War. The leader representing the United States government, Colonel George Wright, is also mentioned.. Manuscript. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: No Binding

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