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Dakota Indians -- Wars, 1862-1865 -- Sources

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Martin J. Feenan papers

 Collection
Identifier: VAULT-Graff-1302
Abstract

Includes ms. account of the Sully campaign against the Indians of the West, 1863-1865 (59 leaves.), written in 1920 from memoranda, notes and correspondence; ms. account of the Feenan genealogy (12 leaves), photographs, letters, newspaper clippings, documents, etc.

Dates: 1864-1920

Robert Knowles Boyd letters

 Collection
Identifier: VAULT box-Ayer-MS-3025
Abstract

Five letters, Oct. 28, 1925 - Feb. 13, 1927, from Boyd to his cousin, Edith M. Smith, discussing the reception of his pamphlets about the Minnesota-Wisconsin frontier in the 1860s and 1870s. Included are comments on the Battle of Birch Coulee, the Chippewa Valley, the Chippewa Indians, and the Eau Claire family of novelist G.P.R. James. There is also a carbon typescript of a review of Boyd's works from Minnesota History, Vol. 7, No. 4, 1926 (pp. 354-355).

Dates: 1925-1927