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[U.S. War Department]. Cherokee Indians. Letter From the Secretary of War Transmitting Information Relative to Outrages ...
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Description
[U.S. War Department]. Cherokee Indians. Letter From the Secretary of War Transmitting Information Relative to Outrages Lately Committed in the Cherokee Nation. 29th Congress, 1st Session, House of Representatives, Doc. No. 92. [Washington]: Ritchie & Heiss, Printers, 1846. Octavo. 69 pages extracted from larger bound volume. First page detached (easily repaired), some offsetting to the pages, else a sound copy in very good condition.More Information:
Offered in a custom blue cloth covered portfolio with titles stamped in gilt on a morocco spine label. Withdrawn from the Yale University Library, originally donated from the Western American Book collection of Frederick William Beinecke and Carrie Sperry Beinecke.
This report to the House of Representatives by then Secretary of War, Jefferson Davis, compiles lurid reports of Cherokee attacks on settlers in Arkansas and other reaches of the Cherokee nation.
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2010 February Signature Rare Books Auction #6038 (go to Auction Home page)
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February, 2010
11th-12th
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