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United States. Army. Correspondence, reports, and memoranda concerning Forts Laramie and Kearny, 1842-1876 : Washington, D.C., 1885.
BANC MSS P-M 52LOCAL
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Title:

Correspondence, reports, and memoranda concerning Forts Laramie and Kearny, 1842-1876: Washington, D.C., 1885

Creator/Contributor:

United States, Army., creator

Creator/Contributor:

Shell, H. S.

Creator/Contributor:

Sanderson, W. F.

Abstract:

Typed transcripts and excerpts furnished H.H. Bancroft by the War Department, including an extract from an 1870 report by Assistant Surgeon H.S. Schell, U.S. Army; extracts from Frémont and Stansbury; reports from Fort Kearny by C.F. Ruff in 1848-1849, and from Fort Laramie by W.F. Sanderson, 1849; excerpts from an act of Congress, 1846; War Department general orders, memoranda, and correspondence, 1847-1849; Special Orders, 1871, concerning abandonment of Fort Kearny; military description of Fort Laramie in 1876.

Date:

1885 (issued)

Subject:

Fort Laramie (Wyo.)
Fort Phil Kearny (Wyo.)

Note:

Also available on microfilm.
Drawings of Fort Laramie transferred to the Pictorial Collections of The Bancroft Library (BANC PIC 19xx.232--A)

Physical Description:

44 leaves ; 33 cm.
partial microfilm reel (46 exposures) : negative (Rich. 116:16-20) and positive (Film P-M, reel 5)

Language:

English

Identifier:

BANC MSS P-M 52LOCAL

Origin:

Wyoming