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Dictation from Herman G. Nickerson : Lander, Wyoming, 1885.
BANC MSS P-M 39
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Title:

Dictation from Herman G. Nickerson: Lander, Wyoming, 1885

Creator/Contributor:

Nickerson, Herman G., 1841-, creator

Creator/Contributor:

Bancroft, Hubert Howe, 1832-1918, Recipient.

Abstract:

Union army service, 1861-1865; experiences with the Indians, 1866; the Sweetwater Mines, 1868; placer-mining and sheep-raising; leader of 1870 raid against the Arapahos; role in cutting Fremont County out of Sweetwater County; county official. Attached is a letter to H.H. Bancroft, 1884.

Date:

1885 (issued)

Subject:

United States. -- Army.
Indians -- Warfare -- West (U.S.)
Arapaho Indians

Note:

Also available on microfilm.
Forms part of the Hubert Howe Bancroft Collection.

Type:

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

8 leaves ; 23 cm.
partial microfilm reel (5 exposures) : negative (Rich. 116:17) and positive.

Language:

English

Identifier:

BANC MSS P-M 39

Origin:

Wyoming