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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 52
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Title:
Correspondence, reports, and memoranda concerning Forts Laramie and Kearny, 1842-1876: Washington, D.C., 1885Creator/Contributor:
United States, Army., creatorCreator/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)
Forms part of the Hubert Howe Bancroft Collection.
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 52