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 p427  Bibliography

After the emigration of the Indians described in this book an agent was appointed to reside with each of the tribes. He was required to counsel with them concerning the performance of treaty obligations and all problems arising in their new environment and to report annually to the department of Indian affairs on their condition and progress. The agent in turn received reports from the missionaries, teachers, and others having duties of a public nature to perform in the Indian country. These activities resulted in a vast accumulation of manuscript material in the department of Indian affairs and the war department. Some of the most important of this was included in the annual reports of the commissioner of Indian affairs. These reports were usually printed as exhibits to the annual messages of the presidents that appeared as executive congressional documents and thus became the most extensive and valuable contemporary printed accounts of the Indians. The great mass of this correspondence and reports concerning the Indians in their western home however, was never published and remains in the files of these departments. This, in the main, hitherto unpublished material, furnished the principal source from which this book was written. In addition the author has extracted from many printed congressional documents important and detailed accounts of the Indians from other sources the originals of which were deposited in the war department or the Indian office; and others made directly to Congress, such as memorials, investigations, committee reports, and official reports to Congress. From these much essential information was obtained. Contemporary news­papers also contributed greatly to this work.

Reference herein to the material in the office of Indian affairs is abbreviated OIA. In the war department material the references are shortened as follows:

Adjutant general's office, old files division: AGO, OFD.

Adjutant general's office, old records division: AGO, ORD.

Adjutant general's office, old records division, war department files: AGO, ORD, WDF.

Quartermaster general's old files at Fort Myer: QMG.

Other primary sources drawn upon for the contents of this book are the missionary letters recently in the custody of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions at Boston and now deposited in the Harvard-Andover Theological library; United States Senate files; manuscript division of the Library of Congress; Draper Manuscript collection in the State Historical Society of Wisconsin; Byington letters in the library of the Oklahoma Historical Society; manuscript collection in the library of the Author.

 p428  An authority frequently referred to in this book is United States Senate Document No. 512, Twenty-third Congress, first session, "Indian Removal." Because of the length of the name, for brevity the title is shortened in the Reference to "Document," followed by the volume number.

Printed Works Consulted

American State Papers. Documents, legislative and executive of the Congress of the United States, Class V, "Military Affairs," Vols. VI, VII.

Rev. Henry C. Benson, Life among the Choctaw Indians (Cincinnati, 1860).

Thomas Valentine Parker,º The Cherokee Indians, with Special Reference to their Relations with the United States Government (New York, 1907).

George Catlin, Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians, Vols.  I - II (Philadelphia, 1857, and various editions).

Commissioner of Indian affairs, Annual Reports.

Elliott Coues (ed.), Expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike (New York, 1895), Vols.  I , II , III.

H. B. Cushman, History of the Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Natchez Indians (Greenville, Texas, 1899).

Abbé Emmanuel Domenech, Seven Years Residence in the Great Deserts of North America (London, 1860). I • II

Rachel Caroline Eaton, John Ross and the Cherokee Indians (Chicago).

Grant Foreman, Pioneer Days in the Early Southwest, (Cedar Rapids, 1926).

–––––––––, Indians and Pioneers, (New Haven, 1930).

–––––––––, A Traveler in Indian Territory (Cedar Rapids, 1930).

–––––––––, Indian Removal (Norman, 1932).

–––––––––, Advancing the Frontier (Norman, 1933).

–––––––––, Indian Justice (Oklahoma City, 1934).

Adelaide L. Fries, The Moravian Church (Raleigh, 1926).

Joshua R. Giddings, The Exiles of Florida (Columbus, 1858).

[Dr.] R[odney] Glisan, Journal of Army Life (San Francisco, 1874).

William H. Goode, Outposts of Zion (Cincinnati, 1863).

Josiah Gregg, Commerce of the Prairies; or the Journal of a Santa Fé Trader, Vols. I , II (New York, 1844 and various editions).

Frederick W. Hodge (ed.), Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico(Bulletin No. 30, Bureau of American Ethnology, Washington, 1912). I • II

Charles J. Kappler (ed.) Indian Affairs "Laws and Treaties" (United States Senate Document No. 452, Fifty-seventh Congress, first session, Washington, 1903). I • II

J. D. Lang and Samuel Taylor, Report on the Indian tribes west of the Mississippi River (Providence, 1843).

Laws of the Cherokee Nation (Tahlequah, 1852; St. Louis, 1868, and various editions).

Constitution, Laws, and Treaties of the Chickasaws (Tishomingo City, 1860).

Constitution and Laws of the Choctaw Nation (New York, 1869; Dallas, 1894, and various editions).

[Augustus W. Loomis,] Scenes in the Indian Country (Philadelphia, 1859).

 p429  Isaac McCoy, History of Baptist Indian Missions (New York, 1840).

–––––––––, Annual Register of Indian Affairs within the Indian (or Western) Territory 1837 (printed at Shawnee Baptist Mission House Indian Territory, 1837).

Thomas L. McKenney and James Hall, History of the Indian Tribes of North America, Vols.  I , II , III (Philadelphia, 1854, and various editions).

Capt. R. B. Marcy, Thirty Years of Army Life on the Border (New York, 1866).

James Mooney, Myths of the Cherokee (Nineteenth Report, Bureau of American Ethnology, part 1, Washington, 1900).

Rev. Jedidiah Morse, A Report to the Secretary of War of the United States, on Indian Affairs, Comprising a Narrative of a Tour Performed in the Summer of 1820 (New Haven, 1822).

Narcissa Owen, Memoirs of Narcissa Owen, 1831‑1907 (Washington, 1907).

W. B. Parker, Notes taken during the Expedition commanded by Capt. R. B. Marcy through unexplored Texas in the summer and fall of 1854 (Philadelphia, 1856).

J. C. Pilling, Bibliography of the Muskhogean languages (Bulletin No. 9, Bureau of American Ethnology, Washington, 1889).

James Richardson, Messages of the Presidents (Washington, 1903 Vols. I‑IX).

Mrs. William P. Ross, The Life and Times of William P. Ross (Fort Smith, 1893).

Charles C. Royce, The Cherokee Nation of Indians (Fifth Report, Bureau of American Ethnology, Washington, 1887).

Rev. Edmund Schwarze, History of the Moravian Missions among the Southern Indian Tribes of the United States (Bethlehem, 1923).

George G. Smith, The Life and Times of George Foster Pierce D. D., LL. D. (Nashville, 1888).

Capt. John T. Sprague, The Origin, Progress, and Conclusion of the Florida War (New York, 1848).

Emmet Starr, History of the Cherokee Indians (Oklahoma City, 1921).

Dr. John R. Swanton, Early History of the Creek Indians and their Neighbors (Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin No. 73, 1922).

–––––––––, Source Material for the Social and Ceremonial Life of the Choctaw Indians (Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin No. 103, Washington, 1931).

Joseph B. Thoburn and Muriel H. Wright, Oklahoma, a History of the State and its People (New York, 1929). I • II

United States Statutes at Large, Vol. V (Boston, 1850); VII, "List of treaties between the United States and the Indian Tribes" with names of Indian signers (Boston, 1846).

United States Senate Document No. 1, Twenty-third Congress, first session.

–––––––––, Executive Document No. 512, Twenty-third Congress, first session, vol. I, II, III, IV, V, "Indian Removal."

–––––––––, Executive Document No. 3, Twenty-fifth Congress, second session.

–––––––––, Document No. 298, Twenty-eighth Congress, first session.

–––––––––, Document No. 24, Twenty-eighth Congress, second session.

–––––––––, Document No. 138, Twenty-eighth Congress, second session.

–––––––––, Document No. 140, Twenty-eighth Congress, second session.

 p430  –––––––––, Document No. 301, Twenty-ninth Congress, first session.

–––––––––, Document No. 331, Twenty-ninth Congress, first session.

–––––––––, Document No. 439, Twenty-ninth Congress, first session.

United States House of Representatives, Executive Document No. 2, Twenty-fourth Congress, first session.

–––––––––, Document No. 129, Twenty-sixth Congress, first session.

–––––––––, Document No. 162, Twenty-sixth Congress, first session.

–––––––––, Document No. 188, Twenty-sixth Congress, first session.

–––––––––, Document No. 222, Twenty-sixth Congress, first session.

–––––––––, Executive Document No. 219, Twenty-seventh Congress, third session (Hitchcock Report).

–––––––––, Document No. 234, Twenty-eighth Congress, first session.

–––––––––, Executive Document No. 4, Twenty-ninth Congress, second session.

–––––––––, Executive Document No. 42, Thirty-sixth Congress, first session.

Eugène A. Vail, Sur Les Indiens de l'Amérique du Nord (Paris, 1840).

Cephas Washburn, Reminiscences of the Indians (Richmond, 1869).

Lieut. A. W. Whipple and Lieut. J. C. Ives, Report of Explorations for a Railway Route near the Thirty-fifth Parallel of North Latitude, from the Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean (Washington, 1853‑4).

News­papers and Journals

Arkansas Advocate (Little Rock).

The Arkansas Gazette (Little Rock).

Arkansas Intelligencer (Van Buren).

The Army and Navy Chronicle (Washington, D. C.).

Boston Alliance and Visitor.

Cherokee Advocate (Tahlequah).

Cherokee Phoenix (New Echota, Georgia).

Choctaw Telegraph (Doaksville, Indian Territory).

Chronicles of Oklahoma (Oklahoma City).

Constitutional Journal (Helena, Arkansas).

Daily National Intelligencer (Washington, D. C.).

Dallas (Texas) Herald.

Edwardsville (Illinois) Spectator.

The Foreign Missionary Chronicle.

Fort Smith (Arkansas) Herald.

The Indian Advocate (Louisville, Kentucky).

Jackson (Missouri) Advertiser.

The Jackson (Tennessee) Gazette.

Knoxville (Tennessee) Register.

Louisville (Kentucky) Public Advertiser.

Louisville (Kentucky) Weekly Journal.

Memphis (Tennessee) World.

 p431  Missionary Herald.

The Missouri Republican.

Missouri Saturday News.

Natchitoches (Louisiana) Herald.

National Banner and Nashville Whig.

The New Orleans Bee.

New York Evangelist.

The New York Journal of Commerce.

New York Observer.

The New York Recorder.

New York Sun.

New York Tribune.

Niles' Weekly Register (Baltimore).

The Northern Standard (Clarksville, Texas).

Pittsburg Recorder.

Public Advertiser.

Religious Intelligencer.

Telegraph and Texas Register.

The United States Gazette (Philadelphia).

The United States Magazine and Democratic Review.

Western Citizen (Paris, Kentucky).

Wheeling (West Virginia) Gazette.

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