From the family of Isaac Metcalf, a railroad engineer, farmer, and businessman of Maine, Ohio, and Illinois

Letters to and from the family of Isaac Metcalf, a railroad engineer, farmer, and businessman of Maine, Ohio, and Illinois

Letters to and from the family of Isaac Metcalf, a railroad engineer, farmer, and businessman of Maine, Ohio, and Illinois

Frontiersman, trapper, and covered wagon emigrant

Letters to and from the family of Isaac Metcalf, a railroad engineer, farmer, and businessman of Maine, Ohio, and Illinois

Notes from agents hired to infiltrate unions, guard workplaces, and intimidate workers during the Burlington Railroad Strike of 1888

Letters to and from the family of Isaac Metcalf, a railroad engineer, farmer, and businessman of Maine, Ohio, and Illinois

Letters to and from the family of Isaac Metcalf, a railroad engineer, farmer, and businessman of Maine, Ohio, and Illinois

From the family of Isaac Metcalf, a railroad engineer, farmer, and businessman of Maine, Ohio, and Illinois

Letters to and from the family of Isaac Metcalf, a railroad engineer, farmer, and businessman of Maine, Ohio, and Illinois

From the family of Isaac Metcalf, a railroad engineer, farmer, and businessman of Maine, Ohio, and Illinois

Travel diary kept on the exploration of a canal route to Lake Erie via Lake Ontario

Shopping for souvenirs, attending concerts, watching fireworks, etc.

Letters to and from the family of Isaac Metcalf, a railroad engineer, farmer, and businessman of Maine, Ohio, and Illinois

An unpublished history of the Cherokee nation and related documentation.

Life as a gold miner, agricultural laborer, and logger in California

From the family of Isaac Metcalf, a railroad engineer, farmer, and businessman of Maine, Ohio, and Illinois

Pioneer life in the Northwest

A student and teacher in Illinois and New York.

Overland and steamship voyages from Boston to San Francisco

Notes kept during a journey by a writer of historical romances.

Letters to and from the family of Isaac Metcalf, a railroad engineer, farmer, and businessman of Maine, Ohio, and Illinois

Regarding his journeys from Philadelphia to three Indian treaty councils, 1791-1794.

US army officer in the Civil War, with post-war service in the Pacific Northwest, Texas and the Gulf.

Reiterates the religious and moral teachings of the Seneca prophet, Handsome Lake.

Letters to and from the family of Isaac Metcalf, a railroad engineer, farmer, and businessman of Maine, Ohio, and Illinois

On modes of transport, fellow travelers, missionary work to Indians, etc.

Written from the Oklahoma Territory, the Southwest, and the Dakotas, regarding his commissioned series of portraits of prominent Indian Chiefs.

On encounters with frontier justice, friendly and hostile Indians, Missouri farmlands poorly utilized under slavery, the Pony Express, etc.

Chicagoan and granddaughter of Hermann Raster, a renowned writer, editor, and labor activist.

A preacher's wife in New York state.

Congregationalist minister and father of six in New York and Kansas.

Covering his two tenures as Georgia governor and during his appointment by President Madison as Creek Indian agent, 1817-1821.

To Chicago lawyer and Congressman John V. LeMoyne, from his Pennsylvania-based family, including his abolitionist father.

Pioneer settlement in Wisconsin, Minnesota and the Dakota Territory, land speculation, the hard financial times of the 1890s, marital problems and divorce.

Legal and financial documents of an 18th-century Connecticut businessman and Continental Army purchasing agent.

Union soldier from Randolph County, Indiana, on his experiences in the Civil War.

A schoolteacher and American missionary who taught freedmen.

Regarding the removal of the tribe from western Wisconsin to lands on the Turkey River in Iowa.

Covering his two tenures as Georgia governor and during his appointment by President Madison as Creek Indian agent, 1817-1821.

A student and teacher in Massachusetts, Kansas, and New York City.

One of the first female surgeons in the United States.

Miscellaneous correspondence is from Everett cousins, children, and other family members from the second and third generations.

Concerning difficulties with the Indians.

Possibly written in Iowa City in 1905 concerning the publication of his "American ivy" pamphlet.

Narrative of an 1879 trip through the mountains of southern Colorado to Santa Fe, New Mexico.

From author Willa Cather to her childhood friend and lifelong correspondent.

On development and expansion of the Moravian Mission.

On his government survey to mark a route from Missouri to Santa Fe in 1825.

The author, educator, and historian's papers on the Cherokee Indians, their territory, and prominent individuals who contributed to Oklahoma's history.

On his overland journey West and operating a medical practice in California.

On the Cherokee Indians' intention to join the English in their fight against the French.

On her father's book and information about his career in Iowa as a newspaper publisher and post-carrier.

A preacher's wife in New York state.

Family life, farming, and trips to Chicago.

New York state Welsh Congregationalist pastor and publisher of a pro-abolition Welsh religious reform magazine.

Abolitionist and Civil War soldier in the Illinois Infantry.

Order for tools needed by J.A. Sutter to build a sawmill.

Electrification, the bicycling mania of the late 19th century, fires and fire insurance, the remains of the World's Columbian Exposition, and an alcoholic brother.

Concerning a contest between a young and arrogant hunter, High Rock, and White Bear, a cunning and strong creature endowed with knowledge of the past and future.

Principal, civil engineer, lumber mill owner, and farmer in New England and the Midwest.

Principal, civil engineer, lumber mill owner, and farmer in New England and the Midwest.

Principal, civil engineer, lumber mill owner, and farmer in New England and the Midwest.

Principal, civil engineer, lumber mill owner, and farmer in New England and the Midwest.

Principal, civil engineer, lumber mill owner, and farmer in New England and the Midwest.

Principal, civil engineer, lumber mill owner, and farmer in New England and the Midwest.

Principal, civil engineer, lumber mill owner, and farmer in New England and the Midwest.

Principal, civil engineer, lumber mill owner, and farmer in New England and the Midwest.

One of the first female surgeons in the United States.

One of the first female surgeons in the United States.

One of the first female surgeons in the United States.

One of the first female surgeons in the United States.

School compositions on slavery and a rural excursion.

Containing detailed descriptions of an Ohio and Mississippi River steamboat passage, New Orleans, and Mexico City.

To Chicago lawyer and Congressman John V. LeMoyne, from his Pennsylvania-based family, including his abolitionist father.

Kansas Territory settlers and abolitionists on pioneer life and the Free Soil movement.

Farm and family life in Tazewell County, Illinois.

Farm and family life in Tazewell County, Illinois.

An unpublished history of the Cherokee nation.

Civil War soldier in the Illinois Infantry.

A student and teacher in Massachusetts, Kansas, and New York City.

A student and teacher in Massachusetts, Kansas, and New York City.

On royalties for his book An overland journey.

Brothers and Civil War soldiers in the 19th Iowa Infantry.

On life as a missionary to the Seneca Nation on the Cattaraugus Indian Reservation in Cattaraugus, New York.

On the countryside and its possibilities.

Congregational clergyman and Yale graduate who served as a missionary to the Stockbridge, Iroquois, and Mashpee Indians.

On the start of a journey across the Plains.

Regarding Indian and fur trade matters.

Artist and author who traveled in the West, painting portraits of Indians in native costume and pictures of their villages, daily life, games, and ceremonies.

A magistrate in Kittery, Maine, to the lieutenant governor of Massachusetts, William Stoughton, who was then acting governor of the province, concerning the dispatch of soldiers and Indians against the French.

Clergyman and traveler on his journey through the West.

Marked "strictly private," on "drinking the health of the man who will kick Rosewater out of the State."

Teaching school and socializing in Macoupin County, Illinois.

Daily life of a well-to-do family in Chicago.

Daily life of a well-to-do family in Louisville.

Teacher, principal, and preacher's wife in New York, New Hampshire, and Michigan.

Sermons and other religious writings of the University of Chicago graduate, Baptist minister, and notable national temperance lecturer.

Sermons and other religious writings of the University of Chicago graduate, Baptist minister, and notable national temperance lecturer.

On his tenure as Office of Indian Affairs agent to the Blackfeet, Piegan, Blood, and Gros Ventres Indians in Montana Territory.

General store owner, postmaster, and father of six in New York and Kansas.

General store owner, postmaster, and father of six in New York and Kansas.

Chicago-based religious and temperance songwriter.

Chicago-based religious and temperance songwriter.

To a Lieutenant in the 110th U.S. Colored Infantry, from his mother.

Written from the Oklahoma Territory, the Southwest, and the Dakotas, regarding his commissioned series of portraits of prominent Indian Chiefs.

Written from the Oklahoma Territory, the Southwest, and the Dakotas, regarding his commissioned series of portraits of prominent Indian Chiefs.

Written from the Oklahoma Territory, the Southwest, and the Dakotas, regarding his commissioned series of portraits of prominent Indian Chiefs.

On overland and steamship voyages between Boston and San Francisco, describing travel hardships and food shortages, the California gold rush, and Spanish blockades.

A schoolteacher and American missionary who taught freedmen.

Describing the death of two brothers in a skirmish with the Indians across the Ohio River.

US army officer in the Civil War, with post-war service in the Pacific Northwest, Texas and the Gulf.

On the poisoning of tribe members following visits from Christian missionaries.

Legal and financial documents of an 18th-century Connecticut businessman and Continental Army purchasing agent.

Account of interactions along the Overland Trail.

Gold prospector on overland travel from Illinois to California, cholera, prices of goods, deaths on the road, etc.

Illinois farmer and Civil War soldier.

The activist and physician's papers relating to his work for Indian rights.

Volunteer military officer during the Civil War and commander of Western army posts, active in opening the Western frontier.

Volunteer military officer during the Civil War and commander of Western army posts, active in opening the Western frontier.

Letters of volunteer military officer during the Civil War and commander of Western army posts, active in opening the Western frontier.

Volunteer military officer during the Civil War and commander of Western army posts, active in opening the Western frontier.

Volunteer military officer during the Civil War and commander of Western army posts, active in opening the Western frontier.

Agreement with the French, promising not to commit any hostile acts in exchange of assurances of safety while fishing.

Chicago journalist and daughter of Hermann Raster, a renowned writer, editor, and labor activist.

A student and teacher in Illinois and New York.

Farm and family life in Tazewell County, Illinois.

On settling Indians west of the Mississippi River.

From a Chicago wig maker to a customer in Iowa.

On financial matters.

Pioneer life in the Northwest

Sermons and other religious writings of the University of Chicago graduate, Baptist minister, and notable national temperance lecturer.

Correspondence to and from the family of Isaac Metcalf, a railroad engineer, farmer, and businessman of Maine, Ohio, and Illinois

Activities as a Bureau of Indian Affairs agent among the Chippewas in Minnesota

Pioneer life, including trips into the back country, surveying expeditions, a cattle drive, etc.

Pioneer life, including exploratory trips, trouble with Native Americans, enlistment in the Oregon Volunteers, etc.

Pioneer life in Indiana and Illinois

Letters to and from the family of Isaac Metcalf, a railroad engineer, farmer, and businessman of Maine, Ohio, and Illinois

From the family of Isaac Metcalf, a railroad engineer, farmer, and businessman of Maine, Ohio, and Illinois

Letters to and from the family of Isaac Metcalf, a railroad engineer, farmer, and businessman of Maine, Ohio, and Illinois

Pioneer life in Oregon, hunting, surveying, homesteading, and battling American Indians

Religious writings by the New York state Welsh Congregationalist pastor and publisher of a pro-abolition Welsh religious reform magazine.

Correspondence to and from the family of Isaac Metcalf, a railroad engineer, farmer, and businessman of Maine, Ohio, and Illinois

Pioneer life in Indiana and Illinois

Notes from agents hired to infiltrate unions, guard workplaces, and intimidate workers during the Burlington Railroad Strike of 1888

On modes of transport, fellow travelers, missionary work to Indians, etc.

On his experiences en route to San Francisco, his return voyage from Hawaii, and living conditions in the California gold rush.

US army officer in the Civil War, with post-war service in the Pacific Northwest, Texas and the Gulf.

Pastor, publisher, and American missionary and his wife on family, education, pioneer life, and religion.

Children's school compositions and other writings by the Everetts, a Welsh family of American missionaries, writers, and pioneers.

A detailed diary kept by Elisabeth Gookin of her family's twelve visits to the World's Columbian Exposition

From the family of Isaac Metcalf, a railroad engineer, farmer, and businessman of Maine, Ohio, and Illinois

On development and expansion of the Moravian Mission.

Written from the Oklahoma Territory, the Southwest, and the Dakotas, regarding his commissioned series of portraits of prominent Indian Chiefs.

Deeds and indentures, 1639-1787, transferring or leasing Indian lands to white inhabitants of Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New York.

A preacher's wife in New York state.

A Mississippi steamboat captain and his wife on life on the river, domestic life in Cincinnati, business, religion, politics, and family news and gossip.

Civil War officer with the 2nd Iowa Infantry and commander of the 47th Colored Infantry Regiment.

Pastor, publisher, and American missionary and his wife on family, education, pioneer life, and religion.

Pioneer settlement in Wisconsin, Minnesota and the Dakota Territory, land speculation, the hard financial times of the 1890s, marital problems and divorce.

A schoolteacher and American missionary who taught freedmen.

Miscellaneous correspondence is from Everett cousins, children, and other family members from the second and third generations.

A student and teacher in Massachusetts, Kansas, and New York City.

The activist and physician's papers relating to his work for Indian rights.

Grief, a long journey, and a new home.

Chicago-based religious and temperance songwriter.

Congregationalist minister and father of six in New York and Kansas.

World War I shortages and hardships, the influenza epidemic, Hoover’s presidency, Prohibition, and the Great Depression.

Civil War soldier in the Illinois Infantry.

On trading and hunting with Indians.

Query on agricultural conditions in Kansas.

On family news and pioneer movement West.

Notes on Army personnel, supplies, expenses, etc., during the settling of Arizona Territory.

On the purchase of two islands by Power and his associates.

On his government survey to mark a route from Missouri to Santa Fe in 1825.

The author, educator, and historian's papers on the Cherokee Indians, their territory, and prominent individuals who contributed to Oklahoma's history.

Autobiographical letter from a Housing Chairman of the American Indian Chicago Conference to an anthropologist.

Writing by the Finnish American writer, song writer, humorist, hobo, and labor activist who played a prominent role in the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).

Copy of a Shawnee-English vocabulary list compiled by Judge Jasper Yeates, Commissioner at the Fort Pitt Indian treaty negotiations in 1776.

An art teacher and amateur anthropologist on his studies of Iroquois artifacts.

Papers of Colonel Livingston, 1st Nebraska Cavalry, while at various posts in Nebraska Territory.

On writing his book The history of Oregon and California (1844).

On the French and Abenaki attack on the English settlement and fort at Casco Bay, Maine.

The Secretary of War protests a draft drawn upon him for the outfitting and expense of educating Indian boys.

Seeking assistance (powder and bullets) for an attack on Creek Indians.

Electrification, the bicycling mania of the late 19th century, fires and fire insurance, the remains of the World's Columbian Exposition, and an alcoholic brother.

Cameron, Missouri, resident and Civil War soldier.

Principal, civil engineer, lumber mill owner, and farmer in New England and the Midwest.

Principal, civil engineer, lumber mill owner, and farmer in New England and the Midwest.

Principal, civil engineer, lumber mill owner, and farmer in New England and the Midwest.

Principal, civil engineer, lumber mill owner, and farmer in New England and the Midwest.

Principal, civil engineer, lumber mill owner, and farmer in New England and the Midwest.

Principal, civil engineer, lumber mill owner, and farmer in New England and the Midwest.

Principal, civil engineer, lumber mill owner, and farmer in New England and the Midwest.

One of the first female surgeons in the United States.

One of the first female surgeons in the United States.

One of the first female surgeons in the United States.

One of the first female surgeons in the United States.

On her family history, their pioneer life, and her Indian relatives.

William J. Calhoun (U.S. Minister to China, 1909-1913) and his wife, regarding their experiences in China during the last years of the Qing Dynasty.

The life and times of a doomed heiress.

"My trip from Faribault, Minn., to Oregon, via, Saskatchewan route, British America - account of the country, our sufferings and trials, &c."

To Chicago lawyer and Congressman John V. LeMoyne, from his Pennsylvania-based family, including his abolitionist father.

Kansas Territory settlers and abolitionists on pioneer life and the Free Soil movement.

Farm and family life in Tazewell County, Illinois.

Fragment describing the famed naturalist's final expedition, traveling along the Mississippi River.

Congregationalist minister and father of six in New York and Kansas.

School compositions on selfishness, similes, and Latin.

A student and teacher in Massachusetts, Kansas, and New York City.

A student and teacher in Massachusetts, Kansas, and New York City.

A minister and tobacco planter on physical characteristics, dress, housing, money, religion, etc., of the Virginia Indians.

Civil War officer with the 2nd Iowa Infantry and commander of the 47th Colored Infantry Regiment.

From the Secretary of War to an Indian agent and to an Ohio governor.

Letters to and from the family of Isaac Metcalf, a railroad engineer, farmer, and businessman of Maine, Ohio, and Illinois

Letters to and from the family of Isaac Metcalf, a railroad engineer, farmer, and businessman of Maine, Ohio, and Illinois

Regarding Emeline Fuller’s memoir Left by the Indians.

Notes and sketches on the trappers and traders of the American West.

On his duties as Indian trader, agent, and land speculator.

Indians, frontier settlements, and geographical features of Texas.

On his capture at Fort Frontenac by the Iroquois, his adoption by the Oneidas, and English efforts to gain control of him.

On making peace with the Indians.

Teaching school and socializing in Macoupin County, Illinois.

Daily life of a well-to-do family in Chicago.

Daily life of a well-to-do family in Chicago.

Teacher, principal, and preacher's wife in New York, New Hampshire, and Michigan.

Teacher, principal, and preacher's wife in New York, New Hampshire, and Michigan.

Sermons and other religious writings of the University of Chicago graduate, Baptist minister, and notable national temperance lecturer.

Family letters; includes descriptions of military life at Western posts during 1865.

General store owner, postmaster, and father of six in New York and Kansas.

General store owner, postmaster, and father of six in New York and Kansas.

Civil War soldier in the 88th Illinois Infantry.

Chicago-based religious and temperance songwriter.

Chicago-based religious and temperance songwriter.

Describing the Battle of Resaca (Georgia), May 15, 1864, and its aftermath.

Written from the Oklahoma Territory, the Southwest, and the Dakotas, regarding his commissioned series of portraits of prominent Indian Chiefs.

Written from the Oklahoma Territory, the Southwest, and the Dakotas, regarding his commissioned series of portraits of prominent Indian Chiefs.

Written from the Oklahoma Territory, the Southwest, and the Dakotas, regarding his commissioned series of portraits of prominent Indian Chiefs.

Covering his two tenures as Georgia governor and during his appointment by President Madison as Creek Indian agent, 1817-1821.

Army Lieutenant on his regiment's march against the Six Nations.

A schoolteacher and American missionary who taught freedmen.

A schoolteacher and American missionary who taught freedmen.

From Chicago lawyer Clarence Darrow to attorney and judge John T. Jacobs of Greeley, Colorado.

US army officer in the Civil War, with post-war service in the Pacific Northwest, Texas and the Gulf.

Pledging to cease hostilities and return white captives in response to promises that the Nation’s hunting grounds would be restored.

Legal and financial documents of an 18th-century Connecticut businessman and Continental Army purchasing agent.

From a US Indian Service employee stationed at the Crow Agency, Montana Territory.

Author's advice on publishing nonfiction works about the West.

The activist and physician's papers relating to his work for Indian rights.

The activist and physician's papers relating to his work for Indian rights.

Volunteer military officer during the Civil War and commander of Western army posts, active in opening the Western frontier.

Volunteer military officer during the Civil War and commander of Western army posts, active in opening the Western frontier.

Volunteer military officer during the Civil War and commander of Western army posts, active in opening the Western frontier.

Volunteer military officer during the Civil War and commander of Western army posts, active in opening the Western frontier.

Book collector's correspondence, including twelve letters from author Willa Cather.

A student and teacher in Illinois and New York.

A student and teacher in Illinois and New York.

Chicago nurse and expert in yellow fever care who served in Cuba during the Spanish-American War.

Notifying daughter of his expedition to the Mountains.

By an American woman missionary teacher at a school in Honolulu.

Travels in the West Indies and Mexico

Sermons and other religious writings of the University of Chicago graduate, Baptist minister, and notable national temperance lecturer.

Documenting road conditions, vegetation, terrain, water, settlements, and problems encountered

Letters to and from the family of Isaac Metcalf, a railroad engineer, farmer, and businessman of Maine, Ohio, and Illinois

Letters to and from the family of Isaac Metcalf, a railroad engineer, farmer, and businessman of Maine, Ohio, and Illinois

On the overland trail to California, experiencing river crossings, Indian encounters, trading posts, and the gold mines of Virginia City.

Notes from agents hired to infiltrate unions, guard workplaces, and intimidate workers during the Burlington Railroad Strike of 1888

Documenting a journey by rail from Boston via Detroit and Chicago to Rock Island, Illinois

Notes from agents hired to infiltrate unions, guard workplaces, and intimidate workers during the Burlington Railroad Strike of 1888

Letters to and from the family of Isaac Metcalf, a railroad engineer, farmer, and businessman of Maine, Ohio, and Illinois

Voyage to Chagres, trip across the Isthmus, Panama City, and gold mining in California

Notes from agents hired to infiltrate unions, guard workplaces, and intimidate workers during the Burlington Railroad Strike of 1888

Notes on visiting World's Fair buildings, exhibits, and cafes

Colonist, soldier, magistrate and ardent Puritan.

Documenting his tenure as military governor of Alaska.

Colonist, soldier, magistrate and ardent Puritan.

Legal and financial documents of an 18th-century Connecticut businessman and Continental Army purchasing agent.

Overland and California gold rush diary

Correspondence to and from the family of Isaac Metcalf, a railroad engineer, farmer, and businessman of Maine, Ohio, and Illinois

From the family of Isaac Metcalf, a railroad engineer, farmer, and businessman of Maine, Ohio, and Illinois

Regarding assistance for the education of an Indian boy, a meeting to support the Indian cause, etc.

Pastor, publisher, and American missionary and his wife on family, education, pioneer life, and religion.

Congregationalist minister and father of six in New York and Kansas.

US army officer in the Civil War, with post-war service in the Pacific Northwest, Texas and the Gulf.

Correspondence to and from the family of Isaac Metcalf, a railroad engineer, farmer, and businessman of Maine, Ohio, and Illinois

Notes on the Lewis and Clark Expedition by a frontier soldier.

Army officer and acting Indian agent based in Minnesota

On his tenure as Office of Indian Affairs agent to the Blackfeet, Piegan, Blood, and Gros Ventres Indians in Montana Territory.

Chicago journalist and daughter of Hermann Raster, a renowned writer, editor, and labor activist.

From papers of the Waller family, a wealthy, large, educated family from Kentucky and Chicago

On the British explorer and author's travels in America.

A teenager encounters Ferris Wheels, electric lights, and the Buffalo Bill Wild West show.

Chicago-based religious and temperance songwriter.

Kansas Territory settlers and abolitionists on pioneer life and the Free Soil movement.

Covering his two tenures as Georgia governor and during his appointment by President Madison as Creek Indian agent, 1817-1821.

Written from the Oklahoma Territory, the Southwest, and the Dakotas, regarding his commissioned series of portraits of prominent Indian Chiefs.

Accounts of everyday life with her husband, and the births, lives, and deaths of some of their twelve children.

Religious writings by the New York state Welsh Congregationalist pastor and publisher of a pro-abolition Welsh religious reform magazine.

One of the first female surgeons in the United States.

A preacher's wife in New York state.

A student and teacher in Massachusetts, Kansas, and New York City.

US army officer in the Civil War, with post-war service in the Pacific Northwest, Texas and the Gulf.

On encounters with Indians.

Explaining colonial economic grievances and arguing that it was in the tribe’s best interest to oppose the British.

On his arrival at Panama and intention to leave for San Francisco.

On plans for a cougar hunt on the Olympic Peninsula.

Connected with his government survey to mark a route from Missouri to Santa Fe in 1825.

Accounts in connection with his government survey to mark a route from Missouri to Santa Fe in 1825.

Author, educator, and historian on Cherokee Indians, their territory, and prominent individuals who contributed to Oklahoma's history.

Civil War soldier in the Illinois Infantry.

On resolutions honoring Battle of Washita casualty Capt. Louis M. Hamilton,

Family life, farming, and trips to Chicago.

Religious writings by the New York state Welsh Congregationalist pastor and publisher of a pro-abolition Welsh religious reform magazine.

Regarding his military participation in King Philip’s War.

Between Quakers, who wished to preserve peace with the Indians, and representatives of the Six Nations.

On his desertion from the Army.

Civil War soldier on concerns for his wife's well-being and details of his daily routine.

Principal, civil engineer, lumber mill owner, and farmer in New England and the Midwest.

Principal, civil engineer, lumber mill owner, and farmer in New England and the Midwest.

Principal, civil engineer, lumber mill owner, and farmer in New England and the Midwest.

Principal, civil engineer, lumber mill owner, and farmer in New England and the Midwest.

Principal, civil engineer, lumber mill owner, and farmer in New England and the Midwest.

Principal, civil engineer, lumber mill owner, and farmer in New England and the Midwest.

Principal, civil engineer, lumber mill owner, and farmer in New England and the Midwest.

Principal, civil engineer, lumber mill owner, and farmer in New England and the Midwest.

A teenage girl's diary documenting her family's move from Brooklyn, New York, to Winnebago County, Illinois.

One of the first female surgeons in the United States.

One of the first female surgeons in the United States.

One of the first female surgeons in the United States.

Notes kept during a voyage by a writer of historical romances.

Containing detailed descriptions of an Ohio and Mississippi River steamboat passage, New Orleans, and Mexico City.

Frontiersman, scout, and Indian agent.

On operations against the Indians in the area, with a short vocabulary of Indian words.

To Chicago lawyer and Congressman John V. LeMoyne, from his Pennsylvania-based family, including his abolitionist father.

To Chicago lawyer and Congressman John V. LeMoyne, from his Pennsylvania-based family, including his abolitionist father.

Farm and family life in Tazewell County, Illinois.

Farm and family life in Tazewell County, Illinois.

Civil War soldier in the Illinois Infantry.

Congregationalist minister and father of six in New York and Kansas.

A student and teacher in Massachusetts, Kansas, and New York City.

A student and teacher in Massachusetts, Kansas, and New York City.

Pioneer settlement in Wisconsin, Minnesota and the Dakota Territory, land speculation, the hard financial times of the 1890s, marital problems and divorce.

Civil War soldier in the Illinois Infantry Regiment who died of disease in 1863.

Presented at Fort Mackinac to assembled Indian councils.

Includes a ten-page account of fleeing the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, written just one day after the fire ended.

On securing the removal of Potawatomi bands from Eastern Kansas and Western Iowa to land located on the Kansas River.

Ohio farmer and Civil War soldier killed at the Battle of Atlanta in 1864.

On his works and US Indian policy.