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Title: Soldier and Brave: Indian and Military Affairs in the Trans-Mississippi West, Including a Guide to Historic Sites and Landmarks
Description: History with photo of the Haskell Institute in Lawrence, Kansas, "one of the first schools modeled after the Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania, and over the years attain[ing] an importance second only to it," established in 1884.
Date: 1963
Object Type: Book

Title: Where 51 Fought Off a Thousand
Description: Part one of a two-part series on the Battle of Beecher Island, in a now-nonexistent river island in the northwestern corner of Kansas. Battle between Indians and a vastly outnumbered United States militia in 1868.
Date: 1968-09-17
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Battle of Beecher Island
Description: Part two of a two-part series on the Battle of Beecher Island, in a now-nonexistent river island in the northwestern corner of Kansas. Battle between Indians and a vastly outnumbered United States militia in 1868.
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: Campaigning with Custer and the Nineteenth Kansas Volunteer Cavalry on the Washita Campaign, 1868-'69
Description: Lists of members of the 19th Kansas Volunteer Cavalry with a map of their campaign route.
Date: 1928
Object Type: Book

Title: Expedition to Powder River in 1865
Description: The last item on this microfilm roll is handwritten notes by an unknown soldier who was a member of General Patrick E. Connor's command on the expedition to Powder River in 1865. This expedition was against the Sioux, Cheyenne, and Arapaho Indians who were raiding the Bozeman Trail in Wyoming. Jim Bridger was a guide. The major battle which resulted from the expedition was the Battle of Tongue River.
Date: 1865
Object Type: Archival Material

Title: Shawnee Indian Prophet
Description: Mention of the "celebrated Shawnee Prophet" of the Shawnee Indians at Cantonment Leavenworth, described as "an old man, but little distinguished in appearance."
Date: 1905-02-01
Object Type: Book

Title: Captain Nathan Boone's Journal
Description: Reprints of the journal of Captain Nathan Boone from his military mounted rangers' expedition over the Western prairies in the 1830s through the 1850s, telling of encounters with various Indian tribes and other situations.
Date: 1917
Object Type: Book Section

Title: Pierre Chouteau, Jr. and Company
Description: There are numerous references in the book to the Chouteau family and in particular Pierre Chouteau, Jr. and his involvement in the fur trade on the upper Missouri River. The focus of the book is the history of Fort Union, a fort of the Upper Missouri Outfit. The working arrangements between the Indians and fur traders early on is contrasted between the later dealings of the Indians with the U.S. government and the military.
Date: 2001
Object Type: Book

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