Congressional Serial Set Volume 5464 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1908 Excerpt: ... XIII--THE HISTORY OF EVENTS RESULTING IN INDIAN CONSOLIDATION WEST OK THE MISSISSIPPI. By ANNIE HELOISE ABEL, Ph. D. (TO THIS ESSAY WAS AWARDED THE JUSTIN WINSOR PRIZE OF THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION IN 1906.) THE HISTORY OF EVENTS RESULTING IN INDIAN CONSOLIDATION WEST OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER. By Annie Heloise Abel, Ph. D. Sometime Bulkley Fellow in History at Yale University, Inter Associate Professor in History at Wells College, and now Instructor in History at The Woman's College of Baltimore. PREFACE. The germ of this thesis was a task, apparently an insignificant one, assigned to me in the college class room, several years ago, by Prof. Frank Heywood Hodder--a task that eventually developed, under influences the most favorable, into an earnest and prolonged study of Indian political relations with the United States. Later on, the special subject of Indian removal was offered and accepted in candidacy for the degree of doctor of philosophy at Yale University. The present paper is that dissertation thoroughly revised, rearranged, and enlarged, so much so, indeed, that the fifth chapter is wholly new and some of the other chapters are scarcely to be recognized. In pursuit of detailed information regarding Indian migrations to the westward of the Mississippi, I have consulted books, periodicals, and newspapers of all sorts, not only in the university libraries of Columbia, Cornell, and Yale, but also in the Lenox Library of New York City and the Congressional Library of Washington, D. C.; yet, in the final result, I have used the information thus obtained only to secure general impressions of the period, the setting, or historical perspective, so to speak, and have recorded very few facts that have not been found in primary sources. These primary ...