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Bison, American

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Records:

History and war record of John O. Stotts, Sergeant Co. G, 3rd Regt, U.S. Infantry

 Collection — Folder 1
Call Number: RH MS P155
Overview Stotts relates his experiences joining the army at St. Louis in 1866 and traveling over the Great Plains to Fort Lyon, Colorado. He describes killing buffalo and witnessing a Native American killing a bison; an encounter with members of a Native American village near [Zara?], Colorado; Fort Dodge and Buffalo Bill; Bent's Fort and the Bent family; flooding of Fort Lyon and the construction of New Fort Lyon; and the wars with Native American tribes, including comments on Satanta (Set-Tainte,...
Dates: 1866 - 1868

Narrative of a buffalo hunt

 Collection — Folder 1
Call Number: RH MS P39
Overview

A narrative of a buffalo hunt, with a letter of transmittal. Dated Optima, Oklahoma Territory, February 18, 1892.

Dates: February 18, 1892