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Important Wounded Knee Archive of Indian Agent Valentine McGillicuddy. Thirty-three items, 1883-1895
Currency:USD
Category:Collectibles / Western Americana
Start Price:10.00 USD
Estimated At:15,000.00 USD
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5,000.00USD+ buyer's premium + applicable fees & taxes.
This item SOLD at 2012 Sep 08 @ 15:22UTC-6 : CST/MDT
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Important Wounded Knee Archive of Indian Agent Valentine McGillicuddy. Thirty-three items, 1883-1895. Includes Theodore Roosevelt TLS to McGillicudy, Oct. 22, 1892, “there never was any single act which worked worse effects to the Indian Service than your removal from Pine Ridge Agency.” The most significant items in the collection, however, are found in a series of 10 telegrams to Indian Agent McGillicuddy demanding his help and documenting his frantic efforts to quell the troubles brewing at Pine Ridge in November 1890, and revealing the paranoia and terror that formed the background to the Massacre. The series begins Nov. 27 with a petition from “seventy leading Rapid Citizens” for guns to be distributed for “protection” and is followed by another from H.W. Tinker, Sheriff at Rapid City, stating: “Arms here, city full of scared Ranchers all wanting arms, what shall I do.” There is also request for McGillicuddy to arrange for 10 wagons for the 6th Cavalry. Also worthy of note is a telegram from Herbert Welsh in Philadelphia (President of the Indian Rights Association), informing McGillicuddy that Pres. Harrison had refused to appoint him mediator, but assuring him that he would continue to press the case.
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