News of the Plains and Rockies

WARRIORS, 1834-1865

Thompson B. Wheelock, 1834, Col. Dodge's expedition

Joel R. Poinsett, 1838, Protection of Western frontier

Anonymous, 1839, S. W. Kearny's Dragoon expedition

Joel R. Poinsett, 1840, Defence of Western frontier

Stephen W. Kearny, 1845, Summer campaign to the Rocky Mts.

Thomas Swords, 1848, Ft. Leavenworth to California

James H. Carleton, 1855, Excursion to the ruins of Abo

Randolph B. Marcy, 1858, Camp Scott to New Mexico

James H. Carleton, 1860, Massacre at Mt. Meadows

Alfred Sully, 1864, Indian expedition

John M. Chivington, 1865, To the people of Colorado...Sand Creek

John Evans, 1865, Reply re massacre of Cheyennes

John W. Wright, 1865, Chivington massacre of Cheyennes

SCIENTISTS, ARTISTS, 1835-1859

John Ball, 1835, Geology west of Rocky Mountains

John J. Audubon, 1843, Journey to the Yellowstone

George Catlin, 1848, Catlin's notes for the emigrant

David D. Owen and Dr. John Evans, 1852, Geological survey...Nebraska

Joseph Leidy, 1858, Extinct vertebrata, Niobrara River

Ferdinand V. Hayden and Joseph Leidy, 1859, Geology of Bad Lands