Indians of North America
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Variant(s):
American aborigines
American Indians
First Nations (North America)
Indians of North America --Culture
Indians of North America --Ethnology
Indians of North America --United States
Indians of the United States
Indigenous peoples --United States
Native Americans
North American Indians
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Joseph and Henry Bennett Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1731
Overview
Letters of Henry and Joseph Bennett concerning travel by sea from New York to Chagres, Panama, overland across Panama and by ship to San Francisco in 1851. Letters from California, 1852-1853, discuss arrival of immigrants; employment conditions and wages; gambling and social life in San Francisco; investment opportunities; conditions in the gold mines; travel by steamboat to Hangtown (Placerville); churches; crime; Indians; mining profits; cost of land; ranching; blacksmith and plough shop...
Dates:
1849-1923