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 2 Collections and/or Records:
Manuscript regarding Volga Community of Barbour County
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0704
Overview
Sketches of pioneer life on the Virginia frontier (what is now central West Virginia) in the late eighteenth century including the exploits of pioneers and Indian fighters such as Jacob Reger, Sam Hughs and Joseph and Joel Martin. White comments on the activities of the company, Confederate sympathies and activities of various citizens, the Ringgold Raiders, and the Confederate scout, John Righter.
Dates:
1955
William Smith O'Brien (1862-1948) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1105
Overview
Correspondence, business and legal papers, notebooks, speeches, historical essays, genealogical records, clippings, and printed material of a Buckhannon lawyer, state jurist, member of Congress (1927-1929), and West Virginia Secretary of State (1933-1948). The collection also includes papers of O'Brien's father, Emmett J., a member of the state's first Constitutional Convention; letters from O'Brien's brother, Lieutenant A.L. O'Brien, 1874-1887, a West Point graduate serving at forts...
Dates:
ca. 1830-1950