MS 1426-a Thaddeus A. Culbertson Journal of an expedition up the Missouri River
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content: NAA MS 1426-a
label: Local Note
content: Autograph document
name: label: Creator
content: Culbertson, Thaddeus A. (Thaddeus Ainsworth), 1823-1850
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content: Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887
creator: label: Creator
content: Culbertson, Thaddeus A. (Thaddeus Ainsworth), 1823-1850
label: Creator
content: Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887
culture: label: Culture
content: American Indian -- Plains
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 48 Pages
unitdate: label: Date
content: March 21, 1850-April 25, 1850
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content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS1426A
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content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
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content: Diaries
bibliography: label: Bibliography
content: Apparently a revision by Culbertson of his original journal, with editorial revisions by Baird. The journal is incomplete, the latter portion having been destroyed after publication in Smithsonian Institution -AR 5, Washington, D.C., 1851. pages 84-132. This copy of the earlier portion of the journal, together with the tables and Culbertson's letter to Baird, is printed in "Journal of an Expedition to the Mauvaises Terres and the Upper Missouri in 1850," edited by John Francis McDermott, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 147, 1952.
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content: Diaries
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content: Contains: Tables showing the Indian tribes of the Upper Missouri River. June, 1850. Autograph document signed. 9 pages. Letter from Culbertson to Spencer F. Baird, Secretary, Smithsonian Institution. Fort Pierre, Dakota Territory. May 30, 1850. Autograph letter signed. 12 pages.