Fort Russell and Fort Laramie peace commission in 1867
By: edited by Wilson O. Clough.
Contributors: Clough, Wilson O., ed. and tr.
Series: Historical reprints ... Sources of Northwest history,; no. 14.
Publisher: State University of Montana
Published: 1931
Place of publication: Missoula
Language: eng
Number of pages: 12
Subjects: Indians of North America -- Government relations.
Notes: "Reprinted from the historical section of the Frontier, a magazine of the Northwest ... vol. XI, no. 2, January, 1931."
In 1867, Louis Laurent Simonin, French mineralogist, traveler and writer, set out from Paris to visit the mines of the far West.  His letters were later collected and published in 1869, in Paris, under the title "Le Grand-Ouest des Etats-Unis", from which this extract has been translated.