Post by Cliff Krainik on Nov 24, 2004 19:22:43 GMT -5
Michigan Territory Governor, Lewis Cass Treats With the Indians - 1827
Events on the Michigan Territorial frontier as reported in the NILES' WEEKLY REGISTER
The NILES' WEEKLY REGISTER, successively known as the Weekly Register, Niles' Weekly Register, and Niles' National Register, was first published in 1811 and offered comprehensive, unbiased coverage of events in the United States and many foreign countries.
Lewis Cass, 1782-1866. Michigan Territory Governor 1813-1831.
Wet-plate albumen carte de visite photograph by Mathew Brady, circa 1859
4 by 2.5 inches
The report from the Treaty Ground, Butte des Morte was published in the September 27, 1827 issue of the NILES' WEEKLY REGISTER (Third Series, No. 4 - Vol. IX - p. 54, col. 2]
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Original issue of the NILES' WEEKLY REGISTER and the Mathew Brady photograph of Lewis Cass held in the KRAINIK - WISCONSIN TERRITORIAL COLLECTION
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