Condition Of The Indian Tribes. Report Of The Joint Special Committee, Appointed Under Joint Resolution Of March 3, 1865. With An Appendix.

J. R. (CHAIRMAN) DOOLITTLE

Publication: Government Printing Office, 1867, Washington

First Edition. Original Cloth binding. 532pp. "Lurid details of Chivington's sickening massacre of unoffending Indians at Sand Creek, Colorado."--Wright Howes. The section on Sand Creek (pp.26-98) is titled "The Chivington Massacre". This report, also known as the Doolittle Report, has much information on Indian Affairs throughout the West. "One of the most generally useful Congressional documents on Indian Affairs along the Santa Fe Trail...there are long biographical depositions, including opinions by 'Kit' Carson, William Bent,and others." The report's largest section, "Letters Relating to Indian Affairs in the Department of New Mexico During the Years 1862 and 1863" (pp.98-362), documents the brutal treatment of the Navajos by General James H. Carleton. Sunning to spine, lower fore-corner of rear blank endpaper is missing, and very small hole in cloth near bottom edge of back panel. In all, a very good copy in original cloth.

Inventory Number: 52399