Condition Of The Indian Tribes. Report Of The Joint Special Committee ...With An Appendix

JAMES R. DOOLITTLE

Other works by JAMES R. DOOLITTLE

Publication: Government Printing Office, 1867, Washington

First Edition. Rebacked with original cloth boards. 532pp. Numerous charts & tables. Senate Report 39th Congress, 2nd Session. Report No. 156. Volume includes Reports Nos. 141-178. "Lurid details of Chivington's sickening massacre of unoffending Indians at Sand Creek, Colorado." -- Howes C-665. Field 354, with a lengthy annotation to this report: "This volume contains the evidence of the horrible massacre of unoffending Indians at Sand Creek. The atrocities that were perpetrated upon the bodies of the slain would tax the cleverest ingenuity of devils to invent its parallel. Every one of the dead was scalped ...The genitals of both sexes were cut off. The skins of the males were dried for tobacco pouches, and those of the genitals of the women were worn as hatbands ...To the truth of these statements we so unwillingly believe, nearly one hundred witnesses testified before a committee of Congress, and their examinations are recorded in this volume." The section on Sand Creek (pp.26-98) is titled "The Chivington Massacre." This report, also known as the Doolittle Report (after its chairman, Senator James R. Doolittle, of Wisconsin), has much information on Indian affairs throughout the West. Jack Rittenhouse calls this book, "One of the most generally useful Congressional documents on Indian affairs along the Santa Fe Trail ... there being long 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 Gen. James H. Carleton". An important volume recording much detail regarding military interaction with multiple western Indian tribes. Small pencil notations in the margins of several sections pertaining to the Navajos, Kit Carson, and/or General Carleton. New endpapers. Else a clean copy with no foxing.

Inventory Number: 49810