Steamboat Captains on the Western Waters: Letter about Abandoned Indian Woman, 1852
Entry/Object ID
AM1990.1.47
Scope and Content
Steamboat Captains on the Western Waters Letter, June 14, 1852.
Letter to captains of steamboats on the Western Waters, 1852
and all whom this may come--this is to certify that the bearer, an Indian woman, has been persuaded from her home in Missouri, by some person unknown to us, and after taking her through the country as a show.. has forsaken her; the 10 men who signed this letter collected a small amount of money to pay for her meals and lodging on her journey home/ the men lived in Frederick Co., MD. June 14, 1852/ she states that her home is in Oregon, Holt County, Missouri/ Letter at the top gives her free passage on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad to Wheeling.
