Indians - Tribes - Cheyenne - Capt. E.V. Evers, Special Indian Agent - Drafts, Photos and Original Correspondence, (Includes handwritten copy of "Report of Produce Raised Near Fort Keogh, M.T., by Captured and Surrendered Northern Cheyenne Indians" for years 1878-81, copied from Capt. Evers's original report by same. Also includes a copy of a letter to the Adjutant General, U.S. Army, Washington, D.C., dated Fort Keogh, Mont., May 4, 1891 from Capt. E.P Evers, reporting on the status of the Northern Cheyenne at Fort Keogh Reservation and recommending the reservation be extended to the Tongue River Reservation to unite the Cheyenne Tribes. Inscribed at the bottom: "A true copy respectfully furnished the Sioux and Cheyenne Commissioners of 1891, while at Fort Keogh, Montana," signed by E.P. Evers, Special Indian Agent. Also includes copy of letter from Evers to General Nelson Miles, October 29, 1890, Fort Keogh, Montana, summarizing Evers's involvement with the Cheyennes in Montana since 1881 and providing background information about the current status of the Indians. Also includes copy of letter to the Post Adjutant, Fort Keogh, Montana, September 20, 1882, reporting on the "condition and progress" of the Cheyennes in establishing settlements after leaving the post the previous spring), 1881, 1891

File — Box: 36, Folder: 548

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From the Series:

Contains newspaper clippings, scholarly and magazine articles by Watson, photographs, notes and correspondence with the subjects and their relatives and acquaintances. (All correspondence with the subject of a folder is marked "Original Correspondence".) The files include information on 19th century western journalists, frontiersmen, explorers, Native Americans and Native American tribes, Remington forgeries, early western photographers, artists, and western writers. Among the individuals documented are D.F. Barry, Mathew Brady, Brave Bear, E.A. Brininstool, Badger Clark, Crazy Horse, G.A. Custer, Emmet Dalton, Geronimo, Valentine McGillycuddy, Lucullus Virgil McWhorter, Nelson A. Miles, Pawnee Bill, and Sitting Bull.

A portion of the photographs originally contained in the subject files have been removed and filed in the Edward E. Ayer Photograph Collection. They are housed in four boxes labelled "Elmo Scott Watson". Many photographs, together with supporting documentation, notes, and identifications, remain in the subject files. Negatives, including a few glass plates, also have been retained. There are also a number of early twentieth century catalogs of western photography studios.

Also of particular interest are the newspaper clippings contained in the subject files. They are particularly extensive from the Bozeman Courier, Kansas City Star, Saturday Evening Post, Kansas City Times, Rocky Mountain Empire Magazine, Black Hills Weekly, and St. Louis Post Dispatch.