Sketch Map of Middle Idaho Showing Trails Made by Troops in Sheepeater Campaign 1879. (1926)
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Title
Sketch Map of Middle Idaho Showing Trails Made by Troops in Sheepeater Campaign 1879. (1926)
Subject
Tukuarika Indians -- Wars, 1879. <br>Indians of North America -- Idaho -- Maps
Description
1 map: 29 x 22 cm.<br> Scale: 1 inch = 15 miles. <br>Trails and marches of campaign drawn on map. <br>W.C. Brown was a second Lieutenant in the U.S. Cavalry during the Indian Wars of the late 1870s. These maps come from a book by him, published in 1926 after his retirement, about the Sheepeater Campaign. The Sheepeaters was the name given to a band of high mountain Indians who subsisted mostly on sheep, and the Campaign involved the army going up into these fairly inaccessible mountains to capture the Indians.
Creator
Brown, W. C. (William Carey), 1854-1939.
Source
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, WSU Libraries
Publisher
[Boise, Id. : Syms-York Company]
Date
1926
Contributor
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections
Rights
Contact Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, for copyright information 509 335-6691
Relation
Is found in The Sheepeater campaign : Idaho--1879
Format
image/jpeg
Language
English
Type
Maps
Identifier
wsu 560 <br> E83.866 .B76 1926
Coverage
United States -- Idaho
Collection
Citation
Brown, W. C. (William Carey), 1854-1939., “Sketch Map of Middle Idaho Showing Trails Made by Troops in Sheepeater Campaign 1879. (1926),” Digital Exhibits, accessed November 25, 2024, http://digitalexhibits.libraries.wsu.edu/items/show/2051.