SCHOOLCRAFT, HENRY ROWE, 1793-1864, Explorer, discovered source of Mississippi River, writer on native American tribes. Autograph letter signed as Indian agent, to the publishers Gales & Seaton; Sault-St. Marie, Michigan, 31 July 1828, 2 1/2 pages, 4to, address on page 4, Schoolcraft, Indian agent in the Lake Superior region, recounts that the Indian delegates "were very importunate in their request for whiskey," and narrates the response of the chief of the Pottawatomies, when whiskey was withheld. Rare -- SCHOOLCRAFT. Autograph manuscript signed ("Henry R. Schoolcraft"), entitled "Aboriginal Nomenclature," n.p., n.d., 4 pages, 4to, an essay considering the American custom of using old native American names for places and towns on the American frontier, analyzing the reasons for the practice and changes in spelling in such names as Chicago, Niagara, Potomac, Ticonderoga and others, especially commenting on the difficult etymology of Oregon, which he believes to have been derived from a French version of an unknown Indian word; together 2 items. (2)

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SCHOOLCRAFT, HENRY ROWE, 1793-1864, Explorer, discovered source of Mississippi River, writer on native American tribes. Autograph letter signed as Indian agent, to the publishers Gales & Seaton; Sault-St. Marie, Michigan, 31 July 1828, 2 1/2 pages, 4to, address on page 4, Schoolcraft, Indian agent in the Lake Superior region, recounts that the Indian delegates "were very importunate in their request for whiskey," and narrates the response of the chief of the Pottawatomies, when whiskey was withheld. Rare -- SCHOOLCRAFT. Autograph manuscript signed ("Henry R. Schoolcraft"), entitled "Aboriginal Nomenclature," n.p., n.d., 4 pages, 4to, an essay considering the American custom of using old native American names for places and towns on the American frontier, analyzing the reasons for the practice and changes in spelling in such names as Chicago, Niagara, Potomac, Ticonderoga and others, especially commenting on the difficult etymology of Oregon, which he believes to have been derived from a French version of an unknown Indian word; together 2 items.
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