Manuscripts

Daily journal, loose notes, clippings, report of service with the Russian Army in Manchuria

Description: A collection of 152 items from 1811 to 1932, it consists of letters written by Walter Scribner Schuyler to his parents about his army service in the West, especially in Arizona Territory between 1872 and 1874; letters from George Crook about Indian affairs in the 1870s; an account of a survey party Schuyler conducted to Yellowstone National Park in 1883; and his 1904 report as a military observer during the Russo-Japanese War. Of note are 46 journals written by Schuyler between 1898 and 1932, detailing his later military career and his business affairs. There is also correspondence from Philip Henry Sheridan to George Crook in the collection, as well as a typescript of a sketch by Azor Howitt Nickerson titled: Major General George Crook and the Indians [after 1890].
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1904 ;1932 January 1 - February 14
Call number: mssWS
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Daily journals, loose notes, clippings

Manuscripts

A collection of 152 items from 1811 to 1932, it consists of letters written by Walter Scribner Schuyler to his parents about his army service in the West, especially in Arizona Territory between 1872 and 1874; letters from George Crook about Indian affairs in the 1870s; an account of a survey party Schuyler conducted to Yellowstone National Park in 1883; and his 1904 report as a military observer during the Russo-Japanese War. Of note are 46 journals written by Schuyler between 1898 and 1932, detailing his later military career and his business affairs. There is also correspondence from Philip Henry Sheridan to George Crook in the collection, as well as a typescript of a sketch by Azor Howitt Nickerson titled: Major General George Crook and the Indians [after 1890].

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