Military campaigns

Creation Date

1953-04-21

Creator(s)

Letter from Ray W. Lingk to Chester L. Brooks

Ray W. Lingk is continuing his research on the Sentinel Butte graves and is attempting to locate old maps with military trails.

Collection

Creation Date

1953-05-10

Creator(s)

Lingk, Ray W., 1899-1979

Letter from Dana Wright to Russell Reid

Dana Wright provides an update on his attempts to locate the course of General Sully’s 1864 expedition.

Collection

Creation Date

1953-05-24

Creator(s)

General Alfred Sully’s Expedition of 1864 from east end of Sentinel Butte to Yellowstone

Dana Wright believes that he has located General Alfred Sully’s camp on the east end of Sentinel Butte. He summarizes his recent research on the Sully Expedition.

Collection

Creation Date

1953-05-22

Creator(s)

Letter from Herman R. Friis to Chester L. Brooks

Chief Archivist Herman R. Friis has located a photostat of the map requested by Historian Chester L. Brooks and a positive photostat will be created and mailed. The map is of “General J. N. G. Whistler’s reconnaissance from the Missouri River to the Yellowstone River in 1871.”

Collection

Friis, Herman R. (Herman Ralph), 1905-1989

Creation Date

1953-05-26

Creator(s)

Letter from Chester L. Brooks to Dallas Irvine

Historian Chester L. Brooks provides a description of a map he has requested from the National Archives. The map is of General Joseph N. G. Whistler’s 1871 expedition.

Collection

Creation Date

1953-05-18

Creator(s)

Letter from Dana Wright to M. Catherine White

Dana Wright thanks M. Catherine White for the research material and provides his opinion on the Sully expedition’s route near the Yellowstone River and Brasseau’s House.

Collection

Creation Date

1953-05-09

Creator(s)

Letter from Chester L. Brooks to Russell Reid

Historian Chester L. Brooks is forwarding the microfilm of military records. He believes that Colonel David Sloane Stanley’s memoirs are valuable to North Dakota and Montana history, particularly the 1873 letters to Stanley’s wife. The recorder is working well and Brooks has plans to record “old timers.”

Collection

Creation Date

1953-05-12

Creator(s)

Letter from Elisabeth H. Gazin to Chester L. Brooks

No photographs of the 1873 Stanley expedition were found at the Smithsonian Institution or the National Archives.

Collection

Creation Date

1953-04-13

Creator(s)

Gazin, Elisabeth H.

Letter from Herman R. Friis to Chester L. Brooks

The map of the 1864 Sully Expedition drawn by Lieutenant Colonel Pattee and requested by Historian Brooks could not be located. However, Chief Archivist Friis provides information on a different map from the same expedition, a copy of which could be provided upon request.

Collection

Friis, Herman R. (Herman Ralph), 1905-1989

Creation Date

1953-02-27

Creator(s)

Letter from Chester L. Brooks to Frank L. Anders

Historian Chester L. Brooks is working on a book, The Badlands to 1879, and requests information and assistance with completing the section on military trails.

Collection

Creation Date

1953-04-16

Creator(s)

Letter from Dana Wright to Chester L. Brooks

Dana Wright is sending a few maps and would be pleased to make some trips with Chester L. Brooks. He hopes that Major Frank L. Anders publishes or releases his notes on the North Dakota military trails as they are the most complete source on the subject.

Collection

Creation Date

1953-04-10

Creator(s)

Letter from Chester L. Brooks to K. Ross Toole

Historian Chester L. Brooks requests information on an 1877 expedition by Major H. M. Lazelle.

Collection

Creation Date

1953-03-10

Creator(s)

Letter from Richard G. Wood to Chester L. Brooks

The National Archives does not loan out older records, but will try to make arrangements with the National Park Service to have microfilm available of the “records relating to Yellowstone Expeditions of 1871, 1872, and 1873.”

Collection

Creation Date

1953-02-19

Creator(s)

Wood, Richard G.

Letter from Chester L. Brooks

Historian Chester L. Brooks requests a copy of an article written by Lewis C. Paxson, an early Lake City resident, who was part of the Sully Expedition of 1864.

Collection

Creation Date

1952-12-15

Creator(s)

Letter from Chester L. Brooks to Dana Wright

Historian Chester L. Brooks asks Dana Wright to speak at a meeting of the Theodore Roosevelt Nature and History Association on the military history of western North Dakota. He would also appreciate Wright’s help with a research project, “The Badlands to 1879.”

Collection

Creation Date

1952-12-24

Creator(s)