Sully Expeditions (1863-1865)

Creation Date

1953-07-17

Creator(s)

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)

Letter from Chester L. Brooks to Ray W. Lingk

Historian Chester L. Brooks has limited information on the Sentinel Butte graves and directs Ray W. Lingk to the National Archives where a map of the 1864 Sully Expedition can be acquired.

Collection

Creation Date

1953-05-26

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

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)

The Brasseau Houses on the Yellowstone

Dana Wright summarizes his research on the Brasseau Houses and believes they are located near the mouth of Burns Creek in Montana.

Collection

Creation Date

1953-05-20

Creator(s)

Letter from Chester L. Brooks to Ray W. Lingk

Historian Chester L. Brooks thought that Ray W. Lingk would be interested to know that General Alfred Sully’s expedition map has “graves” marked on Sentinel Butte.

Collection

Creation Date

1953-05-05

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 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 K. Ross Toole

Historian Chester L. Brooks requests information on the “Braseur House” along the Yellowstone River which may have been General Sully’s original destination on the 1864 expedition.

Collection

Creation Date

1953-01-07

Creator(s)

Letter from Dana Wright to Chester L. Brooks

Dana Wright encloses his membership fee for the Nature and History Association of Theodore Roosevelt National Park. He has been researching the Sully expeditions and the Sibley march of 1863.

Collection

Creation Date

1952-12-29

Creator(s)

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 was interested in the information from Major Anders which contradicts Ray W. Lingk’s belief that the Sully Expedition traveled a southerly route near Flat Top Butte. He also received some photographs that show Major Bell’s 1880 camp near Sentinel Butte which may help locate the camp.

Collection

Creation Date

1954-02-08

Creator(s)

Letter from Dana Wright to Chester L. Brooks

Dana Wright is planning a trip from Fort Rice to study Sully Trail and hopes to stop in Medora, North Dakota. He has visited several sites in southern North Dakota and is anxious to examine the Little Missouri River between Sully Creek and Custer Wash as he is puzzled by the trail in this area.

Collection

Creation Date

1953-08-29

Creator(s)

Letter from Chester L. Brooks to Dana Wright

Harmon Olstad found some old army cartridges northeast of Square Top Butte which may help corroborate Historian Chester L. Brooks’s findings that General Sully’s skirmish was near the water hole east of the butte.

Collection

Creation Date

1953-09-16

Creator(s)

Letter from Dana Wright

Dana Wright camped near the Diamond C Ranch to study the Sully battlefield near Killdeer Mountain. The owner agreed to donate an acre for the placement of a marker. Wright is currently in the hospital with a jaw problem.

Collection

Creation Date

1953-09-16

Creator(s)

Letter from Chester L. Brooks to Kenneth J. Crawford

Historian Chester L. Brooks is seeking information on the 1864 Sully expedition’s travels near Square Top Butte. Kenneth J. Crawford’s father, Lewis F. Crawford, wrote History of North Dakota, and Brooks is interested in viewing Crawford’s research notes.

Collection

Creation Date

1953-09-23

Creator(s)

Letter from Ray W. Lingk to Chester L. Brooks

After looking over the maps suggested by Historian Chester L. Brooks, Ray W. Lingk believes that the battle was fought at Square Butte and that the Sully Expedition traveled south of Flat Top Butte and north of Sentinel Butte.

Collection

Creation Date

1953-07-06

Creator(s)

Lingk, Ray W., 1899-1979

Letter from Ray W. Lingk to Chester L. Brooks

Ray W. Lingk provides an update on his Sully Trail research and appreciates the honor of having a butte named after him.

Collection

Creation Date

1953-11-20

Creator(s)

Lingk, Ray W., 1899-1979

Letter from Chester L. Brooks to Ray W. Lingk

Historian Chester L. Brooks is working on identifying the “water hole battle” and where General Sully’s Native American guide was shot. He requests Ray W. Lingk’s help in obtaining a diary by Mrs. Wright which may contain information on the Sully Trail.

Collection

Creation Date

1953-12-02

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