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Notes on Shabni and Billy Caldwell collected by William D. Barge, 1922?

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Open book Notes on Shabni and Billy Caldwell collected by William D. Barge, 1922?

Title Notes on Shabni and Billy Caldwell collected by William D. Barge, 1922?

Date 1922

Place Illinois, Illinois--Chicago

Language English

Subjects Black Hawk War, 1832, Frontier and pioneer life, Indians of North America

Description Date suggested by date of "9-15-22" on verso of last leaf by Ruth L. Butler, curator of the Ayer Collection; below she has written "Apr. 1933."
Each section of notes numbered individually; Butler's continuous foliation in upper right-hand corner.
Bound with two brass fasteners; laid in red cloth folder, in red cloth-covered clamshell box.
Forms part of the Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Collection (Newberry Library)

Summary Typescript carbon copy of notes on the Indian chiefs Shabonee and Billy Caldwell, compiled by William D. Barge, probably around 1922, from various sources, both primary and secondary, dated between 1816 and 1916. Barge begins with notes from an article by Rev. N.W. Thornton, which appeared in the Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 5 (July 1912): 256-260, entitled "Shabbona: the white man's friend." Also included are E.S. Braffet's memoir "Shaubena," taken from Recollections of the pioneers of Lee County (Dixon, Ill., 1893); a brief personal description of Shabonee from William Bross' History of Chicago; Henry Hurlbut's "Billy Caldwell and Shabonee" from Chicago antiquities; William Hickling's short biographies on Caldwell and Shabonee, which he wrote to accompany his 1877 donation to the Chicago Historical Society of a Billy Caldwell letter, dated Aug. 1, 1816 in Amhurstburg; and Col. G.S. Hubbard's narrative of the two Indians, taken from v. 10 of the Fergus historical series. There are also several half-page notes on Shabonee's family, his death, and the spelling and meaning of his name from Bulletin 30 of the Handbook of American Indians, and from a Feb. 10, 1916 article in the Dixon morning leader. Finally, Barge includes notes culled from papers donated to the Chicago Historical Society by James Grant Wilson; excerpts on land grants to Caldwell fom the July 29, 1829 treaty of Prairie du Chien between the Chippewas, Ottawas, and Potawatamies, and excerpts from Frank E. Stevens' work on the Black Hawk War.

Extent [61] leaves ; 29 cm

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Archival Collection Title Edward E. Ayer Collection

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Call Number Ayer MS 51

BibID 179419

Projects Tag Digital Collections for the Classroom, Indigenous Chicago Curriculum

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

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