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Fred White Letters to the Government, 1856-1857

Fred White

出版	1856
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=UWJizwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

The historical account of the Indian wars of 1855-1858 was originally based on contemporary military reports and newspaper accounts, most of which represented the Euro-American perspective. That might have been the end of the story, but in December of 1856 Chief Skloom kidnapped Fred White, an employee at Fort Simcoe, and forced him to write 5 letters that described the conflict in some detail from the Indians? perspective. Those letters made it to the National Archives, where former Yakima Daily Republic editor Leonard Lerwill visited in 1952 and copied the letters. Lerwill then shared the contents of the letters with two friends, local authors Dean Guie and Click Relander, who each made typescripts. In 2003 the National Archives reported the original letters missing, so today the only record we have of this historical evidence is held in the Relander Collection and by the Oregon Historical Society.