Two issues of Fort Laramie's "The Chugg Water Journal" and a watercolor of Indians [Decimalized]

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GLC#
GLC05067
Type
Header Record
Date
1849
Title
Two issues of Fort Laramie's "The Chugg Water Journal" and a watercolor of Indians [Decimalized]
Place Written
Fort Laramie, Wyoming
Pagination
Primary time period
National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
Sub-Era
Age of Jackson
Westward Expansion
Frontiers and Exploration
American West
Journalism
Military History

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Collection Item
Manuscript document

The Chugg Water Journal [Vol. 1, no. 1 (October 1849)]

October 1849

Handwritten first issue of a Fort Laramie newspaper. Introduces the self-described "largest paper printed at Fort Laramie" with the goal of keeping "our friends and fellow exiles, up with the spirit of the age" and promoting political and...

GLC05067.01
Collection Item
Manuscript document

The Chugg Water Journal [Vol. 1, no. 3 (October 30, 1849)]

30 October 1849

Handwritten third issue of the self-described "largest paper printed at Fort Laramie." Comments on submitted, and in most cases, rejected, articles. Discusses the problems of their "Polemical Editor." Contains a letter pertaining to agriculture...

GLC05067.02
Collection Item
Painting

[Watercolor of Indian family standing in front of a teepee]

1849

Appears to be trimmed down. Associated with two 1849 issues of "The Chugg Water Journal" from Fort Laramie (see GLC05067.01 and GLC0567.02).

GLC05067.03