RR Auction: Old West, Outlaws, Lawmen, and Gangsters, 720, Amherst

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
May 22, 2025 - May 22, 2025
Page Size: 107 items in 5 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
8067

Red Jacket Dictated Letter on Problems with White Settlers and Christian Missionaries: "Each nation has its own customs and its own religions. The Indians have theirs, given to them by the Great Spirit"

USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 18,751.00
8068 Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson Document Signed as President, Proclaiming Treaties with the Menominee, Sauk and Foxes, Otoes, Missouris, Omahas, and Sioux

USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 27,683.00
8069 Zachary Taylor

Zachary Taylor Partial Autograph Letter Signed on Indian Affairs, Foreseeing a "destructive war between that tribe & the whites"

USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
8070

Penobscot Indians: Letter Signed by Chief Athean, Asking Maine's Governor for Military Aid "before we are all killed in our sleep"

USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,378.00
8071 James K. Polk

James K. Polk Autograph Letter Signed as President to the Secretary of War, Requesting a Report on "the number of Indian tribes in the territory acquired by the Treaty with Mexico"

USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 12,501.00
8072 James W. Denver: Charles E. Mix

James W. Denver: Charles E. Mix Letter Signed, Sending $5,000 for "Extinguishing title of Indian titles to lands west of Missouri and Iowa"

USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 625.00
8073 James W. Denver: Charles E. Mix

James W. Denver: Charles E. Mix Letter Signed on Settling Indian Lands in the West

USD 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
8074

Chinook Indian Dictionary Manuscript

USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 2,505.00
8075 James Buchanan

James Buchanan Document Signed as President for a Treaty with the "Delaware Tribe of Indians"

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
8076 John Ross

John Ross Autograph Endorsement Signed - United States Declines to Recognize Ross as Chief of the Cherokees

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 3,941.00
8077

United Nations of the Indian Territories - Resolutions of Creation and Meeting Minutes Manuscript (June 1865) - "An Indian Shall not Spill an Indians Blood"

1865 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,038.00
8078 Andrew Johnson

President Andrew Johnson Approves a Pact that Abolishes Slavery within the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations

USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 7,391.00
8079

Santee Sioux Indian Agent's Manuscript Report: "It is but a groundless suspicion talked into their heads by designing White men and Half-breeds such as may be found hanging around the outskirts of every Indian reservation trading whisky"

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
8080

Comanche and Kiowa Reservation Census Report (c. 1869)

c. 1869 USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 USD 939.00
8081

President U. S. Grant Proclaims a Treaty for a New Tribal Reservation in Oregon - An Accord Destined to Ignite the Modoc War of 1872-73

USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 4,886.00
8082

President Rutherford B. Hayes Commutes the Death Sentence of "Crow Man, an Arapaho Indian"

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 795.00
8083

Standing Rock Sioux Indians: Manuscript Testimony Regarding Chief John Grass by Crazy Walking

USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
8084

Standing Rock Sioux Indians: Manuscript Testimony of Chief John Grass

USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
8085

Standing Rock Sioux Indians: Manuscript Testimony of Chief Big Head

USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
8086

Standing Rock Sioux Indian Police Statement Against Chief John Grass: "John Grass has on several occasions, interfered with us whilst in the performance of our duties"

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
8087

Standing Rock Sioux Indians: Manuscript Testimony of Three Chiefs

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
8088

Standing Rock Sioux Manuscript Testimony Against Chief John Grass: "John Grass wishes us to remain Indians, and advises the people not to listen to the Agent or the great father"

USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
8089

Standing Rock Sioux Indians: Manuscript Testimony Against Chief John Grass by Thunder Hawk, White Bear, Mathilda Gilpin, and Three Chiefs

USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 Not Sold
8090 President Grover Cleveland

President Grover Cleveland Addresses an Indian Territory Dispute Between the Federal Government and the State of Texas

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 491.00
8091 Edmond Gustave Fechet

[Sitting Bull] Edmond Gustave Fechet (2) Autograph Letters Signed: "The dead facts are that [Sitting] Bull was killed a few minutes before I came up, in fair fight between 40 policemen & 120 of Bulls braves"

USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,880.00
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