Author: Clahoun, James S. [1803 - 1852]. Abel, Annie Heloise - Editor. Milam, Jesse Bartley [1884 - 1949] - Former owner
Title: The OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE Of JAMES S. CALHOUN While Indian Agent at Santa Fe and Superintendent of Indian Affairs in New Mexico
Description: Washington: Government Printing Office, 1915. 1st edition (Howes C-28). Original publisher's tan buckram cloth binding with black stamping. xiv, 552 pp (including Index). Portrait plate of Calhoun. 4 folding maps in back pocket: 1. "Sketch Map Prepared by Calhoun in 1849, Suggesting Localities for Indian Agencies" (23.5 x 18.5"), 2. "Map of the Territory of new Mexico, made by order of Brig. Gen S.W. Kearny?1846-7", 3. "Map of the Territory of New Mexico Compiled by Bvt. 2nd Lt. Jno G. Parke, Santa Fe. NM, 1851" (33 x 24"), 4. "Map of the Country Between the Frontiers of Arkansas and New Mexico embracing the section explored in 1849, 1850, 1851, and 1852, by Capt. R. B. Marcy" (60 x 27.5"). 8vo. 9-1/8" x 6". Maps with occasional po notation, otherwise fresh & crisp. Binding with general wear & soiling, notably to rear board. Bookplate & pos. Old paper repair to top corner of the title leaf. Small holes in pocket cloth. Withal, a VG book uncommon on the market. Calhoun was the first territorial governor to New Mexico Territory and in favor of the settlement of nomadic Indians onto reservations. Volume contains the letters written between 1848 and 1854, with an informative introduction by the Editor. Milam "was best known as the first Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation appointed by a U.S. president since tribal government had been dissolved before Oklahoma Statehood in 1907. He was appointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1941, who reappointed him in 1942 and 1943; he was reappointed by President Harry S. Truman in 1948. He died while in office in 1949." [Wiki].

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