A Traveler in Indian Territory: The Journal of Ethan Allen Hitchcock

by Ethan Allen Hitchcock

In 1841 U.S. government authorities sent Major Ethan Allen Hitchcock to Indian Territory to investigate numerous charges of fraud and profiteering by various contractors dealing with the Cherokee, Creek, Seminole, Chickasaw, and Choctaw Indians, who had been removed from the South during the last decade. Hitchcock's report, filed after four months of travel, exposed such a high level of graft and corruption that his investigation was suppressed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806128402
• ISBN13: 9780806128405
• Release Date: April 1996
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"