Record Details
Cahill, Luke
Mountain Scholar
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Cahill, Luke Luke Cahill |
| Creator | Cahill, Luke |
| Contributor | — Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917 |
| Subject | Cahill, Luke Indians of North America -- Wars -- 1866-1895 Indians of North America -- Wars -- 1866-1895 -- Personal narratives United States. Army -- Military life Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917 Carson, Kit, 1809-1868 Trinidad (Colo.) Fort Lyon (Colo.) |
| Description | Letter from National Indian War Veterans National Commander Luke Cahill to Colorado State Senator Delph Carpenter which introduces an accompanying December 3, 1918, letter written in pencil by Cahill to U.S. Senator John F. Shafroth in which Cahill requests help in securing a larger pension for his services in the Indian Wars. Cahill's 1918 letter describes encounters with the Utes, Navajo, Cheyenne, Arapahoe, and Comanche and mentions Kit Carson, Buffalo Bill Cody, William H. Penrose,... |
| Date | 1913-1918 2017-07-12T15:40:12Z 2017-07-12T15:40:12Z |
| Type | Manuscript |
| Identifier | https://hdl.handle.net/10217/182301 |
| Language | English eng |
| Relation | wwdl Personal -- by person: Cahill, Luke. 1913-1918 Papers of Delph E. Carpenter and Family. Series 1: DEC correspondence; Subseries 1.2: Loose correspondence. Finding aid: http://lib.colostate.edu/archives/findingaids/water/wdec.html |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Trinidad (Colo.) Fort Lyon (Colo.) Colorado Kansas New Mexico 1868-1869 |
| Publisher | Colorado State University. Libraries |
| Source | Original: Folder of correspondence. 15 p. |
