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Item US Bureau of Indian Affairs, Oregon Superintendency, roll 19, 1861.(UNPUBLISHED, 1861-01-05) Abbott, G. H.; Vansycle, J. M.; Whitlesy, J. B.; Babbitt, E. B.; Steen, E.; Miller, W. W.; Place, Charles E.; Ritchie, James; Howe, Thomas; Spink, Joseph; Hutchins, Chas.; Lansdale, R. H.; Bancroft, A. A.; Dole, Wm. P."Whilst at Walla Walla I learned from Vansycle the quarter master agent at the old fort of the robbery referred to by Capt. Ankeny with other depredations commited by Smo-kol-lah or Big Talk on Four Mountains, who is also known as the 'Dreamer' and his renegade followers."Item US Bureau of Indian Affairs, Washington Superintendency, roll 17, 1855 - 1856.(UNPUBLISHED, 1855-02-06) Tappan, William H.; Cain, J.; Simpson, George B.; Higgins, C. P.; Robie, A. H.; Sears, W. K.; Robie, F.; Lansdale, R. H.; Fields, H."I have just concluded my second talks with the Indians in this neighborhood for several days I endeavored to get all the bandstogether so that a general council could be held but the scarcity of camas and a reluctance in the past has prevailed and this reluctance is in a great measure occasioned by the mischefous influence of the whites who are determined that they shall not be moved if they can help it."Item US Bureau of Indian Affairs, Washington Superintendency, roll 17, 1855 - 1858.(UNPUBLISHED, 1855-01-18) Lansdale, R. H.; Tappan, William H."It is my duty as well as my desire to conform all official acts to your wishes, and I wish to suggest that if you disapprove of the whole number being distributed as stock cattle part of them might be converted into beef for distribution to Indians on this agency in the ensuing winter, or the whole might be converted into beef, or if you disapprove of the purchase I think they could be sold and the money replaced.Item US Bureau of Indian Affairs, Washington Superintendency, roll 17, 1856 - 1859.(UNPUBLISHED, 1856-06-04) Robie, A. H.; Craig, William; Townsend, A.; Lansdale, R. H.; Walker, H. H.; Nesmith, J. W."Things are not very quiet in the neighbor country. The Nez Perces stand firm. Old Kamiakin was in the Spokane country four days ago on recruiting se vico but I believe he got no encouragement, the Spokane told him to go off, they wished to have a talk with Gov. Stevens and if he talked straight they would do the same; they also told the Cayuses that are encamped with them that they will say nothing."Item US Bureau of Indian Affairs, Washington Superintendency, roll 17, 1858 - 1859.(UNPUBLISHED, 1858-08-18) Lansdale, R. H.; Archer, J. G.; Lugenbeel, Pinkney; Robie, A. H.; Cain, J.; Wilbur, James H.; Lansdale, R. H."I was instructed by your predecessor to break up and abandon the present Indian Agency of Columbia River District Washington Territory located at White Salmon and to remove my agency to Fort Simcoe and establish it on the reservation lately established by the ratification of the Yakima Treaty."Item US Bureau of Indian Affairs, Washington Superintendency, roll 17, 1859 - 1861.(UNPUBLISHED, 1859-07-05) Lansdale, R. H.; Gosnell, W. B.; Pope, Thomas A."The buildings now used by the Indian Department are those built and afterwards turned over by the military and we found the Agent and his employees in the enjoyment of comforts seldom experienced by men living on the frontiers, and especially those staying on Indian Reservations."Item US Bureau of Indian Affairs, Washington Superintendency, roll 17, 1860 - 1867.(UNPUBLISHED, 1860-04-27) Lansdale, R. H.; Bancroft, A. A.; Gosnell, W. B.; Tappan, William H.; Wilbur, James H.; Fairchild, H. C.; Foster, J. H.; Mattoon, J. P."On the 2d instant taking my interpreter and a small party, I started to visit Kamiakan made headchief of the Yakimanation by the treaty of 1855. After traveling some 12 days I found him in the eastern portion of the Spokane country in the Skeetsimeh valley, a beautiful region."Item US Bureau of Indian Affairs, Washington Superintendency, roll 23, 1855 - 1858.(UNPUBLISHED, 1855-03-26) Doty, James; McClellan, Geo. B.; Palmer, Joel; McDonald, A.; Wright, G.; Lansdale, R. H."I have not yet visited the Yakama country for two reasons. 1st extraordinary delays in reaching this point from Dalles. The horses strayed at nearly every camp and days were consumed in searching for them."