Abstract:
History of the formation of the Agency, trades currently done by Indians at the Agency, Wilbur's thoughts on the purpose of the Agency: "what we want in the indian Service, is not mere money, but a consolidation of the agencies on good Reservations, where the land, if properly cultivated, will be remunerative - where white men could live and prosper - where the Indians are remote from the pestiferous influence of the degraded whites...."