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The State Historical Society of Missouri COLUMBIA, MISSOURI COVER DESCRIPTION: The State Historical Society of Missouri COLUMBIA, MISSOURI COVER DESCRIPTION: "The Boys" a 29x60-inch watercolor by Richard L. Greeves, is one of the recent art works presented to the State Historical Society's Contemporary Artists Collection. The gift was acquired from the artist through the cooperation of Mrs. Herman Wunderlich of the Kennedy Galleries, New York City. Richard L. Greeves was born and reared in St. Louis. Before graduating from high school in St. Louis, the artist had visited Fort Washakie, lo­ cated on the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming. That experience, plus his earlier inter­ est in the West, helped Greeves decide to become an artist. Today, he lives at Fort Washakie and devotes himself to the study and painting of the American Indian. His work is represented in the Whitney Museum of Western Art, Cody, Wyo­ ming, and in a number of private collections. xmtxmttt MISSOURI HISTORICAL REVIEW Published Quarterly by THE STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MISSOURI COLUMBIA, MISSOURI RICHARD S. BROWNLEE EDITOR MARY K. DAINS ASSOCIATE EDITOR JAMES W. GOODRICH ASSOCIATE EDITOR The MISSOURI HISTORICAL REVIEW is owned by the State Historical Society of Missouri and is published quarterly at 201 South Eighth Street, Columbia, Missouri 65201. Send communi­ cations, business and editorial correspondence and change of address to The State Historical Society of Missouri, Corner of Hitt and Lowry Streets, Columbia, Missouri 65201. Second class postage is paid at Columbia, Missouri. The REVIEW is sent free to all members of The State Historical VOLUME LXVIII Society of Missouri. Membership dues in the Society are $2.00 a year or $40 for an individual life membership. The Society assumes NUMBER 4 no responsibility for statements made by contributors to the magazine. JULY 1974 THE STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MISSOURI The State Historical Society of Missouri, heretofore organized under the laws of the State, shall be the trustee of this State—Laws of Missouri, 1899, R.S. of Mo., 1959, Chapter 183. OFFICERS 1971-1974 WILLIAM AULL III, Lexington, President L. E. MEADOR, Springfield, First Vice President RUSSELL V. DYE, Liberty, Second Vice President JACK STAPLETON, SR., Stanberry, Third Vice President MRS. AVIS TUCKER, Warrensburg, Fourth Vice President REV. JOHN F. BANNON, S.J., St. Louis, Fifth Vice President SHERIDAN A. LOGAN, St. Joseph, Sixth Vice President ALBERT M. PRICE, Columbia, Treasurer RICHARD S. BROWNLEE, Columbia, Director, Secretary and Librarian TRUSTEES Permanent Trustees, Former Presidents of the Society RUSH H. LIMBAUGH, Cape Girardeau LEO J. ROZIER, Perryville GEORGE A. ROZIER, Jefferson City T. BALLARD WATTERS, Marshfield Term Expires at Annual Meeting, 1974 LEWIS E. ATHERTON, Columbia R. I. COLBORN, Paris ROBERT A. BOWLING, Montgomery City W. W. DALTON, St. Louis FRANK P. BRIGGS, Macon RICHARD B. FOWLER, Kansas City HENRY A. BUNDSCHU, Independence VICTOR A. GIERKE, Louisiana Term Expires at Annual Meeting, 1975 GEORGE MCCUE, St. Louis RONALD L. SOMERVILLE, Chillicothe L. E. MEADOR, Springfield JACK STAPLETON, SR., Stanberry W. WALLACE SMITH, Independence HENRY C. THOMPSON, Bonne Terre ROBERT M. WHITE, Mexico Term Expires at Annual Meeting, 1976 WILLIAM AULL III, Lexington ELMER ELLIS, Columbia JAMES W. BROWN, Harrisonville ALFRED O. FUERBRINGER, St. Louis RICHARD J. CHAMIER, Moberly JAMES OLSON, Kansas City WILLIAM R. DENSLOW, Trenton T. BALLARD WATTERS, Marshfield EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE The twenty-seven Trustees, the President and the Secretary of the Society, the Governor, Secretary of State, State Treasurer, President of the University of Missouri and Chancellor of the University of Missouri-Columbia constitute the Executive Committee. FINANCE COMMITTEE Five members of the Executive Committee appointed by the President, who by virtue of his office constitutes the sixth member, compose the Finance Committee. ELMER ELLIS, Columbia, Chairman WILLIAM AULL III, Lexington GEORGE A. ROZIER, Jefferson City WILLIAM R. DENSLOW, Trenton LEO J. ROZIER, Perryville T. BALLARD WATTERS, Marshfield 5glIXll»lI«HllllK]I NEW SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS The State Historical Society of Missouri is always interested in obtaining new members. For more than seventy years thousands of Missourians who have be­ longed to the Society have been responsible primarily for building its great research collections and libraries. They have given it the support which makes it the largest organization of its type in the United States. i The quest for interested new members goes on i continually, and your help is solicited in obtaining m them. In every family, and in every community, there i are individuals who are sincerely interested in the i collection, preservation and dissemination of the his- | tory of Missouri. | m Why not nominate these people for membership? | Annual dues are only $2.00, Life Memberships $40.00. | I Richard S. Brownlee Director and Secretary State Historical Society of Missouri Hitt and Lowry Streets Columbia, Missouri 65201 iiiaiMSisiaiiiiHiia iii i^rasKKisisisiKHisiira^ H IS is ^ is _ H IS IS M ISI IS 1 AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE m The editorial staff of the MISSOURI HISTORICAL RE­ VIEW asks that members of the State Historical Society of Missouri, who are moving or have moved to a new m IS IS M location, please inform the Society of changes of address, ~ m §j as soon as possible. I To remail a returned issue of the REVIEW under new is _ is is II postal rates is very expensive. In addition to eliminating this costly procedure, the immediate notification of a m s H change of address will enable the member to receive the ==, REVIEW at an earlier date. i is m m m g Changes of address should be sent to: jS m ® IS State Historical Society of Missouri m ® Corner of Hitt and Lowry Streets |j IS === Columbia, Missouri 65201 S U S s m s m m m m m m m m m n is SI s s s fefaraisraisraisisisisra CONTENTS POTAWATOMIS IN THE PLATTE COUNTRY: AN INDIAN REMOVAL INCOMPLETE. By R. David Edmunds 375 THE MORMON EXPERIENCE IN MISSOURI, 1830-1839, PART II. By R. J. Robertson, Jr 393 SOCIETY TO PRESENT AWARD 416 RICHARD PARKS BLAND: ALMOST A CANDIDATE. By Cynthia Shook 417 THE GOLDEN AGE OF GERMAN SONG. By Irene E. Cortinovis 437 HISTORICAL NOTES AND COMMENTS Marie Woods Receives Distinguished Service Award at Retirement Reception 443 Editorial Policy 445 Views from the Past: Missouri Courthouses 446 News in Brief 448 Local Historical Societies 450 Gifts 462 Missouri History in Newspapers 467 Missouri History in Magazines 471 In Memoriam 473 BOOK NOTES 475 INDEX TO VOLUME LXVIII 479 FEE FEE BAPTIST CHURCH Inside Back Cover v Potawatomis in the Platte Country: An Indian Removal Incomplete BY R. DAVID EDMUNDS* Historians traditionally have viewed the removal of the In­ dian tribes of the eastern United States to lands west of the Mississippi as one of the more sordid chapters of American history. Recent scholarship has attempted to vindicate the motives of the federal government in formulating such policy, yet most scholars still agree that the actual removal process was characterized by misadministration and poor planning. The federal government often removed Indians to areas in the West that already were targets for white settlement, or placed the tribesmen in regions where govern­ ment officials were hard pressed to provide annuities and other provisions guaranteed by treaty. Moreover, communication on the frontier was so poor that federal officials sometimes worked at counter purposes due to lack of coordination.1 * R. David Edmunds is an assistant professor of History at the University of Wyoming, Laramie, and has accepted a post-doctoral fellowship at the Center for the History of American Indians, Newberry Library in Chicago for 1974-1975. Dr. Edmunds has the B.A. Degree from Millikin University, Decatur, Illinois; the M.A. from Illinois State University, Normal; and the Ph.D. from the University of Oklahoma, Norman. 1 Francis Paul Prucha, "Andrew Jackson's Indian Policy: A Reassessment," Journal of American History, LVI (December, 1969), 527-539; Francis Paul 375 376 Missouri Historical Review The temporary settlement of the Potawatomis in northwestern Missouri during the middle 1830s provides an interesting case study in such frustration. In 1820, when Congress granted state­ hood to Missouri, the extreme northwest corner of the state, en­ compassing modern Platte, Buchanan, Andrew, Holt, Nodaway and Atchison counties was omitted. The reason for the omission is uncertain, but upon statehood, the western boundary of Missouri continued in a straight line due north from the mouth of the Kansas River to the present Missouri-Iowa border. The excluded area, known as the "Platte Country," comprised approximately 3,125 square miles of fertile, well-watered prairie and timberland. It soon became a region much desired by whites, and Missourians were anxious to include it within their boundaries.2 The area also was desired by Indians. The Platte Country originally had been claimed by wandering bands of Sacs, Foxes, Iowas and Missouris. But these tribes, in conjunction with the Sioux, Omahas and Otoes relinquished their claim to the region Prucha, ''Indian Removal and the Great American Desert," Indiana Magazine of History, LIX (December, 1963) , 299-322. 2 Howard I. McKee, "The Platte Purchase," MISSOURI HISTORICAL REVIEW, XXXII (January, 1938) , 129-132. McKee discusses the confusion arising over the exclusion of the Platte Country from the original borders of Missouri. Also see "Thomas C. Duggins Views Northwest Missouri in 1840," MISSOURI HISTORICAL REVIEW, LV (Januarv, 1961), 124-126, and Perry McCandless, A History of Missouri, Vol. II: 1820-1860 (Columbia, 1972) , 116-117. The region was named after the Little Platte River which flows through the area and joins the Missouri River a few miles north of modern Kansas City, Missouri. Prairie Du Chien, Wisconsin, Site of Indian Treaty Signing, July 15, 1830 Potawatomis in the Platte Country 377 in a treaty signed at Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, on July 15, 1830.
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