Isaac Stevens Resources

Washington State Library This is a selection of the collection.

• Isaac Ingalls Stevens papers, 1835‐1972 • Stevens family papers, 1822‐1913 • Kate Stevens Bates papers, 1878‐1949 • Documents, papers and photographs relating to the careers of Isaac Ingalls Stevens and Hazard Stevens 1839‐1908 • Governor Isaac Stevens' Territorial Library Collection • Rare Maps Collection • Correspondence of the Office of Explorations and Surveys concerning Isaac Stevens’ survey of a northern route for the Pacific railway, 1853‐1861 • Documents relating to the negotiation of the Indian treaties, 1854‐55, by Isaac I. Stevens • Record group 75: Letters received, selected documents pertaining to the Indian wars in Washington and Oregon‐Washington 1855‐1858 • A brief notice of recent outrages committed by Isaac I. Stevens, governor of Washington Territory… Olympia, May 17, 1856. Olympia, 1856 • Isaac I. Stevens: “In memoriam,” 1862

Washington State Archives: Isaac Stevens catalog search

University of Washington: Guide to Isaac I. Stevens papers

Washington State University: Guide to Hazard Stevens Papers

Washington State Historical Society: The Treaty Trail U.S.: – Indian Treaty Councils in the Northwest

HistoryLink: Isaac Ingalls Stevens

United States Congress Biographical Directory: Isaac Stevens

Civil War Preservation Trust: Isaac I. Stevens

Books: • Carpenter, Cecelia Svinth. The Treaties, the Councils and the Reservations. Olympia: Washington State Capital Museum, 1992. • Carpenter, Cecelia Svinth. Tears of Internment: The Indian History of Fox Island and the Puget Sound Indian War. Tacoma: Tahoma Research Service, 1996. • Doty, James and Edward J. Kowrach. Journal of operations of Governor Isaac Ingalls Stevens of Washington Territory in 1855. Fairfield: Ye Galleon Press, 1978. • Gibbs, George. Indian Tribes of Washington Territory. Fairfield: Ye Galleon Press, 1999. • Grim, Ronald E. and Phillip Mobley. Eye of the Explorer: Views of the Northern Pacific Railroad Survey. Missoula: Mountain Press Publishing Company, 2010. • Hazard, Joseph Taylor. Companion of adventure; a biography of Isaac Ingalls Stevens, first governor of Washington Territory. Portland: Binfords and Mort Publishing, 1952. • Howard, Helen Addison. Isaac Ingalls Stevens: first governor of Washington Territory. Manhattan: Journal of the West, Inc, 1963. • Kluger, Richard. The Bitter Waters of Medicine Creek: A Tragic Clash Between White and Native America. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011. • Meeker, Ezra. Pioneer Reminiscences of Puget Sound. Seattle: Lowman & Hanford, 1905. • Meinig, Donald M. Isaac Stevens: practical geographer of the early Northwest. New York: American Geographical Society, 1955. • Nicandri, David L. Northwest Chiefs: Gustav Sohon’s View of the 1855 Stevens Treaty Councils. Tacoma: Washington State Historical Society, 1986. • Pascualy, Maria and Cecelia Carpenter. Remembering Medicine Creek: The Story of the First Treaty Signed in Washington. Tacoma: Fireweed Press, 2005. • Richards, Kent D. Isaac I. Stevens: Young Man in a Hurry. Pullman: Washington State University Press, 1993. • Stevens, Hazard. The Life of Isaac Stevens, Volume 1. Boston; New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1900. • Stevens, Hazard. The Life of Isaac Stevens, Volume 2. Boston; New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1900. • Stevens, Isaac I. Campaigns of the Rio Grande and of Mexico: with notices of the recent work of Major Ripley. New York: D. Appleton, 1851.

Articles:

• Buerge, David M. “Big Little Man: Isaac Stevens (1818‐1861),” Washingtonians: A Biographical Portrait of the State. Seattle: Sasquatch Books, 1988. • Cook, Sherburne F. Jr. “The Little Napoleon: The Short and Turbulent Career of Isaac I. Stevens.” Columbia Magazine, Winter 2000‐01, Vol. 14, No. 4. • Richards, Kent D. “The Young Napoleons: Isaac I. Stevens, George B. McClellan and the Cascade Mountain Route.” Columbia Magazine, Winter 1989‐90, Vol. 3, No. 4. • Richards, Kent. “The Stevens Treaties of 1854‐1855: An Introduction.” Oregon Historical Quarterly, Fall 2005, Vol. 106, No. 3. • Richards, Kent. “The Isaac I. Stevens and Joel Palmer treaties, 1855‐2005.” Oregon Historical Quarterly, Fall 2005, Vol. 106, No. 3.

Other:

• Reports of explorations and surveys to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. Washington: Beverley Tucker Printer, 1855. • Message of the Governor, Washington Territory. Olympia: Edward Furste, Public Printer, 1857.