Item: Crow Indian Agency Fraud Hearings Collection, 1876-1877
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Finding Aid Title: Crow Indian Agency Fraud Hearings Collection, 1876-1877
Finding Aid Collection Number: 2146
Date Range of Collection: 1876-1877
Creator of Materials: Museum of the Rockies
Content Description: The printed documents in the Crow Indian Agency Fraud Hearings Collection include affidavits, letters, and statements. The documents relate to allegations of fraud at Montana's Crow Indian Agency in 1876, leveled by Captain Edward Ball against Dexter E. Clapp and Nelson Story. The affidavits detail Clapp's recollections on the receipt of shipments and refute allegations of bribery, as well as Charles Rich, John Goewey, and Warren Allen's verification of pork presented to the agency. Letters outline the charges against Clapp and Story by Ball, rebuttal of the charges leveled, as well as a description of Ball's character. The statement provided by Story refutes the charges levied by Ball.
Finding Aid URL: http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv35726
Keywords: crow indian agency fraud hearings (1876), captain edward ball, dexter e. clapp, nelson story, montana hearings, bribery allegations
Subjects: Montana Native Americans
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