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Lesley Wischmann

Lesley Wischmann is a writer, historian and storyteller who has long been involved with historic trails in Wyoming. She is the author of Frontier Diplomats: Alexander Culbertson and Natoyist-siksina' among the Blackfeet published in 2004 by the University of Oklahoma Press and a co-founder of the Alliance for Historic Wyoming. She is currently working on another fur trade book based on the recently discovered letters of Andrew Dawson which is due to be published by Arthur H. Clark Co. in the spring of 2013.

Separate lands for separate tribes: The Horse Creek Treaty of 1851

In 1850, the U.S. Congress authorized a conference to persuade Plains Indian tribes to live and hunt within newly designated, separate territories, and to accept payment for the damage caused by emigrants crossing their lands. The conference in September 1851 drew 10,000 Indians to the confluence of Horse Creek and the North Platte River, 30 miles east of Fort Laramie. The treaty that was signed there, the Horse Creek Treaty of 1851, permanently changed the terms of Indian-white relations on the northern Great Plains.

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Essay : June 16, 2012 - 10:25am