McCoy, Isaac:

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THE ANNUAL REGISTER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS WITHIN THE INDIAN (OR WESTERN) TERRITORY [No. 2]. The second number of McCoy's The Annual Register, of which only four numbers were ever printed, containing valuable first-hand particulars regarding the western Indian tribes. McCoy first visited the Prairies in 1828, with follow-up tours during the next three years. In 1831 he settled at the Shawanoe Mission in 1831, which had been founded by Lykins earlier that year. During the following years McCoy travelled widely in the western country. In 1835 he had Jothan Meeker, who had established a press at the Mission a year earlier, print the initial number of The Annual Register. McCoy's works are full of information regarding the Indian emigrant's introduction into the new country, and provide details concerning many tribes (e.g. Pawnee, Otoe, Omaha, Cherokee, Delaware, Kickapoo, Osage, Kansas, etc.). Also included are descriptions of the military posts within Indian Territory, conditions of various tribes, etc. Complete sets of the four numbers are rarely met with; even the Streeter set lacked the first number. Printing began in Kansas in 1834, and McCoy's Annual Registers are the first works of any substance printed in the state.

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