To read the seven letters that the Wanderer wrote in 1859 as he visited various locations along the new Beale Wagon Road in Indian Territory west of Fort Smith, you will need to exercise the search engine at the Home Page for the Penn State digital newspaper library given under the table shown below.
The table provides the Search Words that I used to find the seven letters published by The Press of Philadelphia for the publication date shown. Use their date range function or their data analytics analysis to winnow down quickly the date range covered by the search for all the Penn. newspapers covered. All of the letters will be found in The Press for 1859.
WANDERER’S SEVEN LETTERS ON INDIAN TERRITORY AND BEALE WAGON ROAD WRITTEN IN 1859
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# Written ... Location of Camp .... Published . Search Words
1. Aug. 22 North Fork Town, Creek Nation Sept. 8 Creek Nation
2. Sept. 1 Deserted Camp, Creek Nation Oct. 4 Creek Nation
3. Sept. 10 Long Cave Camp, Seminole N. Oct. 6 Creek Nation
4. Oct. 4 Little River village, Creek Nation Nov. 1 Little River
5. Oct. 5 Sam’s Hill, Shawnee village Nov. 3 Little River
6. Oct. 9 On road two days to Fort Smith Nov. 7 Poteau
7. Oct. 15 Gum Springs, Choctaw Nation Nov. 16 35th parallel
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PSU Home Website http://digitalnewspapers.libraries.psu.edu/Olive/APA/CivilWar/#panel=home
The first three letters will be listed when "Creek Nation" is searched. Date order (sort) the results by Oldest First.
Click on the one you want to read. A highlighted page may appear. Click again to bring up the letter in the Reader screen so it can be more easily read.