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Show J.H. Holeman to RG 75 Comm. Ind. Aff. Microcopy 234 Apr. 29, 1852 Reel 897 April 29, 1852 Hon. L. Lea Sir-I have advised you, in my previous communications of the difficulty and danger to emigrants who travel the Oregon and California route-and of the necessity of doing something for their protection. I also informed you, that if not instructed otherwise, I should visit that section of the Territory and endeavor to make such arrangements with these Indians as would insure safety to emigration in future. I have had several conversations with the Superintendent upon this subject, without coming to any determination or receiving from him any particular instructions. For the purpose, therefore, of bringing the matter to a close, and that there should be action upon the subject, I addressed to him the enclosed letter. He left this city on the 23rd inst. on a Southern tour, to be absent several months, without giving me any instructions or even acknowledgeing the receipt of my letter. He has been in an ill humor with me since the receipt of your annual report, in which is a letter I addressed you from Fort Laramie, and in which I speak of the excitement of the Indians on account of the whites |
