October 8 –Washington Irving and Henry Leavitt Ellsworth arrive at Fort Gibson, Indian Territory (later Fort Gibson, Oklahoma)[4] in the late morning. They leave the fort on October 10, with a small company of Rangers who escort them to the camp of Captain Jesse Bean who is waiting for them near the Arkansas River. Thus begins one of the first steps in the United States effort to remove the indigenous peoples of the Americas from their homes on the east coast in what would become known as the "Trail of Tears" some six years later.
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↑ Sears, Donald A. (1978). John Neal. Boston, Massachusetts: Twayne Publishers. p.98. ISBN080-5-7723-08.
↑ Rosenberg, Charles E. (1987). The Cholera Years: The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866. The University of Chicago Press. ISBN9780226726779.
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