J. Fred Rippy
University of Chicago
FOOTNOTES:
[1] For a brief discussion of these disorders see the present writer's "Border Troubles Along the Rio Grande, 1848-1860," in The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, XXIII, October, 1919, pp. 91-111.
[2] Sen. Jour., 38 Cong., 1 Sess., p. 66, passim.
[3] Cong. Globe, 38 Cong., 1 Sess., p. 673.
[4] Sen. Report No. 8, 38 Cong., 1 Sess., p. 2.
[5] This seems to have been only one of some three or four such undertakings attempted at the time. See House Doc. No. 169, 54 Cong., 1 Sess., pp. 44-45.
[6] Elsewhere written W. H. Ellis.
[7] Ellis's contract promised more than this in case of larger families.