(WEST WASHINGTON STATE) Receipt for a horse requisitioned f

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(WEST--WASHINGTON STATE.) Receipt for a horse requisitioned for the Yakima War. Manuscript document, 2 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches; unevenly trimmed. Portland, OR, 26 November 1855

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The Yakima War began with a series of rapidly escalating killings and reprisals between American settlers and Yakama Indians in Washington Territory, September and October of 1855. On 11 October 1855, the neighboring Oregon Territory called up a 800-man cavalry militia to help the cause, with supplies including 1,000 horses to be gathered by the territory's assistant quartermaster general Albert Zieber (1830-1890). This document reads "Received from J.P. Samberg[?] one horse valued at one hundred and seventy dollars by the appraisers for the use of the Oregon Volunteers in the Indian Yakima War. Portland, Nov 26 1855. A Zieber, asst. Qr. M. Genl. O., Clk." No other period Yakima War manuscripts have been traced at auction.