TY  - GEN
AU  - Scott,Hugh Lenox
AU  - Scott,Hugh Lenox
AU  - Scott,William McKendree
TI  - Hugh Lenox Scott papers,
KW  - Bliss, Tasker Howard,
KW  - Pershing, John J.
KW  - Scott, Mary Merrill,
KW  - Villa, Pancho,
KW  - Wilson, Woodrow,
KW  - Wood, Leonard,
KW  - Scott family
KW  - New Jersey
KW  - State Highway Commission
KW  - Smithsonian Institution
KW  - Bureau of Ethnology
KW  - United States
KW  - Army
KW  - Officers
KW  - Board of Indian Commissioners
KW  - United States Military Academy
KW  - Dakota Indians
KW  - Wars
KW  - Diplomatic and consular service, American
KW  - Soviet Union
KW  - Ghost dance
KW  - Indian sign language
KW  - Indians of North America
KW  - Government relations
KW  - Great Plains
KW  - Languages
KW  - Religion
KW  - Military readiness
KW  - Nez Percé Indians
KW  - Wars, 1877
KW  - Spanish-American War, 1898
KW  - World War, 1914-1918
KW  - Cuba
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1899-1902
KW  - Foreign relations
KW  - Army officers
KW  - itoamc
KW  - Public officials
N1  - Open to research; Microfilm edition of container 1 available; no. 16,787; Microfilm edition of containers 2-5 available; no. 17,249; Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division; Washington, D.C.; Library of Congress Photoduplication Service; 1976-1978; In part, positive photocopies; [S.l.]
N2  - Correspondence, diaries, memoranda, memoirs,  drafts of writings, speeches, reports, notes,  biographical and genealogical material, account books, financial papers, lists, printed material, maps, photographs, drawings, prints, and other papers relating to Scott's career in the U.S. Army from 1876 to his retirement following World War I, to his service as a member of the Board of Indian Commissioners (1919-1933) and as chairman of the State Highway Commission of New Jersey (1920s), and to his work on Indian languages at the Smithsonian Institution Bureau of Ethnology; Includes drafts of his memoir, Some Memories of a Soldier; a typescript of a journal (1845) kept by his father, William McKendree Scott; and family correspondence (1874-1933).  Topics include expeditions against the Sioux (Dakota) and Nez Percé Indians, the ghost dance of the Plains Indians, sign language, government relations, religion, and other aspects of Indian life and culture; the Spanish-American War and administration of military government in Cuba; Scott's appointment as superintendent of the United States Military Academy; military preparation for World War I; and Scott's role as army chief of staff, superintendent of the United States Military Academy, and member of the U.S. special diplomatic mission to the Soviet Union in 1917.  Correspondents include Tasker Howard Bliss, John J. Pershing, Mary Merrill Scott, Pancho Villa, Woodrow Wilson, and Leonard Wood
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003070
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003070.3
ER  -