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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Official Appointment of CHARLES ADAMS

as

UNITES STATES MARSHAL’S DEPUTY, District of COLORADO

by

WALTER A. SMITH Marshal of the United States for the District of Colorado.

1883

Charles Adams (Karl Adam Schwanbeck) was a United States Army officer during the Civil War; negotiated the release of the Meeker

women who survived the Meeker Massacre (White River War) in 1879; Adams also served as an Indian Agent for the Ute agencies in Colorado;

he was a son-in-law of Colorado Territorial governor Edward McCook; served as Brigadier General of the Colorado State Militia circa 1870.

Charles Adams and Otto Mears brought to justice in Lake City the San Juan Mountains cannibal, Alferd Packer, in 1874; Adams became a United States diplomat to Bolivia in 1880.

Condition: near fine; originally folded twice vertically and twice horizontally, otherwise, bright and clean.

Document dimensions: 12 inches by 8 inches

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