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15 pp. (8vo) disbound, in plain brown paper wrappers. 22d Congress, 1st Session. Doc. No. 172. Ho. of Reps. Issue.

A Baptist missionary among the Indians of the Midwest, the well-intentioned McCoy advocated “Indian removal” from the eastern US to a reservations in present-day Kansas, Nebraska and Oklahoma, where, he hoped (in vain) Native Americans would be “unmolested” by white settlers. After Congress authorized “Indian removal” to the west, McCoy spent ten years surveying boundaries of possible reservations for more than 20 tribes. This report describes, in McCoy’s own words, his early surveying labors on behalf of the Cherokee, Creek and Pawnee tribes, his various “disappointments”, and the government vaccination program which, largely through his efforts, helped to stem a smallpox epidemic which had killed thousands of Indians who were being forced to move westward.