RR Auction: The Western Americana auction of Jochen Zeitz, 742, Amherst

Auction Details

Auction Date
May 21, 2026 - May 21, 2026
Page Size: 158 items in 7 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
6001

James Monroe Endorsement Signature as President-Elect, Approving a Construction Contract for the Cumberland Road ("United States Western Road") - America's First Federally Funded Highway

1817 Not Available Unknown
6002

James Monroe Letter Signed as President to the U.S. Congress, Forwarding a Treaty with "the Creek Nation of Indians"

1821 Not Available Unknown
6003 Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson Autograph Letter Signed on the 1805 Cherokee Treaty, Suggesting "marking trees as far as the late purchase from the Cherokees extends, to be in readiness to enter the land as soon as Congress ratifies the treaty"

1805 Not Available Unknown
6004

Andrew Jackson Rare Presidential Endorsement Signature - Approving the Sale of Creek Nation Lands

1834 Not Available Unknown
6005

Andrew Jackson Letter Signed on the 1814 Treaty of Fort Jackson - The Creek Nation Cedes 23 Million Acres in Land

1814 Not Available Unknown
6006 Will'm Henry Harrison

William Henry Harrison (4) Letters Signed to the Secretary of War, Warning of Indian Hostilities on the Indiana Frontier

1808; 1809; 1810 Not Available Unknown
6007

Andrew Johnson Document Signed as President, Proclaiming an Infamous Treaty with "the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians"

1867 Not Available Unknown
6008

Andrew Johnson Letter Signed as President, Appointing a "Commissioner to negotiate treaties with the Indian tribes of Montana Territory"

1868 Not Available Unknown
6009 J. A. Garfield

James A. Garfield Letter Signed, Investigating an Interpreter's Claim as to the "relation between the Romany language and that of the Cheyenne Indians"

1875 Not Available Unknown
6010

Theodore Roosevelt Presidentially Signed Foreword Page for 'The North American Indian' by Edward S. Curtis

1906 Not Available Unknown
6011 Alexander Hamilton

Alexander Hamilton Letter Signed as Inspector General on Military Authority Over Indian Affairs (1799)

1799 Not Available Unknown
6012 B. Howard

Benjamin Howard Autograph Letter Signed: "The Indians have been trying for some time to strike at our frontier but my Rangers have made many of them pay for their curiosity"

1812 Not Available Unknown
6013

Santa Fe Trail: S. S. Waldo Autograph Letter Signed (1840) - "Starting my wagons to Santa Fe"

1840 Not Available Unknown
6014 William Wilson

William Wilson Autograph Letter Signed on an Overland Journey with the American Fur Company and Trade with the Indians, with Wagon Train Sketch

1843 Not Available Unknown
6015

William Wilson Autograph Letter Signed: "My wheat crop, the only cash article of produce, in this part of the country, has been a compliet failure"

1848 Not Available Unknown
6016

Gold Rush: The Daily Alta California Current Price Market Sheet - Listing Opium, Morphine, and Arsenic (San Francisco, 1850)

San Francisco 1850 Not Available Unknown
6017 P. J. Norton

Gold Rush: P. J. Norton Collection of (21) Handwritten Letters on Mining Life in California, 1851-1863

1851; 1855; 1856; 1857; 1860; 1863 Not Available Unknown
6018 L. Fitch, Jr.

Gold Rush: Luther Fitch, Jr. Autograph Letter Signed - The Young Doctor on "much sickness" Among Miners at Foster Bar, California

1852 Not Available Unknown
6019

Henry Wells and William Fargo Document Signed - American Express Company Stock Certificate

1863 Not Available Unknown
6020 P. D. Morris

Montana Gold Rush: P. D. Morris Archive of (10) Autograph Letters Signed - A Civil War Deserter's Letters Home from the Montana Gold Fields: "There is gold in this country"

1864; 1865 Not Available Unknown
6021

Wells Fargo Express Company Shipping Label

circa 1870s–1890s Not Available Unknown
6022

Stagecoach: 1881 Northwestern Overland Mail Company Pass

1881 Not Available Unknown
6023

Stagecoach: 1893 California & Nevada Stage Co. Pass

1893 Not Available Unknown
6024

John Muir Autograph Letter Signed: "I'm glad you all came unscathed through the battle of the trainrobbers"

1896 Not Available Unknown
6027

George A. Custer Signed Photograph of a Prize Elk from the Yellowstone Expedition of 1873

1873 Not Available Unknown