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Life Among the Tuscarora

22 September 2010 John Overholt Collections in Focus

An HCL News article highlights a recent gift to Houghton–some two dozen letters written by Hannah Whitcomb, who, in in the mid-19th century lived for more than 25 years as a missionary with the Tuscarora tribe of Native Americans near Niagara Falls.

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