Arkansas City Traveler, January 29, 1879.

Chief Joseph, in full aboriginal regalia, was the bright particular star at a White House reception on Teusday evening, Joseph seemed to enjoy it immensely.

Arkansas City Traveler, February 19, 1879.

Arkansas City Traveler, June 19, 1879.

Yesterday our town was enlivened by the arrival of a noted character and his people: Chief Joseph, of the Nez Perces, on their route to their new home thirty-five miles south of this place on Salt Fork, just west of the Ponca Agency, which is at the mouth of Salt Fork, and a little east of south from here.

The cavalcade consisted of sixty-four wagons, one hundred and thirty horses, and some four hundred Indians, headed by Chief Joseph, who rode on horseback at the head of the column dressed in half white and half Indian costume, a large feather waving in his hat.

A government supernumary in the form of a well developed, well fed, and well clothed gentleman by the name of Hayworth, a kind of general superintending Indian Agent, was along directing matters. These emigrants came from the neighborhood of Baxter Springs in the territory, where they were formerly located. Joseph is rather an imposing individual, but a dirtier, filthier looking set of Indians you would rarely ever meet. A few of the bucks, while the command halted in the street, amused the men and boys; at the same time replenished their own exchecquers by shooting at dimes on a stick with their bows and arrows.

Arkansas Valley Democrat, August 21, 1879.

Twenty-three teams, driven by full blooded Nez Perces, loaded with pine lumber and provisions, passed through town on their way to their agency. This tribe of Indians is fast becoming civilized, and in a few more years they will be numbered among the self-supporting tribes. New houses are being put up, fine farms broken out, and everything about their agency shows a marked tendency towards civilization.

Arkansas City Traveler, September 25, 1879.

Agent Whitman, of the Nez Perces, was in town last week and purchased a large bill of lumber for the agency from Mr. Williamson, of the Chicago Lumber Company.

A lot of the Nez Perces Indians were in town Friday after a bill of lumber for the agency. They were, by far, the best-looking Indians we have seen, being large, heavy-set, muscular-looking fellows.

Arkansas City Traveler, October 9, 1879.

"Yellow Bull," second chief of the Nez Perces, visited the fair on Friday, accompanied by Capt. C. M. Scott and Capt. Chapman, who interpreted his speech, which lasted about ten minutes and was very good. Capt. Chapman was chief of Howard's Indian and white scouts and talks the Indian language fluently.

Edna Worthley Underwood (noted writer from Arkansas City) wrote of Chief Joseph in her book "A Taste of Honey." "Chief Joseph, with the warriors who murdered Custer, with their squaws and children, were being removed to a northern Reservation. They stopped in our village (Arkansas City). Chief Joseph made a speech which one of the tribal interpreters put into English. The old chief described the massacre. He did it with relish. I sat in front of him, on a board upheld by two nail kegs. When he came to the horrors of it, over his dull eyes, which years had given singular expressionlessness, grey mists floated like spring across black winter. The memory was sweet."