Proposed Trip for Student Recruitment in the Summer of 1886

Richard Henry Pratt requests permission to recruit female students, along with his oldest daughter as an assistant, from the Cheyenne and Arapaho Agency, the Kiowa and Comanche and the Quapaw Agency, the Pueblo Agency, the Navajo Agency, and the Pine Ridge Agency. He further requests transportation expenses to be covered for himself along with students and conductors.

Pratt notes that a more effective system would have the best students from the agency schools sent to the remote schools which would eliminate the need for recruiting trips.