Southern Ute Agency

Richard Henry Pratt recommends that the school at the Southern Ute Agency be made into a boarding school rather than a day school.

Richard Henry Pratt informs the Office of Indian Affairs of his upcoming travel to Colorado to give a paper before the National Conference of Charities and Correction. Because his contribution is gratuitous, and he requires his expenses to be covered in some other way, he proposes recruiting students in the Southern Ute agency on the same trip…

Richard Henry Pratt notes in response to an inquiry from the Office of Indian Affairs that he received intimations not to go into certain districts for students, and so he abandoned his recruiting trip. As a result he paid for his trip to and from Denver, Colorado himself.