Transcription from back: “Major General Isaac Ingalls Stevens. Pioneer of 1853 to Washington Territory from Washington, D. C. Surveyor and Statesman. Used in Bugles in the Valley, H. Dean Guie, p.3 2nd ed.”

Transcription from back: “Gen. Isaac Ingalls Stevens. First Gov. of Washington Territory and a General in Civil War. Was killed at the battle of Chantilly Va. September 1, 1862.”

Transcription from back: “I. I. [Isaac Ingalls] Stevens, The first Gov. of Washington Territory.”

Transcription from back: “Oct. 31, 1903, Maj. Gen. Isaac Ingalls Stevens. Pioneer of 1853 from Washington, D. C. via the plains to W. T. [Washington Territory]. First governor of Washington Territory. For sketch see “History of Washington” page 348. Also see “Life of General Isaac I. Stevens” in Two volumes by his son, Gen. Hazard Stevens, published in 1900. Soldier, Surveyor, and Statesman.”