Letter from J. L. McCorkle to his son, David W. McCorkle, with news of the burning of the Cherokee Female Seminary, April 13, 1887
Description
J. L. McCorkle wrote from Webbers Falls, Indian Territory to his son in Leavenworth, Kansas. McCorkle reported that the crops were not growing well and they have been without rain. Reported fires which destroyed 200 bales of cotton, business houses in Muskogee, and the Cherokee Female Seminary. The Cherokee Female Seminary burned Sunday last, which was April 10, 1887. Folder 538
Dates
- April 13, 1887
Language of Materials
Materials in English
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Extent
From the Collection: 1485 item(s)
Medium
pencil on paper
- Bill Fields
- Cherokee
- Cherokee
- Cherokee Female Seminary
- David W. McCorkle
- Eufaula
- Indian Territory
- Indians of North America
- J. L. McCorkle
- John Drew Manuscript Collection
- Letter
- Letters and letter-writing
- Manuscripts
- Muskogee -- Guso'i
- Native American
- Native Americans
- Webbers Falls
- cotton
- drought
- fathers
- fires
- illness
- policeman
- post-Removal
- sickness
- son
- weather
Repository Details
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