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Manuscript Collection: Phillip Cole Collection
Collection
Identifier: MC.1940.47
Collection Overview
(Biographical material and acquisitions list added in 1967). Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: The Journal of the 7th Cavalry's Yellowstone Expedition of 1876, correspondence with Theodore W. Goldin, E. A. Brininstool, and others comprise this collection. (See also Benteen-Goldin letters under "Benteen.") Dr. Cole (c.1890-1940), a retired physician, and former president of A. Schrader and Sons Manufacturing Company, lived in Tarrytown, New York, on the Cole...
Dates:
1876-1937
Manuscript Collection: Pond and Steedman Report
Collection
Identifier: MC.1954.176
Collection Overview
Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Entitled "Peter Pond and William Steedman's communications to the Secretary of War, 1792," this is a report of their journey to Niagara, their experiences among the New York Indians, principally the Onondagas, Senecas, and Oneidas, and their account of a council meeting at Buffalo. Attached to this report is a communication from the Governor of the Western Territory made in 1788 regarding settlement of the Indian Tribes north...
Dates:
1788-1792
Manuscript Collection: P.W. Humphrey
Collection
Identifier: MC.1964.104
Collection Overview
Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Letter from P.W. Humphrey to Charles Cassady in Washington, reporting George Colbert's assertion in 1812 that U.S. would have "War Enough" because warriors from Northern Tribes had passed through Chickasaw lands to see Creeks, and a party of Creek warriors returning from North had killed five or six whites near mouth of Duck River. Also informs that representative Johnson and Gen. Desha know for a fact that Tecumseh was not at...
Dates:
December 21, 1814
Manuscript Collection: Ranald Slidell MacKinzie
Collection
Identifier: MC.1964.132
Collection Overview
Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Ranald S. Mackenzie (1840-1889), a graduate of West Point and a general in the U.S. Army, participated in many battles of the Civil War. After the war he was transferred to the South and Southwest, accepting a lower rank, and took a leading part in the campaign against marauding Indians in the early 1870's. As a result of his efforts, large areas in Texas were opened for permanent settlement. Later he was transferred to Indian...
Dates:
1873-1882
Manuscript Collection: Robert Henry
Collection
Identifier: MC.1970.92
Collection Overview
Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: A notebook listing disbursements, some of which are to Indians. Henry's name is entered under the first item.
Dates:
1776
Manuscript Collection: Robert Owen
Collection
Identifier: MC.1964.164
Collection Overview
Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: In a typewritten account, Mrs. John Schoenborn relates some biographical information concerning Narcissa Owen, mother of Robert L. Owen (1856-1947), U.S. Senator from Oklahoma 1907-1925. Brief notes about John and Rebecca Swain are also in this file, but the dates given for Rebecca Swain are obviously in error. There is a brief letter written by Senator Owen to F. C. Adair encouraging him to "form a good club" (Democratic). A...
Dates:
1920-1953
Manuscript Collection: Rufus Cochran
Collection
Identifier: MC.1964.46
Collection Overview
Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: According to a brief notation, this small notebook contains several pages of medical formulas all written in Cherokee by Rufus Cochran (c.1844-1926). Cochran lived at Stilwell, Oklahoma. He was appointed postmaster at Cochran in the Cherokee Nation in 1896, but the order establishing this post office was rescinded January 23, 1897, and it is doubtful that the office was ever actually in operation.
Dates:
1844-1937
Manuscript Collection: Rush Nutt
Collection
Identifier: MC.1964.159
Collection Overview
Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: A manuscript diary of a tour through the western and southern parts of the United States by Rush Nutt, describing his journey which began in Virginia in 1805. Containing approximately 100 pages, notebook size, it is bound in sections, some of which are missing.
Dates:
1805
Manuscript Collection: Sam Houston
Collection
Identifier: MC.1964.102
Collection Overview
Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: This item is a small notebook apparently in the hand of Marcus Claudius Marcellus (?) Hammond describing a buffalo hunt which started at Fort Gibson, June 21, 1841. Four men with their servants took part in the hunt. There are approximately eighty pages devoted to the description of the hunt and their experiences at various camps. Toward the end of the narrative he has a short list of Indian words with the English translation,...
Dates:
1830-1852
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