Description Josiah Gregg was the trader and writer. Transcript (DCI) Waters of Colorado and of CaliforniaA MAP OF THE INDIAN TERRITORY NORTHER TEXAS AND NEW MEXICO Showing the GREAT WESTERN PRAIRIES By JOSIAH GREGGEntered according to Act of Congress in the year 1844 by Sidney E. Morse and Samuel Breesa in the Clerks Office of the Southern District of New YorkNote: The (?) portions are Prairie. The white Timber...

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C. T. Wells' account of a 15-day, 375-mile trip from Mulberry, Franklin County, Arkansas to Arkansas City, Kansas, which lasted from November 7 to 22, 1878. It also contains his comments on Sun City, Kansas from June 1879. It is addressed to "[t]o [his] friend Sallie." Folder 1

Translated Title

Map of the United States of America

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Draft Copy of a Note from Chief John Ross to Captain Albert Pike regarding invitations to other tribes. (Moulton). One sheet of paper with handwritten text in ink on recto and verso. Folder 1124

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Inscribed in ink on verso, "Copy of A Note to Genl. A. Pike "

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Draft copy of letter from Chief John Ross at Park Hill to 12 named citizen of Kooweskowee District regarding complaints against Osage. (Moulton). One sheet of paper with handwritten text in ink on recto and verso. Folder 1098

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Draft copy of letter to Osage Chiefs to meet Captain Albert Pike and Cherokee on September 25. (Moulton). Single folded sheet of paper with handwritten text in ink on three pages. Folder 1120

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Inscribed in ink on verso, "Copy of a Talk to the Chiefs of the Osage Nation Sept. 10, 1861"

Collection Overview From the Collection: Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: The Gilcrease Cartographic Collection was initially created as a storage designation for maps found in the manuscript collections and for the few original maps purchased during the life of Thomas Gilcrease. From the collections initial humble beginnings, it has continued to grow into am official map collection through additional gifts and purchases. The collection includes atlases, hand drawn maps from the manuscript...

Collection Overview From the Collection: Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: The Gilcrease Cartographic Collection was initially created as a storage designation for maps found in the manuscript collections and for the few original maps purchased during the life of Thomas Gilcrease. From the collections initial humble beginnings, it has continued to grow into am official map collection through additional gifts and purchases. The collection includes atlases, hand drawn maps from the manuscript...

Description Foreword by Muriel H. Wright, June 1934. See transcription field for full text. Yellowed and crumbling with the passing of eighty-four years, the pages of a small, leather bound notebook reveal the story of the overland journey of a party of Cherokees who set out from the Grand Saline, Cherokee Nation, for California in 1850. This journal was kept by a young Cherokee, John Lowery Brown, who recorded the progress of the emigrants day by day. It tells the difficulties encountered along a...

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Letter from Elijah Hicks, Park Hill, to Chief John Ross, Washington City. Reporting on August election, conversation with Gen. Arbuckle, Osage reports on Kickapoos and John Rogers' dissatisfaction over payments to "reserves" under 1817 and 1819 Treaties (Moulton). Single folded sheet of paper with handwritten text in ink on four pages. Folder 769