Diary
Subject
Subject Source: Gilcrease Object Names
Found in 25 Collections and/or Records:
1867 Diary of Dwight Hitchcock of Cherokee Nation, I.T., 1867
Item — Folder 40: [Barcode: 228.40]
Identifier: 3626.206
Description
The diary also includes entries in shorthand for certain accounts. Folder 40
Dates:
1867
Diary by MRL of W. R. Leigh's African expeditions, the Akeley expedition of 1926-27, and the Clark-Carlisle trip of 1928, 1926 - 1928
Item — Folder 5: [Barcode: 127.5]
Identifier: 5317.797-.2
Description
Folder 5
Dates:
1926 - 1928
Diary of Hannah Hitchock including notes for sister, Ann Eliza, August 17, 1862 - February 20, 1863
Item — Folder 30: [Barcode: 228.30]
Identifier: 3626.204
Description
Folder 30
Dates:
August 17, 1862 - February 20, 1863
Handwritten diary of Leigh's trip to Wyoming written inside a McCutchon Drawing Tablet, July 12, 1910 - August 7, 1910
Item — Folder 453: [Barcode: 127.453]
Identifier: 4027.8530a
Description
Folder 453
Dates:
July 12, 1910 - August 7, 1910
John Lowery Brown's account of his journey from Grand Saline, Indian Territory to California goldfields, April 1850
Item — Folder 1: [Barcode: 27.1]
Identifier: 3616.94
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...
Dates:
April 1850
Manuscript Collection: Cherokee Nation Diaries
Collection
Identifier: MC.1970.38
Collection Overview
Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Four diaries probably belonging to Isaac Brown. They are dated 1857, 1872, 1882, and 1887. The diaries entries relate to family life, and life as a farmer and a school teacher. Interesting note: Isaac Brown helped bury the widow of General Stand Waite.
Dates:
1857-1887
Manuscript Collection: Ethan Allen Hitchcock
Collection
Identifier: MC.1965.95
Collection Overview
Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Ethan Allen Hitchcock, U.S. Army officer (1798-1870) was delegated to investigate charges of frauds against the Indians in Indian Territory in 1840 and 1841. His papers contain autobiographical sketches, correspondence, personal information, and information relating to Indian affairs. Also included are military orders and an account book (1847- 1858) which is dated "1832" on the leather binding, but it is evidently one...
Dates:
1819-1868
Manuscript Collection: Ezra W. Borders
Collection
Identifier: MC.1980.23
Collection Overview
Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: The collection includes 4 handwritten diaries, mostly covering the Civil War. He also kept 2 books he carried throughout the war, which are fragmented: A Devotional Book with Soldier's Hymns", and "Rifle and Light Infantry Tactics". Also includes letters regarding family histories. See also: Photography file - Borders Family
Dates:
1836-1968
Manuscript Collection: Gold Rush Diary
Collection
Identifier: MC.1954.76
Collection Overview
Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: A carefully typed 15-page diary with no indication as to its author, this is probably a transcript of the author's account of an expedition from Fort Smith, Arkansas, headed toward California, but in this journal, reaching only Santa Fe, New Mexico. The time recorded is from March 26 to May 29, 1849. A Captain Ebbets was evidently in charge of the expedition and it appears that it was called the Knickerbocker Company. Some of...
Dates:
1849
Manuscript Collection: James Greene Walker
Collection
Identifier: MC.1964.209
Collection Overview
Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Dr. James Greene Walker (n.d.), a circuit minister of the Methodist Church stationed at Tahlequah in the Cherokee Nation, is the writer of five diaries. The first one, written 1861-1863, is a transcript "by A. G. Sexton of New York, from Graham Shorthand, old style." The other diaries, 1875, '76, '78, and '80-81, are in small notebooks written with an indelible pencil. Walker was transferred to Texas in 1867 and the diaries...
Dates:
1861-1881