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...

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Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: James H. Lane (1814-1866) writes a letter to Secretary E. M. Stanton which is signed also by Senator James Harlan. He says, "Saw Gen. Grant Saturday night-he has no objection to this change." The change would allow all the Indian troops to go home to raise crops for their families. The letter is dated February 13. James Lane was a member, perhaps an officer, of the Union guerrillas of Kansas called "Red Legs."

Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: These letters pertain to the cession of Indian lands to the State of Georgia and from Georgia to the U.S. Government in 1802. At least one of them is addressed to Gov. Josiah Tattnall, Jr. James Jackson (1757-1806) was governor of Georgia from 1798 to 1801. Following his term, he became a commissioner for the State of Georgia under Governor Tattnall and served in this capacity with Abraham Baldwin and John Milledge....

Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: James and Minerva Washburn Orr were missionaries to the Cherokees, stationed at Dwight Mission. Four of these letters were written when Dwight was located in Arkansas Territory, the others from the later location of the mission in Indian Territory. The letters refer to life at Dwight, but mostly are concerned with family and health problems. They are written by the Washburn sisters, Lavinia and Lydia, other members of the...

Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Jean Louis Berlandier ( - 1851) was a member of the Northern Mexico Frontier Commission (1827), surveyor and scientific observer. As a result of his travels in connection with this work for the commission during the next three years, Berlandier wrote a number of journals and reports. Important manuscripts, they are entirely holograph and signed Berlandier on the title page of Volume I of the three volume set bound in...

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Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Railroad materials

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Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Joe Wiedeman (n.d.) of Caldwell, Kansas, was a member of the "Old Time Cherokee Strip Cow Punchers Association." To be eligible as a member of this association, it was necessary to have worked as a cow puncher prior to 1893. Included in the papers is Wiedeman's membership card, a roster of the association of 1937, and an "Anti-Horse Thief Association" certificate.

Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: John Charles Casey (1807-1856) was graduated from West Point in 1829 and later became a captain in the United States Army. He was a Special Agent to the Seminoles at the Agency on the Banks of the Caloosa-Halibee, and a good friend of the Seminole Chief, Ho-lah-ta (Billy Bowlegs). The collection consists of letters, both official and personal giving information on the removal of the Indians, the delegations from Arkansas, and...

Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: A miscellaneous collection reflecting a long and busy life of John Drew (c. 1800-1865), a leading Cherokee, both at the time of removal and later as a representative of the tribe in Washington. Drew served as a Confederate soldier and officer; he was also a banker, a lawyer of sorts, and a storekeeper. Much of the collection consists of business papers of all sorts, many reflecting various aspects of the traffic in slaves, and...

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Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: John Edwards (1828 - after 1895), missionary to the Choctaw Indians at Spencer and 'Wheelock Missions, wrote the story of his "Escape from the South in 1861" (34 pp). His "escape" was made when the missions had to close at the outbreak of the Civil War.