Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Bound volume containing the text of 374 claims filed under the 1835 Treaty of New Echota. In addition to the claims are supporting affidavits and evidence. The claims were filed before Jesse Bushyhead, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Cherokee Nation; Evan Jones, Clerk; David M. Foreman, Solicitor or Clerk for the Going Snake District. (The Going Snake district was east of Tahlequah, near Westville. On page 122 and...

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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.

Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: There are two Chickasaw ledger books. Some items are receipts for funds paid, and disbursements of treaty monies. There are several letters between A. Harlan, on behalf of the $24,303.00 estate of a Chickasaw member Up-Pa-La and various Indian Affairs agents, especially N.G. Taylor, the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. There is also an Act of Legislative Council of the Chickasaw granting rights to J. Wes Parker, W.M. Guy, C.D....

Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Christian Schussele (1826?-1879) was born in Guebviller, Haut Rhin, Alsace, while that province was French. Schussele is the artist who painted the courtroom scene of Andrew Jackson being tried before Judge Hall in New Orleans, and most of these papers are letters concerning this undertaking. This painting is a part of the Gilcrease collection. C. J. Hedenberg is the correspondent who gathered the information that enabled...

Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: These records are divided between Confederate Paper an Union Papers. Confederate papers include items regarding the release of Tyre L. Harris, and underage conscriptee, 9 tax receipts from Charles Powell, 15 Registered Bonds of the Confederate States of America, the signature papers of a Treaty between the Confederate States and the Chickasaw and Choctaw Nation, and a newspaper article, dated June 9, 1864 regarding the Sloop...

Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Clark Field was a private citizen from Tulsa who gave generously of his time and money to support the excavation work at the Spiro Mound site. His collection of photographs with handwritten notes document the dig in progress. The Spiro Mound Site, in LeFlore County, was excavated by the Anthropology Department of the University of Oklahoma. The supervisor of the dig was Dr. Forrest E. Clements. It was part of a Works Projects...

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Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: This collection is primarily Land Deeds. Four are between Daniell Tracy and others, and 12 are between the Stone Family, primarily Benjamin Stone. Also included is a Contract between Harmon Stone and Town of Litchfield regarding $440 that will be paid after the new highway is constructed, and a letter from Leneau Church (?) to Fredrick Watson, Canaan, Connecticut, asking him to obtain subpoenas.

Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: A hand written letter dated March 15, 1818, to Thomas Gibbon from Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794-1877) would seem to have little historical significance. There is little punctuation and it is difficult to read. It appears that the Commodore is thanking Gibbon for a horse named "Goose." He also mentions sending Gibbon some fish and writes something concerning boats. A rather cryptic postscript reads: "I have kept out of the way for...

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Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: This tribal roll of the Crow Indians was compiled sometime during the 1880's and contains 300 names, with both the Crow and the English spelling. (5 pp., typed list).