Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: This is an account of a fifteen day trip by horse and wagon from Mulberry, Franklin County, Arkansas, to Arkansas City, Kansas, by C. T. Wells (n.d.) and companions. It has very little of historical value except one brief mention of George Perryman, a few places named, and some brief description of various Indian agencies. It does indicate that the appearance of the prairie around Muskogee, for in­ stance, had not changed much...

Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Printed Certificate for the Southwest Colony Town and Mining Company, printed Stock Certificates for The Oklahoma Town Company of Wichita, Kansas, two printed Certificates of Membership in Payne's Oklahoma Colony. One is made out to Chas W. [Deetrich]. The second one is blank. Printed certificate for Payne's Oklahoma Colony. Ticket to "Payne's Lecture on Oklahoma. Admit One" and a Calling Card for: "D.L. Payne, Oklahoma...

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Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Appointment of D.D. Hitchcock as Assistant Surgeon of the Second Indian Regiment of Guards at Bentonville, Arkansas. Signed by Major M.B.C. Wright, as Commander of the Regiment.

Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Two letters are from N. Longworth, Newark, New Jersey, to Mrs. Frances Hoskins, Savannah, Georgia. One asks about her welfare as well as her family's. He also speaks of home and that it has been a long time since he has been there, and the second comments on the length of time it took him to respond to her letter. He says that things have been busy and tells of recent events. Also included is an Ante-Nuptial agreement between...

Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: A letter from Little Rock, Arkansas, September, 1875, written by E. H. English, evidently a judge in the Arkansas courts, to Honorable I. T. Adair of the Cherokee Nation, tells of the reconstruction problems. He mentions troubles with carpet-baggers, but goes on to say ". . . after ten years of oppression, our people overthrew them, and put me back in my old place. They left the State as poor as Job's turkey, but I think it...

Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: The Eastern Band of Cherokees were those who, under the leadership of John Ross, did not subscribe to the treaty of New Echota (1835) and had to be removed by force to the Western lands. However, there had been emigration to the West as early as 1810 by groups who wished to leave Georgia and the term "Western Cherokees" was applied to this group as well as to later emigrants. The papers in the Gilcrease files labeled "Eastern...

Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: A treaty of several tribes of Indians, primarily Seneca, Wyandotte, Delaware and Shawnee. Concluded at St Mary's, Ohio, in 1818, signed by John C. Calhoun in 1826. Accompanying the treaty is a large plat showing the allotment of lands, signed by Josiah Meigs.[Filed in Flat Storage - Cabinet B, Drawer 5, Folder 4]. Also contains an unsigned typescript entitled "Henry Turkeyfoot" comprising a two page biography of the Seneca...

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Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: These papers consist of three reports concerning the business. One includes a resolution passed dealing with the company shares. One report says "business dull." Probably this is one of the gold mining companies whose trespass on Indian lands in Georgia was one cause of the removal of the tribes to the West.