Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: According to a brief notation, this small note­book contains several pages of medical formulas all written in Cherokee by Rufus Cochran (c.1844-1926). Cochran lived at Stilwell, Oklahoma. He was appointed postmaster at Cochran in the Cherokee Nation in 1896, but the order establishing this post office was rescinded January 23, 1897, and it is doubtful that the office was ever actually in operation.

Rufus Cochran Ledger, a small bound book titled "LEDGER" on the cover and containing untranslated pages written in the Cherokee syllabary. Notations indicate that several pages include medical formulas. Forty seven pages have been written upon, approximately another half of the pages are blank. Folder 1