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First official decree issued by Hernán Cortés after the conquest of Mexico Tenochtitlán.

Title/description created by Clevy Lloyd Strout, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Spanish, University of Tulsa, 1962.

Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Relating to the history of Spain, particularly during the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, this volume was written by a Spanish curate by the name of Andres Bernaldes. It includes the first transcriptions of Columbus' own accounts of his voyages of discovery in the New World. This rare history was one of many important documents purchased from A.S.W. Rosenbach and Sons by Thomas Gilcrease. It was obtained in 1930 and is one of...

Collection Overview

Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Completely handwritten, this is a treaty, written in Spanish, between the Chickasaws, Choctaws, and Governor Lemos of "the Place and District of Natchez." It contains many signatures, the majority "by his mark."

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The signers of this treaty include, but are not limited to, Colonel Manuel Gayoso de Lemos, Governor of Natchez District, Fascoatura, King of the Chickasaws, and Franchimastabia, Principal Chief of Choctaw Nation. Folder 1

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Rectangular-based stirrup, has a square metal patch on the base; tag reads "Oldest type found, used by armored Spaniards".

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Typescript of an essay titled "The Removal of the Cherokee" by John Madden. Describes how the comissioner J.F. Schermerhorn arranged the Treaty of 1835 in absence of Cherokee officers. By this treaty, the Cherokee Nation ceded to the U.S. all territory east of the Mississippi River. Includes history of the removal from June 1838 to March 1839. Folder 65