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Found in 48 Collections and/or Records:

From Charles M. Russell to Editor of Adventure, March 7, 1924

 Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 255.Unknown]
Identifier: TU2009.39.536.1-4
Description

Handwritten, front and back, two page letter from Charles M. Russell to the Editor of Adventure dated 7 March 1924 written in the midst of some editorial page dispute in defense of Emerson Hough and other cowboy writers against a Mr. Henry.

Dates: March 7, 1924
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / Charles M. Russell Research Collection (Britzman)

Gray's Atlas Map of Indian Territory [Oklahoma], 1872

 Item — Drawer MC-9, Folder: Map 236
Identifier: 3926.744
Transcript (DCI) Entered according to Act of Congree in the year 1872 by G.W. & C.B. Colton & Co in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.South eastern point of Pan HandleBoundary claimed by the State of TexasCeded to the United States by the Choctaws and Chikasaws by Treaty April 28th 1866Ceded to the United States by the Seminoles March 21st 1866Ceded to the United States by the Creeks June 14th 1867...
Dates: 1872
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / Gilcrease Museum Map Collection

Ida Moore Johnson, Newton, Kansas, Age 101, September 7, 1971

 Item — Folder Choctaw.5: [Barcode: 3.Choctaw.5]
Identifier: 4327.3829
Description

Folder 5

Dates: September 7, 1971
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / Oklahoma Native American Photographs Collection

Indian Arrow March 8, 1890, circa 1890

 Item — Folder 1397: [Barcode: 187.1397]
Identifier: 4126.85.1
Description

Small unnumbered slip of paper with handwritten title, 'Indian Arrow March 8, 1890.' Folder 1397

Dates: circa 1890
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / Manuscript Collection: John Ross Papers

Indian Refugees in Kansas, 1862

 Item — Folder 1397: [Barcode: 187.1397]
Identifier: 4126.85.2
Description

Indian refugees in Kansas. Folder 1397

Dates: 1862
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / Manuscript Collection: John Ross Papers

Indian Territory, 1878

 Item — Drawer E-12, Folder: Map 261
Identifier: 3926.745
Description

From catalog info:
Oklahoma (Indian Territory)
Mitchell, Samuel Augustus (179[0]-1868)
Philadelphia: S.A. Mitchell, 1878.
Atlas plate #90 probably from Mithcell's New Atlas of America... 47 col. maps
Reverse page has map f Colorado.
Scale: 1:1,500,000.
Phillips Atlases vol. 1, p.613, entry #1183.






Dates: 1878
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / Gilcrease Museum Map Collection

Indian Territory [Oklahoma] with Part of the Adjoining State of Kansas, 1866

 Item — Drawer MC-6, Folder: Map 208a
Identifier: 3926.660 a
Description

From catalog info:
Engineer Bureau, War Dept.
Scale: 1:1,500,000.
Map annotated and colored.
Not in Phillips Maps
Hargrett Catalog, p.344.




Dates: 1866
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / Gilcrease Museum Map Collection

John Lowery Brown's account of his journey from Grand Saline, Indian Territory to California goldfields, April 1850

 Item — Folder 1: [Barcode: 27.1]
Identifier: 3616.94
Description Foreword by Muriel H. Wright, June 1934. See transcription field for full text. Yellowed and crumbling with the passing of eighty-four years, the pages of a small, leather bound notebook reveal the story of the overland journey of a party of Cherokees who set out from the Grand Saline, Cherokee Nation, for California in 1850. This journal was kept by a young Cherokee, John Lowery Brown, who recorded the progress of the emigrants day by day. It tells the difficulties encountered along a...
Dates: April 1850
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / Manuscript Collection: John Lowery Brown

Letter From Basil Stepp, Claremore, December 24, 1898

 Item — Folder 1347: [Barcode: 187.1347]
Identifier: 3826.5782
Description

Letter from Basil Stepp, Claremore to Dr. S. R. Ross. Regarding appraisal of John Dirickson Place. One sheet of paper with handwritten text in ink on recto. Folder 1347

Dates: December 24, 1898
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / Manuscript Collection: John Ross Papers

Letter from Commissioner of Indian Affairs William P. Dole to Chief John Ross, November 3, 1863

 Item — Folder 1194: [Barcode: 187.1194]
Identifier: 4026.1393
Description

Letter and envelopes from Commissioner of Indian Affairs William P. Dole to Chief John Ross in Philadelphia seeking meeting to discuss Cherokee relief and homes for Delaware and other Kansas Indians. Single folded sheet of paper with handwritten text in ink on four pages, one envelope with handwriting on recto and verso. Folder 1194

Dates: November 3, 1863
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / Manuscript Collection: John Ross Papers

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