Grand River
Subject
Subject Source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
Scope Note: The Thesaurus of Geographic Names\World\continents\North and Central America\rivers\
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Act to Regulate Prices of Ferriages at Ferries, December 16, 1841
Item — Folder 789: [Barcode: 187.789]
Identifier: 4026.955
Description
Act of National Council to regulate prices of ferriages at ferries. One sheet of paper with handwritten text in ink on recto and verso. One sheet of paper with handwritten text in ink on recto. Folder 789
Dates:
December 16, 1841
Affidavit of Red Bird Sixkiller relating to exchange of property improvements with Henry C. Ross, December 1, 1883
Item — Folder 41: [Barcode: 188.41]
Identifier: 4026.288
Description
Folder 41
Dates:
December 1, 1883
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
Letter from William Shorey Coodey to Chief John Ross, October 11, 1843
Item — Folder 898: [Barcode: 187.898]
Identifier: 4026.1060-.1
Description
Confidential letter from William Shorey Coodey, Grand River, to Chief John Ross. Giving opinion that Judge Carter is qualified to hear case of Jacob West (accessory to murder of Isaac Bushyhead) despite fact his term expired Oct. 1. (Moulton). Single folded sheet of paper with handwritten text in ink on four pages. Folder 898
Dates:
October 11, 1843
Manuscript Collection: John Lowery Brown
Collection
Identifier: MC.1954.26
Collection Overview
Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Journal of John Lowery Brown (1779-1852), a Cherokee. He and a party of fellow tribesmen left Grand Saline (near Salina, Oklahoma) on April 20, 1850, for the gold fields of California. After suffering many hardships, the party arrived late in September. The last entry is November 10, 1850. This journal is in English. A transcript with notes is printed in Vol. XII of the Chronicles of Oklahoma (Oklahoma Historical Society,...
Dates:
1850
Newspaper clipping concerning 1859 oil strike in Mayes County, May 1906
Item — Folder 46: [Barcode: 188.46]
Identifier: 4127.7
Description
Article cites Muriel H. Wright writing in December issue of 'The Chronicles of Oklahoma'. Folder 46
Dates:
May 1906