Description Josiah Gregg was the trader and writer. Transcript (DCI) Waters of Colorado and of CaliforniaA MAP OF THE INDIAN TERRITORY NORTHER TEXAS AND NEW MEXICO Showing the GREAT WESTERN PRAIRIES By JOSIAH GREGGEntered according to Act of Congress in the year 1844 by Sidney E. Morse and Samuel Breesa in the Clerks Office of the Southern District of New YorkNote: The (?) portions are Prairie. The white Timber...

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...

Collection Overview From the Collection: Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Peter Perkins Pitchlynn, Chief of the Choctaws, (1806-1881) was one of the persons selected by the Choctaws in 1828 to survey the southeast section of Indian Territory, the land they had chosen for their home when they were forced to leave Mississippi. Peter Pitchlynn's father was John Pitchlynn, a white man and interpreter for the United States Government, who had married a Choctaw woman of the famous Folsom family. Peter...

Collection Overview From the Collection: Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: The Gilcrease Cartographic Collection was initially created as a storage designation for maps found in the manuscript collections and for the few original maps purchased during the life of Thomas Gilcrease. From the collections initial humble beginnings, it has continued to grow into am official map collection through additional gifts and purchases. The collection includes atlases, hand drawn maps from the manuscript...

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Folder 204

Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: This collection contains a handwritten letter from Crumbo to Dick Best, Gilcrease Museum Director with an enclosed photograph of the artist E.J. Heatwale, a typed manuscript of the short story by Crumbo entitled "The Rainbow Horse", a typed manuscript written by Woody Crumbo entitled "Wolf in The Moon", which is a story of the Indian, and an unsigned handwritten article by Woody Crumbo about Thomas Gilcrease. Crumbo uses a...

Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: There are two treaties among these items. One dated May 16, 1836, is printed; the other is an original document on parchment, dated July 4, 1805, between the United States of America and the chiefs and head men of the Wyandotte, Ottawa, Chippewa, Munsee, Delaware, Shawnee, and Potawatomi Nations "...holden at Fort Industry on the Miami of the Lake ... " The Indian signatures are in pictograph style. A copy of laws regulating...

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Map of the Indian Territory Showing the Railways Built and Projected within Its Bounderies.

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This map of Indian Territory, present day Oklahoma, was authorized by Congress.

Collection Overview From the Collection: Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: The Gilcrease Cartographic Collection was initially created as a storage designation for maps found in the manuscript collections and for the few original maps purchased during the life of Thomas Gilcrease. From the collections initial humble beginnings, it has continued to grow into am official map collection through additional gifts and purchases. The collection includes atlases, hand drawn maps from the manuscript...