Description Josiah Gregg was the trader and writer.From catalog info:Indian Territory/Western United StatesJosiah Gregg (1806-1850)Scale: 1:3,500,000Atlas plate #29 from Sidney E. Morese & Samuel Breese Cerographic Atlas of the United States, 1842, 32 maps. This map also appears in Josiah Gregg's book, Comerese of the Prairies, 1850, facing p.58.Phillips Atlases, vol.1, p.773 (entry #1383).Phillips Maps p.332. ...

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C. T. Wells' account of a 15-day, 375-mile trip from Mulberry, Franklin County, Arkansas to Arkansas City, Kansas, which lasted from November 7 to 22, 1878. It also contains his comments on Sun City, Kansas from June 1879. It is addressed to "[t]o [his] friend Sallie." Folder 1

Translated Title

Map of the United States of America

Description

From catalog info:
U.S./Canada/Mexico
Thierry, French Engraver
Paris: [1830]
Scale: 1:15,400,000
Atlas plate no.75 from Geographie Moderne.
Shows Louisiana and Oregon Territory as part of U.S. Oklahoma, shown as part of Arkansas Territory.
Not found in Phillips

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Draft Copy of a Note from Chief John Ross to Captain Albert Pike regarding invitations to other tribes. (Moulton). One sheet of paper with handwritten text in ink on recto and verso. Folder 1124

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Inscribed in ink on verso, "Copy of A Note to Genl. A. Pike "

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Draft copy of letter from Chief John Ross at Park Hill to 12 named citizen of Kooweskowee District regarding complaints against Osage. (Moulton). One sheet of paper with handwritten text in ink on recto and verso. Folder 1098

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Draft copy of letter to Osage Chiefs to meet Captain Albert Pike and Cherokee on September 25. (Moulton). Single folded sheet of paper with handwritten text in ink on three pages. Folder 1120

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Inscribed in ink on verso, "Copy of a Talk to the Chiefs of the Osage Nation Sept. 10, 1861"

Scope and Contents Inscribed by hand in blue ink, "EFG Edison Pinnacle info March 3, 1989" in lower center on verso Curatorial Remarks Community Elder Tags: Pinnacle, March 3 1989, Dana Tiger Art Show, Smithsonian World, Blackboard, hand drawn map of Indian territory 1866, No Man's Land, Cherokee Outlet, Cheyenne, Arapahoe, Greer County, Comanche, Kiamichi, apache, Chick a Saw, Creek, osage, cherokee, Choctaw, playbill, Oklahoma! The surrey with the fringe...

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.

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

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...