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Hardcover book entitled "Good Medicine", red rectangle with gold buffalo skull on front cover. One-hundred and sixty-two pages, first page has a note handwritten by Will Rogers to Frank Borsarge. Newspaper article found inside: "Will Rogers Funniest Wise-Cracks".

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Hardcover copy of 'Good Medicine', dark tan canvas cover with brown embossed buffalo skull on the front. Signed on the dedication page by Con Price.

Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: John Charles Casey (1807-1856) was graduated from West Point in 1829 and later became a captain in the United States Army. He was a Special Agent to the Seminoles at the Agency on the Banks of the Caloosa-Halibee, and a good friend of the Seminole Chief, Ho-lah-ta (Billy Bowlegs). The collection consists of letters, both official and personal giving information on the removal of the Indians, the delegations from Arkansas, and...

Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: An early day school teacher in Tulsa, Lilah Denton Lindsay (1860-1943) writes "Memories of Yesterday in my School Life in the Indian Territory Mission Field." Miss Lindsay's mother was a pupil of Reverend R. M. Loughridge at the Creek Mission School at Coweta. Lilah taught under him at the Wealaka Mission School in 1883, and taught day school in Okmulgee, 1884-85. Employed by the Home Mission Board of the Presbyterian Church,...

Collection Overview Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: William R. Leigh (1866-1955), traveler and artist, was a painter of wild animals, primitive people, and local color. His home was in New York City, but he traveled and studied in Europe when he was a young man, and later he traveled in Africa with the Carl Akely Expedition and with the Martin Johnsons (1926). The collection is the gift of his wife, Ethel Traphagen Leigh, presented by her brother, Edward Traphagen, after her...

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Hardcover book entitled 'Memories of Old Montana' by Con Price. Signed in blue ink on the copyright page by Con Price. Dust jacket included.

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Booklet entitled 'More Rawhides' by Charles Russell. Fifty-nine pages, dark green cover with light green lettering and illustration. Handwritten on table of contents page, "To my long time friend Con Price from CM Russell".

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Small booklet, dark tan cover. "Piano Jim and the Impotent Pumpkin Vine". 1947. Short story originally written by Charles Russell. Post script by Will Rogers.

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Hand-bound document written in French, entitled "Relation du Voyage faict en l'annee 1645 au Nom du Roy au pays des Algoumequins dans la Nouvelle France ou Canada, et de la manière de vivre des Sauvages" (Narrative of the Voyage made in the year 1645 in the Name of the King to the country of the Algonquins in New France or Canada, and the manner of living of the savages). Thirty pages in length, signed G.H. at the end of the document. Illustrated with five pen and ink drawings.

Description Small booklet entitled 'Studies of Western Life' by Charles Russell. Photograph of younger Charles Russell on the cover to the left of the title, and a copy of 'Waiting for a Chinook' below title. Book contains black and white images of Russell's work along with typed descriptions. Bound together with green thread. While staying with Ben and Lela Roberts in Cascade, MT, Russell produced twelve black and white paintings that Roberts then copyrights and publishes in August as 'Studies in...