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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Communication from three Delaware Chiefs to Grand Council of Indian Nations on North Fork of Canadian River urging neutrality in Civil War. Single folded sheet of paper with handwritten text in ink on four pages. Folder 1106

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...

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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.

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...

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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.

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From catalog info:
Authorized by Congress
New York: Julius Bien & Co. Lithographers 1890.
1" = 12mi.
11th U.S. Census
Lands of 5 civilized Tribes & Quapaw Agency. Railroads.

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From catalog info:
Chicago: Rand, McNally & Co., 1892, engravers and publishers
Scale: 1:1,280,000
Atlas plate #411 from Rand, McNally & Co.'s Indexed Atlas of the World, Chiacago: 1894.
Phillips Atlases vol. 1, p. 792 (Entry #1440)

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From catalog info:
Oklahoma (Indian Territory)
Wood, S.T.; Eckert, Fred; Walton, T.W.; Burgess.
A map of the Cherokee Strip in Indian Territory leased by the Cherokee Strip Live Stock Association from the Cherokee Nation.
[1883]
Scale: one inch equals four miles.
Map has T. F. Meagher's name in ink on bottom margin. Annotated with Capt. Boones 1843 route, buffalo, towns of Ponca City, Medford, Pond Creek, Alva & Kingfisher.

Description This map provides the locations of Indigenous tribes west of Arkansas and Missouri. The map includes numbers of Indigenous peoples who emigrated to land given, the tribes given land and the amount, the number of Indigenous people east of the Mississippi, and numbers of Indigeous peope who reside west of the Mississippi. Inscribed in blue pencil, "1833" underneath title along left edge on verso; Inscribed in type, "Estimated quantity of Land assigned to the tribes, who have emigrated from the...