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Subject Source: Gilcrease Object Names
Found in 7611 Collections and/or Records:
Manuscript Collection: Patrick Gordon
Collection
Identifier: MC.1954.77
Collection Overview
Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: This interesting letter (two page folio) from Patrick Gordon, Philadelphia, August 13, 1735, is addressed to Chief Shekallamy in reference to the evils caused by the sale of rum to the Indians. It appears that the chief complained to the governor about the indiscriminate sale of same. The chief used this as a pretext to seize all the rum he could find.
Dates:
1735
Manuscript Collection: Peter A. White
Collection
Identifier: MC.1970.219
Collection Overview
Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: A letter to Peter A. White & Co. from "M&W" Baptist Mission, Cherokee Nation ordering merchandise (cloth), an invoice of Peter A. White & Co., Cincinnati, to Musgrove& Williams, a letter to P. A. White & Co. from Musgrove & Williams Baptist Mission, Cherokee Nation, regarding attachment of goods by creditor, and a statement of account with Peter A. White & Co. by Musgrove & Williams (William...
Dates:
1854
Manuscript Collection: Peter Pitchlynn
Collection
Identifier: MC.1948.175
Collection Overview
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...
Dates:
1797 - 1929
Manuscript Collection: Peyote Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC.1970.172
Collection Overview
Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Smithsonian ethnologist, James Mooney, writes two letters pertaining to a bill before Congress to prohibit the use of Peyote in the Indian ceremonial dances. Most of the correspondence and printed material deal with this subject. A great many letters are between missionaries of the American Baptist Home Missionary Society and most of them feel that Mooney encourages the continued use of Peyote. They blame him for his attitude...
Dates:
1916-1960
Manuscript Collection: Phillip Cole Collection
Collection
Identifier: MC.1940.47
Collection Overview
(Biographical material and acquisitions list added in 1967). Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: The Journal of the 7th Cavalry's Yellowstone Expedition of 1876, correspondence with Theodore W. Goldin, E. A. Brininstool, and others comprise this collection. (See also Benteen-Goldin letters under "Benteen.") Dr. Cole (c.1890-1940), a retired physician, and former president of A. Schrader and Sons Manufacturing Company, lived in Tarrytown, New York, on the Cole...
Dates:
1876-1937
Manuscript Collection: P.W. Humphrey
Collection
Identifier: MC.1964.104
Collection Overview
Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Letter from P.W. Humphrey to Charles Cassady in Washington, reporting George Colbert's assertion in 1812 that U.S. would have "War Enough" because warriors from Northern Tribes had passed through Chickasaw lands to see Creeks, and a party of Creek warriors returning from North had killed five or six whites near mouth of Duck River. Also informs that representative Johnson and Gen. Desha know for a fact that Tecumseh was not at...
Dates:
December 21, 1814
Manuscript Collection: Ranald Slidell MacKinzie
Collection
Identifier: MC.1964.132
Collection Overview
Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Ranald S. Mackenzie (1840-1889), a graduate of West Point and a general in the U.S. Army, participated in many battles of the Civil War. After the war he was transferred to the South and Southwest, accepting a lower rank, and took a leading part in the campaign against marauding Indians in the early 1870's. As a result of his efforts, large areas in Texas were opened for permanent settlement. Later he was transferred to Indian...
Dates:
1873-1882
Manuscript Collection: Robert Owen
Collection
Identifier: MC.1964.164
Collection Overview
Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: In a typewritten account, Mrs. John Schoenborn relates some biographical information concerning Narcissa Owen, mother of Robert L. Owen (1856-1947), U.S. Senator from Oklahoma 1907-1925. Brief notes about John and Rebecca Swain are also in this file, but the dates given for Rebecca Swain are obviously in error. There is a brief letter written by Senator Owen to F. C. Adair encouraging him to "form a good club" (Democratic). A...
Dates:
1920-1953
Manuscript Collection: Sam Houston
Collection
Identifier: MC.1964.102
Collection Overview
Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: This item is a small notebook apparently in the hand of Marcus Claudius Marcellus (?) Hammond describing a buffalo hunt which started at Fort Gibson, June 21, 1841. Four men with their servants took part in the hunt. There are approximately eighty pages devoted to the description of the hunt and their experiences at various camps. Toward the end of the narrative he has a short list of Indian words with the English translation,...
Dates:
1830-1852
Manuscript Collection: Samuel Austin Worcester
Collection
Identifier: MC.1954.226
Collection Overview
Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Samuel Austin Worcester (1798-1859) was a missionary to the Cherokees in Georgia and in Indian Territory. His great contribution was his translation of various works into Cherokee, securing the type of the Sequoyah Syllabary, and the many publications from his press for the Cherokees, Choctaws, and Creeks. In this collection, there is only one original item: the agreement of the "Old Settlers" Council to allow him, with...
Dates:
1831-1961