Description Sepia-colored photograph of a Boomer family. Same as 4326.3532. Family camped awaiting land run of 1889. Stamp at left of image, "From the Collections of the Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art". From red fabric bound book "Collection of Oklahoma Indian and Cowboy Views published by Prettyman and Cornish, Arkansas City, KS". Inside cover reads "ER/79", same as studio card from Gordon Miller Collection (4326.3482) and stamp "From the Collection of the Thomas Gilcrease...

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Confederate States Commissioner Albert Pike concluded this eighty-seven page treaty between the Confederate States, Choctaw Nation, and Chickasaw Nation at North Fork Town in Creek Nation West. Although the treaty was concluded in Creek Nation West, there is no evidence in the document to indicate the participation of Creek Nation. Included in the document are signatures for the Confederate States, Choctaw Nation, and Chickasaw Nation.

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Sepia-colored portrait photograph of Chief John Ross. Man standing in studio setting with left arm resting against back of chair. Wearing formal suit and holding hat in right hand which is resting on right hip.

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Inscribed, "Photograph of Chief John Ross by F. Gutekunst 704 and 706 Arch Street Philadelphia (no 14846) 1863." on verso

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Twenty Dollar Confederate Bill. No. 18129. Richmond, Virginia.

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This is a discharge paper for Sidney S. Dailey from the Iowa Cavalry Veteran Volunteers at Nashville, Tennessee.

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This is a telegram written by George A. Custer to Lawrence Bonnett; it is written on a Western Union form. It says, "We start to meet Sitting Bull tomorrow will reach Lincoln Monday."

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Letter from Creeks residing in the Cherokee Nation to Chief John Ross asking help in resisting removal west. Single folded sheet of paper with handwritten text in ink on three pages. Folder 241.

Description Muster roll of John Benge to January 17, 1839. Two sheets of paper with handwritten text in ink on recto. The two sheets of paper attached together with handwritten text in ink on recto. Folder 504 Label Text Approximately 7,000 federal and state troops were deployed in the Cherokee Nation to forcibly remove the remaining Cherokee from their home. In June 1838, three detachments of Cherokee departed for Indian Territory under military...

Scope and Contents Petition to Judge J. Floyd, Superior Court, Newton County, Georgia, from Thomas F. Jones, attorney. This petition requests the release of Tyre L. Harris who is under age eighteen and held by a conscripting officer. This same document contains the following three items: an order by Floyd to Sheriff Newton Anderson to produce Harris, a statement by Sarah Harris concerning Tyre's age and his volunteering for service, and a statement by John T. Terrell, conscripting officer. There is also a...

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This is a photo postcard, printed in color with a reproduction of a Charles M. Russell watercolor of a saloon scene with three men lounging at a bar while another fires at the feet of still another. Words at the bottom read, "Dance! You short-horn dance!" At the top it reads, "101 Ranch, Bliss, O.T." and "I find cow-boys a social set, at one of their 'gatherings' I was invited to dance." Reverse side is blank but has Charles M. Russell's signature buffalo skull in the stamp location.