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Collection
Identifier: MC-1964-221
Scope and Contents
Joe Wiedeman of Caldwell, Kansas was a member of of the "Old Time Cherokee Strip Cowpuncher’s Association" (as wella s member 433 of the Cherokee Strip Cowpuncher’s Association). To be eligible as a member of this association, it was neccessary to have worked as a cow puncher prior to 1893.
Included in the papers is Wiedeman's membership card, a roster of the association of 1937, and an "Anti-Horse Thief Association" certificate.
Dates:
1901 - 1946
Collection
Identifier: MC-1964-34
Scope and Contents
Army officer and special agent to the Seminole Indians at the agency on the banks of the Caloosahatchee River, Fla. Personal and official correspondence, limitary orders, a Muskogee phrase book, notes by Casey in a scrapbook of newspaper clippings of the 1850s, and book (1850-1853) of IOndian Agency affairs including council notes, lists of Seminoles, and maps. The letters relate to the removal of the Indians, delegations from Arkansas, and the “Blake episode.”
Dates:
1825 - 1859
Collection
Identifier: MC-1954-58
Scope and Contents
Much of the collection consists of business papers of all sorts, many reflecting the various aspects of traffic in slaves, and has some giving information as to the cost of living over a long period of time. They also reflect the financial difficulties of cotton raisers and cattlemen. There are legal documents of all sorts, family letters, social invitations, and tribal matters ranging from trivial claims of individuals to matters pertaining to the tribe as a whole versus the U. S....
Dates:
1812 - 1916
Item
Identifier: MC-1954-61
Scope and Contents
John Edwards, missionary to the Choctaw Indians at Spencer and Wheelock Missions, wrote the story of his "Escape from the South in 1861" (34 pp). His "escape" was made when the missions had to close at the outbreak of the Civil War.
Dates:
1861
Collection
Identifier: MC-1954-25
Scope and Contents
These papers contain John F. Brown's appointment by H. C. Linn, a Director of the St. Louis, Oklahoma, and Southern Railroad, to act on behalf of Linn in matters connected with the Railroad. A certificate of election and oath of office (1905) are also included.
Dates:
1897 - 1905
Collection
Identifier: MC-1954-169
Scope and Contents
John Howard Payne visited the Cherokee country in the 1830's, and two of these letters are introductions to John Ross, the Cherokee Chief. There is an exchange of seven letters between them, mostly personal. Some letters and photostats concern the arrest of Ross and Payne.One letter from John Ridge offers his regrets that Payne cannot visit his house and mentions sending him various Cherokee papers. Payne was planning to write a history of the Cherokees and there is...
Dates:
1832 - 1852
Item
Identifier: MC-1954-26
Scope and Contents
Journal of John Lowery Brown, a Cherokee. He and a party of fellow tribesmen left Grand Saline (near Salina, Oklahoma) on April 20, 1850, for the gold fields of California. After suffering many hardships, the party arrived late in September. The last entry is November 14, 1850.
Dates:
1850-04-20 - 1850-11-14
Collection
Identifier: MC-1964-07
Scope and Contents
The papers pertain to Wyandotte tribal matters in Ohio, Kansas, Indian etc. A large portions pertains to claims against the United States. There are also papers related to business matters of Lucy and John Armstrong. Later papers are concerned with the division of the Methodist Church, North and South. Some deal with his wife's (Lucy Bigelow) efforts on behalf of the Wyandot Indians. Some of the material relates to the Stockbridge Indians.Included are copy of a letter from...
Dates:
1833 - 1890
Item
Identifier: MC-1954-196
Scope and Contents
This is a four page letter written by Shaw to his mother from San Francisco in 1853. Some of its contents is a report on the "filibustering expedition," then seemingly successful, to capture the State of Sonora.
Dates:
1853
Collection
Identifier: MS-1954-185
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, proclamations as chief of the Cherokee Tribe, legal papers, records, accounts, list of names and rations allocated during Removal from Tennessee to Indian Territory, official and other papers of the Council (Cherokee), petitions and protests to Congress, and papers relating to the East and West Cherokee controversy and the Civil War.Includes the Muster Roll of Capt. John Benge's Detachment of Emigrating Cherokees. Another documents records the expenditures of one...
Dates:
1814 - 1897
