Thomas McKean Finney and Frank Florer Finney Collection
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Indian traders. Papers of Thomas M. Finney, Indian trader at Gray Horse, Osage Agency, and of Frank F. Finney, historian and employee of the Indian Territory Illuminating Oil Company including correspondence (1925-1936) relating to T.M. Finney's book"Pioneer Days with the Osage Indians;" historical materials (1827-1977) such as correspondence, news clippings, magazine articles, and bibliographic notes of T.M. Finney and F.F. Finney on such topics as the Cherokee Strip, the Osage Indian Agency, Gray Horse Trading Post, the Dalton Gang, Kaw Indian Agency, Buffalo Bill, Pawnee Bill, peyotism, President Herbert Hoover's early days in Pawhuska, Oklahoma, and Maria Tallchief; nine field notebooks (1915-1919) kept by F.F. Finney while an employee of the Indian Territory Illuminating Oil Company; finished and unfinished articles and stories (1891-1969) by F.F. Finney, T.M. Finney, and J.E. Finney including research notes, new clippings, and magazine articles; and oil and gas files (1896-1972) of F.F. Finney with articles and documents primarily related to the Indian Territory Illuminating Oil Company, and oil and gas leases in Osage Indian lands.
Dates
- 1827-1977
Restrictions on Access
Available for public access.
Extent
8 ft. (8 ft.)
Language of Materials
English
Ownership and Custodial History
Gift of Robert B. Finney and John Finney.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Papers: Source of acquisition--Finney, Robert B. and John Finney. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1993.
- Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917
- Cattle -- Oklahoma Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Cherokee Strip (Okla. and Kan.) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Cities Service Gas Company
- Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Correspondence Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Dalton Gang
- Dalton family
- Finney, Frank Florer, 1884-1974 -- : Correspondence
- Florer, John Newton, 1844-1907
- Flynn, Dennis Thomas, 1861-1939
- Frantz, Frank, 1872-1941
- Gray Horse Store -- : Oklahoma.
- Hale, Bill, 1874-1962
- Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964
- Indian Territory Illuminating Oil Company
- Indian sign language Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Indians of North America -- Alcohol use Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Indians of North America -- Languages Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Indians of North America -- Religion Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Indians of North America -- Treaties Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Marland, Ernest Whitworth, 1874-1941
- Mathews, John Joseph, 1895-1979
- Nellie Johnstone Number One
- Oil and gas leases -- Oklahoma Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Oil wells -- Oklahoma Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Osage Indians Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Osage Indians -- Education Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Osage Indians -- Missions Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Osage Oil and Gas Blanket Lease
- Osage Producers Gas Company
- Pawhuska (Okla.) Subject Source: Naf
- Pawhuska Oil and Gas Company
- Pawnee Bill, 1860-1942
- Peyotism Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Postal service -- Indian Territory Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Tallchief, Maria, 1925-2013
- Trading posts Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Osage Agency
- Wahshowahgaley, 1856-1935
- Description rules
- Appm
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Western History Collections Repository
630 Parrington Oval
Room 300
Norman Oklahoma 73019 United States
westernhistorycollections@ou.edu
