James Anderson Slover Collection
Scope and Contents
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A photocopy of the autobiography of James Slover, a missionary to the Cherokee Nation during the Civil War, and chaplain of the 1st Regiment, Cherokee Mounted Volunteers, under Stand Watie. The diary includes an account of post-war difficulties in Arkansas due to a depressed economy, race relations and the reconstruction government, and of Slover's subsequent decision to move to California.
Dates
- Creation: ca. 1907
Restrictions on Access
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Restricted.
Extent
1 item (1 item)
Language of Materials
English
Ownership and Custodial History
Gift of Zella Weeks.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Autobiography: Source of acquisition--Weeks, Zella. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1981.
Subject
- Slover, James Anderson, 1824-1913 (Person)
- Watie, Stand, 1806-1871 (Person)
- Confederate States of America. Army. Arkansas Cherokee Mounted Rifles, 1st (Organization)
- Confederate States of America. Army -- Indian troops (Organization)
Genre / Form
Geographic
- Arkansas -- History
- California -- Social life and customs
- Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma -- History
- Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
- Oklahoma -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
- Texas -- Description and travel
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental histories
Topical
- African Americans -- Relations with Indians
- Autobiographies
- Baptists -- Cherokee Nation -- Missions
- Baptists -- Indian Territory -- Missions
- Baptists -- Missions -- Oklahoma
- Cherokee Indians -- Slaves, Ownership of
- Frontier and pioneer life -- Cherokee Nation
- Frontier and pioneer life -- Indian Territory
- Frontier and pioneer life -- Oklahoma
- Frontier and pioneer life -- Tennessee
- Indians of North America -- Missions
- Indians of North America -- Relations with Afro-Americans
- Missionaries -- Cherokee Nation
- Missionaries -- Indian Territory
- Missionaries -- Oklahoma
- Overland journeys to the Pacific
- Pioneers
- Slavery -- Indian Territory
- Description rules
- Appm
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Western History Collections Repository
Monnet Hall, 3rd Floor
630 Parrington Oval
Norman Oklahoma 73019
405-325-2904
westernhistorycollections@ou.edu
