James Anderson Slover Collection
Item
Identifier: WHC-M-1769
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
- ca. 1907
Restrictions on Access
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.
- African Americans -- Relations with Indians Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Arkansas -- History Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Autobiographies Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Baptists -- Cherokee Nation -- Missions Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Baptists -- Indian Territory -- Missions Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Baptists -- Missions -- Oklahoma Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- California -- Social life and customs Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Cherokee Indians -- Slaves, Ownership of Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma -- History Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Confederate States of America. Army -- Indian troops
- Confederate States of America. Army. Arkansas Cherokee Mounted Rifles, 1st
- Diaries Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Frontier and pioneer life -- Cherokee Nation Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Frontier and pioneer life -- Indian Territory Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Frontier and pioneer life -- Oklahoma Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Frontier and pioneer life -- Tennessee Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Indians of North America -- Missions Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Indians of North America -- Relations with Afro-Americans Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Missionaries -- Cherokee Nation Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Missionaries -- Indian Territory Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Missionaries -- Oklahoma Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Oklahoma -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Overland journeys to the Pacific Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Pioneers Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Slavery -- Indian Territory Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Slover, James Anderson, 1824-1913
- Texas -- Description and travel Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental histories Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Watie, Stand, 1806-1871
- Description rules
- Appm
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Western History Collections Repository
Contact:
630 Parrington Oval
Room 300
Norman Oklahoma 73019 United States
westernhistorycollections@ou.edu
630 Parrington Oval
Room 300
Norman Oklahoma 73019 United States
westernhistorycollections@ou.edu
