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Cowboys -- Indian Territory

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Doris Duke Indian Oral History Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: WHC-M-1931
Scope and Contents

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Oral history collection. Typescripts of interviews conducted with hundreds of American Indians in Oklahoma regarding the histories and cultures of their respective tribes. Included are accounts of Indian ceremonies, customs, social conditions, philosophies, and standards of living. Members of every tribe resident in Oklahoma were interviewed.

Dates: 1967-1972

Okemah Payne Collection

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: WHC-M-1859
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Collector. Correspondence (1908-1923) and business papers (1902-1917) of Tom Payne, a cowboy and businessman, reflecting his real estate and business interests in the Indian Territory and early-day Oklahoma.

Dates: 1902-1923

William Box Hancock Collection

 Item
Identifier: WHC-M-1046
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Cowboy. A typewritten autobiography of Hancock's life as a cowboy, primarily at the Woodard and Oge Ranch near San Antonio, Texas, with descriptions of five of his trips up the Western Trail driving cattle, of San Antonio, Rockport, Fort Griffin, and Alpine, Texas, Camp Supply and Fort Reno, Indian Territory, and Dodge City, Kansas, along with an account of his work on ranches in Dakota Territory.

Dates: 1925