Fort Gibson (Okla.)

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Black-and-white copy prints of Cherokee families, houses, schools, and social gatherings in Indian Territory. Included are photographs of Fort Gibson, the Cherokee Female Seminary, the Cherokee Male Seminary, children and picnics at the Park Hill Mission, Indian Territory, as well as views of stagecoaches and ferries operating in the Cherokee Nation. Additional images show scenes from Portland, Oregon, including battleships and Asian immigrants; and images from New Metlakahtla, Alaska, including wildlife, schools, bands, and the Reverend William Duncan. Unpublished finding aid available.

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Black-and-white copy prints of Cherokee families, houses, schools, and social gatherings in Indian Territory. Included are photographs of Fort Gibson, the Cherokee Female Seminary, the Cherokee Male Seminary, children and picnics at the Park Hill Mission, Indian Territory, as well as views of stagecoaches and ferries operating in the Cherokee Nation. Additional images show scenes from Portland, Oregon, including battleships and Asian immigrants; and images from New Metlakahtla, Alaska, including wildlife, schools, bands, and the Reverend William Duncan. Unpublished finding aid available.

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Professor. An unpublished manuscript regarding the Battle of the Washita, 1868; manuscripts regarding the establishment of Fort Gibson, Indian Territory and its cemetery; and lecture notes used by King in the instruction of American, European and Russian history.

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Black-and-white copy prints of Cherokee families, houses, schools, and social gatherings in Indian Territory. Included are photographs of Fort Gibson, the Cherokee Female Seminary, the Cherokee Male Seminary, children and picnics at the Park Hill Mission, Indian Territory, as well as views of stagecoaches and ferries operating in the Cherokee Nation. Additional images show scenes from Portland, Oregon, including battleships and Asian immigrants; and images from New Metlakahtla, Alaska, including wildlife, schools, bands, and the Reverend William Duncan. Unpublished finding aid available.

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An Act (1875) of the Choctaw Nation establishing burglary as a crime; Acts (1889-1892) of the Cherokee Nation appointing delegates to Washington, D.C.; requests (1905-1906) for payment of salaries and expenses of the attorneys and Special Marshal of the Cherokee Nation; a committee report (1889) regarding payment for Cherokee lands given to the Osage under a Treaty of 1866; and a term paper by Wood entitled "The Indian Treaty Maker.".

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Contains photographs of various subjects, such as, nature, industry, and historic locations throughout Oklahoma. Also included are additional paper materials regarding information on photo developments, schedules, and photo releases.

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Correspondence concerning Ft. Gibson's role in carrying out the U.S. Government's Indian pacification policy following the Civil War. Included are five volumes of Letters Sent (1879-1890) and one index volume; and two volumes of Registers of Letters Received (1879-1880 and 1886-1890).

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Typescripts of newspaper articles regarding Ross, Chief of the Cherokees, the history of the Cherokees, and the political and social conditions within the Cherokee Nation, 1829-1874.

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Ledger book of accounts (1867-1887) kept by attorney Jonathan Gore of Shawnee, Kansas. The second half of the ledger book is comprised of diary entries by Gore (1867-1869) concerning daily life in Shawnee, Kansas; Gore's legal practice and related cases; and observances regarding members of the local Shawnee tribe; a spiral bound transcription of the diary entries, entitled"Jonathan Gore Diary: A Compilation" by John W. Kincaid; and four loose typescript pages of entries from another diary kept by Jonathan Gore in 1867.

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Historian. Manuscripts by Conlan reflecting the histories and cultures of numerous Indian tribes, the Choctaw Indians in particular, from 1756 to 1932; and a textbook, published in Great Britain (1950).

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Black-and-white copy prints of Cherokee families, houses, schools, and social gatherings in Indian Territory. Included are photographs of Fort Gibson, the Cherokee Female Seminary, the Cherokee Male Seminary, children and picnics at the Park Hill Mission, Indian Territory, as well as views of stagecoaches and ferries operating in the Cherokee Nation. Additional images show scenes from Portland, Oregon, including battleships and Asian immigrants; and images from New Metlakahtla, Alaska, including wildlife, schools, bands, and the Reverend William Duncan. Unpublished finding aid available.

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Black-and-white copy prints of Cherokee families, houses, schools, and social gatherings in Indian Territory. Included are photographs of Fort Gibson, the Cherokee Female Seminary, the Cherokee Male Seminary, children and picnics at the Park Hill Mission, Indian Territory, as well as views of stagecoaches and ferries operating in the Cherokee Nation. Additional images show scenes from Portland, Oregon, including battleships and Asian immigrants; and images from New Metlakahtla, Alaska, including wildlife, schools, bands, and the Reverend William Duncan. Unpublished finding aid available.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Black and white original prints, copy prints and glass plate negatives of the Apache, Comanche, Delaware, Temeculz, Kawaiisu, Creek, Umatilla, Chippewa, Paiute, Sioux, Oto, Choctaw, Pawnee, Osage, Ponca, Mohave, Kickapoo, Taos, Pueblo, Yuma, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Crow, Navajo, Kiowa, Tonkawa, Sac and Fox, Kalispel, Kutenai, Flathead, Spokan, Attu, Quileute, Seminole, Wasco, Modoc, Shasta, Yakima, Shoshoni, Kiowa-Apache, Skitswish, Cheyenne, Shawnee, Nez Perce, Arapaho, Caddo, Wichita, Yakima, Makah, and Blackfoot Indians. Also includes images of mining, the oil industry, the military, agriculture, the range cattle industry, education, and transportation in Oklahoma Territory, Oklahoma state, and Indian Territory. Scenes of the towns of McAlester, Edmond, Alva, Weatherford, Pawhuska, Clairemore, Ponca City, Purcell, Duncan, Noble, Lexington, Shawnee, Beaver. Plainview, Lavern, Henryetta, Atoka, Tahlequah, Guthrie, Tishomingo, and Eufaula are included. In addition the first year of...

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Black-and-white copy prints of Cherokee families, houses, schools, and social gatherings in Indian Territory. Included are photographs of Fort Gibson, the Cherokee Female Seminary, the Cherokee Male Seminary, children and picnics at the Park Hill Mission, Indian Territory, as well as views of stagecoaches and ferries operating in the Cherokee Nation. Additional images show scenes from Portland, Oregon, including battleships and Asian immigrants; and images from New Metlakahtla, Alaska, including wildlife, schools, bands, and the Reverend William Duncan. Unpublished finding aid available.

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Black-and-white copy prints of Cherokee families, houses, schools, and social gatherings in Indian Territory. Included are photographs of Fort Gibson, the Cherokee Female Seminary, the Cherokee Male Seminary, children and picnics at the Park Hill Mission, Indian Territory, as well as views of stagecoaches and ferries operating in the Cherokee Nation. Additional images show scenes from Portland, Oregon, including battleships and Asian immigrants; and images from New Metlakahtla, Alaska, including wildlife, schools, bands, and the Reverend William Duncan. Unpublished finding aid available.

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Black-and-white copy prints of Cherokee families, houses, schools, and social gatherings in Indian Territory. Included are photographs of Fort Gibson, the Cherokee Female Seminary, the Cherokee Male Seminary, children and picnics at the Park Hill Mission, Indian Territory, as well as views of stagecoaches and ferries operating in the Cherokee Nation. Additional images show scenes from Portland, Oregon, including battleships and Asian immigrants; and images from New Metlakahtla, Alaska, including wildlife, schools, bands, and the Reverend William Duncan. Unpublished finding aid available.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Black and white original prints, copy prints and glass plate negatives of the Apache, Comanche, Delaware, Temeculz, Kawaiisu, Creek, Umatilla, Chippewa, Paiute, Sioux, Oto, Choctaw, Pawnee, Osage, Ponca, Mohave, Kickapoo, Taos, Pueblo, Yuma, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Crow, Navajo, Kiowa, Tonkawa, Sac and Fox, Kalispel, Kutenai, Flathead, Spokan, Attu, Quileute, Seminole, Wasco, Modoc, Shasta, Yakima, Shoshoni, Kiowa-Apache, Skitswish, Cheyenne, Shawnee, Nez Perce, Arapaho, Caddo, Wichita, Yakima, Makah, and Blackfoot Indians. Also includes images of mining, the oil industry, the military, agriculture, the range cattle industry, education, and transportation in Oklahoma Territory, Oklahoma state, and Indian Territory. Scenes of the towns of McAlester, Edmond, Alva, Weatherford, Pawhuska, Clairemore, Ponca City, Purcell, Duncan, Noble, Lexington, Shawnee, Beaver. Plainview, Lavern, Henryetta, Atoka, Tahlequah, Guthrie, Tishomingo, and Eufaula are included. In addition the first year of...

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Black and white original and copy prints of Comanche, Cheyenne, Cheyenne-Arapaho, Arapaho, Sac and Fox, Sioux, Blackfoot, Kiowa, Crow, Ute, Shawnee, Omaha, Pueblo, Shoshoni, Pawnee, Ponca, Assinibone, Apache, Yakima Nez Perce, Umatilla, Wichita, Osage, Potawatomi and Flathead Indians. Also included are photographs of the U.S. Army during the Indian Wars (1865-1891), Western forts and posts, the Little Big Horn battlefield, trails and settlements of the Southwest, soil conservation and dust storms, Oklahoma towns, mountain ranges and National Parks.

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Black-and-white original prints of American Indians, including Caddo, Cheyenne, Hopi, Kiowa, Menominee, Navajo, Pueblo, and Sioux; airplanes; baseball players; Belle Starr; businesses; cowboys; the land run of 1889; mining operations in Nome, Alaska; mining; schools; soldiers; street scenes; tornado damage in Duke, Oklahoma; the Anadarko Indian Fair in Anadarko, Oklahoma; Baxter, Hawarden, and Smithland, Iowa; Fort Riley, Kansas; Ellsworth, Minnesota; Cameron, Missouri; and Fort Gibson, Fort Sill, and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Unpublished finding aid available.

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Professor. Personal correspondence (1897–1957); correspondence with Campbell’s relatives (1822–1896); correspondence with publishers and literary agents (1920–1958); literary manuscripts (circa 1914–1957); diaries, notebooks, and journals (1901–1926); and business papers (circa 1925–1959) regarding Campbell’s writings on the West, Indians, and Oklahoma, with emphasis on transportation, fortifications, cowboys, wars and battles, criminals and outlaws, and American Indian chiefs, along with original Indian art by Carl Sweezy. [Boxes 104 through 121 of this collection are available online at the OU Libraries website.]FULL FINDING AID (PDF)