Manuscripts

The Cherokee War Path

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Description: This hand-written manuscript is the story of a Cherokee war party's travels from Arkansas to the Tawakenoes (Three Canes) settlement along the Brazos River in east-central Texas. Their route, taken in 1827, went south to the Mexican border in order to pick up more warriors from the Texas bands of Cherokee. The narrative includes descriptions of other Cherokee tribes, the organization and rituals of the Cherokee nation, the natural landscape, and a few specific Cherokee warriors.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1836-1840.
Call number: mssHM 1730
Creator: Ridge, John (1803-1839)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance

Cherokee

Visual Materials

Portraits of Cherokee Indians identified by Ingalls as missionaries, preachers and teachers. Several views of school and seminary buildings; group portraits of students and teachers; children from "Orphan Asylum" in front of U.S. Agency office; Cherokee National Female Seminary near Tahlequah, Oklahoma; Baptist Indian Institute and Theological school; scenery around Tahlequah. People identified: William P. Ross; his brother, D. H. Ross; J. A. Scales; Col. Jesse Chisholm; James Taylor; Daniel Gritts; Rev. Levi Walkingstick; Huckleberry Downing; G. W. Hicks; Adam Lacie (or Lacy); Mark Bean and Pete Markam; John R. Vann; Letitia Fields; Lydia Sixkiller; Mary Jones (daughter of a white missionary who was adopted by the Cherokee Council); Little Foot; Rev. John Buttrick Jones and family. Photographer: John K. Hillers; unidentified.

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Mae Donovan Dihel diary of a trip to Mexico City

Manuscripts

Diary kept by Donnie Dihel while on her trip from Lexington, Kentucky, to Mexico City in 1938. The author makes several comments about the conditions she saw due to the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl in Tennessee, Arkansas, and Texas. She also makes several comments regarding the African Americans she saw during her travels as well as the people of Mexico. Accompanied by a letter to Mae Donovan Dihel and a family-related clipping, 1937 and 1951.

mssHM 84013

Iron Mountain route! St. Louis to Texas! : The only route to Hot Springs, Arkansas. : The short line to Arkansas and Texas

Visual Materials

Image of a wood-engraved map of the railroad route of the Texas Short Line of the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway from St. Louis, Missouri, through Arkansas, to Texas, centered in a double-sided poster with promotional text about the line and tickets, and a timetable on the verso.

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Mercedes Bryant photograph travel album of Omnibus College tour

Manuscripts

The photographs, postcards, and ephemera document the travels of the participants in the 1931 Omnibus College tour, the first traveling summer school excursion for the college. The tour took the students through Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Montana, and Wyoming. The album contains over 300 photographs, all identified, 77 postcards, and various ephemera. With the album is a 14-page typewritten journal of the trip, along with over 12 loose photographs and postcards (one written by Mercedes Bryant to her mother, Etta). The album also includes 40 photographs taken by Mercedes Bryant in 1932 of locations in Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas.

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A new map of the Cherokee Nation with the names of the towns & rivers

Visual Materials

No old shelf mark. This map was published in a newspaper and is accompanied by written material apparently from the same source. This describes a treaty of December 26, 1759 with the Cherokee chiefs and several articles describing actions with French and Indians during the time period of late 1759. Publisher information at the bottom of the map has been lost in the trimming. Map available online at http://www.cummingmapsociety.org/J_1760_New_Map_of_the_Cherokee_Nation_Kitchin.jpg (accessed 26th May, 2010). Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: MS notes: Lawson March 5, 1927 Cat 35 item 195.

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A Modoc brave on the war path

Visual Materials

This collection contains lantern slides with both photographs and illustrations of the 1873-1873 Modoc War, a conflict fought in the lava beds at Tule Lake on the California-Oregon border between a small band of Modoc Indians and the United States Army. The lantern slides include images of Indian scouts for the U.S. Army; U.S. Army soldiers and camps, Modoc leaders and prisoners of war, and the lava beds that served as the Modocs' stronghold. Notable images include portraits of Modoc leaders Captain Jack and Winema (Toby) Riddle, shaman Curly-headed Doctor, and Indian scout Donald McKy. Within the collection, 26 photographs can be attributed to Eadweard Muybridge, 13 to Louis Heller, and 2 to Putnam & Valentine.

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The Cherokee War Path

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