…and Captain Greeno, having no hope of reinforcements was soon compelled to abandon Tahlequah. Hundreds of loyal Cherokee, accompanied by Chief John Ross, left their homes and traveled on foot and horseback to the refugee camp in Missouri, near Neosho. At the close of the year 1862, there were 1,900…
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…Indians and Texans) in the dead of winter, and who are now encamped on the Neosho River in the southern part of Kansas. “Having heard of their great destitution and suffering, in company with the Rev. Evan Jones, who has been for the last forty years a missionary among…
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…taste. If he should happen to be a back-woodsman and desires to remain such, he can find a virgin forest home where he can build his own log cabin, with free stone for his chimney and free back-logs for his fireplace. If he were inclined to be lonesome at night,…
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…as a democrat for twenty successive years. He was defeated in 1894, but was immediately appointed as United States District Judge for the northern district of Indian Territory. While in Congress he served for several years on the committee on territories and when he entered upon his judicial career at…
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…these schools furnished free tuition, the Indians did not manifest any great amount of interest in them, and for many years the attendance was but slight. But by patient, earnest, persistent efforts, the work of the various missions was crowned with success. The Moravians were the first to undertake this…
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Toward the close of the war, he was compelled to flee to Texas, in company with a good many of his comrades. After peace was declared, he returned to the Cherokee Nation penniless, but still retaining his courageous spirit. He worked for wages for awhile, and as he began to…
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…business college, I went in search of employment. I got it, but I got no salary with it. I worked two months for nothing, and then I received $15 per month. After some time, I obtained new employment at $400 a year, and when I married in 1906, I was…
One of Muskogee’s most important institutions is the Oklahoma Free State Fair, organized in 1916 and chartered by the state February 26, 1917. During the years gone by, Muskogee had held various fairs with more or less success, but all of them had been dependent upon admission fees to meet…
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A ride over the county will reveal to the observer the same reliable crops of corn, wheat, oats, hay, cotton, alfalfa and potatoes thriving here much the same as in older grain and livestock states. The visitor will see the- rolling prairies, the rich creek and river bottoms and the…
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…they were not familiar with the boundaries of the new reservation, they were frequently found hunting outside of its boundaries. White settlers nearby made complaint to the effect that some of their horses were being stolen. Third Cherokee Treaty In order to settle these complaints and misunderstandings, the Third Treaty…