Cherokee cavaliers : forty years of Cherokee history as told in the correspondence of the Ridge-Watie-Boudinot family / by Edward Everett Dale & Gaston Litton.
Publisher:
University of Oklahoma Press,
Copyright Date:
1969
Description:
xxiii, 319 pages, 7 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, map, genealogical table ; 24 cm.
First edition, 1939; reprinted, 1969. Includes index.
Contents:
Removal and the Ross-Ridge feud -- The gold rush and internal strife -- A nation in arms -- The flood tide of war -- The tide ebbs -- The struggle for peace -- The last years of Stand Watie -- Calendar of letters.
Summary:
"A few of the letters included in this volume were obtained from the libraries of the University of Texas and the Northeastern State Teachers' College at Tahlequah, Oklahoma. One or two were secured from the private collection of Professor T.L. Ballenger ... Nearly all of them, however, together with some two thousand more ... are to be found in the Frank Phillips collection of southwestern history at the University of Oklahoma."--Preface.
Series:
The Civilization of the American Indian series ; v. 19
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