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Title: Muskogee and northeastern Oklahoma, including the counties of Muskogee, McIntosh, Wagoner, Cherokee, Sequoyah, Adair, Delaware, Mayes, Rogers, Washington, Nowata, Craig, and Ottawa
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Benedict, John Downing, 1854-
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Publisher: Chicago : S.J. Clarke Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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lahoma Military Academy 603 Scenes Along Grand River, Near Pryor 573 School of Mines, Miami : 681 Sequoyah 193 Sequoyah County Courthouse, Sallisaw 539 Street Scene, Stilwell 547 Surety Building, Muskogee 433 Ten Thousand Pounds of Deerskins Shipped in 1883 355 Third and Broadway, Muskogee, at an Early Day 373 Third Street, Looking North, Muskogee 395, 407 Thlobthlocco, Creek Town Chief, 1880 149 Thomas, Hon. John R 387 Thompson, Charles 193 Town and Country Club, Muskogee 439 Turner Hardware Co. Building, Burned February, 1899 367 Undefeated Aged Herd of Canada, 1919 489 U. S. Secretary of Interior Garfield, on Official Visit 399 16 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE View of Buildings and Grounds. Military Academy, Clareinore 591 Wah-pah-sho-sah at Home 14S War Savings Stamp Bank. Eufaula 497 Washington County Courthouse. Bartlesville 623 West Side of Main Street, Muskogee, 1888 163 Where Court was First Held in Muskogee 383 Wright, Hon. J. George 293 Y. M. C. A.. Bartlesville 623 Vol. 1—2
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Muskogee and Northeastern Oklahoma CHAPTER I INDIAN TERRITORY A SKETCH OF ITS HISTORY AND NATURAL RESOURCES GENERAL COUNCIL FOR INDIAN TERRITORY—NO MANS LAND—UNITEDSTATES COURT IN INDIAN TERRITORY—NATURAL RESOURCES. That body of land formerly designated Indian Territory islocated but a few miles south of the geographical center of theUnited States. It was a part of the Louisiana purchase by whichthe United States in 1801 acquired from France about ninehundred thousand square miles of land adjoining the MississippiRiver on the west, for the sum of $15,000,000, or slightly more thantwo and one-half cents per acre. This region was practically unknown at that time to the peopleof the United States and many New England citizens regarded itas a doubtful bargain. The Mississippi River was then regardedas the western boundary of civilization, and beyond the settle-ments at St. Louis and New Orleans, the whole region was thoughtto be but a barren waste, fit only for hunting grounds for t

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