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Rhodes, Charles B. Manuscript Collection

Coverage: 
1864–1950
Source: 
Papers, .75 foot

Description
U.S. marshal. Correspondence (1895–1946) regarding the Indian Territory Day celebration of 1939 and regarding Thomas Rhodes’s experiences in the military during World War I; certificates (1864–1912) appointing Charles B. Rhodes as a teacher in Arkansas and in the Cherokee Nation and as a U.S. deputy marshal, and exempting a relative of Rhodes from military service during the Civil War; news clippings (1905–1950) regarding lawmen, outlaws, judges, and Rhodes; postcards (1929–1949) of Colorado’s Royal Gorge bridge and of the Southern Belle Railroad; a score (1894) of a patriotic hymn composed by a youth from Indian Territory; a poster (1900) advertising a reunion of the Old Settlers Band of the Cherokee Indians; poetry and short stories (1894–1942) regarding Oklahoma, Belle Starr, and the Creek National Council House at Okmulgee, Indian Territory; political ribbons (1907–1912) advertising the first Muskogee County (Oklahoma) Republican Party convention, the Muskogee County delegation to the first state Republican Party convention, and the delegation’s support of William H. Taft for president in 1909; and publications (1908–1938), including programs of the reunion of former U.S. marshals in 1908, and of the forty-fifth anniversary of the First National Bank of Vinita, Oklahoma. Also in this collection is an original manuscript (1875–1907), presumably by Rhodes, regarding the U.S. District Court at Fort Smith, Arkansas, its judge, Isaac C. Parker, and the cases tried there, with commentary regarding the crimes and criminals of Indian Territory.