"In the Beginning" by Fred Olds. From postcard from the Oklahoma Territorial Museum.

Government Paid Indians $800 to use Santa Fe Trail

Betty June Starr Whelan Cherokee Collection, MS-188
MS188-03-04: Indians IV · Page 2.13

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Betty June Starr Whelan Cherokee Collection, MS-188
MS188-03-04: Indians IV
Page 2.13

Material type: Newspaper Clipping (Newspaper / Clipping)
Date: 1986-05-21
Description: Article on how the Government Paid the Osage Indians $800 to use Santa Fe Trail.
Subjects and names: The Mexican War; Santa Fe; Missouri Sen. Thomas Hart Benton; Osage Indians; Hugh Gleen; William Becknell; J. R. Mead;

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