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Lining up to vote for Mayor of Guthrie in the city's first election April 23, 1889. Guthrie, Oklahoma Territory, April 23, 1889 WENNER 82 |
Oklahoma Lawyers ready for business, using a trunk and a wooden box for an office. Guthrie, Oklahoma Territory, April 22, 1889 WENNER 86 |
Oklahoma Avenue, east from the Land Office in Guthrie, Oklahoma Territory, May 22, 1889 WENNER 93 |
Broadway Street, Oklahoma City, one week after the land opening. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Territory, late April, 1889 WENNER 97 |
Lone Wolf in Kiowa War Dance. One of the leaders in the Battle of the Washita against Custer. Became a Baptist preacher in his old age. WENNER 105 |
Ponto and Lone Bear, Kiowa warriors who were in the Battle of the Washita againt Custer in the 1870s as young men. Late 1880s photo. WENNER 1085 |
Last execution under Seminole tribal laws in 1892, just before Congress abolished the tribal code. Note, bullet hole in the paper heart. Wewoka, Indian Territory, 1892 WENNER 109 |
Portrait of William Pollack in Rough Rider Uniform. Colonel Roosevelt said, in a letter upon his death, "Pollack was one of the men for whom I grew to feel the most sincere respect and liking." WENNER 110 |
Kiowa mother, Martha Napawat, and child in a cradleboard. Chickasha, Indian Territory, 1897 WENNER 114 |
White Turkey, Chief of the Shawnees and delegate to the GOP National Convention. First full-blood delegate to any national convention. WENNER 125 |
Wichita woman wrapped in a striped blanket. Anadarko, Oklahoma Territory, 1898 WENNER 129 |
Two Indian girls in a Comanche Indian camp near Fort Sill. Fort Sill, Oklahoma Territory WENNER 130 |
Apache children held prisoner with Geronimo at Fort Sill, Indian Territory 1900 WENNER 133 |
Indian child (Potawatomi or Kickapoo) attending first day of school at the Quaker Shawneetown Mission, between Shawnee and Tecumseh, 1893 WENNER 139 |
Oklahoma Building at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair. Building is a two-story structure with people gathered on a second floor balcony. It is now El Reno's Elk Lodge. St Louis, Missouri, 1904 WENNER 147 |
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