Brasel, Jennie Casteel, Mary Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (Muskogee, Indian Territory)
Published / Created:
1906 January 22
Call Number:
WA MSS S-1904
Container / Volume:
Folder 5
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
Two volumes containing holograph manuscript minutes and lists of members of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, Muskogee, Indian Territory, 1889-1903; and one volume containing holograph manuscript minutes of the second through sixth annual conventions of the Second District, Indian Territory, 1904-1908. Minutes were written and signed by recording secretaries; most minutes recorded in Muskogee were written by Jennie Brasel. Laid in the first volume are reports, clippings, receipts, and notes pertaining to the Muskogee auxiliary, dated 1883, 1892, 1898, and undated. Convention minutes are preceded by a page inscribed, "1903 Record of 2nd District Convention." Laid in this volume are notes and correspondence of officers of the Second District pertaining to conventions, 1906-1908 and undated.
Alternative Title:
Items removed from front of volume of convention minutes / 1906, 1908, n.d. and Letter : Mrs. Mary C. Casteel, 1906 January 22 to Mrs. President and Officers of W. C. T. U.
Description:
The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, Muskogee, Creek Nation, Indian Territory, was organized in 1883. This auxiliary was part of the Second District of Indian Territory.
Subject (Geographic):
Indian Territory, Muskogee (Okla.), and Oklahoma
Subject (Name):
Brasel, Jennie, Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (Muskogee, Indian Territory), and Woman’s Christian Temperance Union of Second District of Indian Territory
Subject (Topic):
Temperance --Indian Territory and Women --Oklahoma --Muskogee --Societies and clubs
Mounted clippings from the Pittsburgh Daily Dispatch and one short report each from two other small newspapers describing an overland journey beginning in 1852 and life in Washington Territory, through Allen's return to New Orleans in March of 1855. Also included are missing sections of the manuscript that were published later in 1858 by the Pittsburgh Daily Dispatch.
Alternative Title:
Eddie’s letters
Description:
Cover title: Eddie’s letters., Page numbers have been added in pencil at bottom., Title from spine., and With the exception of pages 2-43 and 45-46, all remaining pages in journal are blank.
Subject (Geographic):
Black Hills (S.D. and Wyo.), Chimney Rock (Neb.), Council Bluffs (Iowa), Fort Boise (Idaho), Fort Hall (Idaho), Fort Laramie (Wyo.), Fort Walla Walla (Wash.), Fort Washita (Okla.), Great Plains, Idaho, Independence Rock (Wyo.), Iowa, Nebraska, New Orleans (La.) --1850-1860, Nisqually River Valley (Wash.), Oklahoma, Olympia (Wash.), Oregon, Oregon City (Or.), Platte County (Wyo.), Portland (Or.), Puget Sound (Wash.), Rocky Mountains, Scotts Bluff County (Neb.), United States --Territorial expansion, Washington (State), White River Valley (Wash.), and Wyoming
Subject (Name):
Cayuse Indians, Foster, J. Heron, Nez Perce Indians, Oregon National Historic Trail, Pawnee Indians, and Shoshoni Indians
Subject (Topic):
Ferries, Frontier and pioneer life, Horse trading, Indians of North America --1840-1860, Natural resources, Overland journeys to the Pacific, and Wagon trains