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Sale 76
Manuscript Sale
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Lot 157 |
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Choctaw & Chickasaw Nations Allottment Patent. Partly-printed document signed by Green McCurtain, Principal Chief of the Chocteau Nation, on Dec. 13, 1905, and by Douglas H. Johnston, Governor of the Chickasaw Nation, on Dec. 28, 1905. Countersigned by U. S. Secretary of the Interior Ethan A. Hitchcock. The document allots 160 acres to Andrew C. Bullard, "Choctaw by intermarriage." With bright orange seals of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations at lower left. Docketed and recored on Mar. 17, 1906, and again in Haskell County, Oklahoma, July 21, 1908 (Oklahoma became a state on Nov. 16, 1907). Age toning, else fine. Estimated Value $150 - 200
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$150 |
Lot 158 |
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Earp, Josephine (1861-1944) Common-law wife of famed lawman Wyatt Earp (1848-1929). Photograph of a distinguished-looking older Wyatt Earp, inscribed and signed on the verso by Josephine: "To Chester Detrich / If Wyatt were here nothing would make him more happy than I give you this picture. Josephine Earp." With small 1¾ x 2¾ in. photos of Wyatt and Josephine in their old age. The pair were together from 1882 until Wyatt's death in 1929. Estimated Value $500 - 750
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$960 |
Lot 159 |
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Oakley, Annie (1860-1926) Celebrated American markswoman, star of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show (1885-1902). Pencil signature on a 3½" x 1½ in. slip of paper. Estimated Value $1,500 - 2,000
From the collection of P. W. Philby of the Johns Hopkins University Library.
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