Robb W. Moore collection, 1869-1969.

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Robb W. Moore collection, 1869-1969.

Ledger book including Indian land allotments; architectural drawings, contracts, correspondence, photographs, interviews, and a brief history relating to the Fort Sill Indian School and the girls dorm; maps, one signed by Willis Drummond, Indian commissioner; prints by Frederic Remington; reproductions from Harper's Weekly (1889); and other materials.

1 folder.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8064014

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Fort Sill Indian Boarding School

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First established as a Quaker boarding school in 1871, the Fort Sill Indian School became a nonsectarian institution in 1891 and remained so until closing in 1980. During its long history the school expanded from one building to thirty. Its enrollment increased from twenty-four in its first year to more than three hundred in the 1970s, and the number of employees on its payroll went from two in 1871 to more than seventy-five a decade later. Because the school was located near Lawton, before Worl...

Drummond, Willis, 1808-1879

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Willis Drummond was Commissioner of the General Land Office, United States Department of the Interior, during the 1870s. The General Land Office was established as part of the United States Treasury Department in 1812. In 1849, it was transferred to the Deptartment of the Interior. In 1946, the General Land Office and the Grazing Service were consolidated to form the Bureau of Land Management. From the description of Willis Drummond letter relating to revisio...

Moore, Robb W.

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Architect, of Oklahoma City, Okla.. From the description of Robb W. Moore collection, 1869-1969. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70975568 ...

Remington, Frederic, 1861-1909

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Frederic Remington was born October 4, 1861 in Canton, New York. He was educated at the Vermont Episcopal Institute and attended Yale University. He worked as a cowboy, scout, and ran a sheep and mule ranch in the west. He married Eva Caten on October 1, 1884. Remington was a painter, sculptor and illustrator of Indians, cowbnoys and the American soldier at war. His travels took him to Germany, Russia, North Africa, Cuba and all over North America. Frederic Remington died December 26, 1909 in Ne...