Murray's Essays on Pocahontas and Pushmataha. Historical and Biographical With Copious Notes on Oklahoma History Ardmore, Oklahoma: Paine Printing Company, 1924.
First edition.
Octavo. [iv], [xii], 115 pp., with two black and white portraits. Publisher's full green cloth, front cover lettered in gilt. Gift inscription to front flyleaf dated 1924. Some rubbing to extremities, text-block professionally recased, damp-staining and some discoloration to endpapers. Still a very good copy.
First edition of this scarce work on renowned Native Americans Pocahontas and 'General' Pushmataha.
William Henry "Alfalfa Bill" Murray (1869 – 1956) was an American politician and author from Oklahoma. Murray was the first Speaker of the Oklahoma House of Representatives, U.S. Representative, and the ninth Governor of Oklahoma. Murray's legacy of political commitment was passed on to his son, Johnston Murray, who became Oklahoma's fourteenth governor in 1951.
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