Jun 05, 2008 - Sale 2148

Sale 2148 - Lot 6

Price Realized: $ 360
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
(AMERICAN INDIANS.) Cherokee Advocate. Broadsheet newspaper, 4 pages on one leaf; torn with loss of 180x120-mm section of front page including text, soiled; signature of early owner A.D. Hitchcock on top of front page. Tahlequah, Cherokee Nation, 16 December 1847

Additional Details

On the third page, almost 4 columns and part of an advertisement are printed in the Cherokee script. Local advertisements and news include a farewell to a Mormon family who had just left Cherokee territory, and a notice seeking the capture of persons who had destroyed the papers of the Supreme Court of the Cherokee Nation.