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Letters of Cassandra Sawyer Lockwood: Dwight Mission, 1834 (open access)

Letters of Cassandra Sawyer Lockwood: Dwight Mission, 1834

Article introduces a series of letters by Cassandra Sawyer Lockwood about her journey into the Cherokee Nation and her life at Dwight Mission, where she lived and worked with her husband, Jesse Lockwood. Joseph B. Thoburn provides historical context to the group of Western Cherokees they worked with and to the personal account written by Mrs. Lockwood.
Date: Summer 1955
Creator: Thoburn, Joseph B. & Lockwood, Cassandra Sawyer
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History