The World's Richest Indian
Subtitle: The Scandal over Jackson Barnett's Oil Fortune
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: September 9, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780195162332
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; American history: from c 1900 -; Biography: historical; Biography: political; Indigenous peoples; POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; 20th century; Biography / Autobiography; Law; Oklahoma; USA; Native American; Native Americans; Rich & Famous; Arbitration, Negotiation, Mediation; 1856-1934; Barnett, Jackson,; Biography; Creek Indians; Government relations; Indians of North America; Legal status, laws, etc
First sentence: Traveling through the Creek nation on his way to Edward's Trading Post on the Canadian River in early February 1842, Ethan Allen Hitchcock beheld from the summit of a hill a most breathtakingly beautiful prairie, timbered hills, and valleys.