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Section 4: Biography.....
This section contains biographical material on Creeks. Biographies of
others who were important in Creek history, e. g. Benjamin Hawkins, are
listed as "Secondary Sources."
Part I. Individuals and Families --- Part II. Collective Biography
Spelling of names differs greatly from one source or reference to another! Check carefully for variants.
Deskins, Earl. "Acee Blue Eagle and His Native Art." Design, v. 41, no. 8 (April 1941), pp. 8-10, 22.
Kelly, Michael. "Acee Blue Eagle: Native American Artist and Much More.". An article which was published in Collector Glass News, issue 13 (1991) and was later reprinted in Antique Trader [citation n. a.]. A detailed biographical account, in this newsletter because the artist's work appeared on some decorated glasses. Internet at: http://www.glassnews.com/acee.htm .
Foreman, Carolyn T. "Samuel William Brown Jr." Chronicles of Oklahoma, v. 37 (1959/60), pp. 492-495.
Russell, Orpha B. "Notes on Samuel William Brown Jr., Yuchi Chief." Chronicles of Oklahoma, v. 37 (1959/60), pp. 497-501.
Foreman, Carolyn T. "Samuel W. Brown Sr., Chief of the Yuchi Tribe." Chronicles of Oklahoma, v. 37 (1959/60), pp. 485-492. Immediately follows her article on the Yuchi, see Secondary resources.
Russell, Orpha B. "William G. Bruner, Member of the House of Kings, Creek Nation." Chronicles of Oklahoma, v. 30 (1952/53), pp. 397-407.
"S. Alice Callahan, 1868-1894.", an entry in the Native American Authors Project site. Internet at: http://www.ipl.org/div/natam/bin/browse.pl/A68 .
Lambert, O. A. "Historical Sketch of Col. Samuel Checote, Once Chief of the Creek Nation." Chronicles of Oklahoma, v. 4 (1926), pp. 275-80.
"John Davis." IN Muskogee and Northeastern Oklahoma... by John D. Benedict, Chicago, S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1922, v. 1, pp. 177. One paragraph.
"Charles Gibson." IN Muskogee and Northeastern Oklahoma... by John D. Benedict, Chicago, S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1922, v. 1, pp. 499.
Baird, W. David, ed. A Creek Warrior for the Confederacy: the Autobiography of Chief G. W. Grayson. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1988.
"Chief W. G. Grayson, 1843-1920", an entry in the Native American Authors Project site. Internet at: http://www.ipl.org/div/natam/bin/browse.pl/A270 .
"George W. Grayson." IN Muskogee and Northeastern Oklahoma... by John D. Benedict, Chicago, S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1922, v. 1, pp. 496, 499. [3 paragraphs]
"Washington Grayson." IN Muskogee and Northeastern Oklahoma... by John D. Benedict, Chicago, S. J. Clarke Publishing co., 1922, v. 2, pp. 395-397. "Appointed principal chief of the Creek Nation" in 1921.
Davis, Mace. "Chitto Harjo." Chronicles of Oklahoma, v. 13 (1935), pp. 139-45.
Meserve, John B. "The Plea of Crazy Snake (Chitto Harjo.)" Chronicles of Oklahoma, v. 11 (1933), pp. 899-911.
Owsley, Frank L. Jr. "Prophet of War: Josian Francis and the Creek War." American Indian Quarterly: Journal of American Indian Studies, v. 9 (1985), pp. 273-293.
Meserve, John B. "Chief Isparhecher." Chronicles of Oklahoma, v. 10 (1932), pp. 52-76.
King, Jerlena. "Jackson Lewis of the Confederate Creek Regiment." Chronicles of Oklahoma, v. 41 (1963), pp. 66-69.
Misch, Mrs. J. O. "Lilah D. Lindsey." Chronicles of Oklahoma, v. 33 (1955), pp. 193-201.
Caughey, John W. McGillivray of the Creeks. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1938.
Green, Michael D. "Alexander McGillivray." IN American Indian Leaders: Studies in Diversity, ed. R. David Edmunds, pp. 41-63.
O'Donnell, James H. III. "Alexander McGillivray: Training for Leadership, 1777-1783." Georgia Historical Quarterly, v. 49 (1965), pp. 172-86.
Orrmont, Arthur. Diplomat in War Paint: Chief Alexander McGillivray of the Creeks. London: Abelard-Schuman, 1967.
Pickett, Albert J. "McGillivray and the Creeks." Alabama Historical Quarterly, v. 1 (1930).
Whitaker, Arthur P. "Alexander McGillivray." North Carolina Historical Review, v. 5 (1928), pp. 181-203 [1783-1789] and pp. 289-309 [1789-1793].
NOTE: Listed here due to the information on his Creek family.
Cashin, Edward J. Lachlan McGillivray, Indian Trader: The Shaping of the Southern Colonial Frontier. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1992.
Neely, Mary Ann O. "Lachlan McGillivray: A Scot on the Alabama Frontier." Alabama Historical Quarterly, v. 36 (1974), pp. 5-14.
Note: See also McIntosh.
Meserve, John B. "The MacIntoshes." Chronicles of Oklahoma, v. 10 (1932), pp. 310-25.
Bonner, James. "Tustunugee Hutke and Creek Factionalism on the Georgia-Alabama Frontier." Alabama Review, v. 10 (1957), pp. 111-125.
____. "William McIntosh." IN: Georgians in Profile. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1958.
Chapman, George. Chief William McIntosh: A Man of Two Worlds. Atlanta: Cherokee Publishing Co., 1988. Includes a short appendix on his descendants.
Corbin, Harriet Turner. A History and Genealogy of Chief William McIntosh Jr., and His Known Descendants, ed. by Carl C. Burdick. Long Beach, Calif: privately published, no date.
Griffith, Benjamin W. McIntosh and Weatherford, Creek Indian Leaders. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1988.
Scott, Carole E."The McIntosh Reserve" and a link to a short biography of McIntosh. Internet at: http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~cescott/parks/mcintosh.html
Judge Napoleon Bonaparte Moore." IN Muskogee and Northeastern Oklahoma... by John D. Benedict, Chicago, S. J. Clarke Publishing co., 1922, v. 2, pp. 5-10 (with facing portrait). Another sketch containing different details is in v. 1, pp. 181-183 and yet another in v. 1, pp. 288, 291. These biographical sketches include information on both the Moore family and that of his wife, Augusta Robertson. [Other references on the members of the Robertson family (who were not Creek although very prominent in Creek affairs) are in Section 2, Secondary Sources.]
Sauls, Lauren. "Mortar, an 18th-century Leader of the Bear Clan in the Creek Nation, Was Known as the 'Wolf King'". Wild West, v. 11, no. 5, (Feb. 1999), pp. 58-62.
Coulter, E. Merton. "Mary Musgrove, 'Queen of the Creeks: a Chapter of Early Georgia Troubles." Georgia Historical Quarterly, v. 11 (1927), pp. 1-30.
Gillespie, Michele. "The Sexual Politics of Race and Gender: Mary Musgrove and the Georgia Trustees." IN The Devil's Lane: Sex and Race in the Early South, ed. by Catherine Clinton and Michele Gillespie. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997, pp. 187-201.
Irby, Richard E. Jr. "Mary Musgrove, Queen of the Creeks." Internet at: http://ngeorgia.com/people/musgrove.html .
Morris, Michael P. "Mary Musgrove and Nancy Ward", chapter 3 of The Bringing of Wonder: Trade and the Indians of the Southeast, 1700-1783. Westport, Conn.: Greenwoood Press, 1999.
Pack, Beverly L. "Mary Musgrove Matthews Bosomworth (Coosaponakesee)". Short sketch. Internet at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~nwa/musgrove.html .
McBride, Lela J. Opethleyaholo and the Loyal Muscogee: Their Flight to Kansas in the Civil War. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, 2000.
Meserve, John B. "Chief Opothleyhola." Chronicles of Oklahoma, v. 9 (1931), pp. 439-53.
Meserve, John B. "The Perrymans." Chronicles of Oklahoma, v. 15 (1937), pp. 166-84.
Partridge, Reuben L. "Biography of L. C. Perryman, Tulsa, Oklahoma." A collection and transcription of extensive notes on the Perryman family based on the writings of Legust Choteau Perryman. Internet at: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~cmamcrk4/crkst20.html#anchor3058488 .
"General Pleasant Porter." IN Muskogee and Northeastern Oklahoma... by John D. Benedict, Chicago, S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1922, v. 1, pp. 291-292 plus portrait facing p. 288.
Goodwin, Ralph W. "Pleasant Porter, Tribal Statesman." M.A. Thesis (History), University of Oklahoma, 1953.
Meserve, John B. "Chief Pleasant Porter." Chronicles of Oklahoma, v. 9 (1931), pp. 318-34.
"Alex Posey." IN Muskogee and Northeastern Oklahoma... by John D. Benedict, Chicago, S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1922, v. 1, pp. 499-500.
Challacombe, Doris. "Alexander Lawrence Posey" Chronicles of Oklahoma, v. 11 (1933), pp. 1011-18.
Littlefield, Daniel F. Alex Posey--Creek Poet, Journalist and Humorist. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1992.
See also Posey's own Fus Fixico Letters which is listed in the Secondary Sources section of this bibliography.
Foreman, Carolyn Thomas. "A Creek Pioneer: Notes Concerning 'Aunt Sue' Rogers and Her Family." Chronicles of Oklahoma, v. 21 (1943), pp. 271-79.
Sapulpa, William A. "Sapulpa." Chronicles of Oklahoma, v. 4 (1926), pp. 329-32.
"Maxey Simms' Life Story." In Yuchi Tales by Gunter Wagner. Originally published in 1931 as v. 13 of Publications of the American Ethnological Society, this was reprinted in 1974 by AMS Press. Simms was of Yuchi/Creek/white descent and grew up in Indian Territory in the late 19th century. His reminiscences are given in both Yuchi and English. The rest of the text consists of stories told by Simms and others.
Eggleston, George C. Red Eagle and the Wars with the Creek Indians of Alabama. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1878.
Griffith, Benjamin W. McIntosh and Weatherford, Creek Indian Leaders. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1988.
Foreman, Carolyn Thomas. "The White Lieutenant and Some of His Contemporaries." Chronicles of Oklahoma, v. 38 (1960), pp. 425-40.
Gometz, Anne. Creek Indians in World War II. Mostly a list of names, but some detail on individuals. Internet at: http://www.rhus.com/ww2.html.
Heard, J. Norman. Handbook of the American Frontier: Four Centuries of Indian-White Relationships. Volume I. The Southeastern Woodlands. (Native American Resources Series, no. 1.) Metuchen, N. J.: Scarecrow Press, 1987. Short entries on tribes and groups, places such as forts and individuals including Creeks (mostly chiefs). The citations are to very basic works such as Corkran's The Creek Frontier, but the compilation as a whole is a very useful place to start research on a person or to identify someone mentioned in passing.
Hodges, Bert. "Notes on the History of the Creek Nation and Some of Its Leaders." Chronicles of Oklahoma, v. 43 (1965), pp. 9-18.
see Littlefield, Native American Writing in the Southeast in Secondary Sources for seven short biographical sketches.
McKenney, Thomas L. and James T. Hall. History of the Indian Tribes of North America, with Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of the Principal Chiefs, Embellished with One Hundred and Twenty Portraits from the Indian Gallery in the Department of War, at Washington. 3 v. Philadelphia: Frederick W. Greenough, 1838-44. New edition, edited by Frederick W. Hodge. Edinburgh: J. Grant, 1933-44. This compilation is the source of our most familiar pictures of Creek leaders.
Meserve, John B. "Chief Samuel Checote with Sketches of Chiefs Locher Harjo and Ward Coachman." Chronicles of Oklahoma, v. 16 (1938), pp. 401-9.
Owens, Thomas M. "Alabama Indian Chiefs." Alabama Historical Quarterly, v. 13 (1951), pp. 5-91.
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