Thank you Frankie for your help on where to find information on the life of Peter Pitchlynn you have been most helpful. Peace and Love, Slimey ========original message============== From: Taloah@aol.com Date: Sat, Apr 8, 2000, 6:30pm (CDT+1) -------snip---- I can probably find a reference in time. For Pitchlyn descendants the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, OK having an extensive collection of Peter P. Pitchlyn papers. They are very delicate and you use them with white gloves on, under the watchful eye of the archivist/curator (The copy of the first Choctaw Constitution, June 1834, is there, drafted at Turnbull's (Anthony's married to Hannah Long) stand where the Kiamichi River crosses Horse Prairie Road)...Like about 14' feet of library shelving. There are many letters between he and his father, Old John. There are some of the most wonderfully poignant and passionate protestations of the old man trying to get Peter to come back "home." He just couldn't understand why Peter wanted to stay in that "sickly Red River territory." He never gave up and Peter never went back. Someone should probably write a historical musical about Peter Pitchlyn's life. There is such a wealth of material. Frankie James