A Naturalist in Indian Territory. The Journals of S. W. Woodhouse, 1849-50.

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992 Book. Very fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition. Edited and Annotated by John S. Tomer and Michael J. Brodhead. Pp. xv, [1], 304. 26 illustrations from old prints, photographs, reproductions; 4 maps. Notes, bibliography, index. Tan mottled boards. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. Norman: First edition. In 1849, Samuel Washington Woodhouse, a young physician and avid ornithologist, was appointed surgeon-naturalist of two expeditions to survey the Creek-Cherokee boundary in Indian Territory. Woodhouse served in both expeditions of the survey, the first in 1849 under Capt. Sitgreaves and the second under Lt. Israel Carle Woodruff in 1850. Woodhouse's three diaries provide a valuable record of early Indian Territory personalities as well as an early view of Oklahoma wildlife. .