Patent Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations to William E. Brown...Town of Purcell, Indian Ter., Chickasaw Nation [printed title completed in manuscript] de [Oklahoma Indian Lands] - 1908

Purcell, Ok, 1908. Very good.. [1]p., docketed on verso. Folio. Old folds, light wear and soiling. Printed form completed in typescript and manuscript granting William E. Brown seven parcels of land in Purcell, Oklahoma, on the Chickasaw Nation for the sum of $105. It is signed by Green McCurtain, Principal Chief of the Choctaw Nation, and by Douglas H. Johnston, Governor of the Chickasaw Nation. Purcell, once bearing the moniker "Queen City of Indian Territory," is located south of Norman and situated on the Canadian River. Interestingly, this document is dated January 28, 1908, about three months after Oklahoma became a state, though the patent still indicates the area as Indian Territory.