Skullyville, Oklahoma – Tuesday 23 March 1847

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On that spring day, as Major William Armstrong surveyed those who had gathered in the small timber agency where he lived, he must have experienced mixed emotions. For one thing, the meeting had been summoned to raise money for “the relief of the starving poor of Ireland”, the birthplace of his own father.


What the Irish did for – and to – the Choctaw tribe

 

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There was no Oklahoma in 1847.