DEATH OF INDIAN HISTORIAN
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Thomas Sr., Warrior of Note,
Dies at Pawhuska
Guthrie, Okla - The death is announced of Thomas Mosler, Sr., aged 68, Osage Indian tribal historian, interpreter, compiler of citizenship rolls and soldier.
He served in the Union Army during the Civil War with distinction as soldier and scout and was a hero of several Indian wars.
He had recently completed an Indian dictionary, preserving the Indian words for prominent cities, rivers, Indian tribes, calendar months, seasons, and days of the week.
He completed also a list of the mixed blood Osages who fought in the Union and Confederate armies.
Mosler, with many of his tribe, belonged to the Ninth Kansas Volunteer Cavalry.
(Published in The Lamont Valley News, February 8, 1912.)
[Reference: Page 566, TRIBUTES OF BLUE, by Pearcy and Talkington, 1996.]
DEATH OF INDIAN HISTORIAN
_________________________
Thomas Sr., Warrior of Note,
Dies at Pawhuska
Guthrie, Okla - The death is announced of Thomas Mosler, Sr., aged 68, Osage Indian tribal historian, interpreter, compiler of citizenship rolls and soldier.
He served in the Union Army during the Civil War with distinction as soldier and scout and was a hero of several Indian wars.
He had recently completed an Indian dictionary, preserving the Indian words for prominent cities, rivers, Indian tribes, calendar months, seasons, and days of the week.
He completed also a list of the mixed blood Osages who fought in the Union and Confederate armies.
Mosler, with many of his tribe, belonged to the Ninth Kansas Volunteer Cavalry.
(Published in The Lamont Valley News, February 8, 1912.)
[Reference: Page 566, TRIBUTES OF BLUE, by Pearcy and Talkington, 1996.]
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