PREFACE.This humble effort is attempted for the purpose of perpetuating someof the facts relative to the Cherokee tribe, that might otherwise be lost. Theobject has been to make it as near a personal history and biography of asmany Cherokees as possible.Without the assistance of the magnanimous, wholesoul membership ofthe nation, the work would not have been possible and for that reason 1 wishto thank each and every member, for their hearty collaboration and expressmy regret that the work has not the merit with which many others might haveinvested it.Emmet Starr.Claremore, Okla.December 12, 1921Great old photographs and portraits.