[Native American / Oil / Mining / Oklahoma].
Sale No. 121 ... Public Auction. Osage Mineral Leases. 206 Oil Leases and 4 Gas Leases. Wednesday, October 15, 1958.
Regular price
$125.00
Pawhuska, Oklahoma: Department of the Interior, Osage Indian Agency, 1958. 8-1/2 x 5-1/2 inches. [8]pp including wrappers. Stapled self-wrappers printed in black, b&w illustration to front wrapper. Front wrapper toned; corner creased. Very Good.
Postmarked auction catalog for oil and gas leases on Osage tribal land. Such auctions were a regular occurrence, dating back until at least the 1920s, and regular netted millions of dollars for the Osage tribe. Nevertheless, these auction catalogs appear to be quite scarce, with only one, from 1921, located in OCLC.