Series VIII: Expenses

Series

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Collection: Collection contains papers and other material related to court cases involving the Kiowa-Comanche and Apache Tribes (bulk ca. 1947-1974) for which Mr. Thompson was the attorney in Washington, D. C. Also included is Mr. Thompson's personal library.

Dates

ca. 1850s-2005

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research use. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the Oklahoma Open Records Act (http://www.odl.state.ok.us/lawinfo/docs/2006-LibraryLaws-PartE.pdf), and other relevant regulations. Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which Oklahoma State University Libraries assumes no responsibility.

Extent

From the Collection: 106 Linear feet ((16 record center cartons, 4 legal document boxes, 6 letter document boxes, 1 legal half-size document box, 3 flat boxes, 1 card box, 221 book boxes).)

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Arrangement

Thompson’s materials have been arranged in series based on how he stored the documents or provenance. That is, they are arranged by the dockets as well as series such as “settlement” and “expenses” which were the headings Thompson used to label boxes of material. Published proceedings and transcripts were separated out in order to give researchers easier access to the chronological flow of the trials. The miscellaneous notes were kept in the order Thompson utilized to facilitate his own work on the case, thus they were generally not in chronological or alphabetical order.