1922 OSAGE INDIAN Oil Drilling Stock Certificate Pittsburgh Drilling Company For Sale

1922 OSAGE INDIAN Oil Drilling Stock Certificate Pittsburgh Drilling Company 1922 OSAGE INDIAN Oil Drilling Stock Certificate Pittsburgh Drilling Company

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1922 OSAGE INDIAN Interest
Pittsburgh-Osage Drilling Company TRUST Certificate. Authentic and Original. SIGNED. County Clerk, Osage County, Oklahoma.
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*Signed by AJ Vanderpoel

 

History OSAGE INDIAN Reservation- "Early on when - in the early 20th century, there was just a little bit of oil. And the Osage would receive a check every four months. Initially it was for maybe $100, and then it grew to 1,000. But then it continually grew. And by the 1920s, the Osage collectively had accumulated millions and millions of dollars. In 1923 alone, the Osage received what today would be worth more than $400 million. They had become the wealthiest people per capita in the world.

The public - the whites not just in Oklahoma but across the United States were transfixed by the Osage wealth which belied images of Native Americans that could be traced back to the first brutal contact with whites. And reporters would go out and describe how they lived in these terra-cotta mansions, how they had chauffeured cars, how they had servants, some of whom were white. It was said at the time whereas as one American might own a car, each Osage owned 11 cars. The press referred to them as, quote, unquote, "the red millionaires and the plutocratic Osage." There was a great deal of both envy and prejudice and eventually outrage. And eventually, the whites tried to find ways to get their own hands upon this money."

 

 

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