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| | Chronicles of Oklahoma |
 | | Joel B. Mayes returned from Texas in the fall of 1865 and settled in what is today Bryan County, Oklahoma, where he remained until late in 1867 when he returned to the Cherokee country and re-engaged in the cattle business, in what is today Mayes County. |
 | | Chief Mayes controlled the situation with remarkable tact, business judgment, and integrity, and the lease was renewed to the association, late in December, 1888, for another five years but at an annual rental of $200,000 which was twice the annual rental paid under the original lease. |
 | | Young Mayes attended the tribal schools and at the age of sixteen entered the Confederate army, in the Civil War as a private in Company K, under Capt. Benjamin F. Carter and in the 2nd Cherokee Regiment under Col. Clem Vann, and served intermittently until the war was concluded. |
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