Chapter 3: Elias C. Boudinot, footnote 21, page 139 RL3 fn. 21 p. 139 Tags: Histories and Biographies, Politics, Indians Hodges, "Colonel E.C. Boudinot and His Influence on Oklahoma History." For lobbying, Argument of Col. E.C. Boudinot before the Committee on Territories, Jan. 29, 1878. For Boudinot, railroads and attempt to organize the territory, Tom Holm, "Indian Lobbyists: Cherokee Opposition to the Allotment of Tribal Lands," American Indian Quarterly 5 (May 1979), 116-18. Parins, Boudinot, 216-17.