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First Exploration of the Head-Waters of Red River

Description: Article is a short narrative about the author's experiences as a child growing up within Greer County when the states of Texas and Oklahoma were fighting over its ownership.
Date: Summer 1929
Creator: Phipps, B. L.

Greer County

Description: Article documents the creation of Greer county within the Oklahoma Territory and the disputes between various governing bodies over its ownership.
Date: Summer 1934
Creator: Estill-Harbour, Emma

Greer County Pioneers Organize

Description: Article announces the meeting of the Old Greer County Pioneers, a group of individuals who were residing within Greer county when the boundary between Oklahoma and Texas was finalized.
Date: Autumn 1933
Creator: Dickerson, Argus

Money Matters: The Stamp Scrip Movement in Depression-Era Oklahoma

Description: Article expanding on the previous 2004 article on Oklahoma's reaction to the depression era banking crisis of early 1933. In this article, Gatch ties the origin of the scrip movement to the writings of Yale University's professor Irving Fisher and traces the implementation of scrip schemes in nearly three dozen Oklahoma towns and explains the reasons for scrip's early success and rapid demise.
Date: Autumn 2006
Creator: Gatch, Loren C.

Oklahoma's Air Ace: William T. Ponder and World War I

Description: This article chronicles William T. Ponder's training and testing in battle against the backdrop of World War I aviation history. Ponder served with the French Aviation Service as part of the Lafayette Flying Corps and the U.S. Air Service where he became Oklahoma's first aviation war hero.
Date: Summer 2008
Creator: Moore, Bill

Old Greer County

Description: Article describes the journey of the E. M. DeBerry family from Texas to Old Greer County and their life on the frontier. Author Annie Laurie Steele includes an account by her aunt, Miss Rosabel DeBerry, about hunting, cooking, taking care of livestock, and housing visitors in their pioneer home.
Date: Spring 1964
Creator: Steele, Annie Laurie

My Pioneer Home in Old Greer County

Description: Article describes the author's experiences traveling to and growing up in old Greer County. Laressa Cox McBurney describes the wagon journey, the type of pioneer home they had, neighbors, mail, and school on the frontier.
Date: Spring 1964
Creator: McBurney, Laressa Cox

A Pioneer Family in Old Greer County

Description: Article discusses the life of the Chitwood family on the Oklahoma frontier in Greer County. Adelia Clifton's adapted version of Maggie Chitwood Kilpatrick's manuscript includes stories cattle herding, conditions in the dugout house they lived in, and early education.
Date: Summer 1961
Creator: Clifton, Adelia

A Military Burial at Lake Altus

Description: Article provides a detailed account of the discovery and excavation of a military burial at Lake Altus. James B. Shaeffer explores the investigation of artifacts and remains that determined the skeleton to belong to a United States army soldier, and how that investigation is ongoning.
Date: Winter 1958
Creator: Shaeffer, James B.

Altus on the Hill Above Frazer in Old Greer County

Description: Article provides context to the recollections of the author's grandmother, Mrs. M. E. Rogers, who was a survivor of the flood at Frazer in Old Greer County that resulted in the founding of Altus, Oklahoma.
Date: Winter 1962
Creator: Shelton, Barbara Kay

"Print the News and Raise Hell": The Territorial Editors of Altus

Description: Article explores the history of fiery journalism in the careers of newspaper editors in Altus, Oklahoma, in the territorial period. Leo Kelley highlights some of the political issues the various newspapers debated and the way their editors clashed with each other.
Date: Autumn 1987
Creator: Kelley, Leo
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