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[Photograph 2012.201.B1337.0144]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A brief shower brings a bit of welcome cooling to Spec. 4 Willen VanDenBorn an MP in the 445th MP Company, 45th MP Battalion of the Oklahoma Army National Guard."
Date: July 29, 1972
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1271.0104]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Straight from the horse's mouth comes the latest gossip for party guests, left to right, Ronnie Schleiff, Fort Smith, Arkansas; Nancy Coates, Marylyn Taber and Sharon Hays, Fort Smith."
Date: July 11, 1966
Creator: Brown, Don
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1259.0367]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Brassy bundle of trophies was carried off Saturday by Capt. Ray Standifer, Midwest City, commander of El Reno's Battery C, 1st Battalion, 160th Artillery, at the Governor's Day Review at Fort Chaffee, Ark. The unit was awarded the Eisenhower Trophy, right, as top unit in the Okla. Army Nat. Guard, and the Fourth Army Maintenance Award."
Date: August 18, 1968
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0935.0914]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Not taking any chances was lieutenant governor, George P. Nigh, when he made sure there were no Oklahoma voters on the field during the firing of an M60 machine gun at Fort Chaffee, Ark."
Date: August 1, 1960
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Letters of Henry M. Rector and J. R. Kannaday to John Ross of the Cherokee Nation

Description: Article includes and discusses correspondence between Henry M. Rector, Governor of Arkansas, Lieutenant Colonel J. R. Kannady, and Chief John Ross of the Cherokee Nation. Harry J. Lemley explores Ross's efforts to remain neutral as both Confederate leaders sought to ally with Cherokee Nation during the Civil War.
Date: Autumn 1964
Creator: Lemley, Harry J.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Marking the Butterfield: Retracing the Indian Territory Segment of the 1858-61 Butterfield Overland Mail Stagecoach Road

Description: In 2018 the National Park Service recommended that the Butterfield Overland Mail Stagecoach Road be designated a National Historic Trail. Sixty years earlier, OHS staff marked this important trade and transit route with historical markers. This article retraces the road, describing the landmarks as they appeared on the 1958 trek as well as their present conditions.
Date: Spring 2019
Creator: Dragoo, Susan Penn
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Kansas City & Southern (KCS) 361

Description: A photograph print showing the Kansas City & Southern (KCS) 361, 4-6-0, on a local passenger train, "at the Frisco-KCS depot in Ft. Smith, ARK. The tracks stub ended at the depot ahead of the engine. This train made two round trips daily to Spiro, Okla. to give Fort Smith a connection with the KCS mainline trains at Spiro. Most of the branch was in Oklahoma and ran through Braden Bottoms which were undercut by the Arkansas River about 1944. This line was abandoned and KCS got trackage rights ov… more
Date: Summer 1935
Creator: George, Preston
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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