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Our Place: The One-Hundred-Year-Old Family Farm

Description: This article analyzes several oral history interviews with families who own Centennial Farms and Ranches in Oklahoma. The Centennial Farm and Ranch Program began in 1989 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Land Run of 1889. With an aim to record Oklahoma's agricultural history, librarians with the Oklahoma Oral History Research Program developed the Oklahoma Centennial Farm Families oral history project in collaboration with the Oklahoma Historical Society in 2008.
Date: Autumn 2014
Creator: Finchum, Tanya D. & Nykolaiszyn, Juliana
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The Dust Bowl: The Blame Game, the Facts, the Problem that Remains

Description: Article investigates film and literature that provides coverage of the Dust Bowl, including the debate over factors that contributed to the creation of the disaster. Alvin O. Turner disagrees with those who argue it was caused by farming practices, stating that there is no evidence to support the connection.
Date: Spring 2014
Creator: Turner, Alvin O.
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Harnessing Nature: Flood Control in Oklahoma

Description: Article describes the development of flood control structures in Oklahoma. It presents a brief overview of the history, importance, and benefits of small watershed dams; highlights three small watershed dams in Logan County; and demonstrates how the watershed dams have benefited Oklahoma.
Date: Summer 2014
Creator: Mundende, Darlington Chongo
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Corrections, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 92, Number 1, Spring 2014

Description: Corrections section from Volume 92, Number 1, Spring 2014. It includes corrections to photograph captions in Michael Molina's "Red Panic: The Drumright Telephone Operator's Strike of 1919," (Volume 91, Number 3, Fall 2013). It also includes a correction to an endnote in Jeff Spelman's "Governor Lee Cruce and the Creation of the Office of County Assessor: A Hundred Year Retrospective" (Volume 91, Number 4, Winter 2013-2014).
Date: Spring 2014
Creator: Molina, Michael; Spelman, Jeff & Bass, Elizabeth M. B.
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Corrections, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 92, Number 3, Fall 2014

Description: Correction section from Volume 92, Number 3, Fall 2014. It includes two corrections to Volume 92, Number 2, Summer 2014. The spine of Volume 92 Number 2 erroneously lists the issue as the winter issue. In "Oklahoma in James Bryce's The American Commonwealth," the editor should be listed as Davis Joyce in endnote 68.
Date: Autumn 2014
Creator: Taylor, Quentin & Bass, Elizabeth M. B.
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"One Who Was Trusted": E. L. Mitchell of Western Oklahoma, Part Two

Description: Article describes the life and career of E. L. Mitchell, well-known newspaper editor, publisher, politician, and public speaker. In the second part of a two-part article, Paul F. Lambert provides details about the man's own views, particularly his Democratic political campaigns, and his impact on the community.
Date: Winter 2014
Creator: Lambert, Paul F.
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Building and Promoting Their Place: The Clegerns of ‘89

Description: Article discusses the Clegern family and sheds light on a crucial time in the growth of three different Oklahoma cities. William Clegern and his son, Harry, were entrepreneurs who found opportunity in the 1889 Land Run. In addition, they influenced the development of Oklahoma City, Edmond, and Henryetta.
Date: Spring 2014
Creator: Clegern, Wayne M.
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