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"No Home on the Range": The Miller Family's Great Swindle of Indian Lands

Description: Article describes the unfair methods the Miller Family, owners of the 101 Ranch, employed to acquire land in the Cherokee Outlet from the Western Cherokee Indians who had received it from the United States government in 1928. Jo L. Wetherilt Behrens recounts the details of the various schemes and ruses the Millers employed to take advantage of their neighboring tribes.
Date: Summer 2004
Creator: Behrens, Jo Lea Wetherilt
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1404.0556]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Leader of a communist group in Oklahoma City last year J.I. Whidden, who was run out of Blackwell Friday by a group of men, was arrested here for inciting a riot after a raid on a grocery store by unemployed."
Date: June 19, 1932
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1410.0158]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Clarence, Chris, Jr. and Don, triplets of Mr. and Mrs. D. Chris Williams of Ponca City, Okla."
Date: August 12, 1932
Creator: Oklahoma Publishing Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0376.0496]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The petunia is the poor man's flower and the rich man's perfume and color," declares Mrs. Frank B. Lucas, Ponca City club woman and ardent gardener."
Date: August 7, 1932
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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