4,239 Matching Results

Search Results

Results: 1 - 24 next

Notes and Documents, Summer 2002

Description: Notes and Documents column including a document honoring Annie Heloise Abel, who was inducted into the Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame in 2002. It also includes an article about Thomas P. Stafford, an astronaut from Oklahoma who participated in the space race of the 1960s.
Date: Summer 2002
Creator: Armstrong, Connie G. & Moore, Bill
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Judge John Martin: His Origins, His Paternity

Description: Article examines the origins and paternity of John Martin, first chief justice of the first supreme court ever instituted in the Cherokee Nation. Patricia Lockwood, a descendant of John Martin, highlights the need for the recovery of historical records relating to the Cherokee Nation and acknowledgement of their distortion.
Date: Summer 2002
Creator: Lockwood, Patricia W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

"Klanspiracy" or Despotism?: The Rise and fall of Governor Jack Walton, featuring W. D. McBee

Description: Article details the life and political career of Oklahoma governor John C. "Jack" Walton. Brad L. Duren discusses the factors that led to his impeachment, including his frequent clashes with the Ku Klux Klan, despotic political actions, and conflict with his biggest critic on the Oklahoma state legislature, W. D. McBee.
Date: Winter 2002
Creator: Duren, Brad L.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Pepper Martin: The Wild Horse of the Osage

Description: Article describes the life and career of John Leonard Roosevelt "Pepper" Martin, the Oklahoman baseball player known as the Wild Horse of the Osage. Joe D. Haines, Jr. describes the player's successes as a member of the Hominy Indians Professional Football Club and the St. Louis Cardinals, also delving into his personality and antics on and off the field.
Date: Winter 2002
Creator: Haines, Joe D., Jr.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Bygone Spas: The Rise and Decay of Oklahoma's Radium Water

Description: Article describes the development of the radium water industry in northeastern Oklahoma. Marjorie Malley details the origins of the water's popularity and the growth of the industry through bathhouses and bottled water, as well as the twists and turns the myth behind it underwent throughout the early 20th century.
Date: Winter 2002
Creator: Malley, Marjorie
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Canvas and Caissons: Early Aviation at Fort Sill, 1914-1939

Description: Article describes the history of training, field testing, and development orchestrated by the United States Aeronautics Corps at Henry Post Field in Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Stacy Webb Reaves provides a more detailed look into the operations of the Corps, including their involvement in World War I.
Date: Autumn 2002
Creator: Reaves, Stacy Webb
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

"If It Rains": Life in the Oklahoma Panhandle in the 1930s and 1940s

Description: Article centers around the difficulties the Oklahoma Panhandle residents faced in the 1930s and the practices they developed to cope with them. Richard Lowitt focuses on developments in land use when the people living in the Southern Great Plains suffered depression, drought, and dust storms in a previously prosperous area.
Date: Spring 2002
Creator: Lowitt, Richard, 1922-2018
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
Back to Top of Screen