Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 58, Number 1, Spring 1980
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Comanche Killer or Commentator? Captain Marcy the Ethnographer (Article)
Article examines the life and military career of Captain Randolph B. Marcy of the Fifth Infantry, who served as both a soldier and ethnographer in his observance of the Comanche people. Cliff Trafzer explores insights about the Comanches from the man himself, as well as societal attitudes surrounding Native American tribes and Anglo-American settlers in the 1850s.
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Three Ring Circus: The Zack Miller-Tom Mix Lawsuits, 1929-1934 (Article)
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Three Ring Circus: The Zack Miller-Tom Mix Lawsuits, 1929-1934 - ark:/67531/metadc2031354
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William C. Canterbury and the First Year of the OEA (Article)
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Notes and Documents, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 58, Number 1, Spring 1980 (Article)
Notes and Documents section for Volume 58, Number 1, Spring 1980. It includes a letter from 1905 edited by H. Roger Grant describing the state of Oklahoma and Indian Territory in the early 1900s, and a list of policies noting the reorganization of the Oklahoma Historical Society library by Vicki Sullivan.
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Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 58, Number 1, Spring 1980, periodical, Spring 1980; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1752289/: accessed March 10, 2026), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.