Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 36, Number 2, Summer 1958
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Memories of the Indian Territory Mission Field (Article)
Article describes the author's personal experiences as a student and teacher in Indian Territory. Lilah Denton Lindsey explores her own experience in the mission field as well as those she worked with. Included is an excerpt of a story told to her by Dr. R. M. Loughridge about early mission work in the area.
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Wyandotte Mission: The Early Years, 1871-1900 (Article)
Article discusses the history of the Wyandotte Mission from 1871 to 1900. A. M. Gibson describes the establishment of the mission school, the curriculum offered there, and the communities it served to educate and provide religious services to.
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Saddle Mountain Mission and Church (Article)
Article discusses the story of Miss Isabel Crawford, a Baptist missionary who took up work ministering to the Kiowas at the Saddle Mountain Mission and Church. Hugh D. Corwin provides context to her journey and includes excepts of Crawford's account of her life there.
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Old Osage Customs Die with the Last Pah-hue-skah (Article)
Article discusses the history of the "White Hair" or Pah-hue-skah family lineage of the Osage from the Louisiana Purchase to the period of removal. Frank F. Finney explores the chiefs of this family and the ways they retained Osage traditions throughout history.
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New Officers of the Historical Society (Article)
Article provides biographical information about the new officers of the Oklahoma Historical Society and states their new titles. Colonel George H. Shirk has been elected new President of the OHS, H. Milt Phillips in the first Vice President of the OHS, and Mrs. Edna Bowman is the new Treasurer.
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Official Minutes of the Annual and Quarterly Meetings of the Oklahoma Historical Society, April 24, 1958 (Article)
This includes the minutes of the annual and quarterly meetings of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society that were both held on April 24, 1958.
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A Walking Tour in the Indian Territory, 1874 (Article)
Article includes an account published in the Cherokee Advocate by Claiborne Addison Young of a walking tour of Indian Territory, which included descriptions of the prairie and the people living there, visits to the Wyandotte Mission, the Cherokee National Female Seminary at Park Hill, and the Cherokee Orphan Asylum.
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Resolution on General William S. Key (Article)
This article provides a resolution honoring the contributions of William S. Key, President of the Oklahoma Historical Society, as he leaves his position. The Board of Directors attests to his dedicated work in the past ten years of affiliation with the OHS.
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American Indian Corn Dishes (Article)
Article provides an overview of the corn dishes of the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Cherokee, Creek, Seminole, and Quapaw tribes. Muriel H. Wright includes an introduction to the background of corn dishes among the tribes and a description of the basic dish, Hominy, popular among many of them.
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Notes and Documents, Summer 1958 (Article)
Notes and Documents column including documents about the dedication of a bust of Robert Lee Williams, the OHS annual tour, the history of the Oklahoma Panhandle, the establishment of Boggy Depot State Park, the history of St. John's Mission in Prairie City, the history of Sivler City on the Chisholm Trail, a correction, and Oklahoma historical markers.
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Necrology, Summer 1958 (Article)
Column documenting biographical information about Oklahomans who have died; this issue discusses educator and former Secretary of the State Board of Education George Clair Wells.
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Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 36, Number 2, Summer 1958, periodical, Summer 1958; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1796163/: accessed June 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.