Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 72, Number 2, Summer 1994
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Oklahoma City's First Mass Transit System: Who Brought the Streetcars for People to Ride? (Article)
Article describes the history and development of the electric railway system in Oklahoma City, including the involvement of major companies in the streetcar franchise. Kim K. Bender describes some of the successes as well as failures the system experienced as Oklahoma City continued to expand.
Oklahoma City's First Mass Transit System: Who Brought the Streetcars for People to Ride? - ark:/67531/metadc2031729
On Our Way to the Promised Land: Black Migration from Arkansas to Oklahoma, 1889-1893 (Article)
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First Sooner Senator: Ernest W. McFarland's Oklahoma Years, 1894-1919 (Article)
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Lu tsa ka Le Ah ke ho "Can't Go Beyond": Alloting the Osage Reservation, 1906-1909 (Article)
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For the Record, Summer 1994 (Article)
For the Record section including the minutes of the quarterly board meeting of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society that was held on January 26, 1994.
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Notes and Documents, Summer 1994 (Article)
Notes and Documents column including a document honoring William Parker Campbell, a founder of the Oklahoma Historical Society who was inducted into the annual Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame in 1994.
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Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 72, Number 2, Summer 1994, periodical, Summer 1994; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1872491/: accessed May 24, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.