Notes and Documents section for Volume 39, Number 3, Fall 1961. It includes a document about the publication of a cumulative index for The Chronicles of Oklahoma, and a story about the name of Oklahoma, which is derived from the Choctaw words for "red people."
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Notes and Documents section for Volume 39, Number 3, Fall 1961. It includes a document about the publication of a cumulative index for The Chronicles of Oklahoma, and a story about the name of Oklahoma, which is derived from the Choctaw words for "red people."
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Wright, Muriel H. (Muriel Hazel), 1889-1975.Notes and Documents, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 39, Number 3, Fall 1961,
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