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Notes and Documents, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 51, Number 4, Winter 1973-74

Description: Notes and Documents section for Volume 51, Number 4, Winter 1973-74. It includes an editor's notes on the minutes schedules, a narrative on the historical significance of persimmons in the country, the first verse of a Civil War poem, a note on the opening of the Jim Thorpe Home, a note on the anniversary of the Battle of Prairie Grove, and a note on the placement of Oklahoma's state capital.
Date: Winter 1973
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Money Matters: The Stamp Scrip Movement in Depression-Era Oklahoma

Description: Article expanding on the previous 2004 article on Oklahoma's reaction to the depression era banking crisis of early 1933. In this article, Gatch ties the origin of the scrip movement to the writings of Yale University's professor Irving Fisher and traces the implementation of scrip schemes in nearly three dozen Oklahoma towns and explains the reasons for scrip's early success and rapid demise.
Date: Autumn 2006
Creator: Gatch, Loren C.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Notes and Documents, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 45, Number 4, Winter 1967-68

Description: Notes and Documents, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 45, Number 4, Winter 1967-68. It includes a document about a historical marker dedicated to Chief Stumbling Bear, a note on the Great Seal of Oklahoma, historical notes about Lone Dove Hill, Berlin B. Chapman's resignation, a report from Oklahoma State University, a story about singing Dixie, and recent accessions.
Date: Winter 1967
Creator: Giswold, Gillett; Gaylord, E. K.; Phillips, H. Milt; Chapman, Berlin B.; Gilles, Albert S., Sr. & Simpson, Alene
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Confederate Indian Forces Outside of Indian Territory

Description: Article narrates the battles fought by American Indian and Confederate regiments against the Union during the American Civil War. The battles described were fought outside of Indian Territory, the site of modern day Oklahoma.
Date: Summer 1968
Creator: Fischer, LeRoy H. & Gill, Jerry L.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Southern Regional Education

Description: Article discusses the establishment and history of the Southern Regional Education Board, and its efforts towards improving educational opportunities in the Southern states. J. L. Franklin discusses legislation and integration in the process.
Date: Winter 1966
Creator: Franklin, Jimmie L.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Alice Mary Robertson--Anti-Feminist Congresswoman

Description: Article describes the life and accomplishments of Alice Mary Robertson, the second woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and the first from Oklahoma. Louise B. James explores her activities before election, the connections she made with other political leaders, and her seemingly contrary personal beliefs.
Date: Winter 1977
Creator: James, Louise Boyd
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Judge John Martin: First Chief Justice of the Cherokees

Description: Article explores the life, family, and political career of John Martin, who would eventually become the first Chief Justice of the Cherokee Supreme Court in Indian Territory. Patricia Lockwood relates the details of his travels as an Indian agent and his impact as a leader of the Cherokees.
Date: Summer 1986
Creator: Lockwood, Patricia W.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Judge Royce H. Savage

Description: Article asserts that despite the controversy surrounding Judge Royce Savage's retirement from the Northern District Court, the judge's reputation for case management and dedication to pretrial conferences remains intact.
Date: Spring 2011
Creator: Kellough, William C.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Reports of the Governors of Oklahoma Territory 1891-1899

Description: Article provides a review and investigation of reports written by Oklahoma Territory governors to the Secretary of the interior from 1891 to 1899. B. H. Johnson explores the ways the four governors promoted the area in these reports.
Date: Winter 1966
Creator: Johnson, Bobby H.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Fishertown

Description: Article describes the establishment of Fishertown, a village in the Creek Nation that cropped up near North Fork Town in the nineteenth century. Carolyn Thomas Foreman traces the genealogy of the Fisher family who founded the town, and describes its early growth and development.
Date: Autumn 1953
Creator: Foreman, Carolyn Thomas, 1872-1967
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

General Philip St. George Cooke

Description: Article describes the life and military career of General Douglas H. Cooper, who led several regiments of Dragoons throughout his lifetime. Carolyn Thomas Foreman examines accounts written by Cooke and correspondence from the time to paint a portrait of the man and his work.
Date: Summer 1954
Creator: Foreman, Carolyn Thomas, 1872-1967
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Necrology, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 55, Number 3, Fall 1977

Description: Necrology section from Volume 55, Number 3, Fall 1977. It includes a document honoring Fisher Muldrow, former member of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society, and a document honoring George H. Shirk, prolific writer and historian.
Date: Autumn 1977
Creator: Garrison, Denzil D. & Whitten, Dolphus, Jr.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Governor Lee Cruce, White Supremacy and Capital Punishment, 1911-1915

Description: Article details the white supremacist policies and rhetoric surrounding governor Lee Cruce, Oklahoma's second governor. Despite his beliefs, Governor Cruce took a hard stance against excessive capital punishment for African-Americans and commuted many death sentences for them.
Date: Winter 1974
Creator: Casey, Orben J.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Necrology, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 41, Number 4, Winter 1963-64

Description: Necrology section from Volume 41, Number 4, Winter 1963-64. It includes documents honoring the lives of former Justice of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma Thomas Livingston Gibson and Choctaw surveyor James Brookes Wright.
Date: Winter 1963
Creator: Busby, Orel & Wright, Muriel H. (Muriel Hazel), 1889-1975
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Oklahoma's Million Acre Ranch

Description: Article explores the history of Roger Mills County and the Cheyenne and Arapaho Cattle Company, which leased lands on the Cheyenne and Arapaho Reservation. Melvin Harrell examines correspondence from the time to analyze the conflict that occurred between the cattlemen and the tribes living on the land.
Date: Spring 1951
Creator: Harrel, Melvin
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

The Seminole Treaty of 1866

Description: Article chronicles the events that lead to the vast amount of land allotted to the Seminole people during the signing of the Seminole Treaty of 1866.
Date: Autumn 1970
Creator: Henslick, Harry E.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Potawatomi Day Schools

Description: Article relates the history of Pottawatomi day schools, highlighting the Clardyville and Wagoza schools. Hobart D. Ragland explains the call for education among the Pottawatomis and tracks their movements across Oklahoma in the nineteenth century.
Date: Autumn 1952
Creator: Ragland, Hobert D.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Some Firsts in Lincoln County

Description: Article traces the history of Lincoln County and its leaders and inhabitants. Hobart D. Ragland discusses some of the first buildings constructed in the county, which included the Sac and Fox Agency and the Wellston Trading Post.
Date: Winter 1951
Creator: Ragland, Hobert D.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Necrology, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 51, Number 2, Summer 1973

Description: Necrology section for Volume 51, Number 2, Summer 1973. It includes honoring Morton Rector Harrison, a World War I veteran active in community service, and Edward Everett Dale, a pioneer educator and former Harvard instructor.
Date: Summer 1973
Creator: Phillips, H. Milt & Gibson, Arrell M.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Notes and Documents, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 50, Number 4, Winter 1972-73

Description: Notes and Documents section for Volume 50, Number 4, Winter 1972-73. It includes a note on the collection of articles included within this issue that relate to agents of the Five Civilized Tribes, an announcement of the new format for the magazine, an announcement of new activities and staff changes within the history department at Oklahoma State University, and a list of memorials to the deceased members of the Oklahoma Historical Society.
Date: Winter 1972
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Notes and Documents, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 95, Number 2, Summer 2017

Description: Notes and Documents section from Volume 95, Number 2, Summer 2017. It includes a document honoring John Carmichael, Clyde Ellis, John Erling, and Paul Lambert, who were inducted into the Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame in 2017.
Date: Summer 2017
Creator: O'Dell, Larry & Bass, Elizabeth M. B.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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