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Cattle Market for the World: The Oklahoma National Stockyards

Description: Article describes the creation and development of the Oklahoma National Stockyards, which was the largest and most modern livestock enterprise ever conducted at one time. Carol Holderby Welsh describes the complex itself as well as the impact it had on Oklahoma City and the area surrounding it.
Date: Spring 1982
Creator: Welsh, Carol Holderby
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Electricity for a Region: The Southwest Power Administration

Description: Article describes the impact of the Southwest Power Administration's efforts to provide electric power to the citizens of Southwestern states. Jeanette Ford explores three main projects the organization began as well as its presence in Oklahoma.
Date: Winter 1982
Creator: Ford, Jeanette W.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Poor Man's Camp: Labor Movement Vicissitudes in the Tri-State District

Description: Article portrays the history of labor movements in the Tri-State District. Through the lead and zinc fields running through Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma, miners who who at first were disinterested in unionization began to organize.
Date: Spring 1982
Creator: Gibson, Arrell M.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Oklahoma Territory and the National Archives: A Historian's Paradise

Description: Article provides an auto-biographical exploration of the research conducted by Berlin Basil Chapman, an Oklahoma historian and an Assistant Professor of History at Oklahoma A&M. Chapman's works include articles, theses, and a bibliography centered around resources related to Oklahoma Territory in the National Archives.
Date: Winter 1982
Creator: Chapman, Berlin B.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Black Slavery in Indian Territory: The Ex-Slave Narratives

Description: Article examines the contents of ex-slave narratives from the collection assembled under the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration. Monroe Billington points out that little attention was given to black slavery among the Indians of Indian Territory and focuses on related narratives.
Date: Spring 1982
Creator: Billington, Monroe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

John Stink: The Osage Who "Returned from the Grave"

Description: Article describes the life of John Stink, one of the Osages who benefitted greatly from the discovery of oil on allotted lands, and the legend of his return from the grave. Despite John's wealth and enigmatic reputation, he did not turn to materialistic pursuits and enjoyed a simple life.
Date: Spring 1982
Creator: Haines, Joe D., Jr.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Rifles and Ruts: Army Road Builders in Indian Territory

Description: Article details the design and construction of the military road system in Indian Territory implemented by U.S. army troops in the nineteenth century. William P. Corbett explains how these roads improved transportation and allowed for federal regulation of the frontier.
Date: Autumn 1982
Creator: Corbett, William P.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Portrait of a Wichita Village, 1808

Description: Article provides a portrait of a Wichita Village on the Red River through the records of Anthony Glass, a representative of Indian Agent John Sibley, after an invitation was issued by the Wichitan Chief Awakahea in 1808.
Date: Winter 1982
Creator: John, Elizabeth A. H.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Attempted Secession in Oklahoma: The Four-Mile Strip, 1935-1950

Description: Article illustrates the proceedings of secession attempts by a four-mile strip of Grady County to become part of the neighboring Stephens County. Mary S. Redmond examines the motivations behind the secession as well as the reasons for the outcome of the attempts.
Date: Summer 1982
Creator: Redmond, Mary S.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Exodus from Indian Territory: The Evolution of Cotton Culture in Eastern Oklahoma

Description: Article provides a nuanced view of the disadvantages Oklahoma tenant farmers faced in Indian Territory in the 1930-40s, which led to many leaving the area. Gregory R. Graves elaborates on cotton production in Oklahoma and the political, financial, and environmental factors that led to its decline.
Date: Summer 1982
Creator: Graves, Gergory R.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Miss Edith Johnson: Pioneer Newspaper Woman

Description: Article describes the life of Miss Edith Johnson, pioneer reporter and staff writer for the Daily Oklahoman. Naomi Taylor Casey pays tribute to the impact of Miss Edith's daily column, and how it set precedent for future advice columnists.
Date: Spring 1982
Creator: Casey, Naomi Taylor
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Myrtle Archer McDougal: Leader of Oklahoma's "Timid Sisters"

Description: Article describes the life and career of Myrtle Archer McDougal, a suffragette and leader of over forty organizations supporting women's rights, democratic party politics, health reform, and world peace initiatives. McDougal was a community leader of Sapulpa, Oklahoma, and a passionate speaker who acted as a representative for the "timid sisters" of Oklahoma.
Date: Autumn 1982
Creator: Hoder-Salmon, Marilyn
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Without Purse or Scrip: A Missionary in the Territory

Description: Article explores the life and purpose of Mormon missionary Albert Kirby, who traveled into Oklahoma Territory "without purse or scrip." Albert Kirby's grandson, Dale Z. Kirby, illustrates the daily life of the man of faith and his interactions with a diverse population through entries from his journal.
Date: Winter 1982
Creator: Kirby, Dale Z.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Around Tahlequah Council Fires: The Life of Oklahoma Historian T. L. Ballenger

Description: Article describes the life of Tom Lee Ballenger, a professor at Northeastern State University in Tahlequah who spent a lifetime educating students and researching the history of Oklahoma. The title of the article is taken from an anthology Ballenger wrote about the capital of the Cherokee Nation and the people who established it.
Date: Autumn 1982
Creator: Agnew, Brad
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

"Everyone Got His Two Cents Worth": Leslie Gordon Niblack and the Guthrie Daily Leader

Description: Article provides a historical portrait the last decade of Guthrie Daily Leader editor Leslie Gordon Niblack's career, as well as some of the headlines and contents of the newspaper itself. Niblack was a supporter of the Democratic Party and often featured political stories, but his newspaper also featured stories about natural disasters, local events, and advertisements.
Date: Winter 1982
Creator: Hall, Dennie
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

An Odyssey into Texas: William Quesenbury with the Cherokees

Description: Article explores the journey representatives from the Cherokee Nation took to find new settlement in Texas through the excerpts of a journal kept by a white man traveling with them, William Quesenbury. Though division within the tribe drove them to seek a better life, the traveling party continued to face more hardships on the road.
Date: Summer 1982
Creator: Benton, Lee David
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

The Capture of the J. R. Williams

Description: Article details the capture of the federal steamboat, J. R. Williams, and efforts by Confederate guerilla fighter Colonel Stand Watie to recapture the Arkansas River area for the South.
Date: Spring 1982
Creator: Lee, Keun Sang
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

A Tradition of Political Power: Congressional Committee Chairmen from Oklahoma, 1945-1972

Description: Article pays biographical tribute to the impact of eight Oklahoma chairmen of committees or subcommittees of the Senate and the House of Representatives who were active from 1945 to 1972. Phillip A. Grant points out that this period of time was one of the most eventful periods of U.S. history, making the committees and their chairman especially impactful in their decisions regarding legislative proposals.
Date: Winter 1982
Creator: Grant, Phillip A.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

"Okie Boat": The U.S.S. Oklahoma City

Description: Article describes the history of U.S. Navy warship "Oklahoma City." Mark K. Megehee and Devin Waggoner take readers through the ship's illustrious career, from its design in 1942, participation in both World War II and the Vietnam War, and eventually its decommission in 1979.
Date: Summer 1982
Creator: Megehee, Mark K. & Waggoner, Devin
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

The Only Show in Town: Ellen Whitmore Mohrbacher's Savoy Theatre

Description: Article illustrates the life of Ellen Whitmore Mohrbacher, a prominent businesswoman of Prague, Oklahoma. Mohrbacher's successes running the Savoy Theatre and high standards she upheld for the films shown there are chronicled here.
Date: Autumn 1982
Creator: Pieroth, Doris Hinson
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Dead Woman's Crossing: The Legacy of a Territorial Murder

Description: Article describes the events surrounding the murder of Katie DeWitt James in 1905, a crime which led to a bridge over Big Deer Creek being dubbed "Dead Woman's Crossing." Sue Woolf Brenner investigates the mysterious case and the questions still left unanswered that led to the creation of a local legend.
Date: Autumn 1982
Creator: Brenner, Sue Woolf
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Twin Territories: The Indian Magazine and its editor, Ora Eddleman Reed

Description: Article describes the history of Twin Territories: The Indian Magazine, as well as its 18-year old part Cherokee editor, Ora Eddleman Reed. Daryl Morrison provides a fascinating look at the life of the driving force behind the magazine, the upbringing that prepared her for success, and the creativity that led her to continue to tackle new projects later in her life.
Date: Summer 1982
Creator: Morrison, Daryl
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

For the Record, Spring 1982

Description: 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 October 28, 1981. It also includes a list honoring the donors who gave gifts to the OHS in the third quarter of 1981 and list of new annual members of the OHS from April 30 to October 28 of 1981.
Date: Spring 1982
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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