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Our Place: The One-Hundred-Year-Old Family Farm

Description: This article analyzes several oral history interviews with families who own Centennial Farms and Ranches in Oklahoma. The Centennial Farm and Ranch Program began in 1989 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Land Run of 1889. With an aim to record Oklahoma's agricultural history, librarians with the Oklahoma Oral History Research Program developed the Oklahoma Centennial Farm Families oral history project in collaboration with the Oklahoma Historical Society in 2008.
Date: Autumn 2014
Creator: Finchum, Tanya D. & Nykolaiszyn, Juliana
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

"This Faithfulness Destroyed Them": The Failure of Grant's Peace Policy Among the Kiowas and Comanches

Description: Article describes the execution of American Indian policy under President Ulysses S. Grant. In his attempts to remove corruption from the Office of Indian Affairs, President Ulysses S. Grant involved Christian denominations, including the Society of Friends, in the execution of American Indian policy. The author argues that the Quaker's Peace Policy not only failed, but never had a chance of success among the Kiowas and Comanches.
Date: Summer 2015
Creator: White, Wayne A.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Notes and Documents, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 92, Number 3, Fall 2014

Description: Notes and Documents section for Volume 92, Number 3, Fall 2014. It includes the previously unknown manuscript titled "The First Week in Oklahoma City" by Angelo C. Scott with an introduction by Chad Williams. The manuscript provides a firsthand account of the creation of Oklahoma City in the days immediately following the Land Run of 1889.
Date: Autumn 2014
Creator: Williams, Chad & Scott, Angelo C.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Notes and Documents, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 92, Number 4, Winter 2014-15

Description: Notes and Documents section for Volume 92, Number 4, Winter 2014-15. It includes prophecies from the Oklahoma Century Chest, hundred-year predictions written in 1913 about the fields of religion, journalism, medicine, law, and education, as well as letters addressed to the leaders of banking and court leaders in 2013.
Date: Winter 2014
Creator: Williams, Chad
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Notes and Documents, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 93, Number 4, Winter 2015-16

Description: Notes and Documents section for Volume 93, Number 4, Winter 2015-16. It includes Chad Williams' "Crossroads of Commerce Exhibit Collections," which describes the collections utilized for the Oklahoma History Center's "Crossroads of Commerce: A History of Free Enterprise in Oklahoma," an exhibit that tells the story of commerce in Oklahoma from 1719 to present day.
Date: Winter 2015
Creator: Williams, Chad
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Nede Wade "Ned" Christie and the Outlaw Mystique

Description: Article examines the life of Ned Christie, Cherokee advisor to Chief Dennis Bushyhead, whose final years on the run after being accused of killing US Deputy Marshall Dan Maples have been sensationalized in newspapers and literature painting him as either a notorious outlaw or a noble patriot.
Date: Autumn 2015
Creator: Mihesuah, Devon A.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Did Quanah Parker Lie?

Description: Article examines documentary evidence surrounding the battle of Pease River to support Quanah Parker's claims that his father Peta Nocona did not participate in the battle nor was he killed there.
Date: Autumn 2015
Creator: Crum, Tom & Carlson, Paul H.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

"One Who Was Trusted": E. L. Mitchell of Western Oklahoma, Part Two

Description: Article describes the life and career of E. L. Mitchell, well-known newspaper editor, publisher, politician, and public speaker. In the second part of a two-part article, Paul F. Lambert provides details about the man's own views, particularly his Democratic political campaigns, and his impact on the community.
Date: Winter 2014
Creator: Lambert, Paul F.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

The "Rise and Fall" of Indian Colleges in Indian Territory: Indian University, Henry Kendall College, and Other Colleges, 1880-1907

Description: Article details the growth of several colleges for American Indians in pre-statehood Oklahoma. Steven J. Crum provides the history of these institutions, including their founding by missionary groups and their eventual decline with the dissolution of Indian Territory.
Date: Spring 2015
Creator: Crum, Steven J.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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