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D. R. Miller: A Man Who Brought the Circus to Town

Description: Article describes the life and career of D. R. Miller, successful circus owner and famous showman. Juliana Nykolaiszyn and Tanya Finchum explore the details of his upbringing, the growth of his circus, the partnerships he formed, and the difficulties he faced.
Date: Winter 2013
Creator: Nykolaiszyn, Juliana & Finchum, Tanya D.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Park Hill's Ross Cemetery

Description: Article relates the results of the survey that took place in Fall 2000 and Spring 2001 by Lois E. Wilson Albert and members of the Oklahoma Anthropological Society to thoroughly document the Ross Cemetery at Park Hill for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places. The Ross Cemetery contains the remains of members of one of the most prominent Cherokee families of the nineteenth century.
Date: Spring 2013
Creator: Wilson Albert, Lois E.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Rex Brinlee: The Man and His Escape

Description: This article tells the story of notorious criminal Rex Brinlee, who is best known for his multiple escapes from the Oklahoma State Penitentiary. The article interweaves the details of his crimes with larger state events, including the McAlester Prison Riot.
Date: Summer 2013
Creator: Reavis, Jack Anthony
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Unforgotten Trailblazer: Nancy O. Randolph Davis

Description: Article presents a biography of equal education and civil rights activist, Nancy O. Randolph Davis. In her roles as a student, a teacher, and a NAACP Youth Council Sponsor, Nancy O. Randolph Davis fought for equality for African American young people and made possible the advancement of Oklahoma's civil rights movement.
Date: Winter 2012
Creator: Pollard, Gloria J.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Vilona P. Cutler: Humanitarian, Activist, and Educator

Description: Article describes the life and career of Vilona P. Cutler, general secretary of the Young Women's Christian Association and director of the School of Social Work at the University of Oklahoma, who worked tirelessly to improve race relations and provide equal opportunities to women and minority groups in the early and mid-1900s.
Date: Spring 2012
Creator: Pierson, Gregory N.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Penn Square: The Shopping Center Bank that Shook the World, Part 1 - Boom

Description: Article describes the history of Penn Square Bank, including the planning and strategies of its organizers and its booming success gained from the thriving growth of the oil and gas industries during the 1960s-1980s. Michael J. Hightower focuses on the rise of the Oklahoma City bank in Part 1 of a two-part article.
Date: Spring 2012
Creator: Hightower, Michael J.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Notes and Documents, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 91, Number 1, Spring 2013

Description: Notes and Documents section for Volume 91, Number 1, Spring 2013. It includes a short article honoring Bill Anoatubby and Bill Corbett, two of the four inductees into the Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame in 2013. The other inductees are featured in the next issue of the Chronicles.
Date: Spring 2013
Creator: Lambert, Paul F.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Notes and Documents, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 91, Number 2, Summer 2013

Description: Notes and Documents section for Volume 91, Number 2, Summer 2013. It includes an article honoring Eddie Faye Gates and Max Nichols, who were inducted into the Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame in 2013. It also includes a short article titled "The Oklahoma Century Chest" that describes the Oklahoma Historical Society's temporary exhibit featuring items recovered from the one-hundred-year-old Century Chest time capsule.
Date: Summer 2013
Creator: Lambert, Paul F.; Bass, Elizabeth M. B. & Williams, Chad
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Notes and Documents, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 90, Number 1, Spring 2012

Description: Notes and Documents section for Volume 90,, Number 1, Spring 2012. It includes a document chronicling the digitization of the film and video archives of the Oklahoma Historical Society, as well as a document honoring two new inductees into the Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame in 2012, David Dary and Kenny A. Franks.
Date: Spring 2012
Creator: Ayers, Corey; Bass, Elizabeth M. B. & Lambert, Paul F.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Notes and Documents, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 90, Number 3, Fall 2012

Description: Notes and Documents section for Volume 90, Number 3, Fall 2012. It includes Hugh C. Keen's "Oklahoma Confederate Pensions—Expanded Index," which presents an expanded index of the Oklahoma Confederate veterans pension applications to include information about the state, unit of service, and county in which the applicant resided.
Date: Autumn 2012
Creator: Keen, Hugh C.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Notes and Documents, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 91, Number 3, Fall 2013

Description: Notes and Documents section for Volume 91, Number 3, Fall 2013. It includes Tara Damron's "In the Shadows of the Century Chest: Message to Future Generations," which describes the history and contents of the Century Chest, a time capsule that was buried on April 22, 1913, through the unique partnership of the First Lutheran Church and the Oklahoma Historical Society. The Century Chest was opened on April 22, 2013 and will be preserved by the Oklahoma Historical Society.
Date: Autumn 2013
Creator: Damron, Tara
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Notes and Documents, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 91, Number 4, Winter 2013-14

Description: Notes and Documents section for Volume 91, Number 4, Winter 2013-14. It includes a document about new resources made available by the Oklahoma Historical Society's John and Eleanor Kirkpatrick Research Center, which include prestatehood newspapers, the WKY, KTVY, KFOR film collection, and a searchable index of Hastain's Township Plats of the Creek Nation.
Date: Winter 2013
Creator: Williams, Chad & Toney, Tabatha
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Notes and Documents, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 90, Number 4, Winter 2012-13

Description: Notes and Documents section for Volume 90, Number 4, Winter 2012-13. It includes James G. McCullagh's "Mayme Jane Starr (1879-1901): A "Cherokee Rose Bud" and Her Family Remembered," a short article that remembers the life of Mayme Jane Starr, a Cherokee woman and educator at Cherokee National Female Seminary.
Date: Winter 2012
Creator: McCullagh, James G.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Notes and Documents, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 89, Number 3, Fall 2011

Description: Notes and Documents section for Volume 89, Number 3, Fall 2011. It includes a short document titled "The Twenty-Five Indians: A Revealing Ledger from the Genevieve Seger Collection" that describes a ledger book dating back to 1886 which lists the names of the first colonists to leave the Darlington (Cheyenne-Arapaho) Agency to establish an agricultural colony on the Washita River. The ledger, given to the Oklahoma Historical Society by Genevieve Seger, provides evidence that twenty-eight Arapah… more
Date: Autumn 2011
Creator: Welge, William D.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Quanah Parker's Star House: A Comanche Home Along the White Man's Road

Description: Article describes the history of Star House and the influential Comanche leader, Quanah Parker, who established it. Larry C. Floyd provides background details of the difficult times Quanah Parker faced as a youth and his rise to become the shrewd businessman and political intermediary who entertained politicians, generals and wealthy cattlemen within his home.
Date: Summer 2012
Creator: Floyd, Larry C.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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