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Sustaining the Cherokee's Lamp of Enlightenment: The Establishment of Northeastern State Normal School

Description: Article describes the political and social process of convincing the legislature to place one of the state's normal schools, or teachers' colleges, in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. By this process local citizens of Tahlequah secured Northeastern State Normal School for their town.
Date: Winter 2008
Creator: Agnew, Brad
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Notes and Documents, Spring 2006

Description: Notes and Documents column including a short document describing the history and contents of the Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce Collection that was donated to the Oklahoma Historical Society in 1994. It also includes a short description of the Henry and Cunningham Mercantile Company Collection manuscripts located in the Research Division of the Oklahoma Historical Society.
Date: Spring 2006
Creator: Anderson, Clayton; Everett, Dianna & O'Dell, Larry
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

"Forget the Cowboys, We'll Take the Indians": The Red Earth Festival Movement, 1985-1987

Description: Article detailing the Red Earth Festival Movement (1985-1987) that led to the festival's inception. The festival owes its genesis to the dedication of a small cadre of local civic, arts, and political leaders who envisioned a multi-tribal exposition of American Indian dance, arts, and crafts. Since its inception in 1987 the Red Earth Festival has become a staple of Oklahoma City's tourism scene.
Date: Autumn 2009
Creator: Barker Harrison, Felicia
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

A Reading Room of Their Own: Library Services for African Americans in Oklahoma, 1907-1946

Description: Article discussing the struggles African American Oklahomans faced for access to public library services. The first forty years of statehood brought a few successes, and by mid-century only eleven communities provided a public library facility for the state's black citizens.
Date: Autumn 2006
Creator: Cassity, R. O. Joe, Jr.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Fifteen Men in Ermine: Judges of the United States Court for the Indian Territory, 1889-1907

Description: Article is a collective biography of the fifteen men of the Indian Territory court from 1889-1907. The author examines each judge's family history, education, politics, appointment to the bench, pattern of judicial decision making, and post judicial professional life.
Date: Summer 2008
Creator: Creel, Von Russell
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

On the Gallows' Edge: Capital Punishment, Appeals, and Presidential Clemency in Indian Territory, 1896-1907

Description: This article continues Von Creel's study of the administration of justice in Indian Territory courts and expands upon the application of capital punishment. Von Creel details the cases of nine individuals who were convicted of capital crimes but who escaped hanging. Their stories involve the complicated legal processes of appeal, application for presidential clemency, commutation of sentence, and post-verdict motions.
Date: Summer 2006
Creator: Creel, Von Russell
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

A Few Unreasonable Proposals: Some Rejected Ideas from the Cherokee Allotment Negotiations

Description: Article describes the Cherokee Nation's striving to preserve several important elements of their political culture when facing the allotment of their tribal land in severalty. Their proposals for land ownership, judicial administration, and representation in the United States Congress were summarily rejected by the members of the Dawes Commission during the 1898-1899 talks.
Date: Winter 2006
Creator: Denson, Andrew
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Notes and Documents, Fall 2009

Description: Notes and Documents column including "The Karen Daniels Petersen Collection" which highlights the collection of photographs collected by Karen Daniels Petersen over the course of her research and writing career that was donated to the Oklahoma Historical Society in 2009. Most of the donated images depict persons who were associated with David Pendleton Oakerhater, who was a Cheyenne warrior turned artist. Several photographs from the collection are included in the section.
Date: Autumn 2009
Creator: Everett, Dianna & Welge, William D.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Jake Hamon: "The Man Who Made Harding President"

Description: Article details the life and career of Jacob "Jake" Hamon, legendary Oklahoma oilman and politician. An ambitious, opportunistic man in search of a presidential cabinet appointment, Hamon used money and influence to manipulate the selection of Warren G. Harding as the Republican Party's nominee in 1920.
Date: Autumn 2009
Creator: Floyd, Larry C.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Ragtown: Wirt, Oklahoma, and the Healdton Boom

Description: Article describes the growth and subsequent problems of the Oklahoma oil-boom town of Wirt in Carter County, also known as Ragtown. Emerging overnight as the center of the Healdton Field, Ragtown provided shelter and work for hundreds of assorted oil-field characters.
Date: Spring 2009
Creator: Freeman, Elizabeth F.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

"Any Woman That Could Ride a Horse Could Fly": Dorothy K. Pressler Morgan, 1930s Oklahoma Aviatrix

Description: Article describes the role of Dorothy Pressler Morgan in aviation history. In 1930 Dorothy Pressler Morgan became the second female pilot licensed in Oklahoma by the U.S. Department of Commerce. She was also known as Oklahoma City's best stunt pilot, an altitude-record setter, and the nation's first female airport manager.
Date: Spring 2006
Creator: Fugate, Tally D.
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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.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

"An' the west jes' smiled": Oklahoma Banking and the Panic of 1907

Description: Article relates the ways in which the Oklahoma Bankers Association and each community's banks responded to the 1907 Bankers' Panic. They calmed public fears of bank insolvency and developed ingenious was to make currency flow in the economy. As a result, Oklahoma created the nation's first bank deposit guaranty law.
Date: Spring 2009
Creator: Gatch, Loren C.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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