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Mark of Heritage

Description: Book discussing the history of Oklahoma's heritage, including descriptions about the state's historic sites and museums; also included is a folded map of over 270 historical markers in the state. Index begins on page 207.
Date: 1976
Creator: Wright, Muriel H. (Muriel Hazel), 1889-1975; Shirk, George H. & Franks, Kenny Arthur, 1945-
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Partner: UNT Libraries

The Great Seal of the Chickasaw Nation

Description: Article discusses the origin and imagery of the great seal of the Chickasaw Nation, early Chickasaw government, how the name of the tribe was adapted to the English language, and the sale of Chickasaw lands.
Date: Winter 1956
Creator: Wright, Muriel H. (Muriel Hazel), 1889-1975
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

William Shaffer Key: Oklahoma Patriot

Description: Article provides a biographical tribute to the life and accomplishments of General William Shaffer Key, leader of numerous cultural and historical organizations who passed on January 5, 1959. Muriel H. Wright includes details from the man's life as well as quotes from those who knew him.
Date: Summer 1959
Creator: Wright, Muriel H. (Muriel Hazel), 1889-1975
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Seal of the Cherokee Nation

Description: Article discusses the process behind the procurement of the Seal of the Cherokee Nation, the growth, development, and factions of the Cherokee Nation throughout the nineteenth century, and the meaning behind the images represented in the seal. This seal is on the cover of this issue of The Chronicles.
Date: Summer 1956
Creator: Wright, Muriel H. (Muriel Hazel), 1889-1975
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

The Removal of the Choctaws to the Indian Territory, 1830-1833

Description: Article details the actions taken by the United States government to remove the Choctaw tribe from Mississippi to Oklahoma during the 1830s. Included are the reactions of the Choctaw chiefs to their ordinances and an appendix of correspondences written to facilitate this change.
Date: Summer 1928
Creator: Wright, Muriel H. (Muriel Hazel), 1889-1975
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Editorial: Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 5, Number 3, September 1927

Description: Article consists of editorials regarding content contained within previous volumes of The Chronicles. The editorials are Letters to the Editor that contain proof that W. P. Brown was the governor of the Chickasaw Nation. This has been a mystery for several decades.
Date: Autumn 1927
Creator: J. Y. B. & Wright, Muriel H. (Muriel Hazel), 1889-1975
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Ferdinandina: First White Settlement in Oklahoma

Description: Article describes the establishment of the historical trading post "Ferdinandina" by French explorers and the American Indian groups who settled in the same area through exploration of accounts made by Claude du Tisné and Bénard de la Harpe. Leslie A. McRill compares these accounts to the excavation of village sites by Dr. Joseph B. Thoburn.
Date: Summer 1963
Creator: McRill, Leslie A.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Seneca Sub-Agency, 1832-1838

Description: Article describes the history of the Seneca Sub-Agency, established after a group of Senecas were removed to the Ottawa and Delaware Counties of Oklahoma in the Antebellum period. Frank H. Harris discusses government relations with the groups and the agents that worked on their behalf.
Date: Summer 1964
Creator: Harris, Frank H.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

The Drive for Statehood in Oklahoma, 1889-1906

Description: Article describes the development of Oklahoma statehood, including the divisive nature of the "Separate" vs. "Single" Statehood adoption of the Oklahoma and Indian Territories. Charles Wayne Ellinger provides documentation of the views of territory residents, representatives of the American Indian Nations, and government officials in the process.
Date: Spring 1963
Creator: Ellinger, Charles Wayne
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Pioneer Days in the Cherokee Strip

Description: Article describes the 1893 opening of the Cherokee Strip as experienced by the author and her family. Clara Williamson Warren Bullard describes her family's settlement of their claim, water scarcity, growth of communities, and the cultivation of land.
Date: Autumn 1958
Creator: Bullard, Clara Williamson Warren
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Our Debt to the Iroquois

Description: Article describes the history of the federation of the Six Iroquois Nations: the Mohawks, Onondagos, Senecas, Oneidas, Cayugas, and Tuscaroras. J. F. Page describes how this group formed a basis of organization that white settlers would imitate, and whose agricultural practices also enlightened early Americans.
Date: Winter 1951
Creator: Page, J. F.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Tryphena

Description: Article chronicles the author's search for the identity of the person residing in a grave inscribed with "Tryphena's Grave."
Date: Summer 1931
Creator: Wright, Muriel H. (Muriel Hazel), 1889-1975
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

An Open Letter from Too-Qua-Stee to Congressman Charles Curtis, 1898

Description: Article outlines the author's disapproval of provisions of the Curtis Act that closed the governments of the Five Civilized Tribes in Oklahoma. The article starts with an introduction by the editor explaining the background of the letter.
Date: Autumn 1969
Creator: Duncan, DeWitt Clinton & Wright, Muriel H. (Muriel Hazel), 1889-1975
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Old Boggy Depot

Description: Article details the history surrounding Old Boggy Depot, a depot that has operated since the Antebellum period. Through this depot passed millions in gold worth of trade.
Date: Spring 1927
Creator: Wright, Muriel H. (Muriel Hazel), 1889-1975
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Mark of Heritage

Description: Book discussing the history of Oklahoma's heritage, including descriptions about the state's historic sites and museums; also included is a folded map of over 270 historical markers in the state. Index begins on page 207.
Date: 2017
Creator: Wright, Muriel H. (Muriel Hazel), 1889-1975; Shirk, George H. & Franks, Kenny Arthur, 1945-
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Partner: UNT Libraries

Reminiscences of Jim Tomm

Description: Article provides reminiscences of Jim Tomm, a freedman who was born into slavery on the plantation of George Stidham in the Muscogee (Creek) Nation and freed during the Civil War. L. M. S. Wilson compiles these memories of Tomm's life before, during, and after the Civil War.
Date: Autumn 1966
Creator: Wilson, L. M. S. & Tomm, Jim
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

William Bennett Bizzell: Bibliophile and Builder

Description: Article pays tribute to William Bennet Bizzell, superintendent of schools and later president of Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas and the University of Oklahoma. Morris L. Wardell explores the importance Bizzell placed on the value of books and his contribution to the growth of academic libraries.
Date: Autumn 1952
Creator: Wardell, Morris L.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Letters of Cassandra Sawyer Lockwood: Dwight Mission, 1834

Description: Article introduces a series of letters by Cassandra Sawyer Lockwood about her journey into the Cherokee Nation and her life at Dwight Mission, where she lived and worked with her husband, Jesse Lockwood. Joseph B. Thoburn provides historical context to the group of Western Cherokees they worked with and to the personal account written by Mrs. Lockwood.
Date: Summer 1955
Creator: Thoburn, Joseph B. & Lockwood, Cassandra Sawyer
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

An Early Account of the Cherokees

Description: Article provides an introduction to and includes an account by geologist George W. Featherstonhaugh of the early status of the Cherokee Nation. Featherstonhaugh highlights the written version of their language devised by Sequoyah, their plight in the face of the westward push of white settlement, the ways they adapted British technologies and agricultural techniques, and government relations.
Date: Summer 1956
Creator: Foreman, Carolyn Thomas, 1872-1967
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Early History of Webbers Falls

Description: Article discusses the history of Webber Falls and the early inhabitants of that region of Indian Territory on the Arkansas River. Carolyn Thomas Foreman highlights the life of the Cherokee Walter Webber, for whom the falls were named, and investigates early documentation of the area.
Date: Winter 1951
Creator: Foreman, Carolyn Thomas, 1872-1967
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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