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Life Among the Choctaw Indians

Description: Article details the life and activities of those living around mission schools within the Choctaw Nation. The article details how those working within the schools collected provisions for the schools.
Date: Summer 1926
Creator: Benson, Henry C.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Jones Academy

Description: Article documents the history and accomplishments of the Jones Male Academy, a boarding school that was operated by the Choctaw tribe.
Date: Winter 1926
Creator: Kagey, J. N.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Some Reminiscences of the Cherokee People: Returning to their Homes the Exiles of a Nation

Description: Article details the political turmoil that took place within the Cherokee Nation at the start of the Civil War and the consequences felt after the war for their actions. The main cause of this turmoil was with regards to which side of the conflict the tribes should align themselves with.
Date: Summer 1928
Creator: Britton, Wiley
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

The Fly Leaf

Description: Article explains how John B. Beall and some of his fellow service men created the Fly Leaf, a newspaper distributed at Fort Washita.
Date: Autumn 1928
Creator: Methvin, J. J.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Fort Towson

Description: Article chronicles the establishment and history of Fort Towson. The fort was established to protect the Choctaw and Chickasaw tribes from invasion.
Date: Summer 1930
Creator: Morrison, W. B.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

The California Overland Mail Route Through Oklahoma

Description: Article details the establishing of a mail route through Oklahoma and Indian Territories during their frontier era. These routes provided mailing services from Texas to California. A first person narrative is given of someone who traveled down one of these routes.
Date: Autumn 1931
Creator: Foreman, Grant
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Resolution: Charles N. Haskell

Description: Article is a resolution made by the Oklahoma Historical Society to honor the first governor of the state of Oklahoma, Charles N. Haskell, after his death. The resolution outlines Haskell's life and accomplishments.
Date: Autumn 1933
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
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William Benjamin Johnson

Description: Article chronicles the career of William Benjamin Johnson as he is appointed to numerous bureaucratic positions and practiced law within Indian Territory.
Date: Summer 1940
Creator: Douglas, Clarence B.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Necrology, September 1940

Description: Column documenting biographical information about Oklahomans who have died; this issue discusses Arthur Leason Severance, owner of a lumbering company and the Malone Hardware Company.
Date: Autumn 1940
Creator: Williams, Robert L.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Necrology, December 1941

Description: Column documenting biographical information about Oklahomans who have died, including Dr. Everett G. Newell, Charles Holland Pittman, Dr. James Lafayette Shuler, Dr. Henry Buchanan Fuston, William Nichols Barry, Paul Martin Gallaway, and Samuel E. Gidney.
Date: Winter 1941
Creator: Williams, Robert L.; Meserve, John Bartlett, 1869-1943 & Martin, Benjamin
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Necrology, Autumn 1944

Description: Column documenting biographical information about Oklahomans who have died, including William Balser Skirvin, Enloe Vassallo Vernor, Napoleon D. Blackstone, and Iser H. Nakdimen.
Date: Autumn 1944
Creator: Branson, Fred P.; Martin, Benjamin & Wright, Muriel H. (Muriel Hazel), 1889-1975
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Texas Fever in Oklahoma

Description: Article describes the spread of Texas Fever among Oklahoma cattle during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the development of an aresenical dip to rid cattle of disease-ridden ticks, and the actions opponents to this practice took to prevent it.
Date: Winter 1951
Creator: Clark, J. Stanley
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Lilah D. Lindsey

Description: Article provides a biographical sketch of the life and career of Lilah Denton Lindsey, a Creek schoolteacher raised by pioneer parents who was active in her community and in Oklahoma's educational scene. Mrs. J. O. Misch discusses Lindsey's upbringing, eventual marriage, involvement in women's clubs, and teaching career.
Date: Summer 1955
Creator: Misch, J. O.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Necrology, Winter 1956-57

Description: Column documenting biographical information about Oklahomans who have died, including Albert Leroy McRill, Louis Seymour Barnes, and John Chouteau.
Date: Winter 1956
Creator: McRill, Leslie A.; Shirk, George H. & Richardson, J. M.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Memoirs of Oklahoma

Description: Article includes the memoires of Kittie M. Harvey, a pioneer woman who moved to Oklahoma Territory with her family and became a music teacher and helped run the small post office in Chandler. Harvey discusses life there and in Oklahoma City, and the people she and her husband Will Harvey interacted with.
Date: Spring 1957
Creator: Harvey, Kittie M.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Samuel Worcester Robertson

Description: Article provides an introduction to and an excerpt of the autobiography of Samuel Worcester Robertson, former teacher at Santa Barbara High School and the son of William Schenck Robertson and Ann Eliza Worcester Robertson. Robertson describes his life growing up on the frontier of Indian Territory and the work of his parents.
Date: Spring 1959
Creator: Wenger, Martin
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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