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General Stores, Retail Merchants, and Assimilation: Retail Trade in the Cherokee Nation, 1838-1890

Description: Article describes the process of establishing trade and general stores on the Indian Territory frontier, both by white settlers and Cherokees establishing themselves in their new lands. Duncan M. Aldrich discusses the history of business and entrepreneurship in Indian Territory.
Date: Spring 1979
Creator: Aldrich, Duncan M.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

The Colored High School of the Cherokee Nation

Description: Article discusses the call for and establishment of a high school for freedmen in the Cherokee Nation in 1890, the rights black freed persons had in early Indian Territory, the students who attended the school, and records of the school.
Date: Winter 1952
Creator: Ballenger, T. L.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Necrology, Summer 1958

Description: Column documenting biographical information about Oklahomans who have died; this issue discusses educator and former Secretary of the State Board of Education George Clair Wells.
Date: Summer 1958
Creator: Balyeat, Frank A.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Otoe Chief White Horse

Description: Photograph of Otoe Chief White Horse sitting in a field smoking a pipe. Men in headdresses, cotton clothing and wool mill around in the background with horses.
Date: [1890..1916]
Creator: Barde, Frederick S.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Dog Culture of the Indians

Description: Article describes the history of dog domestication and use by the tribes of North America. Opal Hartsell Brown traces it from prehistoric times to the late nineteenth century.
Date: Spring 1977
Creator: Brown, Opal Hartsell
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Some Experiences in the Sac and Fox Reservation

Description: Article narrates the experiences of J. Y. Bryce and Henry C. Jones as they lived and worked within the Sac & Fox Reservation within Indian Territory. Both men were preachers of the Methodist Church. Jones later became the postmaster for the reservation.
Date: Winter 1926
Creator: Bryce, J. Y.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

The Osage Pasture Map

Description: Article examines the Osage pasture map and its data as well as the state of relations and broken cooperation between the federal government and the Osage Nation at the time the map was created.
Date: Summer 1975
Creator: Burrill, Robert M.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Guthrie, from Public Land to Private Property

Description: Article discusses the rush of homesteaders claiming land on the original townsite of Guthrie and the legal difficulties that followed. Dr. B. B. Chapman examines documentation of the events at the turn of the nineteenth century to construct a picture of early Guthrie.
Date: Spring 1955
Creator: Chapman, Berlin B.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

The Hook Nine Ranch in the Indian Territory

Description: Article describes the establishment of the Hendrix and Royer Ranch, also known as the Hook Nine Ranch, in Indian Territory. Ellsworth Collings discusses the founders and the results of their cattle business, providing details about the ranch and its surroundings.
Date: Winter 1955
Creator: Collings, Ellsworth
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

"America, Love It or Leave It": Some Native American Initiatives to Move to Mexico, 1890-1940

Description: Article describes the emigration to Mexico initiative some Native American tribes in Oklahoma considered between 1890 and 1940. Steven Crum also describes the national government's response to these efforts and references the similarity of the 1960s phrase coined in the article's title.
Date: Winter 2001
Creator: Crum, Steven J.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Did Oklahoma African Americans Vote Between 1910 and 1943?

Description: Article analyzes election results during the years of 1910 and 1943 to determine if African Americans were voting in Oklahoma despite attempts to disenfranchise them by the Oklahoma Legislature. Although the US Supreme Court had rendered the "Grandfather Clause" unconstitutional, more obstacles were being created.
Date: Spring 2015
Creator: Darcy, R.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Oklahoma's Military Tradition

Description: Article explores the history of Oklahoma's military from its beginnings as the Oklahoma Territorial Militia to its evolution into the Oklahoma National Guard. Fred A. Daugherty and Pendleton Woods discuss the Guard's participation in the Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War.
Date: Winter 1979
Creator: Daugherty, Fred A. & Woods, Pendleton
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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