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Colonel Samuel Lee Patrick

Article documents the career of Colonel Samuel Lee Patrick, captain of a Union Volunteer Infantry regiment and Indian Agent of the Sac and Fox, Shawnee, Pottawatomie, Kickapoo, and Iowa Tribes.

Date: Spring 1968

Creator: Gilstrap, Harry B., Jr.

Item Type: Article

Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Early Days in the Sac and Fox Country, Oklahoma Territory

Article discusses the author's experiences in a pioneer family who lived in Oklahoma Territory. George W. Stiles discusses the opening of the Sac and Fox Reservation to settlement, early town growth, education, and the cattle trade.

Date: Autumn 1955

Creator: Stiles, George W.

Item Type: Article

Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Jeremiah Hubbard, Hoosier Schoolmaster and Friends Missionary Among the Indians

Article describes the life of Jeremiah Hubbard, a schoolteacher turned missionary who worked with several different tribes of North America and eventually visited Oklahoma. Ezra Brainerd explores the educator's life and contributions through this biographical sketch.

Date: Spring 1951

Creator: Brainerd, Ezra

Item Type: Article

Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

The Jim Thorpe Family: From Wisconsin to Indian Territory, Part I

Article describes the ancestors and roots of Jim Thorpe's family. Jim Thorpe's sister, Grace F. Thorpe, examines the history of the Thorpe family in Indian Territory and their connections to the Sac, Fox and Potawatomi tribes.

Date: Spring 1981

Creator: Thorpe, Grace F.

Item Type: Article

Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

The Jim Thorpe Family: Part II

Article continues to explore the historical background of the Jim Thorpe Family after the article's first part in Volume 59, Number 1, Spring 1981. Along with further description of the Sac and Fox and Potawatomi settlement in Indian Territory, Grace Thorpe highlights the lives of individuals in the Thorpe family including Jim Thorpe himself.

Date: Summer 1981

Creator: Thorpe, Grace F.

Item Type: Article

Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Jim Thorpe's 100th Birthday: A Pictorial Tribute

Article describes the life and athletic career of Oklahoman Jim Thorpe, an Olympic gold medal winner of Sac and Fox descent, in a centennial tribute. Thorpe's accomplishments in track, baseball, and football, are chronicled here, as well as the reputation he gained with the public.

Date: Spring 1987

Creator: Sadler, Carl K.

Item Type: Article

Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Joe Tasson

Photograph of Joe Tasson, interpreter for the Musquakie Tribe, also a veteran of the Civil War, Tama County, IA, c.1908.

Date: 1908~

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Memoirs of a Pioneer Teacher

Article describes the life and memories of Harriet Patrick Gilstrap, a pioneer teacher who provides a personal narrative here of her time teaching on the frontier and working with the Sac and Fox Agency.

Date: Spring 1960

Creator: Gilstrap, Harriet Patrick

Item Type: Article

Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Missions of the Society of Friends Among the Indian Tribes of the Sac and Fox Agency

Article describes the missions established by the Quakers, also known as the Society of Friends, among the Sac & Fox, Shawnee, Iowa, and Kickapoo tribes. Hobert D. Ragland describes which missionaries worked with which missions, and what kind of educational opportunities they provided.

Date: Summer 1955

Creator: Ragland, Hobert D.

Item Type: Article

Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Mrs. John R. Williams: Pioneer of the Indian Territory

Article describes the life and family of of Mary Elizabeth Prescott Delesdernier, also known as Mrs. John R. Williams. Muriel H. Wright describes the community figure's upbringing on the Oklahoma frontier and her involvement in Oklahoma businesses and societies.

Date: Winter 1952

Creator: Wright, Muriel H. (Muriel Hazel), 1889-1975

Item Type: Article

Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Notes and Documents, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 60, Number 4, Winter 1982-83

Notes and Documents section for Volume 60, Number 4, Winter 1982-83. It includes a continuation of the catalogue of microfilmed publications of the Archives and Manuscripts Division of the Oklahoma Historical Society from previous issues.

Date: Winter 1982

Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society

Item Type: Article

Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

"The Only Way" Church Sac & Fox Indians

Article describes the history of government relations with the Sac and Foxes, the establishment of the Sac and Fox Agency, and the history of the "Only Way" church attended by the author.

Date: Winter 1965

Creator: House, R. Morton

Item Type: Article

Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

A Sac and Fox Portrait: The Jerry Whistler Snow Collection at the Western History Collections

Article highlights the Jerry Whistler Snow Collection of photographs of the Western History Collections at the University of Oklahoma, which sheds light on the Whistler family as well as the Sac and Fox people of Oklahoma.

Date: Autumn 1991

Creator: Lovett, John

Item Type: Article

Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society