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Bringing Back the Big Game: The Reintroduction of Elk to the Wichita Mountains

Description: Article explores the circumstances surrounding the decision to move starving Rocky Mountain elk from Jackson Hole, Wyoming, to the Wichita Mountains National Forest and Game Preserve in southwestern Oklahoma in 1911, and the Progressive conservation ideals behind bringing the elk to Oklahoma.
Date: Autumn 2010
Creator: Pearce, Matthew Allen
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0093.0509]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Thunderstorms and Horseshoes sound like an odd mixture, but stormy weather forecasts, cancelled flying schedules and the game above followed in that order."
Date: July 14, 1956
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0223.0472]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "George E. Chiga of Guthrie was elected a vice-president of the newly organized Red Angus Association of America in a meeting of the board of directors recently at Sheridan, Wyo. He is shown above left, front row, with George Hetzel of Kansas, secretary-treasurer; Waldo Forbes of Wyoming, president; and Joe Perry of Texas; director. On the back row are Mrs. Chiga, Mrs. Hetzel, and Mrs. Forbes. While Red Angus cattle are not… more
Date: August 29, 1954
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0229.0375]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The army may be mechanized but it still has a job for a stable sergent with a moustache like Sgt. Lawrence Cnossen, Newcastle Wyo. who is stationed at Fort Reno."
Date: March 27, 1952
Creator: Albright, Bob
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0274.0579]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Tania Evangelus isn't going into the box but the 31-piece Sioux princess costume she's wearing will be turned over to the Wyoming Historical Society for display at the state museum. The wardrobe is worth $3,500"
Date: December 29, 1941
Creator: Thomas, Gene
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0338.0737]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Oklahoma City -based Kerr-McGee Corp.'s first surface coal mine- the Jacobs Ranch Mine- 50 miles southeast of Gillette, Wyo., should produce 2.6 million tons of sub-bituminous coal this year, peaking to 14.8 million tons by 1982."
Date: August 10, 1978
Creator: Clock, Greg
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0338.0738]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Kerr-McGee Coal Corporation's Clovis Point Mine features a slot-storage barn (above right) for temporary retention of coal, after it has been crushed, until it is loaded on rail cars for shipment."
Date: August 25, 1979
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0338.0739]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Kerr-McGee COAL CORPORATION'S Clovis Point Mine layout includes the operations headquarters (upper left), crusher, loading facility and storage barn (upper center) and roads looping the mine (lower right) for use in loading the coal and transporting it for shipment or temporary storage."
Date: August 25, 1979
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0338.0741]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Kerr-McGee Coal Corporation's Clovis Point Mining operations in Wyoming as seen from the air makes a long coal train appear like a black thread through the landscape."
Date: 1980
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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