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[Photograph 2012.201.B0106.0778]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The fiery governor inspects his troops at Durant in the famous "bridge war" of 1931 when he called out the guard to open free bridges across the Red river."
Date: July 30, 1931
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0302.0264]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "When E. R. Brown and L. B. Denning began their conferences in the old Oriental Hotel in Dallas back in 1909 and worked out the details of the organization of the Lone Star Gas Company , neither realized how large a chapter in the history of Southwestern commerce they were"
Date: July 1931
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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