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The Indian Territory in 1878

Description: Article is a speech made by Colonel William Penn Adair at the fifth annual Indian International Fair regarding the history and impact of the Five Civilized Tribes. Adair was a prominent figure within the Cherokee Nation.
Date: Autumn 1926
Creator: Adair, William Penn
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Moses or Aaron?: William Jennings Bryan and Oklahoma Politics

Description: Article explores the political influence William Jennings Bryan had on the creation of Oklahoma's state constitution, and questions whether Bryan took the leading role of the biblical Moses in influencing decisions surrounding it, or the translator's role of Aaron to give the Oklahoma legislature's own agenda substance.
Date: Spring 2004
Creator: Adkison, Danny M.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Around Tahlequah Council Fires: The Life of Oklahoma Historian T. L. Ballenger

Description: Article describes the life of Tom Lee Ballenger, a professor at Northeastern State University in Tahlequah who spent a lifetime educating students and researching the history of Oklahoma. The title of the article is taken from an anthology Ballenger wrote about the capital of the Cherokee Nation and the people who established it.
Date: Autumn 1982
Creator: Agnew, Brad
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Ensign L. L. Culver: "You can call me salty now"

Description: Article recounts the life and rigorous training experience of undertaker-turned-ensign L.L. Culver in the United States navy in the early years of World War II. Brad Agnew reconstructs the officer's experiences from letters sent home, and concludes the article with the beginning of a journey that is continued in the Spring 2003 issue of The Chronicles of Oklahoma.
Date: Winter 2002
Creator: Agnew, Brad
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

L. L. Culver: A Naked Warrior in the Second World War

Description: Article follows the continuation of Ensign L. L. Culver's journey from its first part in the Winter 2002-03 issue of The Chronicles of Oklahoma. Brad Agnew describes Culver's service in the Scouts and Raiders, a joint army-navy unit that participated in World War II amphibious assaults, his military successes, and his return home with the conclusion of the war.
Date: Spring 2003
Creator: Agnew, Brad
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Notes and Documents, Winter 1978-79

Description: Notes and Documents column including a document that annotates a series of correspondence between agents of Indian Territory and a Cherokee veteran called the Whale, a warrior who was promised a ceremonial rifle and silver medal and was belatedly honored for his contribution.
Date: Winter 1978
Creator: Agnew, Brad
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Sustaining the Cherokee's Lamp of Enlightenment: The Establishment of Northeastern State Normal School

Description: Article describes the political and social process of convincing the legislature to place one of the state's normal schools, or teachers' colleges, in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. By this process local citizens of Tahlequah secured Northeastern State Normal School for their town.
Date: Winter 2008
Creator: Agnew, Brad
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Voices from the Land Run of 1889

Description: Article describes the opening of Unassigned Lands in Oklahoma by the federal government, and the land run that followed in 1889 by pioneers hoping to score land to homestead. Brad Agnew includes documentation of personal accounts from those who participated or observed the event, and provides historical context for the motivations of settlers.
Date: Spring 1989
Creator: Agnew, Brad
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Wagoner, I.T. "Queen City of the Prairies"

Description: Article describes the founding and growth of the City of Wagoner in the wake of its upcoming centennial. Brad Agnew discusses the conflict that occurred as one of the towns in Indian Territory attempted to achieve self-determination in a diverse area, the education system that evolved there, and the crime that threatened Wagoner's railroads.
Date: Winter 1986
Creator: Agnew, Brad
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Tragedy of the Goingsnake District: The Shoot-out at Zeke Proctor's Trial

Description: Article illustrates the events leading up to the tragedy at Goingsnake courthouse, a shootout between a group of Cherokees and a group of U.S. marshals that originated from a family feud. Kelley Agnew, winner of the National History Day Competition of 1986, provides a vivid portrait of the situation and the two men who led the groups involved, Ezekial Proctor and White Sut Beck.
Date: Autumn 1986
Creator: Agnew, Kelley
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Recollections of My Early Life

Description: Article describes the upbringing of Carl B. Albert, Oklahoma Congressman and Speaker of the House at the time the article was published, in North McAlester, Oklahoma. Albert shares his personal reminisces of his early home and his father's mining work.
Date: Spring 1974
Creator: Albert, Carl Bert
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

We Had Everything But Money

Description: Article describes the life of Congressmen Carl Albert and the environment and motivations that led him to seek political office in an autobiographical recollection. Albert provides a rich portrait of his family and upbringing in Bug Tussle, a rural school district in Oklahoma.
Date: Summer 1988
Creator: Albert, Carl Bert & Goble, Danney
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

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

Notes and Documents, Spring 1955

Description: Notes and Documents column including a letter about an overland journey from Jefferson City to Fort Gibson in 1858, a document about the memory for Mary Greenleaf, a poem by John Walter Sams about "The Ghost of Wapanucka," and a resolution in memory of Oklahoma poet Lynn Riggs.
Date: Spring 1955
Creator: Aligator; Shirk, George H. & Sams, John Walter
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Notes and Documents, Winter 1970-71

Description: Notes and Documents column including a narrative of a historical train trip through northern and eastern states, correspondence between the society's president and the letter's author regarding the making of the account, a chronicle of the history of the oldest boarding school operated in the United States called the Riverside Indian School, and an Oklahoma weather report.
Date: Winter 1970
Creator: Allen, Edward Philip; Hanger, Tommie P. & Whiteford, G.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

The Horseless Carriage Rolls into Oklahoma

Description: Article describes the history of the automobile industry in Oklahoma, focusing on six companies that began producing automobiles in the early 1900s and the advertising methods they used to promote their vehicles.
Date: Winter 2016
Creator: Allen, Gene; Boulton, Don & Davis, Ted R.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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