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Notes and Documents, Spring 2000

Description: Notes and Documents column including an article honoring Donald J. Berthrong, who was inducted into the annual Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame in 1999. It also includes a short article describing the Oklahoma State Museum of History's acquisition of barrels of emergency supplies originally manufactured by the Civil Defense Agency of the Department of Defense due to fears of atomic attacks on America after WWII and during the Cold War.
Date: Spring 2000
Creator: Blackburn, Bob L. & Bell, Michael
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Notes and Documents, Winter 2000-01

Description: Notes and Documents column including a document honoring Mildred Imach Cleghorn, who was inducted into the annual Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame in 2000. It describes her upbringing, education, community involvement, and the cultural heritage project she began.
Date: Winter 2000
Creator: Blochowiak, Mary Ann
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Notes and Documents, Fall 2000

Description: Notes and Documents column including a short biographical sketch of Wilbur S. Nye, who was inducted into the annual Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame in 2000. It also includes "Development and Land Use of the Oklahoma Landmarks Inventory," a short article which describes the project to computerize the entire Oklahoma Landmarks Inventory database, which held the State Historic Preservation Office's information on buildings, sites, districts, structures, and objects across the Oklahoma.
Date: Autumn 2000
Creator: Blochowiak, Mary Ann & Heisch, Melvena Thurman
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Notes and Documents, Summer 2000

Description: Notes and Documents column including a document honoring Carl Coke Rister, who was inducted into the annual Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame in 2000. It also includes a short document describing the Civil War cavalry jacket of Louis McLane Hamilton, held by the State Museum of History.
Date: Summer 2000
Creator: Blochowiak, Mary Ann & Reed, Joseph M.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Tams Bixby: Doing Government Business in the Gilded Age

Description: Article takes a close look at the troubled tenure of Tams Bixby, who had the job of distributing millions of dollars of tribal property as part of the Dawes Commission. The task of enrolling and allotting land to members of the Five Civilized Tribes was a process marked by controversy and charges of corruption.
Date: Winter 2000
Creator: Carter, Kent
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Fort Sill, the Chiricahua Apaches, and the Government's Promise of Permanent Residence

Description: The Chiricahua Apaches spent nineteen years (1894-1913) as prisoners of war at Fort Sill in southwestern Oklahoma believing they had been promised permanent residency. This article addresses the rationale behind the government's decision to remove the Apaches from Fort Sill and explores the record to show why the Apaches and others believed they had been promised permanent residency there.
Date: Spring 2000
Creator: Haes, Brenda L.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

"The Panther's Scream is Often Heard": Cherokee Women in Indian Territory during the Civil War

Description: The Civil War and intertribal factionalism in the Cherokee Nation left one-third of women as widows and one-fourth of the children as orphans by 1863. This article is a careful examination of the lives of many Cherokee women in which the author concludes that while the crisis may have empowered women, it also led to a crisis of identity for elite women.
Date: Spring 2000
Creator: Johnston, Carolyn Ross
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

The Removal of the Southeastern Indians: Historians Respond to the 1960s and the Trail of Tears

Description: Article analyzes the work of several historians from the 1960s and 1970s. The politics and culture of the 1960s and 1970s played a role in reshaping popular conceptions of Indian America as scholars began to re-investigate Indian-white relations. This article analyzes how that time period affected the interpretations of the removal of the southeastern Indians.
Date: Autumn 2000
Creator: Kelleher, Michael
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

"An anxiety to do right": The Life of Judge John Hazelton Cotteral, 1864-1933

Description: Article provides a portrait of John H. Cotteral, the first federal judge for the Western District of Oklahoma and the first Oklahoman to occupy the bench of the circuit court of appeals. The article explores both the man and the legal opinions he wrote throughout his forty-year career.
Date: Autumn 2000
Creator: Leitch, Kevin C.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Love Gifts for the Bishop: James J. Stewart v. Bishop W. Angie Smith, Part 1

Description: Article discussing the events that led to a church investigating committee when, James J. Stewart, an Albuquerque minister, filed charges against Methodist bishop W. Angie Smith for what he considered abuse of episcopal power. It also discusses the proceedings of the meeting itself and the aftermath.
Date: Spring 2000
Creator: Martin, A. W., Jr.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Inside the School Yard Gate: "Alfalfa Bill" Murray and Education in Oklahoma

Description: Article describes the life and political career of William "Alfalfa Bill" Murray and his efforts to promote free access to education and textbooks in the Oklahoma public school system. Karen McKellips illuminates the contrast between his progressive political and economic views on reform and his support of racial segregation.
Date: Winter 2000
Creator: McKellips, Karen
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

For the Record, Fall 2000

Description: For the Record section including the Minutes of the Quarterly Board Meeting of the Oklahoma Historical Society that was held on April 20, 2000, and the Minutes of the Annual Meeting of the Membership that was held on April 21, 2000.
Date: Autumn 2000
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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