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Rex Brinlee: The Man and His Escape

Description: This article tells the story of notorious criminal Rex Brinlee, who is best known for his multiple escapes from the Oklahoma State Penitentiary. The article interweaves the details of his crimes with larger state events, including the McAlester Prison Riot.
Date: Summer 2013
Creator: Reavis, Jack Anthony
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Park Hill's Ross Cemetery

Description: Article relates the results of the survey that took place in Fall 2000 and Spring 2001 by Lois E. Wilson Albert and members of the Oklahoma Anthropological Society to thoroughly document the Ross Cemetery at Park Hill for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places. The Ross Cemetery contains the remains of members of one of the most prominent Cherokee families of the nineteenth century.
Date: Spring 2013
Creator: Wilson Albert, Lois E.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Notes and Documents, Winter 2012-13

Description: Notes and Documents column including James G. McCullagh's "Mayme Jane Starr (1879-1901): A "Cherokee Rose Bud" and Her Family Remembered," a short article that remembers the life of Mayme Jane Starr, a Cherokee woman and educator at Cherokee National Female Seminary.
Date: Winter 2012
Creator: McCullagh, James G.
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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

From Termination to Self-Determination: Indian Health in Oklahoma, 1954-1980, Part 2

Description: The second part of this two-part article continues the evaluation of the problems in Indian healthcare and the campaign led by Senators Fred Harris and Dewey Bartlett to correct a record of neglect. The healthcare problem after 1970 was linked to a new federal policy of tribal self-determination.
Date: Spring 2008
Creator: Lowitt, Richard, 1922-2018
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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

The Park Hill Mission: Letters from a Missionary Family

Description: Article describes the lives of Reverend Joseph Leiper, wife Fanny Leiper, and Joseph's aunt Margeret McCarrell in their lives as Presbyterian missionaries running the Park Hill Mission, which functioned as both a church and a school for Cherokee residents of the area. Krisitna L. Southwell also describes the founding of the McCarrell Institute, one of the only schools for African American children in the area at the time.
Date: Summer 2000
Creator: Southwell, Kristina L.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Diana, Tiana, or Talihina? The Myth and Mystery of Sam Houston's Cherokee Wife

Description: Article examines the identity of Sam Houston's part-Cherokee wife, who has been attributed several different names in historical documentation related to her existence. Stan Hoig investigates the women who might have possibly been confused with Diana, Tiana, or Talahina Houston, as well as how this confusion left its mark on a grave.
Date: Summer 1986
Creator: Hoig, Stan
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

The Final Campaign: The Confederate Offensive of 1864

Description: Article details the campaign of Confederate Major General Samuel Bell Maxey against the federal army at Forts Smith and Gibson in Indian Territory. Tom Franzmann attests that the campaign is often overlooked in Oklahoma history and requires a more thorough exposure to determine its effectiveness.
Date: Autumn 1985
Creator: Franzmann, Tom L.
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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

Northeastern's Seminary Hall

Description: Article chronicles the history of the building that hosted Seminary Hall, the first co-educational public seminary school in the world, located on the Northeastern State College campus.
Date: Winter 1973
Creator: Halliburton, R., Jr.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Homesteading the Strip

Description: Article chronicles how the United States government opened the land called Cherokee Strip for settlement and the ensuing struggles of the settlers and the American Indians who lived there.
Date: Autumn 1973
Creator: Lucas, Robert C. & Gilstrap, Lucille
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Intruders at Chilocco

Description: Article details how the United States government created the Chilocco Indian School within contested borders of the Cherokee Nation.
Date: Summer 1972
Creator: Savage, William W., Jr.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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