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Some Firsts in Lincoln County

Description: Article traces the history of Lincoln County and its leaders and inhabitants. Hobart D. Ragland discusses some of the first buildings constructed in the county, which included the Sac and Fox Agency and the Wellston Trading Post.
Date: Winter 1951
Creator: Ragland, Hobart D.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Frank Vlasak and the Beginnings of Prague, Oklahoma

Description: Article explores the relationship between ethnicity and political power through the person of Frank Vlasak, a Bohemian-born farmer and businessman in early Prague, Oklahoma.
Date: Winter 2011
Creator: Smith, Philip D.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Memoirs of Oklahoma

Description: Article includes the memoires of Kittie M. Harvey, a pioneer woman who moved to Oklahoma Territory with her family and became a music teacher and helped run the small post office in Chandler. Harvey discusses life there and in Oklahoma City, and the people she and her husband Will Harvey interacted with.
Date: Spring 1957
Creator: Harvey, Kittie M.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

"The Only Way" Church Sac & Fox Indians

Description: Article describes the history of government relations with the Sac and Foxes, the establishment of the Sac and Fox Agency, and the history of the "Only Way" church attended by the author.
Date: Winter 1965
Creator: House, R. Morton
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

The Only Show in Town: Ellen Whitmore Mohrbacher's Savoy Theatre

Description: Article illustrates the life of Ellen Whitmore Mohrbacher, a prominent businesswoman of Prague, Oklahoma. Mohrbacher's successes running the Savoy Theatre and high standards she upheld for the films shown there are chronicled here.
Date: Autumn 1982
Creator: Pieroth, Doris Hinson
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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