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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
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Jack C. Montgomery: A Little Big Man

Description: Article documents the life of Jack Montgomery and recalls his service with the Forty-fifth Infantry Division in World War II, where he received the Medal of Honor for his actions during the war.
Date: Winter 2004
Creator: Bean, Christopher B.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Elizabeth Fulton Hester

Description: Article chronicles the life of Elizabeth Fulton Hester, the oldest resident of Muskogee, Oklahoma when this article was created. Mrs. Hester was a teacher within Indian Territory and a nurse during the Civil War.
Date: Winter 1928
Creator: Bostic, E. McCurdy
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

The Restoration of Old Fort Gibson

Description: Article details the history of Old Fort Gibson Military Reservation, as well as the restoration process that occurred about a decade later to reconstruct the old fort as Fort Gibson Military Park. Q. B. Boydstun delivers information from firsthand experience as chairman of the reconstruction commission.
Date: Summer 1980
Creator: Boydstun, Q. B.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Notes and Documents, Summer 1968

Description: Notes and Documents column including a transcript of an interview with Harry H. Adams recounting his time in the traveling Brush Court and an explanation of the appointment of General John Nicks being appointed vice president for Independence Day at Fort Gibson.
Date: Summer 1968
Creator: Buchanan, James S. & Smith, Mrs. Melvin
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Notes and Documents, Autumn 1968

Description: Notes and Documents column including a history of the establishment of the "4-D" school in the Cherokee Strip, an account of a fire that destroyed the Spaulding Institute, and a letter detailing the life of a Creek boy while attending school at the Kowetah Mission.
Date: Autumn 1968
Creator: Butts, Ferrol Ellis; Robinson, Ella M. & Barnett, Charles
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Antisuffragist. Antifeminist! Pro-women? The Anomalous Alice Mary Robertson

Description: Article examining Oklahoma's first woman representative in the United States Congress, Alice Mary Robertson. In this article Robertson's attitudes toward suffrage, feminism, and women at home and in politics, are explored.
Date: Spring 2010
Creator: Caldwell, Deah
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

A Reading Room of Their Own: Library Services for African Americans in Oklahoma, 1907-1946

Description: Article discussing the struggles African American Oklahomans faced for access to public library services. The first forty years of statehood brought a few successes, and by mid-century only eleven communities provided a public library facility for the state's black citizens.
Date: Autumn 2006
Creator: Cassity, R. O. Joe, Jr.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Alexander Lawrence Posey

Description: Article details the life and lineage of renowned Creek poet Alexander Lawrence Posey as he became a political and educational leader.
Date: Winter 1933
Creator: Challacombe, Doris
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Fort Blunt Civil War Fortifications

Description: Article provides historical context for the fortification of Fort Gibson, previously named Fort Blunt by Union soldiers, through examination of archaeological evidence from the Civil War era.
Date: Autumn 2017
Creator: Cole, Robert L.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

One Succeeded, One Did Not: Bacone College and the Oklahoma Presbyterian College, 1910-80

Description: Article explores the success and failure of two American Indian institutions of higher education; Bacone College and Oklahoma Presbyterian College. While Bacone still serves students in the twenty-first century, Oklahoma Presbyterian closed in the 1960s. This article identifies the reasons why Bacone survived, and Oklahoma Presbyterian College did not.
Date: Spring 2013
Creator: Crum, Steven J.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Annual Meeting of the Oklahoma Historical Society

Description: Article details the events that transpired at the annual meeting of the Oklahoma Historical Society that was held on April 18 and 19, 1934.
Date: Summer 1934
Creator: Estill-Harbour, Emma
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Notes from the Diary of Susan E. Foreman

Description: Article illustrates the daily life of Susan E. Foreman as she teaches at the neighborhood Cherokee school in Webber's Fall during the Civil War.
Date: Winter 1969
Creator: Finley, Linda
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Gen. James M. Shackelford

Description: Article chronicles the military career of Judge James M. Shackleford who established the first United States Court within Indian Territory.
Date: Spring 1934
Creator: Foreman, Carolyn Thomas, 1872-1967
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

General Eli Lundy Huggins

Description: Article chronicles the life and accomplishments of General Eli Lundy Huggins. The general worked within the United States Army during the Civil War, the Philippine Insurrection, the Boxer Uprising in China, and in Indian Territory.
Date: Autumn 1935
Creator: Foreman, Carolyn Thomas, 1872-1967
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Military Discipline in Early Oklahoma

Description: Article details the punishments soldiers received for "drunkenness" and "disorderly conduct" while stationed at military forts during the early 19th century.
Date: Summer 1928
Creator: Foreman, Carolyn Thomas, 1872-1967
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

The Centennial of Fort Gibson

Description: Article details the historical conflicts surrounding Fort Gibson including its establishment and centennial celebration.
Date: Summer 1924
Creator: Foreman, Grant
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Clarence W. Turner

Description: Article honors Clarence W. Turner, owner of the Turner Hardware Company. Through his company's success, Turner was integral to the prosperity of Muskogee County and the Indian Territory.
Date: Spring 1932
Creator: Foreman, Grant
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Editorials and Notes: Historic Fort Gibson

Description: Article is a resolution made my the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society to dismantle Fort Gibson while establishing efforts to preserve the site's artifacts and records.
Date: Autumn 1933
Creator: Foreman, Grant
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Historical Marker at Three Forks

Description: Article explains why the Muskogee Indian Territory Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution erected a monument on the bank of the Verdigris River.
Date: Spring 1933
Creator: Foreman, Grant
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Oklahoma's First Court

Description: Article details the opening day of the first court established within Indian Territory by the United States Government.
Date: Winter 1935
Creator: Foreman, Grant
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

The Lost Captain: J. L. Dawson of Old Fort Gibson

Description: Article narrates the life and accomplishments of Captain James Lowes Dawson as told through correspondences made between his close associates, family members, and the federal government while he worked in Fort Gibson.
Date: Autumn 1943
Creator: Gardner, James Henry
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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