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A Strong and Sturdy Vessel: A History of Bristow Junior College

Description: Article details the founding, faculty, students, and curriculum at Bristow Junior college from the years 1928-1951. As an important landmark in the Bristow Public Schools System, the school is remembered and appreciated.
Date: Summer 2005
Creator: Caudle, Letha
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Lela L. Barnett: An Oklahoma WAC in World War II Italy

Description: Article describes the life of Lela Barnett, one of the first members of the Women's Army Corps during World War II, through letters sent home to her mother. From training and service in Italy, to her adventures as a civilian employee, to her eventual return to Oklahoma to work as a librarian at Fort Sill, Ralph Gregory Barnett records his aunt's eventful life.
Date: Autumn 2005
Creator: Beil, Raph Gregory
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

"The Land Is Always With Us": Removal, Allotment, and Industrial Development and Their Effects on Ponca Tribalism

Description: Article describes how developments like removal, land allotment, and the development of the oil and gas industry undermined the relationship the Ponca tribe had with their lands, and the way the Poncas coped with the broken treaties, divisions within the tribes over land-related decisions, and damage done by neighboring towns that cropped up with the increase in industrial growth.
Date: Autumn 2005
Creator: van de Logt, Mark
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

The "Come-As-You-Are" War: Fort Sill and the Persian Gulf Crisis of 1990-1991

Description: Article illustrates the resilience and quick adaption to rapid change Fort Sill employed during the Persian Gulf Crisis, mobilizing large groups of soldiers during Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. Demands for personnel, training, and equipment were high during this time, and Boyd L. Dastrup describes the situation at the army post.
Date: Summer 2005
Creator: Dastrup, Boyd L.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

"The Indian Home is Undone": Anglo Intrusion, Colonization, and the Creek Nation, 1867-1907

Description: Article describes the history of Anglo-American intrusion and colonization of Creek lands within Indian Territory in Oklahoma, as well as the response of the Creek Nation in the face of interference, forced relocation, and allotments. Douglas A. Hurt describes the way the Creeks strengthened their communities during a time of unrest.
Date: Summer 2005
Creator: Hurt, Douglas A.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

"An Indian Shall Not spill an Indian's Blood": The Confederate-Indian Conference at Camp Napoleon, 1865

Description: Article provides a thorough discussion of the conference at Camp Napoleon, one of the largest intertribal gatherings in Indian Territory. In 1865, the Five Civilized Tribes, allies of the Confederacy, undertook efforts to negotiate and make peace with the Plains tribes at the close of the Civil War.
Date: Spring 2005
Creator: Clampitt, Brad R.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

"We Bind Ourselves Together": A History of the Oklahoma Student Librarians Association

Description: Article covers the history of state student library associations from the 1940s to 1980s with a particular emphasis on the Oklahoma Student Librarians Association. In addition to details like the organization of these associations and the newsletters/handbooks they put out, Jeffrey M. Wilhite elaborates on the benefits they brought to students and libraries.
Date: Autumn 2005
Creator: Wilhite, Jeffrey M.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Change the Stars: The Story of the Youngblood Hotel of Enid, Oklahoma

Description: Article covers the construction and history of the Youngblood Hotel, an eminent establishment of Enid, Oklahoma in the early and mid-nineteenth century. Jennifer Jones details the plans and management of Lawrence S. Youngblood and his partners, design of the hotel itself, the dark side to its history, and its eventual conversion into an office building.
Date: Summer 2005
Creator: Jones, Jennifer
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

For the Record, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 83, Number 3, Fall 2005

Description: For the Record section for Volume 83, Number 3, Fall 2005. It includes the minutes of the regular quarterly board meeting of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society that was held on April 28, 2005. It also includes the minutes of the annual meeting of the membership of the Oklahoma Historical Society that was held on April 29, 2005.
Date: Autumn 2005
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

For the Record, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 83, Number 2, Summer 2005

Description: For the Record section for Volume 83, Number 2, Summer 2005. It includes the minutes of the regular quarterly board meeting of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society that was held on January 26, 2005.
Date: Summer 2005
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Researching Tom Joad: John Steinbeck, Journalist, 1936

Description: Article examines John Steinbeck's brief career as a depression-era journalist and his nonfiction work on the working conditions of migrant laborers in California that inspired his greatest literary achievement, The Grapes of Wrath.
Date: Spring 2005
Creator: Bailey, Paul
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Notes and Documents, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 83, Number 3, Fall 2005

Description: Notes and Documents section for Volume 83, Number 3, Fall 2005. It includes a document honoring Reba Neighbors Collins, who was inducted into the Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame in 2005. It also includes a document about the first boy scout troop founded in America in Pawhuska, Oklahoma.
Date: Autumn 2005
Creator: Blochowiak, Mary Ann & Haines, Joe D., Jr.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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