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For the Record, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 89, Number 2, Summer 2011

Description: For the Record section from Volume 89, Number 2, Summer 2011. 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, 2011.
Date: Summer 2011
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
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.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Early Cinema and Oklahoma

Description: Article illuminates the early history of cinema in Oklahoma. Oklahoma's most sustained period of high-profile filmmaking occurred during the early cinema period, those years before 1915, and had an emphasis on authenticity which meant shooting on location in the Sooner State, often with legendary outlaws recreating their old crimes.
Date: Winter 2011
Creator: Rhodes, Gary D.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Oklahoma in James Bryce's The American Commonwealth

Description: Article presents an analysis of James Bryce's discussion of the Oklahoma Constitution and provides a new perspective on the political climate of the statehood era.
Date: Summer 2014
Creator: Taylor, Quentin
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Dean A. McGee: Genius with Guts

Description: Article examines the philanthropic contributions of Dean A. McGee, geologist and partner in the Kerr-McGee Corporation, to Oklahoma City and Oklahoma in general.
Date: Summer 2014
Creator: Pryse, JA
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Notes and Documents, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 92, Number 2, Summer 2014

Description: Notes and Documents section from Volume 92, Number 2, Summer 2014. It includes a short article honoring Linda Williams Reese and Mary Jane Warde, two of the inductees into the Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame in 2013. It also includes "The Story of the Location of the Capital" that was written by Thomas F. Mechan in 1913 and provides an account of Oklahoma politics during the state's early days.
Date: Summer 2014
Creator: Lambert, Paul F.; Bass, Elizabeth M. B.; McMechan, Thomas F. & Williams, Chad
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Our Place: The One-Hundred-Year-Old Family Farm

Description: This article analyzes several oral history interviews with families who own Centennial Farms and Ranches in Oklahoma. The Centennial Farm and Ranch Program began in 1989 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Land Run of 1889. With an aim to record Oklahoma's agricultural history, librarians with the Oklahoma Oral History Research Program developed the Oklahoma Centennial Farm Families oral history project in collaboration with the Oklahoma Historical Society in 2008.
Date: Autumn 2014
Creator: Finchum, Tanya & Nykolaiszyn, Juliana
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Gridiron Pioneers at the Cherokee National Male Seminary, 1896-1909

Description: Article tells the story of Cherokee National Male Seminary's football team and its players who shaped the legacy of the team and the future of the Cherokee Nation.
Date: Autumn 2014
Creator: McCullagh, James G. & Schmidt, Stephanie
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Notes and Documents, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 92, Number 3, Fall 2014

Description: Notes and Documents section from Volume 92, Number 3, Fall 2014. It includes the previously unknown manuscript titled "The First Week in Oklahoma City" by Angelo C. Scott with an introduction by Chad Williams. The manuscript provides a firsthand account of the creation of Oklahoma City in the days immediately following the Land Run of 1889.
Date: Autumn 2014
Creator: Williams, Chad & Scott, Angelo C.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

For the Record, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 92, Number 3, Fall 2014

Description: For the Record section from Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 92, Number 3, Fall 2014. It includes the Minutes of the Quarterly Board Meeting of the Oklahoma Historical Society that was held on April 23, 2014. It also includes the Minutes of the Meeting of the Membership that was held on April 24, 2014.
Date: Autumn 2014
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Custer's Last Campaign of Sheridan's 1868-69 Winter Offensive

Description: Article explores the written accounts of the Sheridan Winter Offensive campaign of 1868-1869 and provides prospective answers to the nearly 150-year-old question of the route the regiment traveled.
Date: Winter 2012
Creator: Beemer, Rod
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Notes and Documents, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 90, Number 4, Winter 2012-13

Description: Notes and Documents section from Volume 90, Number 4, Winter 2012-13. It includes 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.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

A Separate People: A History of the Oklahoma Amish

Description: Article describes how the resilient people of the Oklahoma Amish have maintained their lifestyle in Oklahoma through 120 years of environmental and technological change.
Date: Winter 2012
Creator: Kroeker, Marvin E., 1928-
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Civilized Captivity: Camp Gruber's Prisoner of War Camp

Description: This article describes the life of German prisoners of war as recorded in oral histories by the men who experienced incarceration at Camp Gruber, located near Braggs, Oklahoma.
Date: Summer 2015
Creator: Riley, Trent
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

The Early Chisholm Trail to Abilene, Kansas, 1867-71

Description: Article describes the path of the Chisholm Trail from 1867 to 1871. There were two pathways used by Texas trail drivers to Kansas. One route is well-documented and depicted on modern maps as the "Chisholm Trail." This article demonstrates that a more easterly route was the first route used to trail herds to Abilene, Kansas, from 1867 to 1871.
Date: Summer 2015
Creator: Kraisinger, Gary & Kraisinger, Margaret
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

"This Faithfulness Destroyed Them": The Failure of Grant's Peace Policy Among the Kiowas and Comanches

Description: Article describes the execution of American Indian policy under President Ulysses S. Grant. In his attempts to remove corruption from the Office of Indian Affairs, President Ulysses S. Grant involved Christian denominations, including the Society of Friends, in the execution of American Indian policy. The author argues that the Quaker's Peace Policy not only failed, but never had a chance of success among the Kiowas and Comanches.
Date: Summer 2015
Creator: White, Wayne A.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Notes and Documents, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 93, Number 2, Summer 2015

Description: Notes and Documents section from Volume 93, Number 2, Summer 2015. It includes Katie Bush's "The Oklahoma City Motorcycle Club," a short article describing the historical impact of the Oklahoma City Motorcycle Club and including various historic photographs related to the club.
Date: Summer 2015
Creator: Bush, Katie
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

For the Record, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 88, Number 4, Winter 2010-11

Description: For the Record section from Volume 88, Number 4, Winter 2010-11. It includes the minutes of the regular quarterly board meeting of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society that was held on July 28, 2010.
Date: Winter 2010
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

For the Record, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 88, Number 1, Spring 2010

Description: For the Record Section from Volume 88, Number 1, Spring 2010. It presents the minutes from the regular quarterly meeting of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society that was called to order by the president, James Waldo, at 1:30pm., Wednesday, October 28, 2009.
Date: Spring 2010
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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