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"And The Skies Are Not Cloudy All Day": Drought and the Cherokee Outlet Land Run

Description: This article details the difficulties that settlers of the Cherokee Outlet faced and how they coped with adverse conditions. Many environmental and economic factors contributed to their success or failure, including a major drought on the Southern Plains that coincided with the opening of the Cherokee Outlet in 1893.
Date: Winter 2003
Creator: Sweeney, Kevin Z.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

The Choctaw Chief's House: Oral Tradition and Historical Inaccuracies

Description: Article introduces credible witness reports and documentary evidence, including construction specifications, to support the conclusion that Choctaw Chief Thomas LeFlore's house near Wheelock Mission was the structure built according to the 1830 Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, rather than the house located near Swink, Oklahoma.
Date: Winter 2003
Creator: Coleman, Louis
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

For the Record, Winter 2003-04

Description: For the Record section including the Minutes of the OHS Quarterly Board Meeting that was held on July 23, 2003.
Date: Winter 2003
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Mehan Memories: A Croquet Diamond was the Social Center

Description: Article describes the history of the town of Mehan, Oklahoma, its founding families and businesses, and the town's unique social center--a croquet field. Founded near the turn of the twentieth century, Mehan remained a small, quiet village until an oil boom brought an influx of people to Payne County in the 1920s. Prosperity lasted only until the 1950s, however, when population loss, a devastating flood, and the loss of the railroad initiated Mehan's decline.
Date: Winter 2003
Creator: Newsom, D. Earl
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Notes and Documents, Winter 2003-04

Description: Notes and Documents column including "Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame: William T. Hagan," which provides a short biographical sketch of William T. Hagan, inductee into the Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame in 2003.
Date: Winter 2003
Creator: Blochowiak, Mary Ann
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

For the Record, Fall 2003

Description: For the Record section including the minutes of the OHS quarterly board meeting that was held on April 24, 2003, and the minutes of the annual meeting of the OHS mqembership that was held on April 25, 2003.
Date: Autumn 2003
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

From Tramp Reporting to Pulitzer Prize: Enid's Own Marquis James

Description: Article describes the life and career of tramp reporter turned two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Marquis James. Paul S. Vickery highlights the author's autobiographical book about the Cherokee Strip, which explored his boyhood experiences in Enid, Oklahoma.
Date: Autumn 2003
Creator: Vickery, Paul S.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

George Catlin and Archaeology: Data Drawn from the Canvas

Description: Article compares artistic evidence of the occupation of historic locations in Oklahoma by American Indian tribes in the form of George Catlin's artwork with the archeological findings in those areas. Cinnamon Catlin-Legutko gleans information about the acculturation within the Osage, Choctaw, Cherokee, and Creek tribes during the removal period.
Date: Autumn 2003
Creator: Catlin-Legutko, Cinnamon
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Notes and Documents, Fall 2003

Description: Notes and Documents column including a short biographical sketch of Martha Royce Blaine, who was inducted into the Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame in 2003.
Date: Autumn 2003
Creator: Blochowiak, Mary Ann
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

The Poor Red Man and the Great Father: Choctaw Rhetoric, 1540-1860

Description: Article examines the rhetoric of written speeches by Choctaw leaders addressing Euro-American government officials in a post-contact era to determine the nature of the language used. Stephen P. Van Hoak argues that rather than indicating dependency, the Choctaws used self-abasing and respectful language to promote diplomacy and at times protest mistreatment.
Date: Autumn 2003
Creator: Van Hoak, Stephen P.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

"She Would Raise Hens to Aid War": The Contributions of Oklahoma Women during World War I

Description: Article explores the many often-overlooked contributions and achievements of Oklahoma women during World War I. Women organized meetings to create movements to assist war efforts, worked outside the domestic sphere in various occupations, and became involved in industrial growth.
Date: Autumn 2003
Creator: Rich, Melanie
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

The Trials of Will Johnson: Race-blind Justice in the First Year of Oklahoma Statehood

Description: Article describes the state of race relations in Oklahoma during the early 1900s through the examination of the trials, appeals, and execution of Will Johnson, a black man charged with the murder of an elderly white woman. Though African Americans held nearly equal status in the territorial period, the case's proceedings indicate the trial as a "benchmark" that indicated the switch to the rigidity of the Jim Crow era.
Date: Autumn 2003
Creator: Hedglen, Thomas
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Building a New Life: The Polish Settlers of Harrah, Oklahoma

Description: Article details the history of Polish settlers in Oklahoma, from the mass migration that occurred between 1825 and the beginning of World War I, to the founding of Harrah, Oklahoma, to their attempts to preserve Polish culture, heritage, and traditions for future generations. Agnieszka Kemerley explores the reasons for their migration as well as the growth of Harrah itself.
Date: Summer 2003
Creator: Kemerley, Agnieszka
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Capital Punishment and the United States Court for the Indian Territory

Description: Article describes the history of capital punishment in the section of Indian Territory that was attached to Arkansas Territory for judicial purposes. After calling for the creation of a "resident court," a local court was finally established to give inhabitants of Indian Territory jurisdiction over crime in their area, and Von Russell Creel discusses the resulting cases in detail.
Date: Summer 2003
Creator: Creel, Von Russell
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

For the Record, Spring 2003

Description: For the Record section including the minutes of the regular quarterly board meeting of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society that was held on February 19, 2003.
Date: Summer 2003
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

"The Lost Shepherds": Methodist Missionaries among the Ponca Indian Tribe of Oklahoma, 1888-1940

Description: Article describes the efforts of early Methodist Episcopal missionaries to convert members of the Ponca tribe to the Methodist faith and renounce some of their traditional practices after government agents had reported a need for cultural assimilation. Mark van de Logt illuminates the negative bias held towards some Native American traditions and the reasoning of both the missionaries and the Poncas for their actions.
Date: Summer 2003
Creator: van de Logt, Mark
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Notes and Documents, Summer 2003

Description: Notes and Documents column including a document honoring Preston George, who was inducted into the Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame in 2003. It also includes a document which investigates the vague and varied accounts about the killing of George Birdwell, leader of an abortive bank robbery in Boley, Oklahoma.
Date: Summer 2003
Creator: Blochowiak, Mary Ann & Savage, William W., Jr.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

A Faithful Public Servant: J. George Wright and the Five Civilized Tribes

Description: Article covers the life and career of United States Indian Inspector for Indian Territory, J. George Wright, during the land allotment era. Kent Carter provides more detail on the connections Wright made with the Five Tribes as well as his political struggle with Tams Bixby over the position of Commissioner.
Date: Spring 2003
Creator: Carter, Kent
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

For the Record, Spring 2003

Description: For the Record section including the minutes of the regular quarterly board meeting of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society that was held on October 23, 2002.
Date: Spring 2003
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Inside the Store, Inside the Past: A Cultural Analysis of McAlester's General Store

Description: Article discusses the life and entrepreneurship of James J. McAlester, owner of McAlester's General Store, a prominent establishment in the Choctaw Nation in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Linda C. English takes a closer look at the growth and change of the store through its records.
Date: Spring 2003
Creator: English, Linda C.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

L. L. Culver: A Naked Warrior in the Second World War

Description: Article follows the continuation of Ensign L. L. Culver's journey from its first part in the Winter 2002-03 issue of The Chronicles of Oklahoma. Brad Agnew describes Culver's service in the Scouts and Raiders, a joint army-navy unit that participated in World War II amphibious assaults, his military successes, and his return home with the conclusion of the war.
Date: Spring 2003
Creator: Agnew, Brad
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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