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Letters of the Two Boudinots (open access)

Letters of the Two Boudinots

Article chronicles the life of Elias Boudinot through letters written between him and his family members. Boudinot was the editor of the Cherokee Phoenix newspaper and the subject of an interracial marriage scandal within a mission school.
Date: Autumn 1928
Creator: Dale, Edward Everett
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Fort Arbuckle (open access)

Fort Arbuckle

Article chronicles the establishment of Fort Arbuckle, a military post built to protect the Choctaw Nation from the Chickasaw Nation and to protect emigrants on their way to California.
Date: Spring 1928
Creator: Morrison, W. B.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Necrology, June 1928 (open access)

Necrology, June 1928

Column documenting biographical information about Oklahomans who have died, including Peter P. Pitchlynn, chief of the Choctaws; Albert G. Cochran, a teacher; Ambers Lafayette Bennett, a service man and politician; Joel B. Mayes, a teacher; Emory David Brownlee, a county judge and state senator; George McQuaid, a newspaper man; Robert M. Harris, governor of the Chickasaw Nation; Samuel Houston Mayes, former principal chief of the Cherokee Nation; Calvin Luther (Lute) Herbert, a lawyer; Theodore F. Brewer, a preacher and president of a university; and, James Joseph McGraw, a banker and politician.
Date: Summer 1928
Creator: Latta, Tom A.; Conlan, Czarina C.; Thoburn, Joseph B. & Oklahoma Historical Society
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History