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“The Indian Character”: Cross-cultural Relations in Indian Territory after the Civil War (open access)

“The Indian Character”: Cross-cultural Relations in Indian Territory after the Civil War

Article uses the Indian-Pioneer papers to show a more congenial relationship between white settlers and American Indian residents in Indian Territory.
Date: Autumn 2013
Creator: Motes, K. D.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Notes and Documents, Winter 1968-69 (open access)

Notes and Documents, Winter 1968-69

Notes and Documents column including an announcement regarding department changes for the history department at Oklahoma State University and a list of books received by the Historical Society for the past year.
Date: Winter 1968
Creator: Knight, Homer L.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
World War II and the Story of Douglas Aircraft Plants in Tulsa and Midwest City (open access)

World War II and the Story of Douglas Aircraft Plants in Tulsa and Midwest City

Article describes the history of military aircraft construction in Oklahoma during World War II, focusing on two Douglas Aircraft plants in Tulsa and Midwest City and the communities surrounding them.
Date: Winter 2017
Creator: Wikle, Thomas A.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Buffalo Valley: An Osage Hunting Ground (open access)

Buffalo Valley: An Osage Hunting Ground

Article describes the area known as Buffalo Valley, a hunting ground of the Osage Nation initially encountered by General Henry Leavenworth's Dragoon unit on a peace-making mission. Orel Busby describes landmarks in the region and the leaders of the Osage at the time.
Date: Spring 1962
Creator: Busby, Orel
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Young Ardmore (open access)

Young Ardmore

Article describes the growth and development of Ardmore, Oklahoma. Julia K. Sparger discusses the tribes the originally occupied the area, ranching in Ardmore, the introduction of railroads, and the oil industry there.
Date: Winter 1965
Creator: Sparger, Julia K.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Bygone Spas: The Rise and Decay of Oklahoma's Radium Water (open access)

Bygone Spas: The Rise and Decay of Oklahoma's Radium Water

Article describes the development of the radium water industry in northeastern Oklahoma. Marjorie Malley details the origins of the water's popularity and the growth of the industry through bathhouses and bottled water, as well as the twists and turns the myth behind it underwent throughout the early 20th century.
Date: Winter 2002
Creator: Malley, Marjorie
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Seneca Sub-Agency, 1832-1838 (open access)

Seneca Sub-Agency, 1832-1838

Article describes the history of the Seneca Sub-Agency, established after a group of Senecas were removed to the Ottawa and Delaware Counties of Oklahoma in the Antebellum period. Frank H. Harris discusses government relations with the groups and the agents that worked on their behalf.
Date: Summer 1964
Creator: Harris, Frank H.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Butterfield Overland Mail One Hundred Years Ago (open access)

The Butterfield Overland Mail One Hundred Years Ago

Article discusses the creation of the Butterfield Overland Mail Route and its development. Muriel H. Wright explores how mail was transported by railroad and stagecoaches across the route, and the events that impacted the route's success.
Date: Spring 1957
Creator: Wright, Muriel H. (Muriel Hazel), 1889-1975
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Marine Debris: Session 3, Ingestion by Marine Life (open access)

Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Marine Debris: Session 3, Ingestion by Marine Life

Compilation of papers presented during the third session of the Second International Conference on Marine Debris, held by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Hawaii, April 1989. This session includes 151 papers describing various impacts that debris ingestion has on marine animals and the environment.
Date: 1990
Creator: Shomura, R. S. & Godfrey, M. L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Notes and Documents, March 1941 (open access)

Notes and Documents, March 1941

Notes and Documents column including a note regarding the life and career of the editor of the Northern Standard, Charles Denny Morse; a note on the society's contributions to a high school project; a note on the history of Park Hill; and the minutes for the quarterly meeting of the Board of Director of the Oklahoma Historical Society held on January 23, 1941.
Date: Spring 1941
Creator: Morrison, James D. & Whitman, Louise
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Habitat Quantity of Red-Cockaded Woodpecker Picoides Borealis (Aves: Piciformes: Picidae) in its Former Historic Landscape Near the Big Thicket Naitonal Preserve, Texas, USA (open access)

Habitat Quantity of Red-Cockaded Woodpecker Picoides Borealis (Aves: Piciformes: Picidae) in its Former Historic Landscape Near the Big Thicket Naitonal Preserve, Texas, USA

This article quantifies pine-forested habitat suitable for Red-cockaded Woodpecker in the former historic range of the species to assess the potential for possible re-colonization.
Date: January 26, 2016
Creator: Thapa, Vivek & Acevedo, Miguel F.
System: The UNT Digital Library
For the Record, Fall 1975 (open access)

For the Record, Fall 1975

For the Record section including the minutes of the annual board meeting Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society, memorial addresses, the minutes of the quarterly board meeting of the Board of Directors of the OHS, a gift list for the first quarter of 1975, and lists of new annual and new life members of the OHS.
Date: Autumn 1975
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Motifs of Passage into Worlds Imaginary and Fantastic (open access)

Motifs of Passage into Worlds Imaginary and Fantastic

Article matching phenomena associated with the passage into otherworlds as reported during out-of-body and near-death experiences, with imagery associated with the passage into otherworlds as depicted in classic modern fantasies and fairy tales.
Date: Summer 1992
Creator: Greene, F. Gordon
System: The UNT Digital Library
Low neutral genetic diversity in isolated Greater Sage-Grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) populations in northwest Wyoming (open access)

Low neutral genetic diversity in isolated Greater Sage-Grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) populations in northwest Wyoming

This article contains an analysis of 16 microstatellite loci from 300 Greater Sage-Grouse individuals to assess genetic structure among populations in Wyoming and southeast Montana.
Date: March 26, 2014
Creator: Schulwitz, Sarah; Bedrosian, Bryan & Johnson, Jeff A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Meeting of Conquerors: Art Goebel and Charles Lindbergh in Tulsa, 1927 (open access)

A Meeting of Conquerors: Art Goebel and Charles Lindbergh in Tulsa, 1927

Article recounts the meeting of Art Gobel and Charles A. Lindbergh in Tulsa in September 1927. Both aviators, Goebel was known as "The Conqueror of the Pacific," while Lindbergh was "The Conqueror of the Atlantic." Their meeting and behavior toward Oklahomans revealed much about each man's character and personality and about the American practice of hero making.
Date: Spring 2007
Creator: Hedglen, Thomas
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Creek Indian Agents, 1834-1874 (open access)

Creek Indian Agents, 1834-1874

Article details the actions taken by Indian Affairs Agents to monitor and manage the Creeks within Indian Territory from 1834 to 1874.
Date: Spring 1973
Creator: Boyd, Joel D.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Notes and Documents, Spring 1973 (open access)

Notes and Documents, Spring 1973

Notes and Documents column including a note about the historic site of Webbers Falls, a history of the railroad being built through this site, and a list of books catalogued by the library of the Oklahoma Historical Society.
Date: Spring 1973
Creator: McFadden, Marguerite
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Notes and Documents, December 1940 (open access)

Notes and Documents, December 1940

Notes and Documents column including notes regarding the collection of narratives from people who lived during Oklahoma's pioneering days, excerpts from those narratives, and the minutes for the quarterly meeting of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society held on October 24, 1940.
Date: Winter 1940
Creator: Foreman, Grant
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Nathan Boone: Trapper, Manufacturer, Surveyor, Militiaman, Legislator, Ranger, and Dragoon (open access)

Nathan Boone: Trapper, Manufacturer, Surveyor, Militiaman, Legislator, Ranger, and Dragoon

Article chronicles the life and career of Nathan Boone as he worked within the United States ' Dragoon regiment, surveyed the western frontier, and served his community as a legislator.
Date: Winter 1941
Creator: Foreman, Carolyn Thomas, 1872-1967
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
"Let the People Rule": William Jennings Bryan and the Oklahoma Constitution (open access)

"Let the People Rule": William Jennings Bryan and the Oklahoma Constitution

Article illustrates the influence of Democratic presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan on the Oklahoma Constitution and Constitutional Convention. Robert D. Lewallen explores Bryan's political career as well as his populist beliefs, and the way populism was received by society at the time.
Date: Autumn 1995
Creator: Lewallen, Robert D.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Notes and Documents, Spring 1957 (open access)

Notes and Documents, Spring 1957

Notes and Documents column including a note about a new booklet published by the OHS, a document about the settlement of No Man's Land, a reprint of notes about the creation of a bridge across the Red River, a document about the flags raised in Oklahoma Territory, and a detailed set of instructions for the route of the Washington Irving Trail tour written by George H. Shirk.
Date: Spring 1957
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Armstrongs of Indian Territory, Part II: William Armstrong (open access)

The Armstrongs of Indian Territory, Part II: William Armstrong

Article discusses the life and career of William Armstrong, who was appointed Special Agent and Superintendent for the removal of the Choctaws to Indian Territory. Carolyn Thomas Foreman explores the struggles Armstrong and the Choctaws faced on their journey west, and the reports Armstrong made about government relations with the tribes of North America.
Date: Winter 1952
Creator: Foreman, Carolyn Thomas, 1872-1967
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Roster of registered Architects (open access)

Roster of registered Architects

This report includes the Roster of registered Architects as of October 1980.
Date: October 1980
Creator: Texas Board of Architectural Examiners
System: The Portal to Texas History
Family Reunions: Visionary Encounters with the Departed in a Modern-Day Psychomanteum (open access)

Family Reunions: Visionary Encounters with the Departed in a Modern-Day Psychomanteum

Article describing a modern attempt to recreate the psychomanteum. Like near-death experiences, visionary encounters in this modern psychomanteum are experienced as real and not as hallucinatory, and have profound personal aftereffects. This novel experimental technique may permit the scientific study of phenomena that previously occurred only spontaneously and under uncontrolled circumstances.
Date: Winter 1992
Creator: Moody, Raymond A., Jr.
System: The UNT Digital Library