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Notes and Documents, March 1927 (open access)

Notes and Documents, March 1927

Notes and Documents column including an appendix composed of an 1870 report on the quality of natural resources, people, and properties found within Indian Territory; an announcement of the creation of the National Board of Geographic Names; the minutes of the annual meeting of the Oklahoma Historical Society held on February 1, 1927; and, the minutes of the meeting of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society held on the same day.
Date: Spring 1927
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
A Journal Kept by Douglas Cooper (open access)

A Journal Kept by Douglas Cooper

Article contains journal entries from the Indian agent Douglas Cooper regarding discussing on how best to protect the Choctaw and Chickasaw tribes under his protect from invading Comanches.
Date: Winter 1927
Creator: Foreman, Grant & Cooper, Douglas
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Early Post Offices of Oklahoma (open access)

Early Post Offices of Oklahoma

Article is a list of post offices located within Oklahoma and Indian Territory during the 19th century.
Date: Spring 1928
Creator: Foreman, Grant
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
Notes and Documents, June 1928 (open access)

Notes and Documents, June 1928

Notes and Documents column including a proposed amendment for the Oklahoma Historical Society's constitution, the minutes of the meeting of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society held on May 1, 1928, and a list of members of the society.
Date: Summer 1928
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Choctaw Academy (open access)

The Choctaw Academy

Article details the establishment of the Choctaw Academy, a mission school that served young Choctaw boys, through correspondence written between faculty and staff.
Date: Winter 1928
Creator: Foreman, Carolyn Thomas, 1872-1967
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Notes and Documents, December 1928 (open access)

Notes and Documents, December 1928

Notes and Documents column including a report made to the Board of Directors of the Historical Society regarding members of the Five Civilized Tribes who fought with the Confederate Army and an index for the volume.
Date: Winter 1928
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Fort Towson (open access)

Fort Towson

Article chronicles the establishment and history of Fort Towson. The fort was established to protect the Choctaw and Chickasaw tribes from invasion.
Date: Summer 1930
Creator: Morrison, W. B.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Necrology, December 1930 (open access)

Necrology, December 1930

Column documenting biographical information about Oklahomans who have died, includingFrank C. Hubbard, an organizer for the Indian Territory Press Association; Judge George A. Spaulding, a United States Commissioner; John Richard McCalla, an attorney; John Emery Sater, a frontiersman; James Orval Hall, a Confederate soldier; Cyrus Samuel Leeper, the manager of a lumber yard; Jesse Albert Baker, a court clerk; Clement Vann Rogers, a former judge and senator; and Robinson McMillian, a Confederate soldier.
Date: Winter 1930
Creator: Foreman, Grant & R. L. W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Dawes Commission (open access)

The Dawes Commission

Article chronicles the impact the Dawes Commission had the Oklahoma Territory and the Indigenous people who called it home. This commission was created through an act of Congress to convince the tribes to cede their lands to the federal government.
Date: Spring 1931
Creator: Brown, Loren N.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Choctaw Academy (open access)

The Choctaw Academy

Article is a continuation of the author's attempts to document the establishment and history of the Choctaw Academy, a mission school dedicated to the education of American Indian youths.
Date: Winter 1931
Creator: Foreman, Carolyn Thomas, 1872-1967
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Choctaw Academy: Continued from December (open access)

The Choctaw Academy: Continued from December

Article is a continuation of the author's attempts to document the establishment and history of the Choctaw Academy, a mission school dedicated to the education of American Indian youths. Included are lists of the children enrolled within the school.
Date: Spring 1932
Creator: Foreman, Carolyn Thomas, 1872-1967
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Necrology, September 1932 (open access)

Necrology, September 1932

Column documenting biographical information about Oklahomans who have died, including Lewis W. Cobb, Carl S. Glitsch, Walter Reynolds Harris, Jackman Andrew Gill, Carl Monk, Starkey Brent Dawes, Guy Fountain Nelson, John H. Mosier, Myron White, William Francis Dodd, Robert Lee Glover, Frank Lee, William A. Cobb, John Franklin Weaver, and William E. Browne.
Date: Autumn 1932
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Recollections of Peter Hudson (open access)

Recollections of Peter Hudson

Article details Peter Hudson's account of historical events that transpired within the Choctaw Nation as he traveled away from Ultima Thule, a now extinct town within Arkansas. He also explains what the Choctaw tribe called the geographical landmarks he encountered on his journey.
Date: Winter 1932
Creator: Hudson, Peter
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Notes and Documents, June 1933 (open access)

Notes and Documents, June 1933

Notes and Documents column including the minutes for the quarterly meeting of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society held on April 27, 1933, resolutions passed by the historical society regarding the deaths of John Hazelton Cotteral and James C. Thompson.
Date: Summer 1933
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
One Hundred Years Ago in the Region of Tulsa (open access)

One Hundred Years Ago in the Region of Tulsa

Article reports on the conditions of the Indian Territory as told by surveyors a hundred years from the date this article was published. These surveyors were tasked with determining whether the region was fit enough to relocate the Creek tribes to after their removal from the east.
Date: Summer 1933
Creator: Gardner, James H.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Greer County Pioneers Organize (open access)

Greer County Pioneers Organize

Article announces the meeting of the Old Greer County Pioneers, a group of individuals who were residing within Greer county when the boundary between Oklahoma and Texas was finalized.
Date: Autumn 1933
Creator: Dickerson, Argus
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
A Choctaw Landmark (open access)

A Choctaw Landmark

Article details the creation and significance of the Tobucksy County Courthouse that stood within the Choctaw Nation for fifty years.
Date: Winter 1934
Creator: Hefley, A. D.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Governor William Leander Byrd (open access)

Governor William Leander Byrd

Article chronicles the history and significance of the Byrd family. This family were prominent socialists within Virginia before William Leander Byrd became the governor of the Chickasaw Nation.
Date: Winter 1934
Creator: Meserve, John Bartlett, 1869-1943
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Wapanucka Academy, Chickasaw Nation (open access)

Wapanucka Academy, Chickasaw Nation

Article chronicles the creation and significance of the Wapanucka Academy within the Chickasaw Nation.
Date: Winter 1934
Creator: Wright, Muriel H. (Muriel Hazel), 1889-1975
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Notes and Documents, March 1935 (open access)

Notes and Documents, March 1935

Notes and Documents column including a note regarding the election of a new president of the historical society, an announcement of the placement of a painting within the society's building, and the minutes for the meeting of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society held on January 24, 1935.
Date: Spring 1935
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The McCurtains (open access)

The McCurtains

Article details how the McCurtain family rose to prominence and oversaw the daily operations of the Choctaw tribe as a dynasty of chiefs. These chiefs were charged with negotiation and signing treaties with other tribes and the United States federal government.
Date: Autumn 1935
Creator: Meserve, John Bartlett, 1869-1943
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Notes and Documents, September 1935 (open access)

Notes and Documents, September 1935

Notes and Documents column including the minutes for the quarterly meeting of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society held on July 25, 1935.
Date: Autumn 1935
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Notes and Documents, December 1935 (open access)

Notes and Documents, December 1935

Notes and Documents column including a note regarding a survey undertaken to map incoming railroads, a journal entry of that survey, a note on the unveiling of a cemetery marker for a Daughter of 1812, and the quarterly minutes of the meeting of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society held on October 24, 1935.
Date: Winter 1935
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History