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Country Kitchen
Article details the amenities and atmosphere found within a pioneer's kitchen.
Date:
Autumn 1973
Creator:
Bennett, Marj D.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 51, Number 3, Autumn 1973
Quarterly publication containing articles, book reviews, photographs, illustrations, and other works documenting Oklahoma history and preservation.
Date:
Autumn 1973
Creator:
Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The E. W. Marland Mansion and Estate
Article describes the architecture and layout of Ernest Whitworth Marland's mansion, a luxurious testament to the financial empire the oil baron had built in early twentieth century Oklahoma. Denise Browning explains his rise to power as an oil company owner and businessman.
Date:
Spring 1978
Creator:
Browning, Denise
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Flames on the Frontier: Archeology at Fort Towson Commanding Officer's Quarters
Article describes the excavation of the ruins of Fort Towson conducted by the Oklahoma Historical Society in the 1970s after a fire destroyed it in 1857. Through analysis of the archaeological findings, William B. Lees constructs a picture of what the commanding officer's quarters would have looked like before the fort's destruction.
Date:
Spring 1990
Creator:
Lees, William B.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Our Place: The One-Hundred-Year-Old Family Farm
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 D. & Nykolaiszyn, Juliana
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Architecture and Hospitality: Ceremonial Ground Camps and Foodways of the Yuchi Indians
Article discusses the history of the Yuchi tribe and their current practices through examination of their ceremonial ground camps. Jason Baird Jackson provides a detailed portrait of the people group and their daily lives.
Date:
Summer 1998
Creator:
Jackson, Jason Baird
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Money Matters: The Stamp Scrip Movement in Depression-Era Oklahoma
Article expanding on the previous 2004 article on Oklahoma's reaction to the depression era banking crisis of early 1933. In this article, Gatch ties the origin of the scrip movement to the writings of Yale University's professor Irving Fisher and traces the implementation of scrip schemes in nearly three dozen Oklahoma towns and explains the reasons for scrip's early success and rapid demise.
Date:
Autumn 2006
Creator:
Gatch, Loren C.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Memories of the Indian Territory Mission Field
Article describes the author's personal experiences as a student and teacher in Indian Territory. Lilah Denton Lindsey explores her own experience in the mission field as well as those she worked with. Included is an excerpt of a story told to her by Dr. R. M. Loughridge about early mission work in the area.
Date:
Summer 1958
Creator:
Lindsey, Lilah Denton
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
A Young Army Officer's Experiences in Indian Territory
Article details Henry E. Alvord's observations and experiences as he traveled with the United States military within Indian Territory.
Date:
Summer 1935
Creator:
Sherman, Caroline B.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Colored High School of the Cherokee Nation
Article discusses the call for and establishment of a high school for freedmen in the Cherokee Nation in 1890, the rights black freed persons had in early Indian Territory, the students who attended the school, and records of the school.
Date:
Winter 1952
Creator:
Ballenger, T. L.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Neal Family and the Founding of Oklahoma A&M College
Article creates a biographical portrait of the life and career of James C. Neal, the first director of Oklahoma A. & M.'s Agricultural Experiment Station, and the lives of his family. Berlin B. Chapman examines key correspondence from the Neal family to construct a clearer picture of the times and their connection to the founding of Oklahoma A. & M.
Date:
Winter 1990
Creator:
Chapman, Berlin B.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 56, Number 1, Spring 1978
Quarterly publication containing articles, book reviews, photographs, illustrations, and other works documenting Oklahoma history and preservation.
Date:
Spring 1978
Creator:
Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Charity Hall: An Early Chickasaw School
Article documents the construction and history of Charity Hall, a mission school dedicated to the education of Chickasaw youths that was built on the grounds of an old cotton gin.
Date:
Autumn 1933
Creator:
Foreman, Carolyn Thomas, 1872-1967
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Alice Lee Elliott Memorial Academy: A School for Choctaw Freedmen
Article explores the history of Oak Hill Industrial Academy (also known as Alice Lee Elliott Memorial Academy) one of the only schools that provided education to Choctaw freedmen and other black citizens in the area of Valliant, Oklahoma. Joy McDougal Smith traces the history of the school, from its establishment to closing, and includes details about the people who taught and studied there.
Date:
Autumn 1994
Creator:
Smith, McDougal Joy
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
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.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Sylvester Witt Marsten
Article describes the life and work of Baptist minister Sylvester Witt Marston, who spent time preaching in frontier towns of Indian Territory, leading missions, working as an agent at the Union Agency, and establishing schools for freedmen.
Date:
Spring 1967
Creator:
Chilcott, Winona Hunter
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
This I Remember From My Early Life: A Kiowa County Pioneer
Article provides an autobiographical narrative account of the life of a Kiowa pioneer family as they participated in a drawing for land in Oklahoma, traveled to the land, and began farming there. Anna Thurston provides personal stories that paint a detailed picture of the experience.
Date:
Autumn 1980
Creator:
Thurston, Anna
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Reminiscences of Two Corps Men of Base Hospital 85, World War I
Article provides a description of life and service at Base Hospital 85 during World War I, told from the perspective of Guy Rowley Moore and Rexford B. Cragg, members of the United States Medical Corps.
Date:
Winter 1960
Creator:
Moore, Guy E.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 68, Number 1, Spring 1990
Quarterly publication containing articles, book reviews, photographs, illustrations, and other works documenting Oklahoma history and preservation.
Date:
Spring 1990
Creator:
Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Prehistoric Cultures of Oklahoma
Article explains the archeological discoveries made in Oklahoma. These artifacts help explain how ancient civilizations worked and operated with their environments.
Date:
Autumn 1929
Creator:
Thoburn, Joseph B.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Journal of Ado Hunnius, Indian Territory, 1876
Article details the life of Ado Hunnius, a German man who served in the New York Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War as a map maker and solider, through his journal entries.
Date:
Winter 1973
Creator:
Mothershead, Harmon
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
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
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
An Autobiography
Article provides an autobiography of the life of pioneer teacher Anna R. Fait in her work teaching a school for white children in what is now Caddo County. Fait also includes stories of her experience with the Comanches, and of her husband who was a Presbyterian missionary.
Date:
Summer 1954
Creator:
Fait, Anna R.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Memoirs of Oklahoma
Article includes the memoires of Kittie M. Harvey, a pioneer woman who moved to Oklahoma Territory with her family and became a music teacher and helped run the small post office in Chandler. Harvey discusses life there and in Oklahoma City, and the people she and her husband Will Harvey interacted with.
Date:
Spring 1957
Creator:
Harvey, Kittie M.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History