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- A Spanish "Arrastra" in the Wichita Mountains
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Article open accessArticle relates the discovery of an "arrastra," an ore grinding machine used centuries beforehand by Spanish prospectors, in the Wichita Mountains. W. Eugene Hollon discusses personal experiences studying the find, the history of mining shafts, early Spanish mining activities in Mexico, and early prospecting activities in the Wichita Mountains.
- The Rock Falls Raid, An Analysis of the Documentary Evidence
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Article open accessArticle narrates the legal and political battles fought over settlement of the Cherokee Outlet that accumulated into the creation of Rock Falls, a townsite that forced a confrontation between cattlemen and government agencies.
- Changes in Endothelial Markers during a Summer Ultra-Endurance Road Cycling Event in the Heat
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Article open accessThis article assesses the impact of completing a 164 km road cycling event performed in a hot environment (Wichita Falls, Texas in August), on endothelial biomarkers and resultant risk of blood clots in men and women.
- Hazardous waste shipment data collection from DOE sites
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Article open accessPast practices at the US Department of Energy (DOE) sites for offsite release of hazardous waste are being reviewed to determine if radioactively contaminated hazardous wastes were released to commercial treatment, storage, and disposal facilities. Records indicating the presence of radioactivity in waste shipped to and treated at a commercial incineration facility led to a ban on offsite hazardous waste shipments and investigation of past practices for offsite release of hazardous waste from the DOE sites. A House of Representatives Interior and Insular Affairs Committee oversight hearing on potentially contaminated waste shipments to commercial facilities concluded that the main issue …
- Misidentified Flying Objects? An Integrated Psychodynamic Perspective on Near-Death Experiences and UFO Abductions
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Article open accessArticle proposing an integrated psychodynamic perspective to account in part for a variety of similarities between near-death experiences and UFO abductions. The psychodynamic psychology of these experiences implies that their "realness" is mainly a function of that psychology, rather than primarily of an objectifiable external reality. Clinical and research examples highlight the theoretical and practical usefulness of this model.
- The industrial consortium for the utilization of the geopressured-geothermal resource
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Article open accessFour feasibility studies have been developed by the INEL on thermal enhanced oil recovery (TEOR) Use of Supercritical Fluid processes for Detoxification of Pollutants, and Hydraulic Conversion to Electricity, and Direct Use. The studies provide information bases for potential industrial partners in the resource utilization. A joint proposal from Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and INEL on supercritical fluid processes in going forward. Western Resources Technology has begun development of a dozen geopressured well projects. An hydraulic turbine test will be conducted at Pleasant Bayou in Summer of 1991. Dr. Wayne Steele of Anglewood, TX, a retired medical doctor, is …
- The use of supercritical fluid processes for detoxification of pollutants using geopressured-geothermal fluids
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Article open accessThis paper proposes the development of an engineered interface between a geopressured-geothermal resource and a supercritical water oxidation (SCWO) process which destroys hazardous organic wastes. The objectives of this study are to show economic advantages in linking the geopressured-geothermal resource with an SCWO process: to destroy hazardous organic waste; to produce power with the combined energy content of the geopressured-geothermal resource and the SCWO process; to use the available energy of the combined system to operate other synergistic processes. The interface will produce a standardized working medium from the hot geopressured-geothermal brine exiting a well, providing hydraulic and thermal energy …
- Traders Along the Washita: A Short History of the Shirley Trading Company
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Article open accessArticle discusses the history of the Shirley Trading Company on the Washita River. Founded by two brothers, John and William Shirley, the enterprise that began as a trading post at the Wichita Agency expanded into a much larger economic empire involving ranches, stores, hotels, and even a toll bridge.
- The Early Days of Anadarko
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Article open accessArticle traces the history of the city of Anadarko, which grew out of the Wichita Agency and attracted numerous religious denominations, who built churches and schools there. Sara Brown Mitchell describes the town in its early days and its people.
- Naming Her World: A Freirean Analysis of a Young Woman with Asperger Syndrome's Post-High-School Experience
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Article open accessThis article seeks to better understand to what extent the Individual Education Plan (IEP) adequately prepared one girl for major life transitions following high-school graduation.
- Industrial Consortium for the Utilization of the Geopressured-Geothermal Resource. Volume 1
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Article open accessThe Geopressured-Geothermal Program, now in its fifteenth year, is entering the transition period to commercial use. The industry cost-shared proposals to the consortium, represented in the presentations included in these proceedings, attest to the interest developing in the industrial community in utilizing the geopressured-geothermal resource. Sixty-five participants attended these sessions, two-thirds of whom represented industry. The areas represented by cost-shared proposals include (1) thermal enhanced oil recovery, (2) direct process use of thermal energy, e.g., aquaculture and agriculture, (3) conversion of thermal energy to electricity, (4) environment related technologies, e.g., use of supercritical processes, and (5) operational proposals, e.g., a …
- Industrial Consortium for the Utilization of the Geopressured-Geothermal Resource. Volume 2
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Article open accessThe Geopressured-Geothermal Program, now in its fifteenth year, is entering the transition period to commercial use. The industry cost-shared proposals to the consortium, represented in the presentations included in these proceedings, attest to the interest developing in the industrial community in utilizing the geopressured-geothermal resource. Sixty-five participants attended these sessions, two-thirds of whom represented industry. The areas represented by cost-shared proposals include (1) thermal enhanced oil recovery, (2) direct process use of thermal energy, e.g., aquaculture and agriculture, (3) conversion of thermal energy to electricity, (4) environment related technologies, e.g., use of supercritical processes, and (5) operational proposals, e.g., a …
- Air Quality Modeling Guidelines
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Article open accessDocument "provid[ing] guidance on models and modeling procedures that are used in support of air permitting in the State of Texas" (p. i).
- Access to Geographical Information in Library Catalogs: a Case Study
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Article open accessConference paper exploring three case studies on how methods of retrieval of geographic data offered by libraries. The online catalog (Case no. 1) includes various materials available to users. Case no. 2 is Special Collections in general, including the Portal to Texas History. Case no. 3 is a particular collection digitized by UNT: The map collection of the University of Texas at Arlington.
- Brief History of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Lines
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Article open accessArticle chronicles the construction of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Lines that reached to the Gulf of Mexico.
- The Evans and Clark Families: Borderlands Legacies in Western Oklahoma, 1875-1950
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Article open accessArticle uses the lives of the Evans and Clark families to demonstrate evolving systems of racial discrimination in the emerging state of Oklahoma.
- The Struggle for Railroads in the Oklahoma Panhandle
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Article open accessArticle discusses the stake major railroad companies had in the Oklahoma Panhandle as the need for transportation of cattle and goods increased, leading to legal and political conflict over ownership and use of the land.
- The Construction Strategies of Railroads in the Oklahoma Panhandle
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Article open accessArticle describes the growth and planning related to the construction of railroads in the Oklahoma Panhandle and surrounding states in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, also touching on the collaboration that had to occur between various railroad companies.
- Roster of registered Architects
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Article open accessThis report includes the Roster of registered Architects as of October 1980.
- "Katy" Depots of Oklahoma: A Pictorial History
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Article open accessArticle details the architectural history of "Katy" railroad stations throughout Oklahoma. The article chronicles this history through pictures.
- Bawling Cattle and Barking Brakemen: An Oklahoma Railroad Memory
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Article open accessArticle describes the cooperation of the railroad and cattle industries in the late nineteenth centuries and highlights specific recollections of cattle drivers in the area.
- Hazardous materials transportation and emergency response programs
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Article open accessThis presentation consists of the following visual aids; (1) detailed routing capabilities of truck, rail, barge; (2) legislative data base for hazardous materials; and (3) emergency response of accident site Eddyville, Kentucky (airports in vicinity of Eddyville, KY).
- What is the Future for Railroad Branch Lines in Rural Areas?
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Article open accessArticle discusses the abandonment of branch rail lines in rural areas of nineteenth and early twentieth century Oklahoma by major railroad companies and the resulting impact on its rural population.
- "Little Buzz Buggies": Midget Auto Racing in Oklahoma City, 1946-1964
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Article open accessArticle details the phenomenon of midget auto racing in Oklahoma, which gained popularity after World War II. Midget auto racing, held in Oklahoma City's Taft Stadium drew huge crowds and gave several race-car drivers the experiences that took them onward to the Indianapolis 500 and other major races.
- Leukocyte Subset Changes in Response to a 164-km Road Cycle Ride in a Hot Environment
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Article open accessThis article determines the circulating leukocyte subset response to completing the 2013 Hotter'N Hell Hundred recreational 164-km road cycle event in a hot and humid environmental condition.
- Altus on the Hill Above Frazer in Old Greer County
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Article open accessArticle provides context to the recollections of the author's grandmother, Mrs. M. E. Rogers, who was a survivor of the flood at Frazer in Old Greer County that resulted in the founding of Altus, Oklahoma.
- Soldiers, Disasters, and Dams: The Army Corps of Engineers and Flood Control in the Red River Valley, 1936-1946
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Article open accessArticle describes the history of flood control in the Red River Valley after decades of damage caused by flooding in the region. James Ware focuses on the impact of the United States Army Corps of Engineers and their work to reduce this damage through projects and recommendations.
- Necrology, June 1939
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Article open accessColumn documenting biographical information about Oklahomans who have died, including John Bell Turner, Charles Bolivar Barker, Reverend Edward Rutledge Williams, William Thomas Dalton, Casper Wister Herod, John Mitten Carr, Alice Hearrell Murray, and Harry Lee Stuart.
- An overview of the sustainability of solid waste management at military installations
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Article open accessSustainable municipal solid waste management at military solutions necessitates a combined approach that includes waste reduction, alternative disposal techniques, and increased recycling. Military installations are unique because they often represent large employers in the region in which they are located, thereby making any practices they employ impact overall waste management strategies of the region. Solutions for waste sustainability will be dependent on operational directives and base location, availability of resources such as water and energy, and size of population. Presented in this paper are descriptions of available waste strategies that can be used to support sustainable waste management. Results presented …
- The Two Cattle Trails
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Article open accessArticle documents the state sponsored project to locate the exact location of the Chisholm Trail, a cattle trail that bisected the state during its pioneer days.
- Siting studies for an asymptotic U. S. energy supply system based primarily on nuclear energy
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Article open accessThe nuclear energy center (NEC) concept is an approach to siting wherein nuclear facilities would be clustered in and delimited to a relatively small number of locations throughout the United States. These designated centers would be concurrently developed to their full capability over several decades, at which time, they would be several times larger than the largest nuclear power stations in existence today. The centers would be permanently dedicated to nuclear operations including the future decommissioning of functionally obsolescent facilities as well as the commissioning of their replacements. The criteria for and characteristics of an acceptable nuclear energy system that …
- Notes and Documents, Summer 1955
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Article open accessNotes and Documents column including documents about publications, dedications, correspondence, memorials, some additional history for articles in The Chronicles, and the history of the University of Oklahoma Medical Center.
- Effectiveness of a Single Prolonged Aerobic Exercise Session on Executive Function Task Performance in Physically Active Adults (21–70 Years of Age)
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Article open accessAuthors of the article sought to examine the effectiveness of an acute prolonged exercise session on post-exercise executive function in physically active adults and to assess if age or pre-exercise cognitive performance was predictive of the magnitude of change in executive task performance. Their results support the effectiveness of a single prolonged exercise bout to augment executive function in physically active adults, irrespective of age.
- For the Record, Spring 2019
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Article open accessFor the Record section including the minutes of the quarterly board meeting of the Oklahoma Historical Society that was held on October 24, 2018 as well as the following lists: "New Members, October-November-December 2018" and "Twenty-Year Members, October-November-December 2018."
- Annual and Quarterly Meeting of the Oklahoma Historical Society and its Board of Directors, April 26, 1973
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Article open accessThis section includes the minutes of the annual meeting of the Oklahoma Historical Society and the minutes of the quarterly meeting of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society held on April 26, 1973. Included is a response from Florence O. Wilson on becoming an honorary member of the society, a list of gifts received by the organization, and a list of new annual and life members.
- Attached-sunspace designs: a nationwide economic appraisal
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Article open accessPerformance estimates for attached-sunspace passive solar heated residences have recently been incorporated into the Los Alamos/UNM EASE III model. These estimates are used to analyze the economic performance of a fixed dimension sunspace design when attached to a pre-existing single family residential unit. The sunspace is a passive design which can be easily and effectively adapted to a retrofit situation. Several key parameters are carefully evaluated for the sunspace retrofit design. These include loan or mortgage terms, ownership period, resale potential and competing conventional fuel prices. General economic and design parameters are combined in a variant of life cycle costing …
- Woodward: First Century on the Sand-Sage Prairie 1887-1987
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Article open accessArticle provides a centennial tribute to the birth and growth of the town of Woodward, exploring the lives of early citizens through documentation and autobiographical recollections. Louise Boyd James discusses the historic buildings and industries that acted as a foundation for the city's expansion.
- Two Oklahomans Honored
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Article open accessArticle discusses the honoring of two Oklahomans by the Oklahoma Historical Society, General Patrick J. Hurley and Charles H. Thompkins. Charles Evans provides biographical background of their lives as well as excerpts of their speeches at the meeting of the OHS Board of Directors.
- Lieutenant Wm. E. Burnet: Notes on Removal of Indians from Texas to Indian Territory
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Article open accessArticle provides and introduction to and includes the letters of William E. Burnett, an officer in the U.S. and later Confederate Army, during the period of American Indian removal in United States history. Raymond Estep contextualizes these letters and how they provide a glimpse into the happenings of this era.
- Jose Maria: Anadarko Chief
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Article open accessArticle describes the life of José Maria, a chief of the Anadarkos. Kenneth F. Neighbours discusses the life of the Anadarkos in Texas, relations with the United States government, and warfare with other tribes.
- Official Minutes of Quarterly Meeting, the Board of Directors, the Oklahoma Historical Society, Quarter Ending July 26, 1956
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Article open accessThis section includes the minutes of quarterly meeting of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society that was held on July 26, 1956.
- Impact of Nutrient Intake on Hydration Biomarkers Following Exercise and Rehydration Using a Clustering-Based Approach
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Article open accessThis article investigates the impact of nutrient intake on hydration biomarkers in cyclists before and after a 161 km ride, including one hour after a 650 mL water bolus consumed post-ride. Most predictor groups showed significant association with at least one hydration biomarker: (1) Glycemic Load + Carbohydrates + Sodium, (2) Protein + Fat + Zinc, (3) Magnesium + Calcium, (4) Pinitol, (5) Caffeine, (6) Fiber + Betaine, and (7) Water; potassium + three polyols, and mannitol + sorbitol showed no significant associations with any hydration biomarker. The authors conclude that in a real-life scenario, some nutrients may serve as …
- Rules of thumb for passive solar heating
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Article open accessRules of thumb are given for passive solar systems for: (1) sizing solar glazing for 219 cities, (2) sizing thermal storage mass, and (3) building orientation.
- Official Minutes of Quarterly Meeting, the Board of Directors, The Oklahoma Historical Society, Quarter Ending October 27, 1955
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Article open accessThis section includes the minutes of the quarterly meeting of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society that was held on October 27, 1955.
- Necrology, Fall 1967
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Article open accessColumn documenting biographical information about Oklahomans who have died, including a document honoring the life of Judge J. G. Clift, attorney, historian, and community leader.
- Official Minutes of Quarterly Meeting, the Board of Directors, the Oklahoma Historical Society, Quarter Ending January 24, 1957
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Article open accessThis section includes the minutes of the quarterly meeting of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society held on January 24, 1957.
- Minor Leagues, Major Dreams: Professional Baseball in Oklahoma
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Article open accessArticle discusses the history of minor league baseball teams in Oklahoma during the territorial period as well as after statehood. Leo Kelley appreciates some of the most well-known players and teams of this era and includes a list of teams at the end of the article.
- Necrology, March 1943
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Article open accessColumn documenting biographical information about Oklahomans who have died, including Joseph Huckins Jr., John Hill Harper, William Tecumseh Sherman Hunt, Davis Hill, and Luke Roberts. Also included are notes regarding the acquisition of religious records into historical societies.
- The Kiowa-Comanche Reservation in the 1890's
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Article open accessArticle discusses the history of the Kiowa-Comanche reservation in the 1890s. Forrest D. Monahan, Jr. discusses violations of the reservation's boundaries by white settlers, the commission sent by the United States government to negotiate with the Kiowas and Comanches for land access, and the unfair stipulations of the treaty.
- Guidelines for conservation levels and for sizing passive-solar collection area
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Article open accessGuidelines are given for selecting R-values and infiltration levels, and determining the size of the solar collection area for passive solar building. The guidelines are based on balancing the incremental cost/benefit of conservation and solar strategies. Tables are given for 209 cities in the US and the results are also displayed on maps. The procedures are developed in an appendix, which gives the cost assumptions used and explains how to develop different guidelines for different costs.