45 Matching Results

Results open in a new window/tab.

Lee Cruz: Resoultion (open access)

Lee Cruz: Resoultion

Article memorials the second governor of Oklahoma, Lee Cruce, through a resolution made by the Oklahoma Historical Society.
Date: Spring 1933
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Editorial: Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 11, Number 1, March 1933 (open access)

Editorial: Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 11, Number 1, March 1933

Article consists of editorials regarding updates to the Chronicles. Included is a note on the type of submissions patrons can make to the magazine and a note on the three acts of Congress that opening the Oklahoma territories for settlement.
Date: Spring 1933
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
A Survey of Tribal Records in the Archives of the United States Government in Oklahoma (open access)

A Survey of Tribal Records in the Archives of the United States Government in Oklahoma

Article explains the resolutions adopted by the Oklahoma Historical Society to acquire the records kept by the National Archives regarding the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes.
Date: Spring 1933
Creator: Foreman, Grant
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The B.I.T.: The Story of an Adventure in Railroad Building (open access)

The B.I.T.: The Story of an Adventure in Railroad Building

Article chronicles the removal of North American Indians from their ancestral homes in the east to the region west of the Mississippi River through speeches given by politicians at that time. Included are plans for building railroads through the Indian Territory shortly after the tribes settled.
Date: Spring 1933
Creator: Holden, James Franklin
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Historical Marker at Three Forks (open access)

Historical Marker at Three Forks

Article explains why the Muskogee Indian Territory Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution erected a monument on the bank of the Verdigris River.
Date: Spring 1933
Creator: Foreman, Grant
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Captain John Stuart's Sketch of the Indians (open access)

Captain John Stuart's Sketch of the Indians

Article details Captain John Stuart's observations of the Cherokee and Choctaw tribes that were made while he served within the United States' 39th Infantry within the Indian Territory.
Date: Spring 1933
Creator: Foreman, Grant
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Mexican Kickapoos (open access)

The Mexican Kickapoos

Article details how the United States federal government dealt with an invading faction of Kickapoos who emigrated from Mexico to reside in Texas.
Date: Spring 1933
Creator: Buntin, Martha
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Judge Isaac C. Parker (open access)

Judge Isaac C. Parker

Article chronicles the life and achievements of Judge Isaac C. Parker as he resided over regions within the Indian Territory.
Date: Spring 1933
Creator: Daily, Harry P.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Notes and Documents, March 1933 (open access)

Notes and Documents, March 1933

Notes and Documents column including the minutes of the annual meeting of the Oklahoma Historical Society and minutes for the meeting of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society, both held on January 26, 1933.
Date: Spring 1933
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Necrology, March 1933 (open access)

Necrology, March 1933

Column documenting biographical information about Oklahomans who have died, including Reverend Theophile Meerschaert, Reverend Evan Dhu Cameron, Reverend John Harrell, William Ridgeway Lawrence, Farrar Leonidas McCain, Uriah Thomas Rexroat, and Thomas C. Harrill.
Date: Spring 1933
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
History Tablets (open access)

History Tablets

Article explains the importance of documenting history through narrating the vastness of the state of Oklahoma's history.
Date: Summer 1933
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The William Penn Elm Tree (open access)

The William Penn Elm Tree

Article is a speech given by Mrs. Roberta Campbell Lawson when she donated an elm tree to the University of Tulsa to commemorate the famous treaty made between William Peen and the Delaware tribe.
Date: Summer 1933
Creator: Lawson, Roberta Campbell
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
J. J. McAlester (open access)

J. J. McAlester

Article details how J. J. McAlester found coal within McAlester county in Oklahoma, as told from the author's perspective who was a confidante of the explorer.
Date: Summer 1933
Creator: Nesbitt, Paul
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
The Chouteaus and Their Commercial Enterprises: Part 1 (open access)

The Chouteaus and Their Commercial Enterprises: Part 1

Article outlines the genealogical history of the Chouteau family and how they started their legendary fur trade business.
Date: Summer 1933
Creator: Westbrook, Harriette Johnson
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Historic Places on the Old Stage Line from Fort Smith to Red River (open access)

Historic Places on the Old Stage Line from Fort Smith to Red River

Article details the historic landmarks found along the road running between Fort Smith and the Red River as they pertain to the history of the Indian Territory.
Date: Summer 1933
Creator: Wright, Muriel H. (Muriel Hazel), 1889-1975
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Mexican Kickapoos: Part II (open access)

The Mexican Kickapoos: Part II

Article continues to detail how the United States federal government dealt with an invading faction of Kickapoos who emigrated from Mexico to reside in Texas. Included are correspondences between the government officials tasked with this operation.
Date: Summer 1933
Creator: Buntin, Martha
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Reminiscences of Mr. R. P. Vann, East of Webbers Falls, Oklahoma, September 28, 1932 (open access)

Reminiscences of Mr. R. P. Vann, East of Webbers Falls, Oklahoma, September 28, 1932

Article narrates the hardships experienced by R. P. Vann, his family, and their associates, as they tried to rebuild their lives within Indian Territory after the Civil War.
Date: Summer 1933
Creator: Vann, R. P. & Foreman, Grant
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Indian's Friend, John H. Seger (open access)

The Indian's Friend, John H. Seger

Article continues to chronicle the life and accomplishments of John H, Seger by explaining the accomplishments of his wife, Mary Esther Nicholas, through newspaper articles. Segar was the principal and owner of the Seger Indian Trading School where he managed the education and training of Cheyenne and Arapaho youths.
Date: Summer 1933
Creator: Peery, Dan W.
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
Necrology, June 1933 (open access)

Necrology, June 1933

Column documenting biographical information about Oklahomans who have died, including Peter Hanraty, Frank Nicholas Korn, Benjamin Franklin Creason, Jessie Robb Hobart, Mrs. Anna DeWees Fears, Mrs. Kate Edwards Bemo-Mitchell, and Mrs. Sarah Motley Anderson Scott. It also includes a resolution honoring the fourteen society members who passed since the last necrology section was published.
Date: Summer 1933
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Editorials and Notes: Historic Fort Gibson (open access)

Editorials and Notes: Historic Fort Gibson

Article is a resolution made my the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society to dismantle Fort Gibson while establishing efforts to preserve the site's artifacts and records.
Date: Autumn 1933
Creator: Foreman, Grant
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Charles N. Haskell (open access)

Charles N. Haskell

Article explains the importance of resolutions adopted by the Oklahoma Historical Society regarding the death on the first governor of the state of Oklahoma, Charles N. Haskell.
Date: Autumn 1933
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Oklahoma's First Telephone (open access)

Oklahoma's First Telephone

Article corrects another author's assumptions as to when the first telephone appeared within the Oklahoma Territory.
Date: Autumn 1933
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History