Black, White, and Read: The Muskogee Daily Phoenix's Coverage of the Sequoyah Statehood Convention of 1905 (open access)

Black, White, and Read: The Muskogee Daily Phoenix's Coverage of the Sequoyah Statehood Convention of 1905

Article provides a portrayal of the Sequoyah Statehood Convention, a gathering of the leaders of the "Five Civilized Tribes" in Oklahoma to propose the creation of a state separate from Oklahoma Territory, Sequoyah. Richard Mize's account relies on the newspaper coverage by the Muskogee Daily Phoenix, and highlights the voice and opinions of the paper's editor, Clarence B. Douglas.
Date: Summer 2004
Creator: Mize, Richard
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 82, Number 1, Spring 2004 (open access)

Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 82, Number 1, Spring 2004

Quarterly publication containing articles, book reviews, photographs, illustrations, and other works documenting Oklahoma history and preservation.
Date: Spring 2004
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 82, Number 2, Summer 2004 (open access)

Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 82, Number 2, Summer 2004

Quarterly publication containing articles, book reviews, photographs, illustrations, and other works documenting Oklahoma history and preservation.
Date: Summer 2004
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 82, Number 3, Fall 2004 (open access)

Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 82, Number 3, Fall 2004

Quarterly publication containing articles, book reviews, photographs, illustrations, and other works documenting Oklahoma history and preservation.
Date: Autumn 2004
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 82, Number 4, Winter 2004-05 (open access)

Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 82, Number 4, Winter 2004-05

Quarterly publication containing articles, book reviews, photographs, illustrations, and other works documenting Oklahoma history and preservation.
Date: Winter 2004
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Dr. Anna Lewis: Historian at the Oklahoma College for Women (open access)

Dr. Anna Lewis: Historian at the Oklahoma College for Women

Article presents a biographical sketch of Dr. Anna Lewis, who enjoyed a long and stellar career at Oklahoma College for Women but whose accomplishments have often been overlooked. This article gives an account of Lewis' life as she struggled to obtain the terminal degree in history, build a sound academic program at the college, and teach and write about Oklahoma history.
Date: Winter 2004
Creator: Reese, Linda Williams
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
For the Record, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 82, Number 1, Spring 2004 (open access)

For the Record, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 82, Number 1, Spring 2004

For the Record section from Volume 82, Number 1, Spring 2004. It includes the minutes of the regular quarterly board meeting of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society that was held on October 22, 2003.
Date: Spring 2004
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
For the Record, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 82, Number 2, Summer 2004 (open access)

For the Record, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 82, Number 2, Summer 2004

For the Record section from Volume 82, Number 2, Summer 2004. It includes the minutes of the regular quarterly board meeting of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society that was held on January 28, 2004.
Date: Summer 2004
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
For the Record, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 82, Number 3, Fall 2004 (open access)

For the Record, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 82, Number 3, Fall 2004

For the Record section from Volume 82, Number 3, Fall 2004. It includes the Minutes of the Quarterly Board Meeting of the Oklahoma Historical Society that was held on April 22, 2004, and the Minutes of the Annual Meeting of the OHS Membership that was held on April 23, 2004.
Date: Autumn 2004
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
For the Record, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 82, Number 4, Winter 2004-05 (open access)

For the Record, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 82, Number 4, Winter 2004-05

For the Record section from Volume 82, Number 4, Winter 2004-05. It includes the Minutes of the OHS Quarterly Board Meeting that was held on July 28, 2004.
Date: Winter 2004
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
In Defense of Sovereignty: Cherokee Soldiers, White Officers, and Discipline in the Third Indian Home Guard (open access)

In Defense of Sovereignty: Cherokee Soldiers, White Officers, and Discipline in the Third Indian Home Guard

This article explores the ways in which Cherokees managed discipline in the Third Indian Home Guard of the Union army to achieve their ultimate goal to reconquer the Cherokee Nation from the Confederate forces and preserve Cherokee sovereignty.
Date: Winter 2004
Creator: Jones, Trevor
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Jack C. Montgomery: A Little Big Man (open access)

Jack C. Montgomery: A Little Big Man

Article documents the life of Jack Montgomery and recalls his service with the Forty-fifth Infantry Division in World War II, where he received the Medal of Honor for his actions during the war.
Date: Winter 2004
Creator: Bean, Christopher B.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
"A Model Fruit Ranch": The Housholder Fruit Farm of Guthrie, Oklahoma (open access)

"A Model Fruit Ranch": The Housholder Fruit Farm of Guthrie, Oklahoma

Article written by Joe Bax, Glen Housholder's grandson, provides a portrait of the Householder Fruit Farm and the family's tremendous successes amid struggles against railroads, commission merchants, and Oklahoma's sometimes fickle weather.
Date: Autumn 2004
Creator: Bax, Joe G.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Moses or Aaron?: William Jennings Bryan and Oklahoma Politics (open access)

Moses or Aaron?: William Jennings Bryan and Oklahoma Politics

Article explores the political influence William Jennings Bryan had on the creation of Oklahoma's state constitution, and questions whether Bryan took the leading role of the biblical Moses in influencing decisions surrounding it, or the translator's role of Aaron to give the Oklahoma legislature's own agenda substance.
Date: Spring 2004
Creator: Adkison, Danny M.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The National Register of Historic Places and St. Paul Baptist Church and Cemetery: The 1,000th Listing in Oklahoma (open access)

The National Register of Historic Places and St. Paul Baptist Church and Cemetery: The 1,000th Listing in Oklahoma

Article explains the process of listing properties on the National Register of Historic Places, then describes the history of the St. Paul Baptist Church and Cemetery in Lincoln County—the 1,000th Oklahoma property on the National Register of Historical Places.
Date: Autumn 2004
Creator: Savage, Cynthia
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
"No Home on the Range": The Miller Family's Great Swindle of Indian Lands (open access)

"No Home on the Range": The Miller Family's Great Swindle of Indian Lands

Article describes the unfair methods the Miller Family, owners of the 101 Ranch, employed to acquire land in the Cherokee Outlet from the Western Cherokee Indians who had received it from the United States government in 1928. Jo L. Wetherilt Behrens recounts the details of the various schemes and ruses the Millers employed to take advantage of their neighboring tribes.
Date: Summer 2004
Creator: Behrens, Jo Lea Wetherilt
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Notes and Documents, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 82, Number 1, Spring 2004 (open access)

Notes and Documents, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 82, Number 1, Spring 2004

Notes and Documents section from Volume 82, Number 1, Spring 2004. It includes a biographical document honoring Jack D. Haley, who was inducted into the Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame in 2004. It also includes a document about Oklahoma territorial secretary Robert Martin and the tribute that remains in his two grave markers.
Date: Spring 2004
Creator: Blochowiak, Mary Ann & Chada, Robert L.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Notes and Documents, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 82, Number 2, Summer 2004 (open access)

Notes and Documents, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 82, Number 2, Summer 2004

Notes and Documents section from Volume 82, Number 2, Summer 2004. It includes a biographical document honoring Robert L. Williams, who was inducted into the Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame in 2004.
Date: Summer 2004
Creator: Blochowiak, Mary Ann
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Notes and Documents, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 82, Number 3, Fall 2004 (open access)

Notes and Documents, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 82, Number 3, Fall 2004

Notes and Documents section from Volume 82, Number 3, Fall 2004. It includes "Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame: Alice Lee Marriott," a short biographical sketch of Alice Lee Marriot, the second inductee into the Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame.
Date: Autumn 2004
Creator: Blochowiak, Mary Ann
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Saving the Land: Soil and Water Conservation in Oklahoma (open access)

Saving the Land: Soil and Water Conservation in Oklahoma

Article covers the history of soil and water erosion and conservation practices in Oklahoma. D. Chongo Mundende describes the various programs and committees designed to combat Oklahoma's climate issues and preserve the agricultural integrity of the land.
Date: Spring 2004
Creator: Mundende, Darlington Chongo
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Sexual Color Line in Red and Black: Antimiscegenation and the Sooner State (open access)

The Sexual Color Line in Red and Black: Antimiscegenation and the Sooner State

Article provides an overview of antimiscegenation laws dating from the time of slavery into the statehood period in Oklahoma and examines eleven cases that reached the highest state or federal courts, most of them civil cases involving African Americans and Native Americans.
Date: Winter 2004
Creator: Robinson, Charles F., II
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Socialism from the Bottom Up: Local Activists and the Socialist Party of Oklahoma, 1900-1920 (open access)

Socialism from the Bottom Up: Local Activists and the Socialist Party of Oklahoma, 1900-1920

Article uses information found in socialist newspapers and the manuscript census to uncover the lives and experiences of local party members of the Socialist Party of Oklahoma with a focus on Marshall and Roger Mills counties.
Date: Winter 2004
Creator: Bissett, Jim
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
"Stand Fast": The Story of Surry Eaton "White Sut" Beck (open access)

"Stand Fast": The Story of Surry Eaton "White Sut" Beck

Article written by Pamela White, the great-granddaughter of White Sut Beck, examines Beck's life and place in history. White Sut Beck's place in history has been defined by what came to be known as the Going Snake Massacre, a shoot-out during the 1872 trial of Zeke Proctor for the murder of Beck's sister. In truth, White Sut lived a full life of adventure and service to his family, community, and the Cherokee Nation.
Date: Autumn 2004
Creator: White, Pamela
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Tale of Sergeant Webber: Nativism in Northern Oklahoma in 1923 (open access)

The Tale of Sergeant Webber: Nativism in Northern Oklahoma in 1923

Article discusses the history of the Ku Klux Klan in Oklahoma in the 1920s, when popularized nativism and public spectacle led to an increased "joining" period by members of the community. Jim Showalter examines the activity of the elusive Sergeant William Webber, a speaker who ascribed to Klan ideals and enforced them in the minds of the public.
Date: Spring 2004
Creator: Showalter, Jim
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History