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Breast Cancer in Texas Counties 1980-1998 (open access)

Breast Cancer in Texas Counties 1980-1998

Paper examines effects of race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, genes and environment on breast cancer morbidity in Texas counties from 1980-1998.
Date: 2011
Creator: Barry, Djenabou
System: The UNT Digital Library
Environmental Values of Texas Farmers and Ranchers Engaged in Agritourism (open access)

Environmental Values of Texas Farmers and Ranchers Engaged in Agritourism

Papers explores the ways in which Texas agritourism operators value their land and construct their relationships with the natural environment.
Date: 2011
Creator: Bonham, Mēgan S. Albaugh
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Sounds of Identity: A Case Study on Mexican American College Students in Texas (open access)

The Sounds of Identity: A Case Study on Mexican American College Students in Texas

Paper discusses how language use reflects the identity of Mexican-American college students in Texas.
Date: 2011
Creator: Grady, Khalia Nicole
System: The UNT Digital Library
Doctor Forrest Pitt Baker and the History of the Eastern Oklahoma Tuberculosis Sanatorium (open access)

Doctor Forrest Pitt Baker and the History of the Eastern Oklahoma Tuberculosis Sanatorium

Article details the first publicly run institution for tuberculosis in the state: the Eastern Oklahoma Tuberculosis Sanatorium in Talihina, Oklahoma. Under the direction of Dr. Forrest Pitt Baker advances were made that improved the lives of Oklahomans who were afflicted with tuberculosis.
Date: Spring 2011
Creator: Roberson, Glen R.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
For the Record, Spring 2011 (open access)

For the Record, Spring 2011

For the Record section including the Minutes of the Quarterly Board Meeting of the Oklahoma Historical Society that was held on October 27, 2010.
Date: Spring 2011
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Jesse "Cab" Renick: In Search of an Indian Identity (open access)

Jesse "Cab" Renick: In Search of an Indian Identity

This article argues that Jesse "Cab" Renick's Indian identity and his contribution to sports should be reexamined. Only three American Indian athletes have earned gold medals at Olympic Games between 1896 and 2010. One of those athletes was Jesse "Cab" Renick, a basketball player with the 1948 U.S. Olympic team. Although he was Choctaw and Chickasaw, he did not grow up with a prominent American Indian identity and did not identify himself as such.
Date: Spring 2011
Creator: Putz, Paul
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Judge Royce H. Savage (open access)

Judge Royce H. Savage

Article asserts that despite the controversy surrounding Judge Royce Savage's retirement from the Northern District Court, the judge's reputation for case management and dedication to pretrial conferences remains intact.
Date: Spring 2011
Creator: Kellough, William C.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Latino Impress in Oklahoma City (open access)

The Latino Impress in Oklahoma City

Article explores the history of Latino influence in Oklahoma City as well as the continuing growth of the vibrant Hispanic cultural landscape.
Date: Spring 2011
Creator: Widener, Jeffrey M.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Notes and Documents, Spring 2011 (open access)

Notes and Documents, Spring 2011

Notes and Documents column including biographical information about Jim Argo, Sandie Olson, Juanita Keel Tate, and Alvin O. Turner, the inductees into the Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame in 2011, and provides a chronological list of the past inductees into the hall of fame. The section also includes "The Ragland Collection" which presents a selection of maps from the efforts of Reverend Hobart Ragland to document historic sites within Oklahoma.
Date: Spring 2011
Creator: Bass, Elizabeth M. B. & Welge, William D.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
President General and First Lady See Lots of Texas (open access)

President General and First Lady See Lots of Texas

Articles containing pictures and information about the travels of the President General and First Lady to different TXSSAR events.
Date: Spring 2011
Creator: Butler, Ed
System: The UNT Digital Library
Systematic Neighborhood Observations at High Spatial Resolution: Methodology and Assessment of Potential Benefits (open access)

Systematic Neighborhood Observations at High Spatial Resolution: Methodology and Assessment of Potential Benefits

This article describes a systematic neighborhood observation instrument for collecting data at very high spatial resolution to collect data in a low-income minority neighborhood in Dallas, TX.
Date: January 20, 2011
Creator: Leonard, Tammy; O'Brien Caughy, Margaret; Mays, Judith K. & Murdoch, James
System: The UNT Digital Library
The 2011 Beta Eta Spring Banquet. Celebration of Rediscovery of the Elements (open access)

The 2011 Beta Eta Spring Banquet. Celebration of Rediscovery of the Elements

Article describing an Eta Beta celebration of the completion of James and Virginia Marshall's "Rediscovery of the Elements." Photographs from the event are included. Three separate articles appear on the right side of the page.
Date: Summer 2011
Creator: Marshall, James L., 1940-
System: The UNT Digital Library
Class, Race, and Jack Walton's Mayoralty of Oklahoma City (open access)

Class, Race, and Jack Walton's Mayoralty of Oklahoma City

Article discusses the mayoral campaign and tenure of John C. "Jack" Walton as the mayor of Oklahoma City. Quincy R. Lehr explores the way Walton navigated a politically tumultuous time and gained the support of labor leaders and African American citizens in Oklahoma City before his controversial governorship.
Date: Summer 2011
Creator: Lehr, Quincy R.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
For the Record, Summer 2011 (open access)

For the Record, Summer 2011

For the Record section including the minutes of the regular quarterly board meeting of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society that was held on January 26, 2011.
Date: Summer 2011
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Notes and Documents, Summer 2011 (open access)

Notes and Documents, Summer 2011

Notes and Documents column including a document that lists multiple reference sources providing information about the Civil War in Indian Territory and reviews coverage in this area.
Date: Summer 2011
Creator: Harris, Jason
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Oklahoma's African American Rodeo Performers (open access)

Oklahoma's African American Rodeo Performers

Article describes the history of African American rodeo performers beginning with the growth of the cattle industry in Oklahoma and Indian Territory, from cowboys and ranch hands to eventual rodeo champions. Roger D. Hardaway highlights the lives and careers of several key performers.
Date: Summer 2011
Creator: Hardaway, Roger D.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Riverboat Frontier: Early-Day Commerce in the Arkansas and Red River Valleys (open access)

The Riverboat Frontier: Early-Day Commerce in the Arkansas and Red River Valleys

Article outlines the history of riverboats and their passengers on the Arkansas and Red River Valleys, from early French fur traders who bartered with neighboring Native American tribes to the merchants and travelers that traversed the rivers on steamboats. Michael J. Hightower touches on the marks left on the land by those seeking its resources, as well as the natural disasters that befell riverboat pioneers.
Date: Summer 2011
Creator: Hightower, Michael J.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Tubbee and His Nieces: Choctaw-White Intermarriage and "Indianness" in the Choctaw Intelligencer (open access)

Tubbee and His Nieces: Choctaw-White Intermarriage and "Indianness" in the Choctaw Intelligencer

Article reconstructs widespread views of Choctaw-White Intermarriage in 1851 through a small-scale investigation of a series of letters to the editor published in the Choctaw Intelligencer that relayed the contrasting messages of one older Choctaw "Tubbee" and his nieces.
Date: Summer 2011
Creator: Mize, Richard
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
“Educate or We Perish”: The Armstrong Academy’s History as Part of the Choctaw Educational System (open access)

“Educate or We Perish”: The Armstrong Academy’s History as Part of the Choctaw Educational System

Article explores the evolution of Armstrong Academy, a boarding school for American Indian boys, from its opening in 1845 to its untimely closing in 1920.
Date: Autumn 2011
Creator: Miles, Dennis
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Farm Crisis in Oklahoma, Part 1 (open access)

Farm Crisis in Oklahoma, Part 1

This article is the first part of a two-part article that examines the effect that economic distress and political policies had on Oklahoma farmers and ranchers during the 1970s and 1980s.
Date: Autumn 2011
Creator: Lowitt, Richard, 1922-2018
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
For the Record, Fall 2011 (open access)

For the Record, Fall 2011

For the Record section including the minutes of the quarterly board meeting of the Oklahoma Historical Society that was held on April 27, 2011, and the minutes of the annual meeting of the membership that was held on April 28, 2011.
Date: Autumn 2011
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
A. J. Smitherman: Pen Warrior (open access)

A. J. Smitherman: Pen Warrior

Article traces A. J. Smitherman's tumultuous career in the Oklahoma press defending African American causes.
Date: Autumn 2011
Creator: Seals Nevergold, Barbara A.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
James Cash Penney: The Impact of a Main Street Merchant on Oklahoma (open access)

James Cash Penney: The Impact of a Main Street Merchant on Oklahoma

Article explains the impact of J. C. Penney the man and J. C. Penney the company on the culture of retail shopping in Oklahoma.
Date: Autumn 2011
Creator: Kruger, David D.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Notes and Documents, Fall 2011 (open access)

Notes and Documents, Fall 2011

Notes and Documents column including a short document titled "The Twenty-Five Indians: A Revealing Ledger from the Genevieve Seger Collection" that describes a ledger book dating back to 1886 which lists the names of the first colonists to leave the Darlington (Cheyenne-Arapaho) Agency to establish an agricultural colony on the Washita River. The ledger, given to the Oklahoma Historical Society by Genevieve Seger, provides evidence that twenty-eight Arapahos set out to establish the colony.
Date: Autumn 2011
Creator: Welge, William D.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History