Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 89, Number 1, Spring 2011 (open access)

Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 89, Number 1, Spring 2011

Quarterly publication containing articles, book reviews, photographs, illustrations, and other works documenting Oklahoma history and preservation.
Date: Spring 2011
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
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.
Object Type: Article
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
Object Type: Article
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.
Object Type: Article
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.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Bringing Nature into Focus: The Travertine Nature Center at Platt National Park (open access)

Bringing Nature into Focus: The Travertine Nature Center at Platt National Park

Article describes the process undertaken to bring the Travertine Nature Center to Platt National Park during the 1960s.
Date: Winter 2011
Creator: Savage, Cynthia
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
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.
Object Type: Article
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
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Farm Crisis in Oklahoma, Part 2 (open access)

Farm Crisis in Oklahoma, Part 2

The second part of a two-part article, this article continues the examination of the effect that economic distress and political policies had on Oklahoma's farmers and ranchers in the 1970s and 1980s.
Date: Winter 2011
Creator: Lowitt, Richard, 1922-2018
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 89, Number 3, Fall 2011 (open access)

Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 89, Number 3, Fall 2011

Quarterly publication containing articles, book reviews, photographs, illustrations, and other works documenting Oklahoma history and preservation.
Date: Autumn 2011
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 89, Number 4, Winter 2011-12 (open access)

Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 89, Number 4, Winter 2011-12

Quarterly publication containing articles, book reviews, photographs, illustrations, and other works documenting Oklahoma history and preservation. Index to volume 89 starts on page 512.
Date: Winter 2011
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 89, Number 2, Summer 2011 (open access)

Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 89, Number 2, Summer 2011

Quarterly publication containing articles, book reviews, photographs, illustrations, and other works documenting Oklahoma history and preservation.
Date: Summer 2011
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
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.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Frank Vlasak and the Beginnings of Prague, Oklahoma (open access)

Frank Vlasak and the Beginnings of Prague, Oklahoma

Article explores the relationship between ethnicity and political power through the person of Frank Vlasak, a Bohemian-born farmer and businessman in early Prague, Oklahoma.
Date: Winter 2011
Creator: Smith, Philip D.
Object Type: Article
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.
Object Type: Article
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
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
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.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Early Cinema and Oklahoma (open access)

Early Cinema and Oklahoma

Article illuminates the early history of cinema in Oklahoma. Oklahoma's most sustained period of high-profile filmmaking occurred during the early cinema period, those years before 1915, and had an emphasis on authenticity which meant shooting on location in the Sooner State, often with legendary outlaws recreating their old crimes.
Date: Winter 2011
Creator: Rhodes, Gary D.
Object Type: Article
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
Object Type: Article
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.
Object Type: Article
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
Object Type: Article
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.
Object Type: Article
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
Object Type: Article
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
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History