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The Big Pasture
Article describes the tract of land called "the Big Pasture" that was originally separated from Kiowa-Comanche-Apache lands, the process of allotting the land and opening it to homesteaders, and the names of the townsites that were set up there after the land was surveyed.
Date:
Summer 1957
Creator:
Cooper, Charles M.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Butterfield Overland Mail One Hundred Years Ago
Article discusses the creation of the Butterfield Overland Mail Route and its development. Muriel H. Wright explores how mail was transported by railroad and stagecoaches across the route, and the events that impacted the route's success.
Date:
Spring 1957
Creator:
Wright, Muriel H. (Muriel Hazel), 1889-1975
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 35 Index, 1957
Quarterly publication containing articles, book reviews, photographs, illustrations, and other works documenting Oklahoma history and preservation.
Date:
1957
Creator:
Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 35, Number 1, Spring 1957
Quarterly publication containing articles, book reviews, photographs, illustrations, and other works documenting Oklahoma history and preservation.
Date:
Spring 1957
Creator:
Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 35, Number 2, Summer 1957
Quarterly publication containing articles, book reviews, photographs, illustrations, and other works documenting Oklahoma history and preservation.
Date:
Summer 1957
Creator:
Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 35, Number 3, Autumn 1957
Quarterly publication containing articles, book reviews, photographs, illustrations, and other works documenting Oklahoma history and preservation.
Date:
Autumn 1957
Creator:
Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 35, Number 4, Winter 1957-58
Quarterly publication containing articles, book reviews, photographs, illustrations, and other works documenting Oklahoma history and preservation. Index to volume 35 starts on page 505.
Date:
Winter 1957
Creator:
Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Dr. and Mrs. Richard Moore Crain
Article discusses the lives of the pioneer couple Dr. Richard Moore Crain and his wife, who was Miss Anna Rebecca Neal before marriage. Carolyn Thomas Foreman discusses the difficulties they faced on the frontier, Anna's work as a schoolteacher, and Dr. Cain's work with the various tribes they lived among.
Date:
Spring 1957
Creator:
Foreman, Carolyn Thomas, 1872-1967
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Federal Indian Relations in the South, 1781-1789
Article discusses the history of government relations with the tribes of the south in the United States following the Revolution. Kenneth Coleman explores the British and Spanish interest in the area occupied by the American Indians, and the treaties Congress made with these people groups.
Date:
Winter 1957
Creator:
Coleman, Kenneth
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Founding of Ponca City
Article discusses the founding of Ponca City by the author's father, Burton Seymour Barnes, and the land run of 1893. Louis Seymour Barnes illustrates the growth of business in Ponca City and the order his father brought as mayor.
Date:
Summer 1957
Creator:
Barnes, Louis Seymour
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grand Seal of the Territory of Oklahoma
Article describes the history of Oklahoma Territory and its many land openings, the grand seal of Oklahoma Territory, and its designer Frank H. Greer. Muriel H. Wright explores Oklahoma Territory's legislative bodies, and Greer's link to the Oklahoma Historical Society.
Date:
Summer 1957
Creator:
Wright, Muriel H. (Muriel Hazel), 1889-1975
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Great Seal of the State of Oklahoma
Article discusses the history and imagery of the great seal of Oklahoma. Muriel H. Wright traces Oklahoma's journey to statehood and includes notes about the Sequoyah Convention and the Oklahoma Constitutional Convention.
Date:
Autumn 1957
Creator:
Wright, Muriel H. (Muriel Hazel), 1889-1975
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Health Conditions in Indian Territory, 1830 to the Civil War
Article provides a historical overview of the health conditions among the five large tribes of Indian Territory from 1830 to the Civil War. Bernice Norman Crockett explores how epidemics and liquor trade impacted the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Seminole, and Creek tribes, and the medical help that was available via missionaries.
Date:
Spring 1957
Creator:
Crockett, Bernice N.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
History of No-Man's-Land, or Old Beaver County
Article discusses the history of No Man's Land, or old Beaver County, its initial land system after being claimed by Spain, various contracts over land use, the founding of the Santa Fe Trail, and the area's time as Cimarron Territory. This article is a reprint of the original, which was contained in the first issue of the Chronicles in 1921.
Date:
Spring 1957
Creator:
Wardell, Morris L.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Joseph Samuel Morrow, Apostle to the Indians
Article describes the work of Baptist missionary, Joseph Samuel Morrow, in providing educational opportunities and religious instructions to the tribes of Indian Territory. Frank A. Balyeat discusses the institutions he helped found, which includes the Baptist Academy and the Murrow Orphans Home.
Date:
Autumn 1957
Creator:
Balyeat, Frank A.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Judge Albert C. Hunt
Article provides a biographical sketch of the life and career of Albert Clarence Hunt, Justice of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma. Judge N. B. Johnson discusses the leadership positions the justice held, as well as the organizations he was a part of.
Date:
Spring 1957
Creator:
Johnson, N. B.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Kaw Indians and Their Indian Territory Agency
Article discusses the history of the Kaw people, their leaders, and the creation of their agency in Indian Territory. Frank F. Finney discusses their initial move to Indian Territory, ways of life, and the other tribes they were friendly with.
Date:
Winter 1957
Creator:
Finney, Frank F.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Leasing of Quapaw Mineral Lands
Article describes the history of the leasing of Quapaw mineral lands after the discovery of lead and zinc ore. A. M. Gibson discusses the measures put in place to protect the Quapaws from unfair agreements and the financial and legal issues that sprouted from these leases.
Date:
Autumn 1957
Creator:
Gibson, Arrell M.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Legal Sooners of 1889 in Oklahoma
Article describes the land claims of "legal sooners," those who entered an area of land called Oklahoma District under legal means, such as by means of permit, authorized occupation, or employment by the government. Berlin B. Chapman discusses the early law enforcement and legal process for land claims and disputes in the region.
Date:
Winter 1957
Creator:
Chapman, Berlin B.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Lieutenant-General Theophilus Hunter Holmes, C. S. A., Founder of Fort Holmes
Article describes the military career of Lieutenant General Theophilus Hunter Holmes, founder of Fort Holmes. Carolyn Thomas Foreman discusses his participation in the Seminole Wars, the Mexican-American War, and focuses particularly on his service in the Confederate Army during the Civil War.
Date:
Winter 1957
Creator:
Foreman, Carolyn Thomas, 1872-1967
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Lost Colonel
Article provides historical context for a trip across Indian Territory taken during the Civil War era by a U. S. Cavalry unit and a unit of African-American federal soldiers, and recorded by Hospital Steward Thomas A. Muzzall. Highlights of his journal include Colonel Paul Harwood becoming lost during the expedition.
Date:
Summer 1957
Creator:
Shirk, George H.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Memoirs of Oklahoma
Article includes the memoires of Kittie M. Harvey, a pioneer woman who moved to Oklahoma Territory with her family and became a music teacher and helped run the small post office in Chandler. Harvey discusses life there and in Oklahoma City, and the people she and her husband Will Harvey interacted with.
Date:
Spring 1957
Creator:
Harvey, Kittie M.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Mon-Dah-Min and the Redman's Old Uses of Corn as Food
Article transcribes the writing of B. N. O. Walker under the penname Hen-Toh. Hen-Toh tells the story of Mon-Dah-Min and includes descriptions of Wyandot corn dishes and their history.
Date:
Summer 1957
Creator:
Hen-Toh
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Necrology, Fall 1957
Column documenting biographical information about Oklahomans who have died; this issue discusses writer and county superintendent Nell A. Snyder.
Date:
Autumn 1957
Creator:
Delly, Lillian
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History