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Memories of the Indian Territory Mission Field
Article describes the author's personal experiences as a student and teacher in Indian Territory. Lilah Denton Lindsey explores her own experience in the mission field as well as those she worked with. Included is an excerpt of a story told to her by Dr. R. M. Loughridge about early mission work in the area.
Date:
Summer 1958
Creator:
Lindsey, Lilah Denton
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Pioneer Days in the Cherokee Strip
Article describes the 1893 opening of the Cherokee Strip as experienced by the author and her family. Clara Williamson Warren Bullard describes her family's settlement of their claim, water scarcity, growth of communities, and the cultivation of land.
Date:
Autumn 1958
Creator:
Bullard, Clara Williamson Warren
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Wyandotte Mission: The Early Years, 1871-1900
Article discusses the history of the Wyandotte Mission from 1871 to 1900. A. M. Gibson describes the establishment of the mission school, the curriculum offered there, and the communities it served to educate and provide religious services to.
Date:
Summer 1958
Creator:
Gibson, Arrell M.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Old Ingalls: The Story of a Town That Will Not Die
Article explores the growth of the town of "Old Ingalls" and accounts of the crime that occurred there during a time when bandit gangs roamed Oklahoma Territory. Leslie McRill includes newspaper accounts as well as excerpts from the diary of a town doctor, Dr. J. H. Pickering.
Date:
Winter 1958
Creator:
McRill, Leslie A.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Captain David McNair and His Descendants
Article describes the life and career of Captain David McNair, a prominent figure in the Cherokee Nation and owner of a boat yard on the Conasauga River. Carolyn Thomas Foreman discusses the people he helped throughout his life and includes correspondence from the time to create a clearer portrait of the man.
Date:
Autumn 1958
Creator:
Foreman, Carolyn Thomas, 1872-1967
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Official Minutes of Quarterly Meeting, the Board of Directors, the Oklahoma Historical Society, Quarter Ending, July 24, 1958
This section includes the minutes of quarterly meeting of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society that was held on July 24, 1958.
Date:
Autumn 1958
Creator:
Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Saddle Mountain Mission and Church
Article discusses the story of Miss Isabel Crawford, a Baptist missionary who took up work ministering to the Kiowas at the Saddle Mountain Mission and Church. Hugh D. Corwin provides context to her journey and includes excepts of Crawford's account of her life there.
Date:
Summer 1958
Creator:
Corwin, Hugh D.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Old Osage Customs Die with the Last Pah-hue-skah
Article discusses the history of the "White Hair" or Pah-hue-skah family lineage of the Osage from the Louisiana Purchase to the period of removal. Frank F. Finney explores the chiefs of this family and the ways they retained Osage traditions throughout history.
Date:
Summer 1958
Creator:
Finney, Frank F.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
New Officers of the Historical Society
Article provides biographical information about the new officers of the Oklahoma Historical Society and states their new titles. Colonel George H. Shirk has been elected new President of the OHS, H. Milt Phillips in the first Vice President of the OHS, and Mrs. Edna Bowman is the new Treasurer.
Date:
Summer 1958
Creator:
Fraker, Elmer L.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Official Minutes of the Annual and Quarterly Meetings of the Oklahoma Historical Society, April 24, 1958
This includes the minutes of the annual and quarterly meetings of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society that were both held on April 24, 1958.
Date:
Summer 1958
Creator:
Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
A Walking Tour in the Indian Territory, 1874
Article includes an account published in the Cherokee Advocate by Claiborne Addison Young of a walking tour of Indian Territory, which included descriptions of the prairie and the people living there, visits to the Wyandotte Mission, the Cherokee National Female Seminary at Park Hill, and the Cherokee Orphan Asylum.
Date:
Summer 1958
Creator:
Young, Claiborne Addison
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Case of the Plagiarized Journal
Article compares the famous account of the Washita campaign by General George A. Custer with a journal donated to the Oklahoma Historical Society originally belonging to Lieutenant P. N. Hardman of the 7th Cavalry who served in the same campaign. George H. Shirk questions which account came first, if one author plagiarized another, and what amount of information may have been fabricated.
Date:
Winter 1958
Creator:
Shirk, George H.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 36, Number 3, Autumn 1958
Quarterly publication containing articles, book reviews, photographs, illustrations, and other works documenting Oklahoma history and preservation.
Date:
Autumn 1958
Creator:
Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 36, Number 4, Winter 1958-59
Quarterly publication containing articles, book reviews, photographs, illustrations, and other works documenting Oklahoma history and preservation. Index to volume 36 starts after page 500.
Date:
Winter 1958
Creator:
Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 36, Number 1, Spring 1958
Quarterly publication containing articles, book reviews, photographs, illustrations, and other works documenting Oklahoma history and preservation.
Date:
Spring 1958
Creator:
Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 36, Number 2, Summer 1958
Quarterly publication containing articles, book reviews, photographs, illustrations, and other works documenting Oklahoma history and preservation.
Date:
Summer 1958
Creator:
Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
A Military Burial at Lake Altus
Article provides a detailed account of the discovery and excavation of a military burial at Lake Altus. James B. Shaeffer explores the investigation of artifacts and remains that determined the skeleton to belong to a United States army soldier, and how that investigation is ongoning.
Date:
Winter 1958
Creator:
Shaeffer, James B.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Osages and Their Agency During the Term of Isaac T. Gibson, Quaker Agent
Article describes the establishment and growth of the Osage Agency that eventually became Pawhuska, Oklahoma. Frank F. Finney describes efforts by the founder of the Agency, Quaker Agent Isaac T. Gibson, the obstacles to its establishment, and skirmishes that occurred with neighboring tribes.
Date:
Winter 1958
Creator:
Finney, Frank F.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Official Minutes of Quarterly Meeting, the Board of Directors, the Oklahoma Historical Society, Quarter Ending, October 23, 1958
This section includes the minutes of the quarterly meeting of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society that was held on October 23, 1958.
Date:
Winter 1958
Creator:
Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Resolution on General William S. Key
This article provides a resolution honoring the contributions of William S. Key, President of the Oklahoma Historical Society, as he leaves his position. The Board of Directors attests to his dedicated work in the past ten years of affiliation with the OHS.
Date:
Summer 1958
Creator:
Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Committee Report Butterfield Overland Mail
Article includes the report made by the Committee of the Oklahoma Historical Society for the tracing of the Butterfield Overland Mail Route and the selection of twelve sites along the route for historical makers to be placed. The Committee provides an in-depth description of their journey and the historic sites they visited.
Date:
Winter 1958
Creator:
Oklahoma Historic Sites Committee
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
American Indian Corn Dishes
Article provides an overview of the corn dishes of the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Cherokee, Creek, Seminole, and Quapaw tribes. Muriel H. Wright includes an introduction to the background of corn dishes among the tribes and a description of the basic dish, Hominy, popular among many of them.
Date:
Summer 1958
Creator:
Wright, Muriel H. (Muriel Hazel), 1889-1975
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The First Panhandle Land Grant
Article describes the history of the first land grant in the Oklahoma Panhandle. Raymond Estep discusses how the Mexican state of Coahuila y Texas issued a large land grant to Stephen Julian Wilson under an empresario contract to settle 200 families there, and how the land changed hands over the years.
Date:
Winter 1958
Creator:
Estep, Raymond
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Action on Chilocco Creek
Article discusses the establishment of Camp Schofield on Chilocco Creek, reports from United States army officers and troop commanders, drills and field exercises, and a simulated battle between troops stationed there.
Date:
Autumn 1958
Creator:
Shirk, George H.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History