Bridgeport by the Canadian (open access)

Bridgeport by the Canadian

Article discusses the history, growth, and development of the town of Bridgeport on the Canadian River. Chrystobel Berrong Poteet describes the industries that gave birth to its location, the transportation methods used to cross the river, and the businesses established in the area.
Date: Summer 1961
Creator: Poteet, Chrystabel Berrong
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
A Brief History of the Fort Sill Apache Tribe (open access)

A Brief History of the Fort Sill Apache Tribe

Article provides a history of the Fort Sill Apache Tribe and their ancestors, which included the Warm Spring Apache Tribe, the Chiricahua Apache Tribe, and the Nednai Apache Tribe. After detailing the history of these individual tribes, Benedict Jozhe describes how the Apaches were brought to Fort Sill and became prisoners of war until their eventual release.
Date: Winter 1961
Creator: Johze, Benedict
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 39 Index, 1961 (open access)

Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 39 Index, 1961

Quarterly publication containing articles, book reviews, photographs, illustrations, and other works documenting Oklahoma history and preservation.
Date: 1961
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 39, Number 1, Spring 1961 (open access)

Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 39, Number 1, Spring 1961

Quarterly publication containing articles, book reviews, photographs, illustrations, and other works documenting Oklahoma history and preservation.
Date: Spring 1961
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 39, Number 2, Summer 1961 (open access)

Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 39, Number 2, Summer 1961

Quarterly publication containing articles, book reviews, photographs, illustrations, and other works documenting Oklahoma history and preservation.
Date: Summer 1961
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 39, Number 3, Autumn 1961 (open access)

Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 39, Number 3, Autumn 1961

Quarterly publication containing articles, book reviews, photographs, illustrations, and other works documenting Oklahoma history and preservation.
Date: Autumn 1961
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 39, Number 4, Winter 1961-62 (open access)

Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 39, Number 4, Winter 1961-62

Quarterly publication containing articles, book reviews, photographs, illustrations, and other works documenting Oklahoma history and preservation.
Date: Winter 1961
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Colonel Cooper's Civil War Report on the Battle of Round Mountain (open access)

Colonel Cooper's Civil War Report on the Battle of Round Mountain

Article summarizes and provides details for the report written by Colonel Douglas H. Cooper, a commander in the Confederate Army, about the Battle at Round Mountain fought against Muscogee (Creek) leader Opothleyahola. Muriel H. Wright provides excerpts of the report and includes maps and information about other Civil War battles.
Date: Winter 1961
Creator: Wright, Muriel H. (Muriel Hazel), 1889-1975
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Comanche Bridge Between Oklahoma and Mexico, 1843-1844 (open access)

The Comanche Bridge Between Oklahoma and Mexico, 1843-1844

Article discusses the activities of Comanche raiders on their plunder roads that swept from Kansas to Mexico. Ralph A. Smith focuses on their exploits below the Rio Grande from 1843-1844.
Date: Spring 1961
Creator: Smith, Ralph A.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Delos K. Lonewolf, Kiowa (open access)

Delos K. Lonewolf, Kiowa

Article describes the life, education, and career of Delos K. Lonewolf, preacher and nephew to Chief Lone Wolf. Hugh D. Corwin discusses his upbringing, family, and religious activities, as well as the occasions he accompanied his uncle to Washington, D. C. to serve as an interpreter.
Date: Winter 1961
Creator: Corwin, Hugh D.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Honorable Thomas P. Gore: The Blind Senator (open access)

Honorable Thomas P. Gore: The Blind Senator

Article describes the life and career of Oklahoma's blind Senator, Thomas P. Gore. Monroe Billington illustrates Gore's upbringing, the injury that resulted in blindness, his marriage and family, politics, and speech delivery.
Date: Summer 1961
Creator: Billington, Monroe
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
In Dugouts and Sod Houses (open access)

In Dugouts and Sod Houses

Article discusses the temporary shelters pioneers constructed in the wake of the Oklahoma land runs. Veda Giezentanner elaborates on the process of creating sod houses and dugouts, the difficulties faced by early pioneers, and the ways settlers made a living.
Date: Summer 1961
Creator: Giezentanner, Veda
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
An Indian Territory United Nations: The Creek Council of 1845 (open access)

An Indian Territory United Nations: The Creek Council of 1845

Article discusses the meetings of delegates from the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, Seminole, Kickapoo, Shawnee, Caddo, Wichita, Quapaw, Osage, Kiowa, and Pawnee tribes in council to discuss the issues of Indian Territory in the nineteenth century. A. M. Gibson includes a record of the proceedings by Cherokee Agent Pierce M. Butler and edited by newspaper editor William P. Ross.
Date: Winter 1961
Creator: Gibson, Arrell M.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Lieutenant Averell's Ride at the Outbreak of the Civil War (open access)

Lieutenant Averell's Ride at the Outbreak of the Civil War

Article introduces and includes the description of Lieutenant William W. Averell's journey from the Washington D.C. to Fort Smith at the outbreak of the Civil War carrying an order from the War Department. Muriel H. Wright explains the contents of the order, which was the withdrawal of troops from Indian Territory, and what it meant for the people of the area.
Date: Spring 1961
Creator: Wright, Muriel H. (Muriel Hazel), 1889-1975
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Lieutenant William E. Burnet Letters: Removal of the Texas Indians and the Founding of Fort Cobb, Part III (open access)

Lieutenant William E. Burnet Letters: Removal of the Texas Indians and the Founding of Fort Cobb, Part III

Article provides a continuation of the letters of William E. Burnett, an officer in the U.S. and later Confederate Army. In this third part of Raymond Estep's article, the removal of American Indians from Texas and the founding of Fort Cobb are highlighted.
Date: Spring 1961
Creator: Estep, Raymond
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Memorial Address: Oklahoma's Heritage (open access)

Memorial Address: Oklahoma's Heritage

Article provides a memorial address in honor of Judge Edgar S. Vaught, Anabell Gum, and Roy M. Johnson. Judge Orel Busby explores the romanticism of pioneer history in Oklahoma and the individuals that helped build the state.
Date: Summer 1961
Creator: Busby, Orel
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Necrology, Winter 1961-62 (open access)

Necrology, Winter 1961-62

Column documenting biographical information about Oklahomans who have died; this issue discusses lawyer, judge, and civic leader Frederick Page Branson.
Date: Winter 1961
Creator: Moore, William B.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Notes and Documents, Fall 1961 (open access)

Notes and Documents, Fall 1961

Notes and Documents column including a document about the publication of a cumulative index for The Chronicles of Oklahoma, and a story about the name of Oklahoma, which is derived from the Choctaw words for "red people."
Date: Autumn 1961
Creator: Wright, Muriel H. (Muriel Hazel), 1889-1975
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Notes and Documents, Spring 1961 (open access)

Notes and Documents, Spring 1961

Notes and Documents column including a document about the life and career of American Indian artist Acee Blue Eagle and the quarterly staff report of the Oklahoma Historical Society.
Date: Spring 1961
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Notes and Documents, Summer 1961 (open access)

Notes and Documents, Summer 1961

Notes and Documents column including two last letters on the life of Lieutenant William E. Burnet, a review of the newly established Museum of the Great Plains, and a tribute to historian Carolyn Thomas Foreman.
Date: Summer 1961
Creator: Maury, Dabney Herndon; Burnet, David G.; Haliburton, R., Jr. & Albert, Carl Bert
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Notes and Documents, Winter 1961-62 (open access)

Notes and Documents, Winter 1961-62

Notes and Documents column including a list of the life members of the Oklahoma Historical Society and a list of recent accessions to the library of the OHS.
Date: Winter 1961
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Official Minutes of Quarterly Meeting, the Board of Directors, the Oklahoma Historical Society, Quarter Ending, April 27, 1961 (open access)

Official Minutes of Quarterly Meeting, the Board of Directors, the Oklahoma Historical Society, Quarter Ending, April 27, 1961

This section includes the minutes of quarterly meeting of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society that was held on April 27, 1961.
Date: Summer 1961
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Official Minutes of Quarterly Meeting, the Board of Directors, the Oklahoma Historical Society, Quarter Ending, January 26, 1961 (open access)

Official Minutes of Quarterly Meeting, the Board of Directors, the Oklahoma Historical Society, Quarter Ending, January 26, 1961

This section includes the minutes of quarterly meeting of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society that was held on January 26, 1961.
Date: Spring 1961
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
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 27, 1961 (open access)

Official Minutes of Quarterly Meeting, the Board of Directors, the Oklahoma Historical Society, Quarter Ending, July 27, 1961

This section includes the minutes of quarterly meeting of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society that was held on July 27, 1961.
Date: Autumn 1961
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History