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First Exploration of the Head-Waters of Red River (open access)

First Exploration of the Head-Waters of Red River

Article is a short narrative about the author's experiences as a child growing up within Greer County when the states of Texas and Oklahoma were fighting over its ownership.
Date: Summer 1929
Creator: Phipps, B. L.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Greer County (open access)

Greer County

Article documents the creation of Greer county within the Oklahoma Territory and the disputes between various governing bodies over its ownership.
Date: Summer 1934
Creator: Estill-Harbour, Emma
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Greer County Pioneers Organize (open access)

Greer County Pioneers Organize

Article announces the meeting of the Old Greer County Pioneers, a group of individuals who were residing within Greer county when the boundary between Oklahoma and Texas was finalized.
Date: Autumn 1933
Creator: Dickerson, Argus
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
From the Brazos to the North Fork: The Autobiography of Otto Koeltzow, Part One (open access)

From the Brazos to the North Fork: The Autobiography of Otto Koeltzow, Part One

Article provides and introduction to and includes an excerpt of the autobiography of Otto Koeltzow, a migrant from Germany who homesteaded Greer County, Oklahoma Territory and weathered many difficulties to establish a community there.
Date: Summer 1962
Creator: Gibson, Arrell M.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Money Matters: The Stamp Scrip Movement in Depression-Era Oklahoma (open access)

Money Matters: The Stamp Scrip Movement in Depression-Era Oklahoma

Article expanding on the previous 2004 article on Oklahoma's reaction to the depression era banking crisis of early 1933. In this article, Gatch ties the origin of the scrip movement to the writings of Yale University's professor Irving Fisher and traces the implementation of scrip schemes in nearly three dozen Oklahoma towns and explains the reasons for scrip's early success and rapid demise.
Date: Autumn 2006
Creator: Gatch, Loren C.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
New Deal Building Programs: The FERA, the WPA, and the Magnum Community Building (open access)

New Deal Building Programs: The FERA, the WPA, and the Magnum Community Building

Article illustrates the history of the Mangum Community Building and its construction through the efforts of local workers employed by the Works Progress Administration and the Federal Emergency Relief Administration during the New Deal era.
Date: Summer 1997
Creator: Savage, Cynthia
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Businessman's Frontier: C. C. Hightower, Commerce, and Old Greer County, 1891-1903 (open access)

The Businessman's Frontier: C. C. Hightower, Commerce, and Old Greer County, 1891-1903

This article delineates C. C. Hightower's role in a changing economy and chronicles his rise to prominence in business and civic affairs in prestatehood Oklahoma.
Date: Spring 2008
Creator: Hightower, Michael J.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Oklahoma's Air Ace: William T. Ponder and World War I (open access)

Oklahoma's Air Ace: William T. Ponder and World War I

This article chronicles William T. Ponder's training and testing in battle against the backdrop of World War I aviation history. Ponder served with the French Aviation Service as part of the Lafayette Flying Corps and the U.S. Air Service where he became Oklahoma's first aviation war hero.
Date: Summer 2008
Creator: Moore, Bill
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Old Greer County (open access)

Old Greer County

Article describes the journey of the E. M. DeBerry family from Texas to Old Greer County and their life on the frontier. Author Annie Laurie Steele includes an account by her aunt, Miss Rosabel DeBerry, about hunting, cooking, taking care of livestock, and housing visitors in their pioneer home.
Date: Spring 1964
Creator: Steele, Annie Laurie
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
My Pioneer Home in Old Greer County (open access)

My Pioneer Home in Old Greer County

Article describes the author's experiences traveling to and growing up in old Greer County. Laressa Cox McBurney describes the wagon journey, the type of pioneer home they had, neighbors, mail, and school on the frontier.
Date: Spring 1964
Creator: McBurney, Laressa Cox
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
A Pioneer Family in Old Greer County (open access)

A Pioneer Family in Old Greer County

Article discusses the life of the Chitwood family on the Oklahoma frontier in Greer County. Adelia Clifton's adapted version of Maggie Chitwood Kilpatrick's manuscript includes stories cattle herding, conditions in the dugout house they lived in, and early education.
Date: Summer 1961
Creator: Clifton, Adelia
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
A Military Burial at Lake Altus (open access)

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.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Altus on the Hill Above Frazer in Old Greer County (open access)

Altus on the Hill Above Frazer in Old Greer County

Article provides context to the recollections of the author's grandmother, Mrs. M. E. Rogers, who was a survivor of the flood at Frazer in Old Greer County that resulted in the founding of Altus, Oklahoma.
Date: Winter 1962
Creator: Shelton, Barbara Kay
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
"Print the News and Raise Hell": The Territorial Editors of Altus (open access)

"Print the News and Raise Hell": The Territorial Editors of Altus

Article explores the history of fiery journalism in the careers of newspaper editors in Altus, Oklahoma, in the territorial period. Leo Kelley highlights some of the political issues the various newspapers debated and the way their editors clashed with each other.
Date: Autumn 1987
Creator: Kelley, Leo
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Notes on the History of Old Greer County (open access)

Notes on the History of Old Greer County

Article chronicles the lives of prominent figures and business within Old Greer County within Oklahoma Territory.
Date: Summer 1942
Creator: Tittle, Lem H.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Pioneer Church Organizer in Old Greer County (open access)

Pioneer Church Organizer in Old Greer County

Article lists and describes the religious leaders who organized churches within Greer county during its pioneering days.
Date: Winter 1946
Creator: Mitchell, Paul D.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History