Miss Lawton Scholarship Pageant Program 2003 (open access)

Miss Lawton Scholarship Pageant Program 2003

Program for the Miss Lawton Scholarship Pageant with a list of the order of events, background information, biographies for judges, and a list of pageant participants, along with local advertising.
Date: 2003
Creator: Lawton Junior Service League
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Miss Lawton Scholarship Pageant Program 2002 (open access)

Miss Lawton Scholarship Pageant Program 2002

Program for the Miss Lawton Scholarship Pageant with a list of the order of events, background information, biographies for judges, and a list of pageant participants, along with local advertising.
Date: 2002
Creator: Lawton Junior Service League
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Lysbeth "Lizzi" Wolf, Miss Lawton 2003

Portrait of Lysbeth "Lizzi" Wolf, Miss Lawton in 2003.
Date: 2003
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Miss Lawton Scholarship Pageant Program 2000 (open access)

Miss Lawton Scholarship Pageant Program 2000

Program for the Miss Lawton Scholarship Pageant with a list of the order of events, background information, biographies for judges, and a list of pageant participants, along with local advertising.
Date: 2000
Creator: Lawton Junior Service League
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Miss Lawton Scholarship Pageant Program 2001 (open access)

Miss Lawton Scholarship Pageant Program 2001

Program for the Miss Lawton Scholarship Pageant with a list of the order of events, background information, biographies for judges, and a list of pageant participants, along with local advertising.
Date: 2001
Creator: Lawton Junior Service League
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Shayna Webb, Miss Lawton 2008

Portrait of Shayna Webb, Miss Lawton in 2008.
Date: 2008
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Leilaninicole Wiggins, Miss Lawton 2007

Portrait of Leilaninicole Wiggins, Miss Lawton in 2007.
Date: 2007
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Lexandra Williams, Miss Lawton 2000

Portrait of Lexandra Williams, Miss Lawton in 2000.
Date: 2000
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Teri Poahway, Miss Lawton 2001

Portrait of Teri Poahway, Miss Lawton in 2001.
Date: 2001
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Cassy Lynn Hill, Miss Lawton 2006

Portrait of Cassy Lynn Hill, Miss Lawton of 2006.
Date: 2006
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Sarah Jensen, Miss Lawton 2009

Portrait of Sarah Jensen, Miss Lawton of 2009.
Date: 2009
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Dara Fields, Miss Lawton 2002

Portrait of Dara Fields, Miss Lawton of 2002.
Date: 2002
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Ashley Marie Ezell, Miss Lawton 2005

Portrait of Ashley Marie Ezell, Miss Lawton in 2005.
Date: 2005
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Selby Michaela Bush, Miss Lawton 2004

Portrait of Selby Michaela Bush, Miss Lawton in 2004.
Date: 2004
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Oklahoma International Festival Program: 2003 (open access)

Oklahoma International Festival Program: 2003

Program for the annual International Festival in Lawton, Oklahoma, which includes demonstrations, exhibitions, displays, and other events related to the cultural heritage of the Lawton-Fort Sill area. The program provides listings for activities during the festival and other contextual information.
Date: 2003
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Oklahoma International Festival Program: 2002 (open access)

Oklahoma International Festival Program: 2002

Program for the annual International Festival in Lawton, Oklahoma, which includes demonstrations, exhibitions, displays, and other events related to the cultural heritage of the Lawton-Fort Sill area. The program provides listings for activities during the festival and other contextual information.
Date: 2002
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Oklahoma International Festival Program: 2001 (open access)

Oklahoma International Festival Program: 2001

Program for the annual International Festival in Lawton, Oklahoma, which includes demonstrations, exhibitions, displays, and other events related to the cultural heritage of the Lawton-Fort Sill area. The program provides listings for activities during the festival and other contextual information.
Date: 2001
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Oklahoma International Festival Program: 2000 (open access)

Oklahoma International Festival Program: 2000

Program for the annual International Festival in Lawton, Oklahoma, which includes demonstrations, exhibitions, displays, and other events related to the cultural heritage of the Lawton-Fort Sill area. The program provides listings for activities during the festival and other contextual information.
Date: 2000
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Lawton's 100th Birthday Pamphlet (open access)

Lawton's 100th Birthday Pamphlet

A pamphlet for the city of Lawton's 100th birthday.
Date: 2001
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Oral History Interview with Charles Scheffel, May 10, 2000 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Charles Scheffel, May 10, 2000

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Charles Scheffel. Scheffel grew up in Oklahoma and enlisted in the Army ROTC in 1940. He was called up in 1941 after Pearl Harbor. He was allowed to finish out his senior year of college and was married in March 1942. He embarked on the Queen Elizabeth from New Jersey in September 1942. As leader of 200 men, he landed in Scotland and drove with them to Whittington Barracks where they joined with the British 51st Highlanders. He lists the three main survival lessons he learned from the seasoned English soldiers: having a batman to back you up, digging a two-man foxhole, and waiting for the ""crack and thump."" Scheffel how the ""crack and thump"" lesson would later save his life when he was seriously wounded when attacking the Siegfried Line. From England he went to Algeria with the British troops on the Scythia. The ship is torpedoed off the coast limps into Algiers. Scheffel made the decision to leave the British Highlanders and join up with American 9th Division in February 1943. The division went into Tunisia. Then he was sent to spend another month with the …
Date: May 10, 2000
Creator: Scheffel, Charles
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with W. G. (Bill) Campbell, April 21, 2000 (open access)

Oral History Interview with W. G. (Bill) Campbell, April 21, 2000

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with W. G. (Bill) Campbell. Campbell grew up in Texas, attended Texas A&M, and married in 1939 before joining the Army in 1943. After training, he went to Australia, Dutch New Guinea, Palu, Leyte, and Mindanao. He describes riding in amphibious vehicles and interacting with the natives. He discusses various illnesses he had during the war and his interactions with his brother, an engineer. He also describes surveying work in some detail. After the war, Campbell eventually became a public school teacher.
Date: April 21, 2000
Creator: Campbell, W. G. (Bill)
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
The "Come-As-You-Are" War: Fort Sill and the Persian Gulf Crisis of 1990-1991 (open access)

The "Come-As-You-Are" War: Fort Sill and the Persian Gulf Crisis of 1990-1991

Article illustrates the resilience and quick adaption to rapid change Fort Sill employed during the Persian Gulf Crisis, mobilizing large groups of soldiers during Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. Demands for personnel, training, and equipment were high during this time, and Boyd L. Dastrup describes the situation at the army post.
Date: Summer 2005
Creator: Dastrup, Boyd L.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
For Society's Sake: The Wichita Mountains, Wildlife, and Identity in Oklahoma's Early Environmental History (open access)

For Society's Sake: The Wichita Mountains, Wildlife, and Identity in Oklahoma's Early Environmental History

Article provides an account of the American mindset in the early twentieth century and how human interests dictated the state's early environmental history and the creation of the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge in southwestern Oklahoma.
Date: Winter 2000
Creator: Despain, S. Matthew
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Fort Sill, the Chiricahua Apaches, and the Government's Promise of Permanent Residence (open access)

Fort Sill, the Chiricahua Apaches, and the Government's Promise of Permanent Residence

The Chiricahua Apaches spent nineteen years (1894-1913) as prisoners of war at Fort Sill in southwestern Oklahoma believing they had been promised permanent residency. This article addresses the rationale behind the government's decision to remove the Apaches from Fort Sill and explores the record to show why the Apaches and others believed they had been promised permanent residency there.
Date: Spring 2000
Creator: Haes, Brenda L.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History