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4-H and the 1928 State Fair of Oklahoma: Making the Best Better
Article illustrates the importance of 4-H booths at the 1928 State Fair of Oklahoma in the rural education efforts of the 1920s.
Date:
Summer 2016
Creator:
Nelson, Darin
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
48 Hours in Atoka
Article describes the 48 Hours in Atoka concert that took place in 1975 and the impact this concert had on the local Atoka community.
Date:
Spring 2013
Creator:
Donovan-Wallis, Cindy
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The 1969 Oklahoma City Garbage Strike
Article covers the Oklahoma City worker's strike in 1969 when sanitation workers, mostly African Americans, went on strike for higher wages and better working conditions. The article expounds on the reasons for the strike, the attention it received locally and nationally from African American politicians and organizations, and the results of the resolve of the strikers and their supporters.
Date:
Winter 2010
Creator:
Lowitt, Richard, 1922-2018
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
"All In": The Rise of Tribal Gaming
Article describes the struggle over jurisdiction that resulted in compacts to govern tribal gaming.
Date:
Winter 2015
Creator:
Dickson, Kathy
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Antisuffragist. Antifeminist! Pro-women? The Anomalous Alice Mary Robertson
Article examining Oklahoma's first woman representative in the United States Congress, Alice Mary Robertson. In this article Robertson's attitudes toward suffrage, feminism, and women at home and in politics, are explored.
Date:
Spring 2010
Creator:
Caldwell, Deah
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Aunt Maggie and the Child Welfare Special
Article describes the traveling health caravan known as the Child Welfare Special and the founding of the United States Children's Welfare Bureau. Dan Lawrence explores how Dr. Maggie Koenig, one of the members of the traveling health clinic, contributed to the history of public health education.
Date:
Autumn 2019
Creator:
Lawrence, Dan
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Bad Men and Good Bad Men: Outlaws in the Twin Territories and Their Influence on the Hollywood Outlaw
Article contrasts the romanticized Hollywood image of the outlaw popular in Western films and fiction with the brutal reality of several gangs of outlaws as well as a handful of notable individuals active in Oklahoma and Indian Territories in the late nineteenth centuries.
Date:
Winter 2018
Creator:
Girkin, Clinton
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Banking in Oklahoma's Smallest Certified City: Alva State Bank and Trust Company, Freedom Branch
Article examines the history of community banking in Freedom, Oklahoma through interviews conducted by the author in support of the Oklahoma History Center's Crossroads of Commerce: A History of Free Enterprise in Oklahoma exhibit. Michael J. Hightower explores the growth of industry and banking in Oklahoma's smallest city.
Date:
Spring 2018
Creator:
Hightower, Michael J.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Battle Cry for History: The First 125 Years of the Oklahoma Historical Society
Article commemorates the anniversary of the founding of the Oklahoma Historical Society by relating its growth and accomplishments over its 125 years of existence. Bob L. Blackburn returns to update his article from the Winter 1992-93 issue of the Chronicles of Oklahoma and include the events of the past twenty-five years.
Date:
Spring 2018
Creator:
Blackburn, Bob L.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Better Royalties: Federal Policy, the Quapaw Tribe, and Self-Determination, 1900-70
Article covers the struggle the Quapaw Tribe faced to obtain fair mining leases in the rich mining region they had been relocated to in northeastern Oklahoma, as well as to attain rights to self-determination despite suppression by federal policy.
Date:
Winter 2018
Creator:
Nolan, Raymond Anthony
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Birthday of the Klan: The Tulsa Outrage of 1917
Article describes the events that led to the Tulsa Outrage of 1917, including the emergence of the "Knights of Liberty" a vigilante group grown from the Tulsa Council of Defense which persecuted members of labor organizations and whose actions foreshadowed later violence committed by the Ku Klux Klan.
Date:
Winter 2019
Creator:
Hopkins, Randy
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
"Bold Adventures, Fraught with Many Interesting Incidents": The Scouting Career of Black Beaver
Article describes the life of Black Beaver, a Delaware scout who acted as an interpreter and guide for white explorers, also improving relations with various tribes as an Indian agent and representative.
Date:
Winter 2013
Creator:
Tower, Mike
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Boom and Bust in the Cultural Psychology of Oklahoma: An Interpretive Essay
Article proposes that after a century or more of both the causes and the results of "boom and bust" have become ingrained in Oklahoman's attitudes and beliefs about themselves and about life. This research adds an anthropological layer to the story of the Sooner State.
Date:
Spring 2010
Creator:
Stein, Howard F.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Boomers and Boomtowns: Oil Patch Songs from Oklahoma
Article gives an overview of the oilfield songs written and performed by Oklahoma songwriters and singers from the 1920s to the present.
Date:
Autumn 2012
Creator:
Specht, Joe W.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
A Brief History of the Oklahoma Poets Laureate
Article explains the importance of the position of poet laureate and evaluates the contributions of the individuals who held that post in Oklahoma.
Date:
Summer 2013
Creator:
Holliday, Shawn
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Bringing Back the Big Game: The Reintroduction of Elk to the Wichita Mountains
Article explores the circumstances surrounding the decision to move starving Rocky Mountain elk from Jackson Hole, Wyoming, to the Wichita Mountains National Forest and Game Preserve in southwestern Oklahoma in 1911, and the Progressive conservation ideals behind bringing the elk to Oklahoma.
Date:
Autumn 2010
Creator:
Pearce, Matthew Allen
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Bringing Nature into Focus: The Travertine Nature Center at Platt National Park
Article describes the process undertaken to bring the Travertine Nature Center to Platt National Park during the 1960s.
Date:
Winter 2011
Creator:
Savage, Cynthia
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Brother Bankers: Frank P. and Hugh M. Johnson, Founders of the First National Bank and Trust Company of Oklahoma City
Article explores the parallel paths in Oklahoma banking history of brothers F. P. and H. M. Johnson. The brothers came from Mississippi to Oklahoma and made names for themselves in their own banking ventures across the state before teaming up to create the First National Bank and Trust Company in Oklahoma City.
Date:
Winter 2010
Creator:
Hightower, Michael J.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Building 3001: Home of the "Gooney Bird"
Article describes the history of Building 3001 at Tinker Air Force Base, where Oklahoman workers produced thousands of C-47 military aircraft during World War II. The building was nicknamed the "Gooney Bird" after the Albatross, clumsy on the ground but beautiful in flight.
Date:
Autumn 2013
Creator:
Allin, Lawrence Carroll
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Building and Promoting Their Place: The Clegerns of ‘89
Article discusses the Clegern family and sheds light on a crucial time in the growth of three different Oklahoma cities. William Clegern and his son, Harry, were entrepreneurs who found opportunity in the 1889 Land Run. In addition, they influenced the development of Oklahoma City, Edmond, and Henryetta.
Date:
Spring 2014
Creator:
Clegern, Wayne M.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Camp Fire Girls versus Boy Scouts: A Friendly Game of Urban Forest-Building
Article explains the friendly rivalry between the Camp Fire Girls and the Boy Scouts as the groups worked to improve the urban landscape in Oklahoma City.
Date:
Summer 2014
Creator:
Nelson, Darin
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
"I Can Come Into Your World But You Can't Come Into Mine": John Swanton and Southeastern Oral Narratives
Article describes the life and career of John Reed Swanton, an anthropologist in the early 20th century who researched the oral tradition of Southeastern Native American peoples.
Date:
Spring 2016
Creator:
DeSanti, Brady
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Carl Albert: Little Giant of Native America
Article describes the life and career of Carl Albert, Oklahoma Congressman for Oklahoma's Third Congressional District and eventual Speaker of the US House of Representatives. David W. Clark explores the ways Carl Albert assisted the American Indian community through beneficial policies supporting self-determination and opposition to policies terminating tribes.
Date:
Autumn 2015
Creator:
Clark, David W.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Cherokee Male Seminary Baseball Team, 1876-1908
Article traces the history of baseball at the Cherokee Male Seminary, chronicling the names of the men who played and the successes and failures of the teams.
Date:
Summer 2015
Creator:
McCullagh, James G.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History