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The Cultural Relations Between Two Pioneer Communities (open access)

The Cultural Relations Between Two Pioneer Communities

Article compares the communities of Cane Hill, Arkansas, and Tahlequah, Oklahoma and the progress of the two regions in the Cherokee Nation. T. L. Ballenger discusses the development of national seminaries in the areas and the people who settled there.
Date: Autumn 1956
Creator: Ballenger, T. L.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Marking the Butterfield: Retracing the Indian Territory Segment of the 1858-61 Butterfield Overland Mail Stagecoach Road (open access)

Marking the Butterfield: Retracing the Indian Territory Segment of the 1858-61 Butterfield Overland Mail Stagecoach Road

In 2018 the National Park Service recommended that the Butterfield Overland Mail Stagecoach Road be designated a National Historic Trail. Sixty years earlier, OHS staff marked this important trade and transit route with historical markers. This article retraces the road, describing the landmarks as they appeared on the 1958 trek as well as their present conditions.
Date: Spring 2019
Creator: Dragoo, Susan Penn
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
"With Great Difficulty and Labour": The Emigration of the McIntosh Party of Creek Indians, 1827-1828 (open access)

"With Great Difficulty and Labour": The Emigration of the McIntosh Party of Creek Indians, 1827-1828

Article outlines the travails of the first Creek emigrants to the trans-Mississippi region that is now Oklahoma, whose journey preceded the removal of the Creek Nation.
Date: Winter 2007
Creator: Haveman, Christopher D.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Union Mission, 1826-1837 (open access)

Union Mission, 1826-1837

Article discusses the history of Union Mission from 1826 to 1837 through a summary of the Journal of the Union Mission kept in the library of the Oklahoma Historical Society. Hope Holway discusses the difficulties the missionaries faced in their work, the cost of living there, and the people groups they intended to minister to.
Date: Winter 1962
Creator: Holway, Hope
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Brothers of Influence: Auguste and Pierre Chouteau and the Osages before 1804 (open access)

Brothers of Influence: Auguste and Pierre Chouteau and the Osages before 1804

This article explores the pivotal roles that Auguste and Pierre Chouteau played in the European influence on the Osage tribe in the late eighteenth century which radically altered Osage social structure.
Date: Autumn 2000
Creator: Hurt, Douglas A.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Letters of Henry M. Rector and J. R. Kannaday to John Ross of the Cherokee Nation (open access)

Letters of Henry M. Rector and J. R. Kannaday to John Ross of the Cherokee Nation

Article includes and discusses correspondence between Henry M. Rector, Governor of Arkansas, Lieutenant Colonel J. R. Kannady, and Chief John Ross of the Cherokee Nation. Harry J. Lemley explores Ross's efforts to remain neutral as both Confederate leaders sought to ally with Cherokee Nation during the Civil War.
Date: Autumn 1964
Creator: Lemley, Harry J.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
William Meredith Cunningham: An Oklahoma Proletariat Novelist (open access)

William Meredith Cunningham: An Oklahoma Proletariat Novelist

Article presents a biography of William Cunnigham and reveals the ways in which his novels, poetry, and other writings championed the industrial-agricultural working class of his native state of Oklahoma.
Date: Autumn 2008
Creator: O'Dell, Larry
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Oral History - Janice Tomlin (open access)

Oral History - Janice Tomlin

This article is a short biography of Janice Tomlin, a network television documentary producer, based on an oral history discussing her education and career.
Date: December 1, 2014
Creator: Ogle, Amanda; Levine, Lauren; Sigman, Ashlea & Vela, Brianna
System: The UNT Digital Library
Chapter II: Establishment of "Old" Miller County, Arkansas Territory (open access)

Chapter II: Establishment of "Old" Miller County, Arkansas Territory

Article continues to chronicle the history of Miller county within southeastern Oklahoma and the Miller county located within the Republic of Texas before they were both renamed.
Date: Summer 1940
Creator: Strickland, Rex W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Miller County, Arkansas Territory, The Frontier that Men Forgot: Chapter 3 (open access)

Miller County, Arkansas Territory, The Frontier that Men Forgot: Chapter 3

Article continues to chronicle the history of Miller county within southeastern Oklahoma as the settlers worked to petition the government for proper taxation practices.
Date: Spring 1941
Creator: Strickland, Rex W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Tea Kettle on a Raft: A History of Navigation on the Upper Red River (open access)

Tea Kettle on a Raft: A History of Navigation on the Upper Red River

Article provides a comprehensive account of steamboating on the Upper Red River and the role of riverine navigation in the development of the state of Oklahoma.
Date: Winter 2003
Creator: Tolman, Keith
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Elizabeth Jacobs Quinton, Centenarian (open access)

Elizabeth Jacobs Quinton, Centenarian

Article describes an interview with Elizabeth Jacobs Quinton, a Choctaw woman, about her upbringing in the Choctaw Nation and her life at New Hope Mission. Mrs. C. M. Whaley discusses impressions of the woman and highlights the details of her account.
Date: Summer 1951
Creator: Whaley, Mrs. C. M.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History