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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 Robert Warren, March 28, 2022 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Robert Warren, March 28, 2022

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Robert Warren. Warren was born in Frisco, Texas in February 1921. After graduating from high school, he attended Texas A&M participating in the ROTC program for two years. Upon graduation in 1942 he applied for a commission in the United States Army Air Forces and was accepted. After participating in various stages of flight training, he was assigned as a C-47 pilot. Flying the Northern Route over Greenland, he joined the 439th Troop Carrier Wing, 94th Squadron, 9th Air Force in England. He tells of being involved in Operation Market Garden and of crossing the Rhine, where he pulled Waco CG-4 gliders, and of the Battle of the Bulge where he hauled fuel for General Patton’s tanks.
Date: March 28, 2022
Creator: Warren, Robert
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Report of the Red River Compact Commission: 1985 (open access)

Report of the Red River Compact Commission: 1985

Report of the Red River Compact Commission describing the approved budgets, audits, and rules and regulations during fiscal year 1985.
Date: July 1986
Creator: Red River Compact Commission (U.S.)
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Report of the Red River Compact Commission: 1984 (open access)

Report of the Red River Compact Commission: 1984

Report of the Red River Compact Commission describing the approved budgets, audits, and rules and regulations during the fiscal year 1984.
Date: July 1985
Creator: Red River Compact Commission (U.S.)
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Report of the Red River Compact Commission: 1981-1983 (open access)

Report of the Red River Compact Commission: 1981-1983

Report of the Red River Compact Commission describing approved budgets, activities, and collected data during fiscal years 1981 and 1983.
Date: June 1994
Creator: Red River Compact Commission (U.S.)
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Report of the Red River Compact Commission: 1993 (open access)

Report of the Red River Compact Commission: 1993

Report of the Red River Compact Commission describing the approved budgets, audits, and rules and regulations during fiscal year 1993.
Date: May 1994
Creator: Red River Compact Commission (U.S.)
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Report of the Red River Compact Commission: 1991 (open access)

Report of the Red River Compact Commission: 1991

Report of the Red River Compact Commission describing the approved budgets, audits, and rules and regulations during fiscal year 1991.
Date: May 1992
Creator: Red River Compact Commission (U.S.)
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Report of the Red River Compact Commission: 1986 (open access)

Report of the Red River Compact Commission: 1986

Report of the Red River Compact Commission describing the approved budgets, audits, and rules and regulations during fiscal year 1986.
Date: July 1987
Creator: Red River Compact Commission (U.S.)
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Report of the Red River Compact Commission: 1987 (open access)

Report of the Red River Compact Commission: 1987

Report of the Red River Compact Commission describing the approved budgets, audits, and rules and regulations during fiscal year 1987.
Date: July 1988
Creator: Red River Compact Commission (U.S.)
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Report of the Red River Compact Commission: 1988 (open access)

Report of the Red River Compact Commission: 1988

Report of the Red River Compact Commission describing goals, activities, and accomplishments during fiscal year 1988.
Date: May 1989
Creator: Red River Compact Commission (U.S.)
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Report of the Red River Compact Commission: 2001 (open access)

Report of the Red River Compact Commission: 2001

Report of the Red River Compact Commission describing the approved budgets, audits, and rules and regulations during fiscal year 2001
Date: April 2002
Creator: Red River Compact Commission (U.S.)
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Report of the Red River Compact Commission: 2000 (open access)

Report of the Red River Compact Commission: 2000

Report of the Red River Compact Commission describing goals, activities, and accomplishments during fiscal year 2000.
Date: September 2001
Creator: Red River Compact Commission (U.S.)
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Report of the Red River Compact Commission: 1992 (open access)

Report of the Red River Compact Commission: 1992

Report of the Red River Compact Commission describing goals, activities, and accomplishments during fiscal year 1992.
Date: May 1993
Creator: Red River Compact Commission (U.S.)
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Report of the Red River Compact Commission: 2002 (open access)

Report of the Red River Compact Commission: 2002

Report of the Red River Compact Commission describing the approved budgets, audits, and rules and regulations during fiscal year 2002.
Date: June 2003
Creator: Red River Compact Commission (U.S.)
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Report of the Red River Compact Commission: 1990 (open access)

Report of the Red River Compact Commission: 1990

Report of the Red River Compact Commission describing approved budgets, activities, and collected data during fiscal years 1991 and 1992.
Date: May 1991
Creator: Red River Compact Commission (U.S.)
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas 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.
Object Type: Article
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
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
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.
Object Type: Article
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.
Object Type: Article
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
Object Type: Article
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
Object Type: Article
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.
Object Type: Article
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
Object Type: Article
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.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History