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2000 Census County Block Map: Bowie County, Index

Index map for Bowie County, Texas showing the distribution of census blocks and smaller inset areas for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:98,335.
Date: 2000
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

2000 Census County Block Map: Bowie County, Block 3

Parent map for Bowie County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:15,000.
Date: 2000
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

2000 Census County Subdivison Block Map: De Kalb CCD, Texas, Index

Index map for De Kalb Census County Division, Texas showing the distribution of census blocks and smaller inset areas for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:49,168.
Date: 2000
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
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: 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

2000 Census County Subdivison Block Map: De Kalb CCD, Texas, Block 3

Parent map for De Kalb Census County Division, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:15,000.
Date: 2000
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

2007 Economic Census Map: Bowie County, Texas - Economic Places

Map for Bowie County, Texas showing the boundaries of designated areas for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data during the 2002 and 2007 economic censuses.
Date: 2007
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas 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
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
"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
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
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