Money Matters: The Stamp Scrip Movement in Depression-Era Oklahoma (open access)

Money Matters: The Stamp Scrip Movement in Depression-Era Oklahoma

Article expanding on the previous 2004 article on Oklahoma's reaction to the depression era banking crisis of early 1933. In this article, Gatch ties the origin of the scrip movement to the writings of Yale University's professor Irving Fisher and traces the implementation of scrip schemes in nearly three dozen Oklahoma towns and explains the reasons for scrip's early success and rapid demise.
Date: Autumn 2006
Creator: Gatch, Loren C.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
From Tramp Reporting to Pulitzer Prize: Enid's Own Marquis James (open access)

From Tramp Reporting to Pulitzer Prize: Enid's Own Marquis James

Article describes the life and career of tramp reporter turned two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Marquis James. Paul S. Vickery highlights the author's autobiographical book about the Cherokee Strip, which explored his boyhood experiences in Enid, Oklahoma.
Date: Autumn 2003
Creator: Vickery, Paul S.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Change the Stars: The Story of the Youngblood Hotel of Enid, Oklahoma (open access)

Change the Stars: The Story of the Youngblood Hotel of Enid, Oklahoma

Article covers the construction and history of the Youngblood Hotel, an eminent establishment of Enid, Oklahoma in the early and mid-nineteenth century. Jennifer Jones details the plans and management of Lawrence S. Youngblood and his partners, design of the hotel itself, the dark side to its history, and its eventual conversion into an office building.
Date: Summer 2005
Creator: Jones, Jennifer
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Willard Johnston: Homesteader and Frontier Banker, 1881-1904 (open access)

Willard Johnston: Homesteader and Frontier Banker, 1881-1904

Article studies the development of frontier banking as exemplified in Willard Johnston's interests, which began in Shawnee and expanded to include numerous financial institutions and communities around the state.
Date: Winter 2009
Creator: Hightower, Michael J.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History