"He Was Into Everything": Joseph W. McNeal, Territorial Innovator (open access)

"He Was Into Everything": Joseph W. McNeal, Territorial Innovator

Article describes the life and diverse careers of Joseph W. McNeal, an Oklahoma pioneer who was a leading figure in banking, politics, business, and philanthropy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Helen Freudenberger Holmes explores the full life of this founder of the Oklahoma Historical Society.
Date: Winter 1983
Creator: Holmes, Helen Freudenberger
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
"No Wild Venture": The State Capital Publishing Building (open access)

"No Wild Venture": The State Capital Publishing Building

Article delineates the construction of the Oklahoma State Capital Building, led by the Oklahoma State Capital newspaper editor Frank Hilton Greer, and the history behind it. Lloyd C. Lentz, II, also explores the legacy Greer left through the conversion of the building to the State Capital Publishing Museum.
Date: Autumn 1983
Creator: Lentz, Lloyd C., III
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History