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Diana, Tiana, or Talihina? The Myth and Mystery of Sam Houston's Cherokee Wife (open access)

Diana, Tiana, or Talihina? The Myth and Mystery of Sam Houston's Cherokee Wife

Article examines the identity of Sam Houston's part-Cherokee wife, who has been attributed several different names in historical documentation related to her existence. Stan Hoig investigates the women who might have possibly been confused with Diana, Tiana, or Talahina Houston, as well as how this confusion left its mark on a grave.
Date: Summer 1986
Creator: Hoig, Stan
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
For the Record, Spring 1986 (open access)

For the Record, Spring 1986

For the Record section including the minutes of the quarterly board meeting of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society that was held on October 23, 1985.
Date: Spring 1986
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
For the Record, Summer 1986 (open access)

For the Record, Summer 1986

For the Record section including the minutes of the quarterly board meeting of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society that was held on January 29. 1986.
Date: Summer 1986
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
For the Record, Fall 1986 (open access)

For the Record, Fall 1986

For the Record section including the minutes of the quarterly board meeting of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society that was held on April 25, 1986.
Date: Autumn 1986
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
For the Record, Winter 1986-87 (open access)

For the Record, Winter 1986-87

For the Record section including the minutes of the quarterly board meeting of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society that was held on July 22, 1986.
Date: Winter 1986
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Notes and Documents, Spring 1986 (open access)

Notes and Documents, Spring 1986

Notes and Documents column including a translated copy of a letter written in French from Thomas Jefferson to the tribes of Indian Territory. This document is a follow-up to Robert L. Dorman's article in the Winter 1985/86 issue of the Chronicles, which was about a different letter that was nonetheless similar.
Date: Spring 1986
Creator: Jefferson, Thomas
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Notes and Documents, Summer 1986 (open access)

Notes and Documents, Summer 1986

Notes and Documents column including a document introducing and including an excerpt from the diary of Ruth Yelton, the teenage daughter of a pioneer farming family traveling to Oklahoma at the turn of the century in 1901.
Date: Summer 1986
Creator: Yelton, Ruth
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Notes and Documents, Winter 1986-87 (open access)

Notes and Documents, Winter 1986-87

Notes and Documents column including a letter from Cyrus Byington to his daughter Lucy and her husband, George Dana II. An introduction by Louis Coleman illustrates its connection to Coleman's article in this issue, "Twenty-five Days to the Choctaw Nation."
Date: Winter 1986
Creator: Coleman, Louis & Byington, Cyrus
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History