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Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 78, Number 1, Spring 2000 (open access)

Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 78, Number 1, Spring 2000

Quarterly publication containing articles, book reviews, photographs, illustrations, and other works documenting Oklahoma history and preservation.
Date: Spring 2000
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Love Gifts for the Bishop: James J. Stewart v. Bishop W. Angie Smith, Part 1 (open access)

Love Gifts for the Bishop: James J. Stewart v. Bishop W. Angie Smith, Part 1

Article discussing the events that led to a church investigating committee when, James J. Stewart, an Albuquerque minister, filed charges against Methodist bishop W. Angie Smith for what he considered abuse of episcopal power. It also discusses the proceedings of the meeting itself and the aftermath.
Date: Spring 2000
Creator: Martin, A. W., Jr.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
"You Have the Land. I Have the Cattle": Intermarried Whites and the Chickasaw Range Lands (open access)

"You Have the Land. I Have the Cattle": Intermarried Whites and the Chickasaw Range Lands

In this article Wendy St. Jean explores the methods by which cattlemen amassed large grazing pastures and describes how the Chickasaw government responded. These methods involved seeking marriage with Chickasaw women to obtain land in the Chickasaw nation.
Date: Summer 2000
Creator: St. Jean, Wendy
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Consorting with Blood and Violence: The Decline of the Oklahoma Ku Klux Klan (open access)

Consorting with Blood and Violence: The Decline of the Oklahoma Ku Klux Klan

Article showing how excessive violence, external opposition, and internal factionalism led to the decline of the Ku Klux Klan in Oklahoma during the late 1920s.
Date: Autumn 2000
Creator: Jessup, Michael M.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Fear of "Negro Domination": The Rise of Segregation and Disfranchisement in Oklahoma (open access)

The Fear of "Negro Domination": The Rise of Segregation and Disfranchisement in Oklahoma

This article addresses the issue of the rise of segregation and disfranchisement in the frontier West. It looks closely at the sociopolitical climate in Oklahoma to answer important questions about the opportunities blacks found in the state and how white politicians became emboldened by the fear of "Negro domination."
Date: Spring 2000
Creator: Wickett, Murray R.
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
"An anxiety to do right": The Life of Judge John Hazelton Cotteral, 1864-1933 (open access)

"An anxiety to do right": The Life of Judge John Hazelton Cotteral, 1864-1933

Article provides a portrait of John H. Cotteral, the first federal judge for the Western District of Oklahoma and the first Oklahoman to occupy the bench of the circuit court of appeals. The article explores both the man and the legal opinions he wrote throughout his forty-year career.
Date: Autumn 2000
Creator: Leitch, Kevin C.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
For the Record, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 78, Number 4, Winter 2000-01 (open access)

For the Record, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 78, Number 4, Winter 2000-01

For the Record section from Volume 78, Number 4, Winter 2000-01. It includes the minutes of the Quarterly Board Meeting of the Oklahoma Historical Society that was held on July 26, 2000.
Date: Winter 2000
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
For the Record, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 78, Number 1, Spring 2000 (open access)

For the Record, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 78, Number 1, Spring 2000

For the Record section from Volume 78, Number 1, Spring 2000. It includes the minutes of the Quarterly Board Meeting of the Oklahoma Historical Society that was held on October 27, 1999.
Date: Spring 2000
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
For the Record, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 78, Number 2, Summer 2000 (open access)

For the Record, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 78, Number 2, Summer 2000

For the Record section from Volume 78, Number 2, Summer 2000. It includes the minutes of the Quarterly Board Meeting of the Oklahoma Historical Society that was held on February 16, 2000.
Date: Summer 2000
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
For the Record, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 78, Number 3, Fall 2000 (open access)

For the Record, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 78, Number 3, Fall 2000

For the Record section from Volume 78, Number 3, Fall 2000. It includes the Minutes of the Quarterly Board Meeting of the Oklahoma Historical Society that was held on April 20, 2000, and the Minutes of the Annual Meeting of the Membership that was held on April 21, 2000.
Date: Autumn 2000
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Inside the School Yard Gate: "Alfalfa Bill" Murray and Education in Oklahoma (open access)

Inside the School Yard Gate: "Alfalfa Bill" Murray and Education in Oklahoma

Article describes the life and political career of William "Alfalfa Bill" Murray and his efforts to promote free access to education and textbooks in the Oklahoma public school system. Karen McKellips illuminates the contrast between his progressive political and economic views on reform and his support of racial segregation.
Date: Winter 2000
Creator: McKellips, Karen
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
H. L. Mencken and the "Oklahoma Style" of Literature (open access)

H. L. Mencken and the "Oklahoma Style" of Literature

Article delineates the fascination H. L. Mencken, influential social critic, journalist, and editor, had with Oklahoma-centered literature and poetry. Lawrence R. Rodgers discusses the works of several writers the critic openly supported. Many of these writers had an affiliation with the University of Oklahoma.
Date: Winter 2000
Creator: Rodgers, Lawrence R.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Love Gifts for the Bishop: James J. Stewart v. Bishop W. Angie Smith, Part 2 (open access)

Love Gifts for the Bishop: James J. Stewart v. Bishop W. Angie Smith, Part 2

In the second part of a two-part study, this article discusses the procedures followed by the church investigating committee and analyzes each of the charges James J. Stewart filed against bishop W. Angie Smith.
Date: Summer 2000
Creator: Martin, A. W., Jr.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Milton Co-Operative Colony: From Utopia to Ghost Town, 1913-1916 (open access)

The Milton Co-Operative Colony: From Utopia to Ghost Town, 1913-1916

Drawing from the writings of a former resident and the colony's promotional material, this article traces the rise and fall of the Milton Co-Operative Company, a socialist colony located in Milton, Oklahoma from 1913 to 1916.
Date: Spring 2000
Creator: Bumgarner, Norma Jane
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
"The Panther's Scream is Often Heard": Cherokee Women in Indian Territory during the Civil War (open access)

"The Panther's Scream is Often Heard": Cherokee Women in Indian Territory during the Civil War

The Civil War and intertribal factionalism in the Cherokee Nation left one-third of women as widows and one-fourth of the children as orphans by 1863. This article is a careful examination of the lives of many Cherokee women in which the author concludes that while the crisis may have empowered women, it also led to a crisis of identity for elite women.
Date: Spring 2000
Creator: Johnston, Carolyn Ross
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Notes and Documents, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 78, Number 3, Fall 2000 (open access)

Notes and Documents, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 78, Number 3, Fall 2000

Notes and Documents section from Volume 78, Number 3, Fall 2000. It includes a short biographical sketch of Wilbur S. Nye, who was inducted into the annual Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame in 2000. It also includes "Development and Land Use of the Oklahoma Landmarks Inventory," a short article which describes the project to computerize the entire Oklahoma Landmarks Inventory database, which held the State Historic Preservation Office's information on buildings, sites, districts, structures, and objects across the Oklahoma.
Date: Autumn 2000
Creator: Blochowiak, Mary Ann & Heisch, Melvena Thurman
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Notes and Documents, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 78, Number 4, Winter 2000-01 (open access)

Notes and Documents, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 78, Number 4, Winter 2000-01

Notes and Documents section from Volume 78, Number 4, Winter 2000-01. It includes a document honoring Mildred Imach Cleghorn, who was inducted into the annual Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame in 2000. It describes her upbringing, education, community involvement, and the cultural heritage project she began.
Date: Winter 2000
Creator: Blochowiak, Mary Ann
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Notes and Documents, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 78, Number 1, Spring 2000 (open access)

Notes and Documents, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 78, Number 1, Spring 2000

Notes and Document section from Volume 78, Number 1, Spring 2000. It includes an article honoring Donald J. Berthrong, who was inducted into the annual Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame in 1999. It also includes a short article describing the Oklahoma State Museum of History's acquisition of barrels of emergency supplies originally manufactured by the Civil Defense Agency of the Department of Defense due to fears of atomic attacks on America after WWII and during the Cold War.
Date: Spring 2000
Creator: Blackburn, Bob L. & Bell, Michael
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Notes and Documents, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 78, Number 2, Summer 2000 (open access)

Notes and Documents, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 78, Number 2, Summer 2000

Notes and Documents section from Volume 78, Number 2, Summer 2000. It includes a document honoring Carl Coke Rister, who was inducted into the annual Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame in 2000. It also includes a short document describing the Civil War cavalry jacket of Louis McLane Hamilton, held by the State Museum of History.
Date: Summer 2000
Creator: Blochowiak, Mary Ann & Reed, Joseph M.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Tinker's Twin Twisters of 1948 and the Birth of Tornado Forecasting (open access)

Tinker's Twin Twisters of 1948 and the Birth of Tornado Forecasting

Article describes the destructive paths of the tornadoes that struck Tinker Air Force Base on March 20 and March 25, 1948, and pays tribute to Robert C. Miller and Ernest J. Fawbush, the two weathermen who predicted the second tornado and changed the field of weather forecasting forever.
Date: Autumn 2000
Creator: Crowder, James L.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Western Oklahoma's Regiment: The 179th Infantry (open access)

Western Oklahoma's Regiment: The 179th Infantry

Article discusses the history and formation of Western Oklahoma's 179th Infantry, including details about the men who formed the regiment and their participation in the Korean War. Penn V. Rabb, Jr. also addresses some of the challenges the regiment faced: obtaining supplies to equip themselves, responding to both state and national emergencies, and organizational changes.
Date: Summer 2000
Creator: Rabb, Penn V., Jr.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Fort Sill, the Chiricahua Apaches, and the Government's Promise of Permanent Residence (open access)

Fort Sill, the Chiricahua Apaches, and the Government's Promise of Permanent Residence

The Chiricahua Apaches spent nineteen years (1894-1913) as prisoners of war at Fort Sill in southwestern Oklahoma believing they had been promised permanent residency. This article addresses the rationale behind the government's decision to remove the Apaches from Fort Sill and explores the record to show why the Apaches and others believed they had been promised permanent residency there.
Date: Spring 2000
Creator: Haes, Brenda L.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Kate Barnard: The Story of a Woman Politician (open access)

Kate Barnard: The Story of a Woman Politician

Article provides a fascinating account of Kate Barnard, a skillful but little-known "woman politician" whose dedication to social causes has not been equaled.
Date: Summer 2000
Creator: Edmonds, Linda & Larason, Margaret
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History