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.
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.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History