Article recounts the life and rigorous training experience of undertaker-turned-ensign L.L. Culver in the United States navy in the early years of World War II. Brad Agnew reconstructs the officer's experiences from letters sent home, and concludes the article with the beginning of a journey that is continued in the Spring 2003 issue of The Chronicles of Oklahoma.

Notes and Documents column including a document honoring Charles Banks Wilson, who was inducted into the Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame in 2002.

Notes and Documents column including a document honoring George H. Shirk, who was inducted into the Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame in 2002.

Notes and Documents column including a document honoring John Womack, who was inducted into the Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame in 2002.

Notes and Documents column including a document honoring Annie Heloise Abel, who was inducted into the Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame in 2002. It also includes an article about Thomas P. Stafford, an astronaut from Oklahoma who participated in the space race of the 1960s.

Article discusses the life and pursuits of Oklahoma City founder Charles Jones. As a businessman and an important political figure, his development of canals, railroads, and state fairs in Oklahoma City and his dedication to its growth made lasting impact in the early years of its creation.

Article describes the development of movie theaters in Stillwater, Oklahoma from opera houses, to locally-owned movie houses, to chain takeovers. Deborah Carmichael equates this growth to the development of the film industry in Hollywood and the importance of moving pictures in the history of the U.S.

Article describes the life and political career of Judge Orville Enfield of Ellis County, a member of the Socialist Party. R. O. Joe Cassity, Jr. defines Enfield's place in the history of Oklahoma radicalism and examines the concept of radicalism in the political scene.

An article, written by Lou Chibbaro Jr. for the Washington Blade, about the new group of advisors who will be tackling the HIV/AIDS issue with President George W. Bush. The article lists out the new members and also points to supporters and raises concerns that some have over what the group's outcome will be.

Article examines the military career of "Oklahoma's Greatest Hero," Joseph Oklahombi, and contests the popular record with regards to his military awards and achievements.

Article details the life and works of an architect shrouded in mystery, Joseph Pierre Foucart. Louis Cozby describes the man's contributions to Guthrie, Oklahoma's landscape and the efforts of two historians, Don Odom and Lloyd H. McGuire, to uncover information about Foucart's disappearance.

Article reconstructs the period of forced removal Cherokees experienced in the 1830s, including the bureaucratic process behind it, seizure of Cherokee property, embarkation camps, and the emigration itself. Due to the lack of consistency in historical record, Lathel F. Duffield examines a variety of sources, from the works of historians to the records of soldiers enacting the atrocities.

Article details the life and political career of Oklahoma governor John C. "Jack" Walton. Brad L. Duren discusses the factors that led to his impeachment, including his frequent clashes with the Ku Klux Klan, despotic political actions, and conflict with his biggest critic on the Oklahoma state legislature, W. D. McBee.

Amchitka Island, Alaska, was at one time an integral player in the nation's defense program. Located in the North Pacific Ocean in the Aleutian Island archipelago, the island was intermittently inhabited by several key government agencies, including the U.S. Army, the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (predecessor agency to the U.S. Department of Energy), and the U.S. Navy. Since 1993, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has conducted extensive investigations on Amchitka to determine the nature and extent of contamination resulting from historic nuclear testing. The uninhabited island was the site of three high-yield nuclear tests from 1965 to 1971. These test locations are now part of the DOE's National Nuclear Security Administration Nevada Operations Office's Environmental Management Program. In the summer of 2001, the DOE launched a large-scale remediation effort on Amchitka to perform agreed-upon corrective actions to the surface of the island. Due to the lack of resources available on Amchitka and logistical difficulties with conducting work at such a remote location, the DOE partnered with the Navy and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) to share certain specified costs and resources. Attempting to negotiate the partnerships while organizing and implementing the surface remediation on Amchitka proved to be …

Article describes in detail the rise of Mike Monroney, a young and progressive democrat from the House of Representatives in his bid for a seat on the United States Senate in 1950. Philip A. Grant, Jr. describes the events of the election race, particularly his competition with Senator Elmer Thomas.

Article discussing the academy's refusal to examine the evidence for an afterlife, and tendency to cling to materialism as if it were a priori true, instead of a posteriori false. The author suggests several explanations for the monumental failure of curiosity on the part of academia.

Article describes the life and career of John Leonard Roosevelt "Pepper" Martin, the Oklahoman baseball player known as the Wild Horse of the Osage. Joe D. Haines, Jr. describes the player's successes as a member of the Hominy Indians Professional Football Club and the St. Louis Cardinals, also delving into his personality and antics on and off the field.

Article describes the Peace Corps training program in the 1960s-80s at the University of Oklahoma, which included language, technical, and cultural training. Experienced international trainer Richard H. Hancock relates stories from his own travels as well as those gained while working with the recruits at OU.

Article exploring situations, using a recent near-death experience (NDE) example, in which there are reasonable evidence and logic, and yet belief seems to be withheld. The author postulates and discusses nonrational influences producing resistance to belief, including the fear of being in error, the fear of rejection from the scientific community, irrational requirements of logicality, avoidance of consequences, and paradigm fixation, as well as discussing issues in philosophy of science and epistemology in regard to proof.

Article describes a major victory by the Northen Cheyennes in the Battle of Turkey Springs in 1878. After surrender and relocation to Indian Territory in Oklahoma, the Northern Cheyennes faced difficult conditions and fought U.S. troops in order to return to their homeland. Stan Hoig highlights their often-overlooked success.

Study of ninety selected emergency service workers, which were interviewed or completed questionnaires to determine if they had experienced a sense or feeling of "communication, presence, or attachment" from victims of fatal injury whom they had attended at death.

Remote sensing images provide useful physical information, revealing such features as geological structure, vegetation, drainage patterns, and variations in consolidated and unconsolidated lithologies. That technology has been applied to the failed Sierra Blanca (Faskin Ranch) shallow burial low-level radioactive waste disposal site selected by the Texas Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Authority. It has been re-examined using data from LANDSAT satellite series. The comparison of the earlier LANDSAT V (5/20/86) (30-m resolution) with the later new, higher resolution ETM imagery (10/23/99) LANDSAT VII data (15-m resolution) clearly shows the superiority of the LANDSAT VII data. The search for surficial indications of evidence of fatal flaws at the Sierra Blanca site utilizing was not successful, as it had been in the case of the earlier remote sensing analysis of the failed Fort Hancock site utilizing LANDSAT V data. The authors conclude that the tectonic activity at the Sierra Blanca site is much less recent and active than in the previously studied Fort Hancock site. The Sierra Blanca site failed primarily on the further needed documentation concerning a subsurface fault underneath the site and environmental justice issues. The presence of this fault was not revealed using the newer LANDSAT VII data. Despite this …

Article examines the origins and paternity of John Martin, first chief justice of the first supreme court ever instituted in the Cherokee Nation. Patricia Lockwood, a descendant of John Martin, highlights the need for the recovery of historical records relating to the Cherokee Nation and acknowledgement of their distortion.

Article discusses the history of the Oklahoma Panhandle, focusing on its return to prosperity beginning in the wake of World War II. Despite the earlier difficulties of the 1930s, the panhandle made inroads in the agriculture and ranching industry, oil and gas, and pork production.