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A Strong and Sturdy Vessel: A History of Bristow Junior College (open access)

A Strong and Sturdy Vessel: A History of Bristow Junior College

Article details the founding, faculty, students, and curriculum at Bristow Junior college from the years 1928-1951. As an important landmark in the Bristow Public Schools System, the school is remembered and appreciated.
Date: Summer 2005
Creator: Caudle, Letha
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Origins and Development of State Politics: The Oklahoma Territorial Legislature, 1890-1905 (open access)

Origins and Development of State Politics: The Oklahoma Territorial Legislature, 1890-1905

Article provides a detailed breakdown of the proceedings and members of the Oklahoma Territorial Legislature from 1890-1905. R. Darcy recognizes a lack of scholarly coverage of this political body, and includes documentation and accounts from this era.
Date: Summer 2005
Creator: Darcy, R.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Lela L. Barnett: An Oklahoma WAC in World War II Italy (open access)

Lela L. Barnett: An Oklahoma WAC in World War II Italy

Article describes the life of Lela Barnett, one of the first members of the Women's Army Corps during World War II, through letters sent home to her mother. From training and service in Italy, to her adventures as a civilian employee, to her eventual return to Oklahoma to work as a librarian at Fort Sill, Ralph Gregory Barnett records his aunt's eventful life.
Date: Autumn 2005
Creator: Beil, Raph Gregory
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
"The Land Is Always With Us": Removal, Allotment, and Industrial Development and Their Effects on Ponca Tribalism (open access)

"The Land Is Always With Us": Removal, Allotment, and Industrial Development and Their Effects on Ponca Tribalism

Article describes how developments like removal, land allotment, and the development of the oil and gas industry undermined the relationship the Ponca tribe had with their lands, and the way the Poncas coped with the broken treaties, divisions within the tribes over land-related decisions, and damage done by neighboring towns that cropped up with the increase in industrial growth.
Date: Autumn 2005
Creator: van de Logt, Mark
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The "Come-As-You-Are" War: Fort Sill and the Persian Gulf Crisis of 1990-1991 (open access)

The "Come-As-You-Are" War: Fort Sill and the Persian Gulf Crisis of 1990-1991

Article illustrates the resilience and quick adaption to rapid change Fort Sill employed during the Persian Gulf Crisis, mobilizing large groups of soldiers during Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. Demands for personnel, training, and equipment were high during this time, and Boyd L. Dastrup describes the situation at the army post.
Date: Summer 2005
Creator: Dastrup, Boyd L.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Alex Howat versus John Wilkinson: Power, Personality, and Ideological Battles in the United Mine Workers (open access)

Alex Howat versus John Wilkinson: Power, Personality, and Ideological Battles in the United Mine Workers

Article examines the factional in-fighting that tore apart the United Mine Workers solidarity as they prepared to strike in 1922. The ideological battle starred John Wilkinson, "renegade radical" Alex Howat, and Oscar Ameringer.
Date: Spring 2005
Creator: Sewell, Steven L.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
"The Indian Home is Undone": Anglo Intrusion, Colonization, and the Creek Nation, 1867-1907 (open access)

"The Indian Home is Undone": Anglo Intrusion, Colonization, and the Creek Nation, 1867-1907

Article describes the history of Anglo-American intrusion and colonization of Creek lands within Indian Territory in Oklahoma, as well as the response of the Creek Nation in the face of interference, forced relocation, and allotments. Douglas A. Hurt describes the way the Creeks strengthened their communities during a time of unrest.
Date: Summer 2005
Creator: Hurt, Douglas A.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
"An Indian Shall Not spill an Indian's Blood": The Confederate-Indian Conference at Camp Napoleon, 1865 (open access)

"An Indian Shall Not spill an Indian's Blood": The Confederate-Indian Conference at Camp Napoleon, 1865

Article provides a thorough discussion of the conference at Camp Napoleon, one of the largest intertribal gatherings in Indian Territory. In 1865, the Five Civilized Tribes, allies of the Confederacy, undertook efforts to negotiate and make peace with the Plains tribes at the close of the Civil War.
Date: Spring 2005
Creator: Clampitt, Brad R.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
"We Bind Ourselves Together": A History of the Oklahoma Student Librarians Association (open access)

"We Bind Ourselves Together": A History of the Oklahoma Student Librarians Association

Article covers the history of state student library associations from the 1940s to 1980s with a particular emphasis on the Oklahoma Student Librarians Association. In addition to details like the organization of these associations and the newsletters/handbooks they put out, Jeffrey M. Wilhite elaborates on the benefits they brought to students and libraries.
Date: Autumn 2005
Creator: Wilhite, Jeffrey M.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
From Menagerie to Modern Zoo: Nature, Society, and the Beginning of the Oklahoma City Zoo (open access)

From Menagerie to Modern Zoo: Nature, Society, and the Beginning of the Oklahoma City Zoo

Article explores the history of Oklahoma City Zoo in its first decades, from landscaping and construction in Wheeler Park, to difficulties like the disastrous flooding in 1923, to its growth and success as one of the city's "trendiest" spots.
Date: Autumn 2005
Creator: Despain, S. Matthew
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
National Liberal, Hometown Radical, and New Populist Politician: The Life of Fred Harris (open access)

National Liberal, Hometown Radical, and New Populist Politician: The Life of Fred Harris

Article explores the life of Fred Harris and the personal and professional journey that transformed him from a liberal into a New Populist politician.
Date: Spring 2005
Creator: Scott. Amy L.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Researching Tom Joad: John Steinbeck, Journalist, 1936 (open access)

Researching Tom Joad: John Steinbeck, Journalist, 1936

Article examines John Steinbeck's brief career as a depression-era journalist and his nonfiction work on the working conditions of migrant laborers in California that inspired his greatest literary achievement, The Grapes of Wrath.
Date: Spring 2005
Creator: Bailey, Paul
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Remembering an Exceptional Team: Jerome Tiger and Nettie Wheeler (open access)

Remembering an Exceptional Team: Jerome Tiger and Nettie Wheeler

This article, written by Peggy Tiger, recounts the unique relationship between her late husband, Creek artist Jerome Tiger, and art collector Nettie Wheeler.
Date: Autumn 2005
Creator: Tiger, Peggy
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Change the Stars: The Story of the Youngblood Hotel of Enid, Oklahoma (open access)

Change the Stars: The Story of the Youngblood Hotel of Enid, Oklahoma

Article covers the construction and history of the Youngblood Hotel, an eminent establishment of Enid, Oklahoma in the early and mid-nineteenth century. Jennifer Jones details the plans and management of Lawrence S. Youngblood and his partners, design of the hotel itself, the dark side to its history, and its eventual conversion into an office building.
Date: Summer 2005
Creator: Jones, Jennifer
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 83, Number 2, Summer 2005 (open access)

Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 83, Number 2, Summer 2005

Quarterly publication containing articles, book reviews, photographs, illustrations, and other works documenting Oklahoma history and preservation.
Date: Summer 2005
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 83, Number 3, Fall 2005 (open access)

Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 83, Number 3, Fall 2005

Quarterly publication containing articles, book reviews, photographs, illustrations, and other works documenting Oklahoma history and preservation.
Date: Autumn 2005
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 83, Number 1, Spring 2005 (open access)

Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 83, Number 1, Spring 2005

Quarterly publication containing articles, book reviews, photographs, illustrations, and other works documenting Oklahoma history and preservation.
Date: Spring 2005
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 83, Number 4, Winter 2005-06 (open access)

Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 83, Number 4, Winter 2005-06

Quarterly publication containing articles, book reviews, photographs, illustrations, and other works documenting Oklahoma history and preservation. Index for the volume begins on page 516.
Date: Winter 2005
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
For the Record, Spring 2005 (open access)

For the Record, Spring 2005

For the Record section including the Minutes of the OHS Quarterly Board Meeting that was held on October 27, 2004.
Date: Spring 2005
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Notes and Documents, Spring 2005 (open access)

Notes and Documents, Spring 2005

Notes and Documents column including two short biographical sketches of the inductees into the Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame in 2004—Howard Meredith and William G. McLoughlin.
Date: Spring 2005
Creator: Blochowiak, Mary Ann
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
For the Record, Summer 2005 (open access)

For the Record, Summer 2005

For the Record section including the minutes of the regular quarterly board meeting of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society that was held on January 26, 2005.
Date: Summer 2005
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Notes and Documents, Summer 2005 (open access)

Notes and Documents, Summer 2005

Notes and Documents column including a document paying tribute to Virgil Talbot, who was inducted into the Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame in 2005.
Date: Summer 2005
Creator: Blochowiak, Mary Ann
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
For the Record, Fall 2005 (open access)

For the Record, Fall 2005

For the Record section including the minutes of the regular quarterly board meeting of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society that was held on April 28, 2005. It also includes the minutes of the annual meeting of the membership of the Oklahoma Historical Society that was held on April 29, 2005.
Date: Autumn 2005
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Notes and Documents, Fall 2005 (open access)

Notes and Documents, Fall 2005

Notes and Documents column including a document honoring Reba Neighbors Collins, who was inducted into the Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame in 2005. It also includes a document about the first boy scout troop founded in America in Pawhuska, Oklahoma.
Date: Autumn 2005
Creator: Blochowiak, Mary Ann & Haines, Joe D., Jr.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History