Willard Johnston: Homesteader and Frontier Banker, 1881-1904 (open access)

Willard Johnston: Homesteader and Frontier Banker, 1881-1904

Article studies the development of frontier banking as exemplified in Willard Johnston's interests, which began in Shawnee and expanded to include numerous financial institutions and communities around the state.
Date: Winter 2009
Creator: Hightower, Michael J.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
William Meredith Cunningham: An Oklahoma Proletariat Novelist (open access)

William Meredith Cunningham: An Oklahoma Proletariat Novelist

Article presents a biography of William Cunnigham and reveals the ways in which his novels, poetry, and other writings championed the industrial-agricultural working class of his native state of Oklahoma.
Date: Autumn 2008
Creator: O'Dell, Larry
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History