Oklahoma in James Bryce's The American Commonwealth (open access)

Oklahoma in James Bryce's The American Commonwealth

Article presents an analysis of James Bryce's discussion of the Oklahoma Constitution and provides a new perspective on the political climate of the statehood era.
Date: Summer 2014
Creator: Taylor, Quentin
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Corrections, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 92, Number 3, Fall 2014 (open access)

Corrections, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 92, Number 3, Fall 2014

Correction section from Volume 92, Number 3, Fall 2014. It includes two corrections to Volume 92, Number 2, Summer 2014. The spine of Volume 92 Number 2 erroneously lists the issue as the winter issue. In "Oklahoma in James Bryce's The American Commonwealth," the editor should be listed as Davis Joyce in endnote 68.
Date: Autumn 2014
Creator: Taylor, Quentin & Bass, Elizabeth M. B.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Dust Bowl: The Blame Game, the Facts, the Problem that Remains (open access)

The Dust Bowl: The Blame Game, the Facts, the Problem that Remains

Article investigates film and literature that provides coverage of the Dust Bowl, including the debate over factors that contributed to the creation of the disaster. Alvin O. Turner disagrees with those who argue it was caused by farming practices, stating that there is no evidence to support the connection.
Date: Spring 2014
Creator: Turner, Alvin O.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Hamlin Garland’s Oklahoma, 1900–05 (open access)

Hamlin Garland’s Oklahoma, 1900–05

Article relates the ways in which Pulitzer Prize-winning author and social reformer Hamlin Garland's travels in Oklahoma Territory influenced his view of American Indians.
Date: Winter 2014
Creator: Underhill, Lonnie E.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
John Aaron: Oklahoma’s Legendary Steely-Eyed Missile Man (open access)

John Aaron: Oklahoma’s Legendary Steely-Eyed Missile Man

Article describes how John Aaron, a boy from southwestern Oklahoma, became a NASA legend.
Date: Winter 2014
Creator: Warren, Andrew L.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Notes and Documents, Winter 2014-15 (open access)

Notes and Documents, Winter 2014-15

Notes and Documents column including prophecies from the Oklahoma Century Chest, hundred-year predictions written in 1913 about the fields of religion, journalism, medicine, law, and education, as well as letters addressed to the leaders of banking and court leaders in 2013.
Date: Winter 2014
Creator: Williams, Chad
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Notes and Documents, Fall 2014 (open access)

Notes and Documents, Fall 2014

Notes and Documents column including the previously unknown manuscript titled "The First Week in Oklahoma City" by Angelo C. Scott with an introduction by Chad Williams. The manuscript provides a firsthand account of the creation of Oklahoma City in the days immediately following the Land Run of 1889.
Date: Autumn 2014
Creator: Williams, Chad & Scott, Angelo C.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History