[Photograph 2012.201.B0297.0202]

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Bruce Deason, Stillwell, was arested while still in his work clothes when his indictment was returned."
Date: October 22, 1972
Creator: Albright, Bob
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0131]

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Stacked up along Kansas City Southern Railroad's track near Stilwell Wednesday are 38 cars and two diesel engines of this southbound freight."
Date: March 4, 1971
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0361.0043]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Vernon "Pete" English, Stilwell"
Date: October 22, 1971
Creator: Albright, Bob
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Watts, OK

Photograph of a hotel in Watts, OK, Aug. 1975.
Date: August 1975
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1383.0718]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "THE BREAKDOWN of the home and a lack of communications between parents and students are at the root of most of the problems high school students have in school."
Date: June 4, 1975
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1059.0253]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "SPRING PLOWING scenes like this, were a stilwell area farmer is turning the sod for future corps, depict the life line of Oklahoma and American rural life."
Date: April 16, 1970
Creator: Aker, Joe
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1209.0772]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Still Scarring the landscape near Stilwell is charred remains of State line Tavern, where eastern Oklahoma crime figure Vernon "Pete" English died in a fire last May."
Date: October 22, 1971
Creator: Albright, Bob
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1209.0775]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Strawberries galore await visitors at the Stilwell Strawberry Festival next Saturday, May 13."
Date: 1978
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1325.0163]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "John Martin, in front, Wally Bracker and Christy Stilwell, Harvest Hills Elementary School students, put the finishing touches on a 6-foot heart to be delivered to children in Children's Memorial Hospital for Valentine's Day."
Date: February 8, 1979
Creator: Thompson, Michal
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0289B.0190]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "ARKANSAS SELLING puts an extra "L" in road sign on Arkansas state highway approach to Stilwell, Okla."
Date: October 22, 1971
Creator: Albright, Bob
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Watts, OK

Photograph of the old Baptist Missionary Cemetery south of Watts, OK, Aug. 1975.
Date: August 1975
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Watts, OK

Photograph of the end of the Trail of Tears at Baptist Mission Church south of Watts, OK, Aug. 1975.
Date: August 1975
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Death and Burial of Major Ridge (open access)

The Death and Burial of Major Ridge

Article chronicles the day three men killed Elias Boudinot, Major Ridge, and John Ridge who were part of the "treaty party" within the Cherokees who favored signing relocation treaties. Their killers were part of the Ross party who were opposed to the tribe's relocation.
Date: Spring 1973
Creator: Ballenger, T. L.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Civil War Battle of Barren Creek Indian Territory, 1863 (open access)

Civil War Battle of Barren Creek Indian Territory, 1863

Article narrates the events surrounding the Civil War Battle of Barren Creek, a small Union victory that took place in the central part of the Cherokee Nation.
Date: Spring 1970
Creator: Ramp, Lary C.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History