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Necrology, Winter 1958-59 (open access)

Necrology, Winter 1958-59

Column documenting biographical information about Oklahomans who have died; this issue discusses lawyer, business, and pioneer Richard Clyde Allen.
Date: Winter 1958
Creator: Moore, William B. & Branson, Fred P.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Notes and Documents, Winter 1958-59 (open access)

Notes and Documents, Winter 1958-59

Notes and Documents column including documents about a new brochure published by the Oklahoma Historical Society, historical notes about events, individuals, and sites, the Butterfield Overland Mail centennial, and notes on the boundary disputes between Texas and Oklahoma.
Date: Winter 1958
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Official Minutes of Quarterly Meeting, the Board of Directors, the Oklahoma Historical Society, Quarter Ending, October 23, 1958 (open access)

Official Minutes of Quarterly Meeting, the Board of Directors, the Oklahoma Historical Society, Quarter Ending, October 23, 1958

This section includes the minutes of the quarterly meeting of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society that was held on October 23, 1958.
Date: Winter 1958
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Committee Report Butterfield Overland Mail (open access)

Committee Report Butterfield Overland Mail

Article includes the report made by the Committee of the Oklahoma Historical Society for the tracing of the Butterfield Overland Mail Route and the selection of twelve sites along the route for historical makers to be placed. The Committee provides an in-depth description of their journey and the historic sites they visited.
Date: Winter 1958
Creator: Oklahoma Historic Sites Committee
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Old Ingalls: The Story of a Town That Will Not Die (open access)

Old Ingalls: The Story of a Town That Will Not Die

Article explores the growth of the town of "Old Ingalls" and accounts of the crime that occurred there during a time when bandit gangs roamed Oklahoma Territory. Leslie McRill includes newspaper accounts as well as excerpts from the diary of a town doctor, Dr. J. H. Pickering.
Date: Winter 1958
Creator: McRill, Leslie A.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Osages and Their Agency During the Term of Isaac T. Gibson, Quaker Agent (open access)

The Osages and Their Agency During the Term of Isaac T. Gibson, Quaker Agent

Article describes the establishment and growth of the Osage Agency that eventually became Pawhuska, Oklahoma. Frank F. Finney describes efforts by the founder of the Agency, Quaker Agent Isaac T. Gibson, the obstacles to its establishment, and skirmishes that occurred with neighboring tribes.
Date: Winter 1958
Creator: Finney, Frank F.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
A Military Burial at Lake Altus (open access)

A Military Burial at Lake Altus

Article provides a detailed account of the discovery and excavation of a military burial at Lake Altus. James B. Shaeffer explores the investigation of artifacts and remains that determined the skeleton to belong to a United States army soldier, and how that investigation is ongoning.
Date: Winter 1958
Creator: Shaeffer, James B.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Case of the Plagiarized Journal (open access)

The Case of the Plagiarized Journal

Article compares the famous account of the Washita campaign by General George A. Custer with a journal donated to the Oklahoma Historical Society originally belonging to Lieutenant P. N. Hardman of the 7th Cavalry who served in the same campaign. George H. Shirk questions which account came first, if one author plagiarized another, and what amount of information may have been fabricated.
Date: Winter 1958
Creator: Shirk, George H.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The First Panhandle Land Grant (open access)

The First Panhandle Land Grant

Article describes the history of the first land grant in the Oklahoma Panhandle. Raymond Estep discusses how the Mexican state of Coahuila y Texas issued a large land grant to Stephen Julian Wilson under an empresario contract to settle 200 families there, and how the land changed hands over the years.
Date: Winter 1958
Creator: Estep, Raymond
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Notes and Documents, Fall 1958 (open access)

Notes and Documents, Fall 1958

Notes and Documents column including documents about the restoration of the Old Garland Plantation Cemetery by the OHS, Brig. Gen. Ranald Slidell Mackenzie, historic sties and history of the Ada region, additional notes about the Saddle Mountain Mission Church, seminars and dedications related to the American Indian Hall of Fame at Anadarko, the new constitution of the OHS, and a list of recent accessions to the OHS library.
Date: Autumn 1958
Creator: Wright, Muriel H. (Muriel Hazel), 1889-1975; Wright, J. B.; Morris, Alton & Mitchell, Edith
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Official Minutes of Quarterly Meeting, the Board of Directors, the Oklahoma Historical Society, Quarter Ending, July 24, 1958 (open access)

Official Minutes of Quarterly Meeting, the Board of Directors, the Oklahoma Historical Society, Quarter Ending, July 24, 1958

This section includes the minutes of quarterly meeting of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society that was held on July 24, 1958.
Date: Autumn 1958
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Oklahoma Historic Sites Survey (open access)

Oklahoma Historic Sites Survey

Article provides an introduction to a survey of Oklahoma historic sites completed by the Oklahoma Historic Sites Committee of the OHS, and includes a list of 550 historic sites organized alphabetically and by county.
Date: Autumn 1958
Creator: Oklahoma Historic Sites Committee
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Pioneer Days in the Cherokee Strip (open access)

Pioneer Days in the Cherokee Strip

Article describes the 1893 opening of the Cherokee Strip as experienced by the author and her family. Clara Williamson Warren Bullard describes her family's settlement of their claim, water scarcity, growth of communities, and the cultivation of land.
Date: Autumn 1958
Creator: Bullard, Clara Williamson Warren
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Captain David McNair and His Descendants (open access)

Captain David McNair and His Descendants

Article describes the life and career of Captain David McNair, a prominent figure in the Cherokee Nation and owner of a boat yard on the Conasauga River. Carolyn Thomas Foreman discusses the people he helped throughout his life and includes correspondence from the time to create a clearer portrait of the man.
Date: Autumn 1958
Creator: Foreman, Carolyn Thomas, 1872-1967
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Action on Chilocco Creek (open access)

Action on Chilocco Creek

Article discusses the establishment of Camp Schofield on Chilocco Creek, reports from United States army officers and troop commanders, drills and field exercises, and a simulated battle between troops stationed there.
Date: Autumn 1958
Creator: Shirk, George H.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Notes and Documents, Summer 1958 (open access)

Notes and Documents, Summer 1958

Notes and Documents column including documents about the dedication of a bust of Robert Lee Williams, the OHS annual tour, the history of the Oklahoma Panhandle, the establishment of Boggy Depot State Park, the history of St. John's Mission in Prairie City, the history of Sivler City on the Chisholm Trail, a correction, and Oklahoma historical markers.
Date: Summer 1958
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Necrology, Summer 1958 (open access)

Necrology, Summer 1958

Column documenting biographical information about Oklahomans who have died; this issue discusses educator and former Secretary of the State Board of Education George Clair Wells.
Date: Summer 1958
Creator: Balyeat, Frank A.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Memories of the Indian Territory Mission Field (open access)

Memories of the Indian Territory Mission Field

Article describes the author's personal experiences as a student and teacher in Indian Territory. Lilah Denton Lindsey explores her own experience in the mission field as well as those she worked with. Included is an excerpt of a story told to her by Dr. R. M. Loughridge about early mission work in the area.
Date: Summer 1958
Creator: Lindsey, Lilah Denton
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Official Minutes of the Annual and Quarterly Meetings of the Oklahoma Historical Society, April 24, 1958 (open access)

Official Minutes of the Annual and Quarterly Meetings of the Oklahoma Historical Society, April 24, 1958

This includes the minutes of the annual and quarterly meetings of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society that were both held on April 24, 1958.
Date: Summer 1958
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
A Walking Tour in the Indian Territory, 1874 (open access)

A Walking Tour in the Indian Territory, 1874

Article includes an account published in the Cherokee Advocate by Claiborne Addison Young of a walking tour of Indian Territory, which included descriptions of the prairie and the people living there, visits to the Wyandotte Mission, the Cherokee National Female Seminary at Park Hill, and the Cherokee Orphan Asylum.
Date: Summer 1958
Creator: Young, Claiborne Addison
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
American Indian Corn Dishes (open access)

American Indian Corn Dishes

Article provides an overview of the corn dishes of the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Cherokee, Creek, Seminole, and Quapaw tribes. Muriel H. Wright includes an introduction to the background of corn dishes among the tribes and a description of the basic dish, Hominy, popular among many of them.
Date: Summer 1958
Creator: Wright, Muriel H. (Muriel Hazel), 1889-1975
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Wyandotte Mission: The Early Years, 1871-1900 (open access)

Wyandotte Mission: The Early Years, 1871-1900

Article discusses the history of the Wyandotte Mission from 1871 to 1900. A. M. Gibson describes the establishment of the mission school, the curriculum offered there, and the communities it served to educate and provide religious services to.
Date: Summer 1958
Creator: Gibson, Arrell M.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Old Osage Customs Die with the Last Pah-hue-skah (open access)

Old Osage Customs Die with the Last Pah-hue-skah

Article discusses the history of the "White Hair" or Pah-hue-skah family lineage of the Osage from the Louisiana Purchase to the period of removal. Frank F. Finney explores the chiefs of this family and the ways they retained Osage traditions throughout history.
Date: Summer 1958
Creator: Finney, Frank F.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Saddle Mountain Mission and Church (open access)

Saddle Mountain Mission and Church

Article discusses the story of Miss Isabel Crawford, a Baptist missionary who took up work ministering to the Kiowas at the Saddle Mountain Mission and Church. Hugh D. Corwin provides context to her journey and includes excepts of Crawford's account of her life there.
Date: Summer 1958
Creator: Corwin, Hugh D.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History