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Annette Blackburn Ehler and the Pat Hennessey Memorial Garden (open access)

Annette Blackburn Ehler and the Pat Hennessey Memorial Garden

Article describes pioneer woman Annette Blackburn Ehler and her contributions to Oklahoma history through the Oklahoma Historical Society and Oklahoma Memorial Association. Athie Sale Davis discusses her work creating the Pat Hennessey Memorial Garden and the contents of her writings.
Date: Autumn 1953
Creator: Davis, Athie Sale
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Armstrongs of Indian Territory, Part III: General Frank Crawford Armstrong (open access)

The Armstrongs of Indian Territory, Part III: General Frank Crawford Armstrong

Article describes the life and career of General frank Crawford Armstrong, an officer in the Confederate Army and later Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs. In the third part of this article series, Carolyn Thomas Foreman explains Armstrong's participation in the Civil War and the factionalism among members of the Cherokee Nation in the late nineteenth century.
Date: Spring 1953
Creator: Foreman, Carolyn Thomas, 1872-1967
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Artist Möllhausen in Oklahoma--1853 (open access)

Artist Möllhausen in Oklahoma--1853

Article provides an introduction to the traveling artist Heinrich Balduin Möllhausen before providing an excerpt of the journal he kept while accompanying Lieutenant A. W. Whipple on the Pacific Railroad Survey of Oklahoma in 1853. The journal includes depiction of the land they traveled and the people they encountered.
Date: Winter 1953
Creator: Wright, Muriel H. (Muriel Hazel), 1889-1975 & Shirk, George H.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 31, Number 1, Spring 1953 (open access)

Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 31, Number 1, Spring 1953

Quarterly publication containing articles, book reviews, photographs, illustrations, and other works documenting Oklahoma history and preservation.
Date: Spring 1953
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 31, Number 2, Summer 1953 (open access)

Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 31, Number 2, Summer 1953

Quarterly publication containing articles, book reviews, photographs, illustrations, and other works documenting Oklahoma history and preservation.
Date: Summer 1953
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 31, Number 3, Autumn 1953 (open access)

Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 31, Number 3, Autumn 1953

Quarterly publication containing articles, book reviews, photographs, illustrations, and other works documenting Oklahoma history and preservation.
Date: Autumn 1953
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 31, Number 4, Winter 1953-54 (open access)

Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 31, Number 4, Winter 1953-54

Quarterly publication containing articles, book reviews, photographs, illustrations, and other works documenting Oklahoma history and preservation. Index to volume 96 starts after page 461.
Date: Winter 1953
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Confederate Government Relations with the Five Civilized Tribes (open access)

Confederate Government Relations with the Five Civilized Tribes

Article discusses treaties and alliances made with the Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Seminole Nations during the Civil War. Ohland Morton focuses on interaction with the Confederate government and provides historical context to the initial uprooting of these tribes and relocation.
Date: Summer 1953
Creator: Morton, Ohland
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Confederate Relations with the Five Civilized Tribes, Part II (open access)

Confederate Relations with the Five Civilized Tribes, Part II

Article continues the discussion of treaties and alliances the Confederate States made with the Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Seminole Nations during the Civil War. In this second part of the article, Ohland Morton discusses the Civil War skirmishes and the leadership of Stand Watie after the creation of these treaties.
Date: Autumn 1953
Creator: Morton, Ohland
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Dr. Grant Foreman, A Eulogy (open access)

Dr. Grant Foreman, A Eulogy

Article transcribes the eulogy delivered by General William S. Key, President of the Oklahoma Historical Society, at First Presbyterian Church on behalf of Dr. Grant Foreman. Key recognizes Foreman's efforts to record the history of American Indian tribes and of Oklahoma, and pays tribute to the man.
Date: Autumn 1953
Creator: Key, William S.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Early Oklahoma Artists (open access)

Early Oklahoma Artists

Article describes the lives and works of three white artists who came to Oklahoma in the nineteenth century: George Catlin, John Mix Stanley, and Heinrich Baldwin Mollhausen. O. B. Jacobson and Jeanne d'Ueel discuss how the artists recorded images of Indian Territory and why they did so.
Date: Summer 1953
Creator: Jacobson, O. B. & d'Ucel, Jeanne
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Fifty Years Ago in Shawnee and Pottawatomie County (open access)

Fifty Years Ago in Shawnee and Pottawatomie County

Article discusses the thriving town of Shawnee, Oklahoma and Pottawatomie County at the turn of the century. Ernestine Gravley highlights the growth of businesses, feuds by railroad companies over the town, and popular pastimes such as horse racing made possible by Shawnee's expansion.
Date: Winter 1953
Creator: Gravley, Ernestine
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Fifty Years of Choctaw Law, 1834 to 1884 (open access)

Fifty Years of Choctaw Law, 1834 to 1884

Article discusses the laws made by the constitutional government of the Choctaw Nation from 1834 to 1884. Oliver Knight explains the phases of the institution of the government and its leaders, the construction of public roads and railroads, criminal law, and internal and external relations, and other sections of laws.
Date: Spring 1953
Creator: Knight, Oliver
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Fishertown (open access)

Fishertown

Article describes the establishment of Fishertown, a village in the Creek Nation that cropped up near North Fork Town in the nineteenth century. Carolyn Thomas Foreman traces the genealogy of the Fisher family who founded the town, and describes its early growth and development.
Date: Autumn 1953
Creator: Foreman, Carolyn Thomas, 1872-1967
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grant Foreman (open access)

Grant Foreman

Article provides a timeline of the work of Dr. Grant Foreman, valued member of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society, writer, researcher, and lawyer.
Date: Autumn 1953
Creator: Clark, Stanley
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
A History of Cimarron County (open access)

A History of Cimarron County

Article constructs a picture of the history of Cimarron County through coverage of major events that occurred there and examination of archaeological evidence. William E. Baker examines accounts of the area by various parties and discusses early trading expeditions, United States Army occupation, and interactions with American Indian tribes.
Date: Autumn 1953
Creator: Baker, William E.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The March of the First Dragoons from Jefferson Barracks to fort Gibson in 1833-1834 (open access)

The March of the First Dragoons from Jefferson Barracks to fort Gibson in 1833-1834

Article discusses the activation of the first United States Dragoons and their arduous march from Jefferson Barracks to Fort Gibson in 1833 to 1834. Hamilton Gardner examines journal records of the officers, and correspondence that documented the journey, to create a clearer picture of the experience.
Date: Spring 1953
Creator: Gardner, Hamilton
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Minutes of the Annual Meeting of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society, June 5, 1953 (open access)

Minutes of the Annual Meeting of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society, June 5, 1953

This section includes the minutes of the annual meeting of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society that was held on June 5, 1953
Date: Summer 1953
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Minutes of the Quarterly Meeting of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society, Thursday, January 22, 1953 (open access)

Minutes of the Quarterly Meeting of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society, Thursday, January 22, 1953

This section includes the minutes of the quarterly meeting of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society that was held on Thursday, January 22, 1953.
Date: Spring 1953
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Minutes of the Quarterly Meeting of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society, Thursday, July 23, 1953 (open access)

Minutes of the Quarterly Meeting of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society, Thursday, July 23, 1953

This section includes the minutes of the quarterly meeting of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society that was held on Thursday, July 23, 1953.
Date: Autumn 1953
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Minutes of the Third Quarterly Meeting of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society, Held in the City of Durant, Oklahoma, on November 12, 1953 (open access)

Minutes of the Third Quarterly Meeting of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society, Held in the City of Durant, Oklahoma, on November 12, 1953

This section includes the minutes of the third quarterly meeting of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society that was held on November 12, 1953.
Date: Winter 1953
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Necrology, Winter 1953-54 (open access)

Necrology, Winter 1953-54

Column documenting biographical information about Oklahomans who have died, including lawyer and Oklahoma legislator J. Elmer Wyand and school board member and Chickasaw Nation representative Hon. Joe Newberry.
Date: Winter 1953
Creator: Witchell, B. E. & Reubin, Carl
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Notes and Documents, Fall 1953 (open access)

Notes and Documents, Fall 1953

Notes and Documents column including a tribute to Dr. Grant Foreman, a transcribed manuscript about the trail in Ottawa County and the Quapaw Reservation, notes about the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, and a list of recent accessions in the Oklahoma Historical Society Library.
Date: Autumn 1953
Creator: Johnson-Westbrook, Harriette; Kelley, E. H.; Harris, Walter A. & Mitchell, Edith
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Notes and Documents, Spring 1953 (open access)

Notes and Documents, Spring 1953

Notes and Documents column including documents about a correction for "Worcester, the Pride of the West," correspondence from a member of the Oklahoma Historical Society, correspondence from the collection of Mr. Frederick Langford about life among the Choctaws, descriptions of a trip taken to Tulsa by Dr. Charles Evans, and an announcement about Oklahoma's Golden Jubilee.
Date: Spring 1953
Creator: Wright, Muriel H. (Muriel Hazel), 1889-1975; Shirk, George H. & Evans, Charles
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History