Records, 1937-1941.

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Records, 1937-1941.

Title

Records, 1937-1941.

Date

1937-1941

Resource Link

http://digital.libraries.ou.edu/cdm/ref/collection/NAMfinding/id/1930

Abstract

Book-length manuscripts, research and project reports, and administrative records generated by the W.P.A. Historic Sites and Federal Writers' Projects for Oklahoma during the 1930's. Arranged by county and by subject, there are reports on biographies, birthplaces and homes of prominant Oklahomans, business enterprises and industries, judicial centers, banks and banking, Masonic orders, soil conservation, and land runs; on historic sites, including cemeteries and burial sites, churches and missions, schools, towns and ghost towns, post offices, roads and trails, stage coaches and stagecoach lines, ranches, ruins and antiquities, bridges, crossings and ferries, battlefields, trading posts and stores, military posts and camps, and the state parks; on Indians of North America in Oklahoma, including agencies and reservations, treaties, tribal government centers, councils and meetings, chiefs and leaders, judicial centers, jails and prisons, stomp grounds, and ceremonial rites and dances; and on geogrpahic features and regions, arranged by place name, including caverns, mountains, rivers, springs, and prairies. In addition, there are transcripts of interviews conducted with oilfield workers regarding the petroleum industry in Oklahoma.

Extent

23 ft.

Holding Repository

University of Oklahoma, Bizzell Memorial Library

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 6806094

University of Oklahoma, Bizzell Memorial Library

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Robertson, Alice, 1854-1931

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Houston, Sam, 1793-1863

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Ross, William P. (William Potter), 1820-1891

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Dalton, Bill, d. 1894.

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Big Medicine, Cheyenne Indian.

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McIntosh, D.N. (Daniel Newman), 1822-1895.

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Wild Horse, Comanche Indian.

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Chapman, Amos, -1787

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Isparhecher, Creek chief, 1828-1902.

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Jolly, John, Cherokee chief, d. 1839.

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Boudinot, Elias, 1802-1839

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Ross, Joshua.

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LeFlore, Charles, b. 1841.

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McKinney, Thompson, d. 1889.

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Houston, Temple Lea, 1860-1905

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Bartles, Jacob H. (Jacob Hilliars), 1842-1908.

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Brown, John F., 1843-1919

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Porter, Pleasant, 1840-1907.

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Sequoyah 1770-1843

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Chouteau, Auguste Pierre, 1786-1838.

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Elliott, Joel, d. 1868.

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Posey, Alexander Lawrence, 1873-1908

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Pawenopashe, Joseph.

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Jones, Wilson Nathaniel, ca. 1827-1901.

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Bryant, William J., shipmaster

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United States. Works Projects Administration.

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Horseback, Comanche chief.

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Gardner, Jefferson, ca. 1846-1906.

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Black Kettle, Cheyenne chief, d. 1868.

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McCurtain, Jackson F. (Jackson Frazier), 1830-1885

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Journeycake, Charles, 1817-1894

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Chisholm, William E.

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Parker, Thomas, 1775-1890.

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Black Beaver, 1806-1880.

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Seger, John H. (John Homer), 1846-1928

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Kincaid, Joseph J. (Joseph James), 1933-

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Hicks, Elijah, 1796-1856.

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Hennessy, Pat, d. 1874.

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Stovall Museum of Natural Science.

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Tiger, Motey, b. 1840.

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McCurtain, Edmond, 1842-1890.

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Watie, Stand, 1806-1871

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Lookout, Fred, Osage chief, 1851-1949.

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Coodey, William Shorey, 1806-1849

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Worcester, S. A. (Samuel Austin), 1798-1859

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Murrell, George M. (George Michael), 1808-1894.

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Leepor Creek Indian Council (1872)

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Ross, Lewis, -1869

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Younger brother of John Ross, principal chief of the Cherokee Nation. The owner of several large stores and a resident of Calhoun, Tenn., Lewis Ross was one of the five wealthiest men in the Cherokee Nation. He was responsible for providing provisions and other supplies during the 1838 Cherokee removal to the west. From the description of Letter : Cherokee Agency, [Calhoun, Tenn.], to H.A. Wise, Washington, [D.C.], 1838 June 18. (Newberry Library). WorldCat r...

Cooper, Douglas H. (Douglas Hancock), 1815-1879.

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Round Springs Indian Church (Okla.)

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Downing, Lewis, 1823-1872.

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Cummins, Scott

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Hurley, Patrick J. (Patrick Jay), 1883-1963

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Ado-ete, 1850?-1927

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A'do-eete, also known as Big Tree was probably born circa 1850 somewhere on the plains of western Oklahoma, the Texas Panhandle, or southwestern Kansas. The Medicine Lodge Treaty of 1867 placed the Kiowa on a reservation in the Leased District of Indian Territory. From there Kiowa warriors launched raids into Texas. On May 18, 1871, Big Tree, Satank, and Satanta were among the leaders of a multitribal war party that attacked the wagon train of freighter Henry Warren in Young County, Texas, near ...

Love, Overton

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McIntosh, William F., b. 1824.

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Red Moon Indian Boarding School (Okla.)

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White Wolf (Comanche chief)

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Federal Writers' Project (Okla.)

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Camp Holmes Indian Council (1835)

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Wright, Allen, active 1873-1880

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Eschiti, Comanche chief.

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Pawnee Bill, 1860-1942

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Pawnee Bill was a Wild West show impresario and late contemporary of Buffalo Bill Cody, with whom he was in partnership between 1908 and 1913. From the description of Pawnee Bill letter, 1931. (National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum). WorldCat record id: 61257714 Gordon W. Lillie (1860-1942) was born in Illinois and worked as an interpreter and schoolteacher at the Pawnee Indian Agency in what is now Oklahoma, starting in 1878. He later worked as an interpreter for th...

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