Hugh D. Corwin interview, 1980 Jan. 11.

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Hugh D. Corwin interview, 1980 Jan. 11.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70978435

Subjects of interview include: train ride to Lawton with mother and siblings in 1905; early schooling and attendance at Cameron Agricultural School; prohibition; Oklahoma statehood; recollection of Geronimo's selling of bows and arrows on the street and the offense of selling to the Indians in return; chores and farm life; move to town in 1927 where sold insurance; teaching at Cameron and the removal of J.G. March as its president in 1927; major buildings in Lawton; depression woes; interest in Comanche County Historical Society; publishing of the society's The Chronicles of Comanche County (1955) and its name change to Great Plains Journal; graphic description of lynching; and the killing of Colonel Hawkins, assistant chief of police to Heck Thomas.

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