Author: Oklahoma Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN: 9781258674991
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Contributing Authors Include Patrick J. Hurley, Paul A. Walker, D. A. Richardson, And Many Others.
The Chronicles of Oklahoma, V13, No. 4, December, 1935
Author: Oklahoma Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN: 9781258674991
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Contributing Authors Include Patrick J. Hurley, Paul A. Walker, D. A. Richardson, And Many Others.
The Chronicles of Oklahoma, V13, No. 1-4, 1935
Author: Oklahoma Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN: 9781258681210
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
Contributing Authors Include Walter Ferguson, Carolyn Thomas Foreman, Dan W. Peery, And Many Others.
1889
Author: Michael J. HightowerPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806162341
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
After immigrants flooded into central Oklahoma during the land rush of 1889 and the future capital of Oklahoma City sprang up “within a fortnight,” the city’s residents adopted the slogan “born grown” to describe their new home. But the territory’s creation was never so simple or straightforward. The real story, steeped in the politics of the Gilded Age, unfolds in 1889, Michael J. Hightower’s revealing look at a moment in history that, in all its turmoil and complexity, transcends the myth. Hightower frames his story within the larger history of Old Oklahoma, beginning in Indian Territory, where displaced tribes and freedmen, wealthy cattlemen, and prospective homesteaders became embroiled in disputes over public land and federal government policies. Against this fraught background, 1889 travels back and forth between Washington, D.C., and the Oklahoma frontier to describe the politics of settlement, public land use, and the first stirrings of urban development. Drawing on eyewitness accounts, Hightower captures the drama of the Boomer incursions and the Run of ’89, as well as the nascent urbanization of the townsite that would become Oklahoma City. All of these events played out in a political vacuum until Congress officially created Oklahoma Territory in the Organic Act of May 1890. The story of central Oklahoma is profoundly American, showing the region to have been a crucible for melding competing national interests and visions of the future. Boomers, businessmen, cattlemen, soldiers, politicians, pundits, and African and Native Americans squared off—sometimes peacefully, often not—in disagreements over public lands that would resonate in western history long after 1889.
The Chronicles of Oklahoma, V13, No. 2, June, 1935
Author: Oklahoma Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN: 9781258674960
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Contributing Authors Include George Riley Hall, Mace Davis, Caroline B. Sherman, And Many Others.
The Chronicles of Oklahoma, V13, No. 3, September, 1935
Author: Oklahoma Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN: 9781258674984
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Contributing Authors Include Carolyn Thomas Foreman, W. B. Morrison, Dan W. Peery, And Many Others.
The Chronicles of Oklahoma, V13, No. 1, March, 1935
Author: Oklahoma Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN: 9781258679286
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Contributing Authors Include Walter Ferguson, Carolyn Thomas Foreman, Dan W. Peery, And Many Others.
Picturing Indian Territory
Author: B. Byron PricePublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806156937
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
Throughout the nineteenth century, the land known as “Indian Territory” was populated by diverse cultures, troubled by shifting political boundaries, and transformed by historical events that were colorful, dramatic, and often tragic. Beyond its borders, most Americans visualized the area through the pictures produced by non-Native travelers, artists, and reporters—all with differing degrees of accuracy, vision, and skill. The images in Picturing Indian Territory, and the eponymous exhibit it accompanies, conjure a wildly varied vision of Indian Territory’s past. Spanning nearly nine decades, these artworks range from the scientific illustrations found in English naturalist Thomas Nuttall’s journal to the paintings of Frederic Remington, Henry Farny, and Charles Schreyvogel. The volume’s three essays situate these works within the historical narratives of westward expansion, the creation of an “Indian Territory” separate from the rest of the United States, and Oklahoma’s eventual statehood in 1907. James Peck focuses on artists who produced images of Native Americans living in this vast region during the pre–Civil War era. In his essay, B. Byron Price picks up the story at the advent of the Civil War and examines newspaper and magazine reports as well as the accounts of government functionaries and artist-travelers drawn to the region by the rapidly changing fortunes of the area’s traditional Indian cultures in the wake of non-Indian settlement. Mark Andrew White then looks at the art and illustration resulting from the unrelenting efforts of outsiders who settled Indian and Oklahoma Territories in the decades before statehood. Some of the artworks featured in this volume have never before been displayed; some were produced by more than one artist; others are anonymous. Many were completed by illustrators on-site, as the events they depicted unfolded, while other artists relied on written accounts and vivid imaginations. Whatever their origin, these depictions of the people, places, and events of “Indian Country” defined the region for contemporary American and European audiences. Today they provide a rich visual record of a key era of western and Oklahoma history—and of the ways that art has defined this important cultural crossroads.
Cherokee Civil Warrior
Author: W. Dale WeeksPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806192569
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
For the Cherokee Nation, the Civil War was more than a contest between the Union and the Confederacy. It was yet another battle in the larger struggle against multiple white governments for land and tribal sovereignty. Cherokee Civil Warrior tells the story of Chief John Ross as he led the tribe in this struggle. The son of a Scottish father and mixed-blood Indian mother, John Ross served the Cherokee Nation in a public capacity for nearly fifty years, thirty-eight as its constitutionally elected principal chief. Historian W. Dale Weeks describes Ross’s efforts to protect the tribe’s interests amid systematic attacks on indigenous culture throughout the nineteenth century, from the forced removal policies of the 1830s to the exigencies of the Civil War era. At the outset of the Civil War, Ross called for all Cherokees, slaveholding and nonslaveholding, to remain neutral in a war they did not support—a position that became untenable when the United States withdrew its forces from Indian Territory. The vacated forts were quickly occupied by Confederate troops, who pressured the Cherokees to align with the South. Viewed from the Cherokee perspective, as Weeks does in this book, these events can be seen in their proper context, as part of the history of U.S. “Indian policy,” failed foreign relations, and the Anglo-American conquest of the American West. This approach also clarifies President Abraham Lincoln’s acknowledgment of the federal government’s abrogation of its treaty obligation and his commitment to restoring political relations with the Cherokees—a commitment abruptly ended when his successor Andrew Johnson instead sought to punish the Cherokees for their perceived disloyalty. Centering a Native point of view, this book recasts and expands what we know about John Ross, the Cherokee Nation, its commitment to maintaining its sovereignty, and the Civil War era in Indian Territory. Weeks also provides historical context for later developments, from the events of Little Bighorn and Wounded Knee to the struggle over tribal citizenship between the Cherokees and the descendants of their former slaves.
John Ross, Cherokee Chief
Author: Gary E. MoultonPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820323675
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Recounts the life of Chief John Ross of the Cherokees using Ross' personal papers and Cherokee archives as sources.
Oklahoma, a History of Five Centuries
Author: Arrell Morgan GibsonPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806117584
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Located in the Oklahoma Collection.