Edna Greer Porter Hatfield Collection
Scope and Contents
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Transcripts of interviews with pioneers who took part in the 1893 Land Run into the Cherokee Strip of Oklahoma, with accompanying township maps showing the homesteads of settlers. The collection also includes historical and cultural information about the Indian tribes, including the Tonkawa, Kansa (Kaw) and Ponca, that lived in the eastern portion of the Cherokee Strip. The final part of the collection consists of correspondence and field notebooks written by Orville Stanley Smith and Theodore H. Barrett during an 1871 survey of the Sisseton and Wahpeton Indian reservation in Dakota Territory. Edna Greer Porter Hatfield Photograph Collection also in repository.
Dates
- 1832-1958
Restrictions on Access
Available for public access.
Extent
.1 ft. (.1 ft.)
Language of Materials
English
Ownership and Custodial History
Gift of Edna Hatfield.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Papers: Source of acquisition--Htfield, Edna. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1954.
- Agriculture -- Oklahoma Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Arkansas City-Reno Road Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Baptists -- Oklahoma Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Barrett, Theodore Harvey, 1834-1900 -- : Correspondence
- Big Snake, -1879
- Billings (Okla.) -- History Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Black Dog Trail (Okla.) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Cemeteries -- Oklahoma Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Cemeteries -- Oklahoma -- Garfield County Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Cemeteries -- Oklahoma -- Grant County Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Cemeteries -- Oklahoma -- Kay County Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Cherokee Strip (Okla. and Kan.) -- History Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) -- : Oklahoma.
- Correspondence Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Czech Americans -- Oklahoma Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Earth houses -- Oklahoma Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Farmers -- Oklahoma Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Field notes Subject Source: Ftamc
- Hatfield, Edna Greer, 1880-1967
- Interviews Subject Source: Ftamc
- Kansa Indians -- History Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- L County (Okla.) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Lake Traverse Indian Reservation (N.D. and S.D.) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Land settlement -- Oklahoma Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Maps Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Methodist Church -- Oklahoma Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Nurses -- Oklahoma Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Oklahoma -- History -- Land Rush, 1893 Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Oklahoma -- Maps Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Oklahoma -- Newspapers Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Payne, David Lewis, 1836-1884
- Pike, James, 1834-1867
- Pioneers -- Oklahoma Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Pleasant Hill Methodist Church (Grant County, Okla.)
- Ponca Indians -- Anecdotes, facetiae, satire, etc. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Ponca Indians -- Culture Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Ponca Indians -- History Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Ponca Indians -- Tribal Government Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Ponca dance Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Postal service -- Oklahoma Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Potawatomi Indians -- Missions Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Presbyterian Church -- Oklahoma -- Tonkawa Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Ranches -- Oklahoma Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Riverview Church (Kay County, Okla.) -- : History.
- Roads -- Oklahoma Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Romanies -- Oklahoma Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- School districts -- Oklahoma Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- School districts -- Oklahoma -- Grant County -- History Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- School districts -- Oklahoma County -- Garfield County -- History Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Schools -- Oklahoma Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Smith, Orville, 1841-1899 -- : Correspondence
- Sod houses -- Oklahoma Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Stores, Retail -- Oklahoma Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Surveying -- Dakota Territory Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Tonkawa (Okla.) -- Church history Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Tonkawa (Okla.) -- History Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Tonkawa (Okla.) -- Societies, etc. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Tonkawa Indians -- Customs Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Tonkawa Indians -- History Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Tonkawa Indians -- Removal Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Tonkawa Indians -- Wars Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Tonkawa Public Library (Okla.)
- Trails -- Oklahoma Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Wahpeton Indians Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Yellow Bull Crossing (Okla.) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Description rules
- Appm
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Western History Collections Repository
630 Parrington Oval
Room 300
Norman Oklahoma 73019 United States
westernhistorycollections@ou.edu