Works Progress Administration Historic Sites and Federal Writers' Project Collection
Scope and Contents
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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. Collection includes typescripts of 19th Century Indian related information appearing in newspapers, and photostat copies of Indian documents.
Dates
- 1937-1941
Restrictions on Access
Available for public access.
Extent
23 Cubic Feet (23 ft.)
Language of Materials
English
Ownership and Custodial History
Gift of Savoie Lottinville.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Records: Source of acquisition--Lottinville, Savoie. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1969.
- Bacon Rind, (Osage Indian), 1860-1932
- Bartles, Jacob H., 1842-1908
- Big Medicine, Cheyenne Indian
- Big Tree, 1847-1927 (Kiowa chief)
- Black Beaver
- Black Coat, Cherokee chief, -1835 (Cherokee chief)
- Black Kettle, (Cheyenne chief), -1868
- Boudinot, Elias, -1839
- Brown, John F., 1843-1919
- Bryant, William, (Principal Chief of the Choctaw Nation)
- Byington, Cyrus, 1793-1868
- Catholic Church -- : Oklahoma.
- Chapman, Amos, 1839-1925
- Checote, Samuel, 1819-1884
- Chisholm, Jesse
- Chouteau, Auguste, 1786-1838
- Colbert, James Isaac, 1802-1860?
- Coodey, William Shorey, 1806-1849
- Cooper, Douglas H., 1815-1879
- Couch, William Lewis, 1850-1890
- Cummins, Scott, 1846-1928
- Dalton Gang
- Dalton family
- Downing, Lewis
- Dwight Mission (Okla.)
- Elliott, Joel H. (Joel Hayworth), 1840-1868
- Eschiti, Comanche chief
- Federal Writers' Project (Okla.)
- Gardner, Jefferson, 1847-1906
- Hennessey, Pat, 1837-1874
- Hicks, Elijah, 1797-1856
- Horseback, Comanche chief
- Houston, Sam, 1793-1863
- Houston, Temple Lea, 1860-1905
- Hurley, Patrick J. (Patrick Jay), 1883-1963
- Isparcheher, 1828-1902 (Creek chief)
- Jolly, John, -1838
- Jones, Robert M.
- Jones, Wilson N., (Wilson Nathaniel), 1827?-1901?
- Journeycake, Charles, 1817-1894
- Kincaid, Joseph
- Kobay, (Comanche chief)
- LeFlore, Charles, 1841-
- LeFlore, Thomas, - approximately 1850
- Leepor Creek Indian Council (Date of meeting or treaty signing: (1872).)
- Lewis, Isom
- Lone Wolf, (Blackfoot Indian)
- Lookout, Fred, 1865-1949
- Love, Overton
- McCurtain, Cornelius, 1803-approximately 1857
- McCurtain, Edmond, 1842-1890
- McCurtain, Green, 1848-1910
- McCurtain, Jackson F. (Jackson Frazier), 1830-1885
- McIntosh, Chilly, 1800-1875
- McIntosh, D. N. (Daniel Newman), 1822-1895
- McIntosh, William F., 1824-
- McKinney, Thompson, -1889
- Murrell, George M. (George Michael), 1808-1894
- Nation, Carry Amelia, 1846-1911
- Parker, Quanah, 1845?-1911
- Parker, Thomas, 1775-1890
- Paw-ne-no-pashe, Joseph, active 1869-1870 (Governor of the Osage Nation)
- Pawnee Bill, 1860-1942
- Perryman, L. C. (Legus Choteau), 1838-1922
- Porter, Pleasant
- Posey, Alexander Lawrence, 1873-1908
- Pounds, George
- Red Moon Indian Boarding School (Okla.)
- Reynolds, Milton Wellington, 1833-1890
- Robertson, Alice, 1854-1931
- Rogers, Will, 1879-1935
- Ross, John, 1790-1866
- Ross, Joshua
- Ross, Lewis, -1869
- Ross, William P. (William Potter), 1820-1891
- Round Springs Indian Church (Okla.)
- Seger, John H. (John Homer), 1846-1928
- Sequoyah, 1770?-1843
- Stovall Museum
- Tiger, Peggy, 1943-
- United States. Treaties, etc. (1835 August 24)
- United States. Treaties, etc. (1897 April 23)
- United States. Works Progress Administration of Oklahoma
- War Bonnet (Cheyenne Indian)
- Watie, Stand, 1806-1871
- White Wolf, Comanche Indian
- Worcester, S. A. (Samuel Austin), 1798-1859
- Wright, Allen, 1826-1885
- 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
