Tonkawa Public Library Collection
Scope and Contents
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Typescripts of interviews and news articles with pioneers and army officers from the area around present-day Tonkawa, Oklahoma, regarding U.S. Army operations, Indians, and the settlement of the region. Tonkawa Public Library Photograph Collection also in repository.
Dates
- Creation: 1938
Restrictions on Access
On June 26, 2023, the Western History Collections began a preservation project that has made many of its collections unavailable for a period of time. This collection is among the materials temporarily unavailable. Please contact Western History Collections if you wish to be added to a contact list to be notified when this collection becomes available.
Open for public research.
Extent
.1 Cubic Feet (.1 ft.)
Language of Materials
English
Ownership and Custodial History
Gift of Margaret Zinn.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Papers: Source of acquisition--Zinn, Margaret. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1951.
Subject
- Colyer, Vincent, 1825-1888 (Person)
- Harris, Cyrus, 1817-1888 (Person)
- Jacob, Richard Taylor, 1825-1903 (Person)
- Sheridan, Philip Henry, 1831-1888 (Person)
- People's Party (Okla.) (Organization)
- Tonkawa Public Library (Okla.) (Organization)
- United States. Army. Infantry Regiment, 6th (Organization)
- Northern Oklahoma College -- History (Organization)
- Wilkin, James (Person)
Genre / Form
Geographic
- Arkansas City Trail
- Arkansas River -- Navigation
- Black Dog Trail (Okla.)
- Caddo County (Okla.) -- History
- Camp Radziminski (Indian Territory)
- Camp Radziminski (Okla.)
- Camp Supply (Indian Territory)
- Camp Supply (Okla.)
- Chisholm Trail
- Cobb Creek (Okla.)
- Fort Arbuckle (Okla.) -- Description and travel
- Fort Arbuckle (Okla.) -- History -- 19th century -- Description and travel
- Fort Bascom (N.M.)
- Fort Cobb (Indian Territory)
- Fort Cobb (Okla. : Township)
- Fort Sill (Okla.)
- Fort Sill (Okla.) -- History -- 19th century
- Grant County (Okla.) -- History
- Heisel Chapel (Okla.)
- Indian Territory -- History
- Kay County (Okla.) -- History
- Oklahoma -- History -- 19th century
- Oklahoma -- History -- Land rush, 1893
- Oklahoma -- Politics and government -- To 1907
- Pauls Valley (Okla.) -- History
- Ponca City (Okla.) -- History
- Readout (Okla.)
- Tonkawa (Okla.) -- History
- Wewoka (Okla.) -- History
- Yellow Bull Trail (Okla.)
Topical
- African Americans -- Oklahoma -- Colonization
- African Americans -- Relations with Indians
- Arapaho Indians -- History
- Chickasaw Indians -- Relations with Afro-Americans
- Church history -- Oklahoma
- Frontier and pioneer life -- Oklahoma
- Indians of North America -- History
- Indians of North America -- Oklahoma
- Indians of North America -- Religion
- Land settlement -- Oklahoma
- Lipan Indians -- History
- Nez Percé Indians -- History
- Pioneers -- Oklahoma
- Republican Party (Okla.)
- Rivers -- Oklahoma -- Navigation
- Tonkawa Indians -- Agriculture
- Tonkawa Indians -- Government relations
- Tonkawa Indians -- History
- Tonkawa Indians -- Religion
- Trails -- Indian Territory
- Trails -- Oklahoma
- Washita, Battle of the, 1868
- 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
