Oklahoma -- Newspapers

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Newspaper editor. Correspondence (1906-1924) to and from Weaver, regarding the prospects for and operation of a newspaper in Ada, Oklahoma, and regarding Ku Klux Klan activities, especially political activities, in Oklahoma.

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Collector. Issues of the "Colony Mercantile Company's Store News" 1912-1914; one issue of the "Colony Courier" 1910; and three commencement and wedding invitations, 1897-1910.

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Journalist. Correspondence (1922-1945) from Johnson's readers concerning their personal problems and their opinions about her column in the Daily Oklahoman; typescripts (1934-1948) of articles by Johnson; clippings (1919-1951) from her columns and from articles about her; letters (1921) endorsing Oklahoma state senator John Golobie for the post of American Minister to Yugoslavia; and papers (1949-1950) from Johnson's tenure as Secretary of Oklahoma Goodwill Industries, Inc. Edith Cherry Johnson Photograph Collection also in repository.

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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.

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Business manager. A copy of a letter (1953) from Fred G. Cowles, part owner of the "McAlester News-Capital" to Walter C. Johnson, briefly describing the paper's history and ownership.

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Editor. Correspondence (1900-1915) between Holbrook, his wife (Mabel Jackson), and others regarding his editorship of the "Pawnee Dispatch" family matters and social life in Pawnee, Oklahoma. Richard Burkey Holbrook Photograph Collection also in repository.

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Original issues of THE CHEROKEE PHOENIX newspaper, published at New Echota, Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory, in Cherokee and English.