Journals

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Physician. Patient account ledgers and journals from Hathaway's medical practice, along with Hathaway's notes regarding daily weather conditions, particularly the dust storms of the 1930's. A.H. Hathaway Photograph Collection also in repository.

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Physician. Journals and ledgers from Darnell's practice in Colony, Oklahoma, along with a copy of a 1923 report of the Oklahoma Commissioneers of Charities and Corrections. E.E. Darnell Photograph Collection also in repository.

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Author. Memoirs (n.d.) of Ercelle Moore; copies of journals (1947, 1975, 1982) with stories and poems by Moore; a teleplay set in Oklahoma and entitled "Christmas at Crossroads" by Moore, and correspondence (1977) with Lawrence Kimble concerning the teleplay; along with a copy of a screenplay (1975) by James McDonald and Robert Gerlach, written for The Mary Tyler Moore Show and entitled "The Seminar." Ercelle Moore Photograph Collection also in repository.

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Collector. Correspondence (1857-1889) between Robert Muldrow, his wife, Annie Oliver Muldrow, and their children; and a journal (1898) of Henry Lowndes Muldrow Sr.'s expedition to Alaska. Henry Lowndes Muldrow Photograph Collection also in repository.

Cowboy. "Reminiscences of J.H. Abbott" including settlement of No Man's Land, the XIT Ranch, Goodnight Pasture, and the Hi Koller Ranch. Also, a list of some of the ghost towns and defunct post offices during the early settlement of Beaver County, Oklahoma (1886-1903).

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Family correspondence (1865-1902), notebooks, journals, speeches and legal documents from Hendrick's services as a judge in the Cherokee Nation, along with subject files dealing with the National Party, Blind Asylum, pensions, and Cherokee medicine. James R. Hendricks Photograph Collection also in repository.

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Collector. Correspondence, hand-drawn maps, and other data which John Colby used in writing a history of the U.S. Army's 357th Infantry Regiment, 90th Division. It also contains articles about the 90th Division such as "This fort is ours", stories and memoirs of Colby's former comrades, field artillery and regiment unit journals, cassette tape recordings in which soldiers discuss the role of the 90th Division, and maps of Koenigsmacher and the Metz areas, France, and the Dillingen area, Germany.

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A copy book kept by Mertes while a student at the University of Oklahoma, mostly containing biographical sketches of prominent literary figures. Also included is a photograph of Jesse Rader.

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Activist. This collection includes seven issues of the "Oklahoma Socialist Movement Newsletter" (1976), an unpublished manuscript (1985) by Maggie Gover, titled "Will the Real Herb Hollomon Please Stand Up" and a paper (2004) by Michael P. Wright titled "Second Thoughts About the Comanche Code Talkers.".

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U.S. Army officer. One issue of the Journal of the United States Cavalry Association with two articles about Mackenzie.

Historian and author. Correspondence (1945-2008), journals (1973-1984), calendars (1970-2006) and research files from the life and career of western historian Robert Marshall Utley. The materials document Utley's lengthy service as an historian and administrator for the U.S. Department of the Interior's National Park Service, his extensive research and writing on the American West, and his role in the development of the Western History Association and the Potomac Corral of the Westerners. His publications focused on a variety of western subjects, including George Armstrong Custer and the Battle of the Little Bighorn; Texas Rangers and law enforcement in the West; Sitting Bull and the Sioux Nation; mountain men and westward expansion; the Indian Wars; and Billy the Kid.

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Confederate soldier. A bound typescript of a journal kept by Turnbo while serving as a Confederate soldier with the 27th Arkansas Infantry in the Trans-Mississippi West during the Civil War. The journal includes accounts of the activities of the "Jayhawkers" and "Mountain Boomers" in the Ozark Mountains region.