Cowboys

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Black and white original and copy prints of Quanah Parker and Comanche Indians, the Post Oak Cemetery, and a mission in Comanche County, Oklahoma. Also included are baptismal scenes and a meeting place of the Choctaw council.

Scope and Contents Black and white original and copy prints of the range cattle industry in Wyoming and bauxite mining in Arkansas, along with photographs of Sioux, Apache, and Wichita Indians. The collection also includes a photograph of Covey's drawing of the Cherokee Strip Opening in 1893. Arthur S. Covey Manuscript Collection also in repository.

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Business and personal correspondence (1924-1941) of western novelist B. M. Bower and family; manuscripts and research notes (1904-1940) for books by Bower; publishing and copyright contracts (1904-1951); and photographs (1882-1911) of the Bower family.

Scope and Contents Black and white copy prints of Tulsa, Indian Territory and state and of Bartlesville and Morris, Oklahoma. Included are scenes of bands, businesses, schools, and a cotton market.

Scope and Contents Black and white original prints of the employees and performances of the Pawnee Bill and the 101 Wild West Shows. The collection includes scenes of cowboy and cowgirl performers, as well as those of Indian performers from the Pawnee, Sac and Fox, Potawatomi, Osage, Crow, Sioux, Blackfoot, Comanche, Ponca, Cheyenne, Arapaho and Kickapoo tribes.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Black and white original and copy prints of the range cattle industry in Wyoming and bauxite mining in Arkansas, along with photographs of Sioux, Apache, and Wichita Indians. The collection also includes a photograph of Covey's drawing of the Cherokee Strip Opening in 1893. Arthur S. Covey Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Black and white original and copy prints of the range cattle industry in Wyoming and bauxite mining in Arkansas, along with photographs of Sioux, Apache, and Wichita Indians. The collection also includes a photograph of Covey's drawing of the Cherokee Strip Opening in 1893. Arthur S. Covey Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Black and white copy prints of Norman and Cheyenne, Oklahoma Territory and state. Also photographs of Drumright and Broken Bow, Oklahoma, the University of Oklahoma, cowboys, businesses, and Cheyenne-Arapaho Indians.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Black and white original and copy prints of the range cattle industry in Wyoming and bauxite mining in Arkansas, along with photographs of Sioux, Apache, and Wichita Indians. The collection also includes a photograph of Covey's drawing of the Cherokee Strip Opening in 1893. Arthur S. Covey Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Black and white original and copy prints of the range cattle industry in Wyoming and bauxite mining in Arkansas, along with photographs of Sioux, Apache, and Wichita Indians. The collection also includes a photograph of Covey's drawing of the Cherokee Strip Opening in 1893. Arthur S. Covey Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Black and white original and copy prints of the range cattle industry in Wyoming and bauxite mining in Arkansas, along with photographs of Sioux, Apache, and Wichita Indians. The collection also includes a photograph of Covey's drawing of the Cherokee Strip Opening in 1893. Arthur S. Covey Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Scope and Contents Black and white original prints of wild west show performers Edith and Vernon Tantlinger. The collection includes scenes of the Tantlingers performing with the 101 Wild West Show, Tantlinger's Wild West Shows, and the Tex-Mex Real Wild West Show. Also included are photographs of other performers with the shows. Edith and Vernon Tantlinger Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Scope and Contents Black and white prints, mostly of cowboys and cattle, farms and farmers, railroad depots, and rolling stock, in and around Wray, Colorado. The collection also includes photographs of Geronimo, of a bridge across the Brazos River that had been damaged by stampeding cattle, and of the interior of a mine near Cripple Creek, Colorado.

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The autobiography of Parker, an Oklahoma cattleman, relating his family's migration to the Oklahoma Panhandle in 1887. Included is an account of an immigrant family who killed several people before being apprehended.

Scope and Contents Black and white original and copy prints of a group of cowboys and an Indian camp scene. Ina Badger Manuscript Collection also in repository.

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Poet. Three poems by Jon Kyle Murray entitled"Comeback Encounter of the Classical Kind" (1992); "Final Duel for a Fast-Draw Fool" (1992); "Hot Tamale Folly.. Slurp & Gulp" (1997); and "A Heartbreak Valentine" (2002).

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Black and white original prints of Idabel, Indian Territory and Oklahoma. Included are views of the main street, businesses, the railroad depot, and hunting scenes. Mrs. J.R. White Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Black and white original and copy prints of Red Rock, and Guthrie, Oklahoma, with scenes of cattle ranching near Red Rock. Also included are hunting scenes, and studio portraits of Ella M. Reed, Walter M. Snyder, Ed Snyder, and members of the Eldridge family.

Scope and Contents Black and white copy prints from the original nitrate negatives of early Texas history, Texas Rangers, lawmen, outlaws, gunfighters, and wild west shows. Also included are photographs of ranchers, cattlemen and cowboys of the Southwest, the U.S. Army during the Apache campaigns, the Little Big Horn battlefield and the Indian Wars of 1876 and 1890-1891, along with churches, cathedrals, and missions of Texas, California and Arizona. The collection also contains images of Comanche, Sioux, Shoshoni, Pueblo, Creek, Chippewa, Maricopa, Arapaho, Papago, Kickapoo, Yuma, Modoc, Cheyenne, Pawnee, Kiowa, Navajo, Apache, and Crow Indians. Prominent western personalities include Wild Bill Hickok, Buffalo Bill, Geronimo, Quanah Parker, Sitting Bull, Frank and Jesse James, Heck Thomas, Bill Tilghman, Chris Madsen, Pat Garrett, Billy the Kid, the Daltons and Youngers, Judge Roy Bean, George A. Custer, California Joe, the Sundance Kid, Butch Cassidy, and the Earp brothers.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Black and white original prints and panoramas of the Grand River Dam, mining and smelting in the Picher, Oklahoma area, the town of Miami, Oklahoma and businesses. Also included are photographs of Will Rogers and of Quapaw and Seneca Indians.

Scope and Contents Black and white and color postcards offering holiday greetings with views of cities, parks, rivers and mountains in the United States. Many cards include scenes of Ute, Hopi, Navajo, Kiowa, Zuni, Apache and Pueblo Indians.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Black and white original and copy prints of the range cattle industry in Wyoming and bauxite mining in Arkansas, along with photographs of Sioux, Apache, and Wichita Indians. The collection also includes a photograph of Covey's drawing of the Cherokee Strip Opening in 1893. Arthur S. Covey Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Black and white original and copy prints of the range cattle industry in Wyoming and bauxite mining in Arkansas, along with photographs of Sioux, Apache, and Wichita Indians. The collection also includes a photograph of Covey's drawing of the Cherokee Strip Opening in 1893. Arthur S. Covey Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Black and white original and copy prints of the range cattle industry in Wyoming and bauxite mining in Arkansas, along with photographs of Sioux, Apache, and Wichita Indians. The collection also includes a photograph of Covey's drawing of the Cherokee Strip Opening in 1893. Arthur S. Covey Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Black and white original prints of Ramona, Indian Territory and Oklahoma state, including scenes of businesses, ranching, and oil storage construction. Martha T. Swearingen Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Black and white original and copy prints of Red Rock, and Guthrie, Oklahoma, with scenes of cattle ranching near Red Rock. Also included are hunting scenes, and studio portraits of Ella M. Reed, Walter M. Snyder, Ed Snyder, and members of the Eldridge family.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Black and white original prints and glass negatives of cowboy and ranching scenes. The collection also includes a photograph of members of the Oklahoma Territorial Regiment of Volunteer Infantry. Lewis Spencer Salter Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Black and white original prints and glass negatives of cowboy and ranching scenes. The collection also includes a photograph of members of the Oklahoma Territorial Regiment of Volunteer Infantry. Lewis Spencer Salter Manuscript Collection also in repository.