Volume 13 , Issue 25

Duchess of Weaselskin

We had a Bear mangle our bird feeders around 9:00p.m. this last Saturday evening and during the earlier morning of the same day. We did get a glimpse of it when it came back a second time to see if the bird feeders were still out. The bird feeders had not been left out, though.

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This Day In History (June 19 & 20)

On June 20, 1905, Lillian Hellman, the American playwright and screenwriter, was born. Following her death on June 30, 1984, her obituary appeared in The Times.

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NW Okie's Ancestry Corner

The photo on the left is a photo taken around 1960 or so of my Dad, Gene M McGill when he was head of the Oklahoma Democratic Party. Gene M McGill was born 27 December 1914, in Alva, Oklahoma; graduated from the Oklahoma University Pharmacy school in 1937; married Vada Eileen Paris 24 March 1940 and raised four daughters in Northwest Oklahoma. McGill died 16 June 1986, Sunday, on Father's Day.

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Worth of WWII German POW Paintings

An archived issue of an earlier feature concerning the worth of World War II German POW Paintings has brought on this comment from Julia Clark-Foster as she asks in an   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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A History of Oklahoma

We found another history book on Google Books. This history book is A History of Oklahoma, by Joseph Bradgield Thoburn, Isaac Mason Holcomb with a photo of Sequoyah (George Guess) holding a tablet on the frontcover. It was published in 1908 by Doub & Scompany of San Francisco. Joseph B. Thoburn was a former secretary of the Oklahoma Board of Agriculture. Isaac M. Holcomb was a former Superintendent of the Oklahoma City Schools.

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Expedition to Salt Plains & Establishment of Fort Smith

In the History of Oklahoma, page 29, by Thoburn and Holcomb, there is mention of an "Expedition to Salt Plains." It was in 1811 the salt plains of the Cimarron and Salt Fork (Nescatunga) were visited and explored by George C. Sibley, U.S. Indian Agent at Fort Osage, on the Missouri.

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Arkansas Territory Organized

It was 2 March 1819, when the territory of Arkansas was created. It included nearly all of the region extending from the Mississippi River westward to the 100th meridian between 30° 30ʹ of north latitude, except that part which lay to the south of the Red River, thus including nearly all of Oklahoma.

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The Santa Fe Trail

The History of Oklahoma book by Thoburn and Holcomb, also had this interesting piece about the Santa Fe Trail. It was 3 March 1825, approved by an Act of Congress, the President of the United States was authorized to cause a road to be marked out from the western frontier of Missouri to the confines of New Mexico and providing that three commissioners would be appointed to select and survey the proposed route and to secure the consent of the Indian tribes occupying the lands through which the road was to be laid out.

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The Cherokee Phoenix

The Cherokee Phoenix was the name of the first Cherokee newspaper. It was established at New Electa, Tennessee, in 1827, with Elias Boudinot as editor. Its publication continued until 1832. In 1844 it was re-established in Tahlequah, the capital of the new home of the Cherokee in the West, under the name of the Cherokee Advocate, and as such it was continuously published until the outbreak of the Civil War.

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Establishment of the Indian Territory Authorized

By an Act of Congress approved 26 May 1830, provisions for the establishment of the Indian Territory were authorized. The terms of that law the President of the U.S. authorized to select a part of the undivided public domain to which the title of the aboriginal tribes had been extinguished.

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