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Arrell Gibson Collection: Collection Inventory (cont.)

Special Collections, SC#112, Arrell Gibson Collection. This collection focuses on Arrell Gibson's authorship, including drafts of his novels, personal correspondence, and copies of the photographs and letters used in his writings.

Collection Inventory

Box 12: Research Materials—A.J. Fountain Book

  • Photographs
  • Fountain Case Interviews
  • Misc. New Mexico Material Non-fountain
  • Civil War Period
  • Chapter One Material
  • Chapter Two Material
  • Chapter Three Materials Completed
  • Materials for Chapter 4

Box 13: Research Materials-A.J. Fountain Book

  • Chapter Five Material
  • Chapter Six Material
  • Chapter Seven Material

Box 14 - Research Materials-A.J. Fountain Book

  • Chapter Eight Materials
  • Chapter Nine Materials
  • Chapter Ten Materials
  • Chapter Eleven Materials
  • Chapter Twelve Materials
  • Chapter Thirteen Materials

Box 15- Research Materials-A.J. Fountain Book

  • Chapter Thirteen Materials
  • Chapter Fourteen Materials
  • Chapter Fifteen Materials
  • Chapter Sixteen Materials

Box 16

  • Fountain book-Letters
  • Permission letters-Fountain biography
  • Fountain biography contract
  • Publisher’s correspondence-Fountain story
  • W.D. Grisso Correspondence
  • Chapter Sixteen materials (Fountain book)
  • Pinkerton File on the Col, A.J. Fountain Murder Case

Box 17-Correspondence-A.J. Fountain Book

  • Early Family History – Closed
  • California Period
  • Territorial Records
  • Fountain Case
  • Fountain Case Correspondence-Closed
  • Fountain Case File(Pinkerton)
  • Fountain Case Bibliography
  • Newspaper Microfilm
  • Fountain Case
  • Federal Records
  • Fountain Case
  • Court Records
  • Fountain Case
  • Fountain Case Correspondence Closed
  • Fountain Case File-Closed Correspondence
  • W.D. Grisso Correspondence
  • Fountain Case Correspondence
  • J.D. McAllister
  • Fountain Publicity
  • Fountain Book Correspondence

Box 18- Manuscripts-A.J. Fountain Book

  • Chapter One-Completed-Fountain
  • Chapter Two-Completed
  • Chapter Three
  • Chapter Four
  • Chapter Five
  • Chapter Six
  • Chapter Seven
  • Chapter Eight
  • Chapter Nine
  • Chapter Ten
  • Chapter Eleven
  • Chapter Twelve
  • Chapter Thirteen
  • Chapter Fourteen
  • Chapter Fifteen
  • Chapter Sixteen
  • Chapter Seventeen

Box 19-Manuscripts

  •  A.J. Fountain Book (In two 8½ x 11 boxes)

Box 20

  • Chapter 1 (Fountain)
  • Chapter 2 (Fountain)
  • Chapter 3 (Fountain)
  • Chapter 4 (Fountain)
  • Chapter 5 (Fountain)
  • Chapter 6 (Fountain)
  • Chapter 7 (Fountain)
  • Chapter 8 (Fountain)
  • Chapter 9 (Fountain)
  • Chapter 10 (Fountain)
  • Chapter 11 (Fountain)
  • Chapter 12 (Fountain)
  • Chapter 13 (Fountain)
  • Chapter 14 (Fountain)
  • Chapter 15 (Fountain)
  • Chapter 16 (Fountain)
  • Chapter 17 (Fountain)
  • Fountain Biography (Carbon) (In 8½ x 11 box)

Box 21-A.J. Fountain Book

  • Original Manuscript (Pages tied with twine) 
  • Signatures

Collection Inventory

Box 22-A.J. Fountain Biography

  • Galleys
  • Page Proofs

Box 23

  • Long, Grace. The Anglo-American Occupation of the El Paso District. Unpub. MA Thesis, University of Texas, 1931. (In box 8½ x 11)

Box 24

  • History of Oklahoma Manuscripts

Box 25

  • History of Oklahoma Manuscripts II

Box 26 - History of Oklahoma Manuscripts

  • Chapter One
  • Chapter Two
  • Chapter Three
  • Chapter Four
  • Chapter Five
  • Chapter Six
  • Chapter Seven
  • Chapter Eight
  • Chapter Nine
  • Chapter Ten
  • Chapter Eleven
  • Chapter Twelve
  • Chapter Thirteen
  • Chapter Fourteen
  • Chapter Fifteen & Sixteen
  • Chapter Seventeen
  • Chapter Eighteen
  • Chapter Nineteen
  • Chapter Twenty

Box 27 – History of Oklahoma: Correspondence, Galleys, Page Proofs

  • Page Proofs
  • Autographing Party-Oklahoma History
  • Guest Book for Autographing Party
  • Galleys

Box 28- Oklahoma History

  • (High School Text) Revision
  • Pages tied with twine with written 

Box 29-Oklahoma History

  • (High School Text) Revision
  • Galleys (tied in bundle)
  • Manuscript (tied)
  • Page Proofs (tied)

Box 30

  • Harlow’s Oklahoma History (In two red-rope containers)

Box 31 – Fort Smith Book Research Materials

  • Maps
  • Red-rope folder containing Manuscript
  • Illustrations
  • Binders:
    • Fort Smith serves general Mcculloch as a supply depot 1861
    • The Army of the west abandons Fort Smith 1862
    • The Federals raid Van Buren and threaten Fort Smith 1862
    • General William Steele fights to hold onto northwest Arkansas 1863
    • Blunt invades the Choctaw nation and captures Fort Smith 1863
    • The Indian Territory confederates recover the initiative
    • Fort Smith is a bone of contention between the federal generals
    • The confederates put the squeeze on Fort Smith
    • General Cooper and the Indian Territory confederates threaten Fort Smith
    • The Great Cabin Creek Raid
  • Post Returns 1818-1822
  • Appendices
  • Fort Smith – Traders, Sutlers

Box 32 – Fort Smith Book Research Materials

  • Pictures-Fort Smith, Arkansas in 1821
  • Galley
  • Binders-Typescript:
    • Fort Smith I
    • Fort Smith II
    • Captain Stuart struggles with the freebooters
    • Fort Smith as the agency for the western Choctaws
    • Book 3-Fort Smith 1838-1871
    • Synopsis – Law enforcement at Fort Smith 1871-1896
    • General Bussey takes over at Fort Smith
    • The federals struggle to hold on to Fort Smith
    • Fort Smith 1838-1871 Civil War Book 5
  • Buildings, Supplies, land
    • Fort Smith
  • Fort Smith
  • Fort Smith-Drawings, sketches, plans
  • 2 unlabeled folders of notes and maps

Box 33- Fort Smith Book Research Materials
(Original Manuscript, corrected Manuscript)

  • Corrected Mss. Fort Smith (in box 8½ x 11)
  • Unlabeled folder of notes and maps
  • Belle Point – Chapter 1
  • War Drums on the Verdigris – Chapter 2
  • Chapter 3 – Fort Smith’s New Garrison
  • Chapter 4 – Little Gibraltar on the Arkansas
  • Chapter 5- Fort Smith in the Interim
  • The White Lightin’ War – Chapter Six
  • Chapter Seven – The Belle Point Phoeniz
  • Chapter Eight – The Citizens’ War at Fort Smith
  • Chapter Nine-Portals of Croesus
  • Chapter Ten-Mother Post for the Southwest
  • Fort Smith and the War of Rebellion a Confederate Post-Chapter Eleven
  • Fort Smith and the War of the Rebellion a union post- Chapter Twelve
  • Chapter Thirteen

Collection Inventory

Box 34-Chickasaw Materials

  • 1866-1900 (4 Folders)

Box 35-Chickasaw Materials

  • 1866-1900 (3 folders)
  • Chickasaw Bibliography

Box 36-Chickasaw Materials

  • Chapter Twelve
  • 1866-1900

Box 37-Chickasaw Materials

  • 1866-1900 (3 folders)

Box 38-Chickasaw Materials

  • Pre-Removal (4 folders)

Box 39-Chickasaw Materials

  • Pre-Removal
  • Removal (3 folders)

Box 40-Chickasaw Materials

  • 1837-1861 (3 folders)

Box 41-Chickasaw Materials

  • Post – Removal
  • 1866-1900
  • Civil War & Recon.

Box 42-Chickasaw Materials

  • Post 1865
  • Civil War & Reconstruction
  • 1866 Treaties
  • 1866-1900

Box 43-Chickasaw Materials

  • The Southern Indians in Oklahoma, 1808-1860, by Mabel Alcy Ranck, A.B. 1920
  • MA Thesis from University of California, 1926
  • 1866-1900
  • Chickasaw Sources I.L.L.
  • PreRemoval (2 folders)
  • Chickasaw Bibliography Cards

Box 44-Chickasaw Materials

  • PreRemoval (4 folders)
  • Southeastern Cultures-A Comparative Study – Lyda. A. Paz (MA Thesis)
  • Indian Trade in the Old South (MA thesis)

Box 45-Chickasaw Materials

  • PreRemoval (3 folders, 1 tied bundle)

Box 46-Chickasaw Materials

  • PreRemoval (4 folders, 1 tied package)

Box 47-Chickasaw Materials

  • PreRemoval (5 folders)

Box 48-Chickasaw Materials

  • PreRemoval (4 folders)

Box 49-Chickasaw Materials

  • PreRemoval (3 folders)

 

Collection Inventory

Box 50-Chickasaw Manuscripts

  • Chapter 1 Pages 1 through 46
  • Chapter 2 Pages 47-thru 91
  • Chapter 3 Pages 92 thru 128
  • Chapter 4 Pages 129 thru 171
  • Chapter 5 Pages 172 thru 192
  • Chapter 6 Pages 193 thru 221
  • Chapter Seven
  • Chapter 8 Pages 249 thru 275

Box 51-Chickasaw Manuscripts

  • Chapter 9 Pages 276 thru 303
  • Chapter 10 Page 304 through 328
  • Chapter 11 Pages 329 through 361
  • Chapter 12 Pages 362 thru 396
  • Chapter 13
  • Chapter 13 Sources

Box 52

  • Civil War Centennial Clippings
  • Civil War Centennial – 1965
  • Civil War Centennial – 1961
  • Civil War Centennial- 1962
  • Civil War Centennial – 1963
  • Civil War Centennial – 1964
  • Oklahoma Civil War Centennial Commission

Box 53-Manuscripts for Articles

  • Chickasaw Ms.
    • Sooner Magazine
  • Ranching on the Southern Plains
  • Prehistory in Oklahoma
  • Crowell-Collier Encyclopedia Article
  • Southern Hist. Assn. Paper
  • Columbia University Project

Box 54-Professional Files- University of Oklahoma

  • Ms. Conference – Austin, Texas Oct/64
  • Manuscripts Management Conference
  • Gen. Soc. Short Course
  • Historical Society Conference
  • Southwestern Library Association- Book Award
  • Cowboy Hall of Fame
  • Western. Hist. Meeting
  • Library Research Committee – Report
  • Museum Conference
  • Cowboy Hall of Fame Committee

Box 55-Professional Files

  • BLS
  • Athletic Council – 1962
  • Athletic Council – 1963
  • Athletic Council – 1964
  • Athletic Council – 1965
  • World’s Fair – New York
  • Faculty Research
  • University Senate

Box 56

  • Speech-A regional History Collection
  • Library Reports & Minutes
  • Medicine Show
  • Medicine Show Material
  • Medicine Show Article Correspondence
  • Medicine Show Material (2)

Box 57

  • TV Series – Program Outlines
  • Radio & TV – 1969
  • Colonial Dames Speech
  • Genealogical Society Speech
  • Div. of Ms. Speech
  • Heritage Speech
  • Speech Material (2 folders)
  • Speeches
  • Speech Manuscript

Box 58- Speech Manuscripts Television Manuscripts

  • Speech Material
  • Speech Manuscripts
  • Legacy of Pride Speech
  • OLA Speech – April 24, 1964
  • Manila envelope – Oklahoma Government Newspaper article
  • The Wild West
  • A Day in the Life of the Pioneer Woman (Sorosis Speech)
  • The Indian Heritage and the Western Culture
  • Commencement Address – University High School
  • Social Sciences Speech
  • TV Series Speech (summer, 1966)
  • Historic Trails TV Series
  • Wewoka Chief
  • Campfire Girls Conference – 1965
  • Writers Short Course Speech
  • TV Program
  • Speech on Modern Careers
  • Stillwater Speech

Box 59

  • Duke Foundation
  • O.U. Press Article- Journal of the West
  • Graduate Students Complaint Committee
  • TV Series-Scripts
    • Southwestern Military Frontier- Taped Jan-Mar./68-17 shows
  • Original Ms. for America’s Frontier Heritage
  • Dust Bowl – Ency. Americana Article
  • Article for American Peoples Encyclopedia
  • Indian Territory Article – Grolier Ency.
  • Oklahoma Historical Society
    • Board of Directors – 1968
  • Oklahoma Historical Society
    • Board of Directors – 1969
  • Writers’ Conference Speech
  • Speech Ms. – Cleveland County Before 1889
  • Great Plains Proposal
  • Civil War Bibliography
  • BLS Seminar
  • BLS-Inter-area Seminar
    • Summer, 1968

 

 

Collection Inventory

Box 60

  • Dr. Hollomon’s Committee
  • Human Relations Center
  • Museum Curator
  • Oral History
  • Committee A
  • Am. Ass. State and Local History
  • Consultant – Chickasaw Historical Society
  • Graduate Standards Committee – 1967-68
  • Graduate Standards Committee
  • GSC – Action File
  • Graduate Standards Committee – History Dept.

Box 61- Oklahoma Westerners 1962-69

  • Oklahoma Corral of Westerners 1962
  • Oklahoma Corral of Westerners 1963
  • Oklahoma Corral of Westerners 1964
  • Oklahoma Westerners – 1965
  • Oklahoma Westerners – 1966
  • Oklahoma Westerners – 1967
  • Oklahoma Westerners – 1968
  • Oklahoma Westerners – 1969

Box 62 Personal Papers

  • Personal Papers 1958 (2 folders)
  • Personal Papers, Newspaper Clippings, etc.
  • A preview to the 50th Anniversary Phillipian
  • Card Case
  • Cards
  • Season ticket book for basketball

Box 63

  • Personal Papers – 1959
  • Personal Papers (3 folders)
  • Family photographs
  • Annual Progress Reports to North Central Association of College and Secondary Schools Committee on Liberal Arts Education, May, 1955 (Brown binder)

Box 64

  • Research Correspondence – Pre 1958
  • Research Correspondence 1957
  • Research Correspondence 1958
  • Research Correspondence 1959 (2 folders)
  • Research Correspondence 1960 (2 folders)
  • Research Correspondence 1961
  • Research Correspondence 1962

Box 65

  • Personal Correspondence Pre-1955
  • Personal Correspondence 1956
  • Personal Correspondence 1957 (2 folders)
  • Personal Correspondence January, 1958
  • Personal Correspondence February, 1958
  • Personal Correspondence March, 1958
  • Personal Correspondence April, 1958
  • Personal Correspondence May, 1958
  • Personal Correspondence June, 1958
  • Personal Correspondence July, 1958
  • Personal Correspondence August, 1958
  • Personal Correspondence September, 1958
  • Personal Correspondence October, 1958
  • Personal Correspondence November, 1958
  • Personal Correspondence December, 1958

Box 66

  • Personal Correspondence, January 1959
  • Personal Correspondence, February 1959
  • Personal Correspondence, March 1959
  • Personal Correspondence, April 1959
  • Personal Correspondence, May 1959

Box 67

  • Personal Correspondence 1959 (4 folders)

Box 68

  • Personal Correspondence 1960
  • Personal Correspondence 1961
  • Personal Correspondence 1962
  • Personal Correspondence 1963
  • Personal Correspondence 1964

Box 69

  • Personal Correspondence (3 folders) 1965-66

Box 70

  • Personal Correspondence 1968 (2 folders)
  • Personal Correspondence 1967

Box 71

  • Personal Correspondence 1969-70 (2 folders)

Collection Inventory

Box 72

  • Fort Smith Manuscripts-Press copy

Box 73 Chickasaw book-Rough Draft

  • Chickasaws
  • Chapter One
  • Chapter Two
  • Chapter Three

Box 74 Chickasaw book- Rough draft

  • Chapter Four
  • Chapter Five
  • Chapter Six
  • Chapter Seven
  • Chapter Eight

Box 75 Chickasaw book – Rough draft

  • Chapter Nine
  • Chapter Ten
  • Chapter Eleven
  • Chapter Twelve
  • Chapter Thirteen

Box 76

  • Personal Correspondence 1982

Box 77

  • Personal Correspondence 1982

Box 78

  • O.H.S. – (Okla. Hist. Society) 1982
  • O.H.A. – (Okla. Heritage Assoc.) 1982
  • Diamond Jubilee Speakers Bureau 1982
  • Presidential Search Comm. 1982

Box 79

  • S.H.A. Program 1982
  • Faculty Senate 1980-82
  • Distinguished Senice Citation 1982
  • (Nomination Letters Enclosed) 1978

Box 80

  • Stoval Museum 1980-82
  • Personal Clippings 1971-81

Box Minor 80-A

  • Notes

Box 81

  • Literary Galleys Page Proof

Box 82

  • Pacific Basin Material

Box 83

  • Pacific Basin 2

Box 84

  • Personal Correspondence 1983-85

Box 85

  • Sante Fe- Taos Materials

Box 86

  • Assorted-Mining, Hawaii, Sabbatical

 

Collection Inventory

Box 87

  • Personal Correspondence and Papers 1983-84

Box 88

  • Literacy Manuscripts
  • Wilderness Bonanza
  • Labor History
  • Tri State Area

Box 89

  • Literary Ms.

Box 90

  • Oklahoma Data File

Box 91

  • Royal Kipling Materials

Box 92

  • Fort Smith Book (Second Society Materials)
  • The Oklahoma Story (Revised Ms. – Edited Ms.)
  • Oklahoma Historical Society
  • Oklahoma Heritage Asan
  • Santa Fe Taos Materials

Box 93

  • Advisory Council Museum of the Great Plains
  • Library Reports and Minutes
  • A.H.A.- Eval Committee
  • W.H.A. – Program Papers 1974
  • Literary Manuscripts Introduction (Frys Overland Guide)
  • Educational Film Strip (Scripts Oklahoma)
  • Choctaw Nation (Sooner Magazine)
  • O.L.A. Article

Box 94

  • Oklahoma Politics 1964-70

Box 95

  • Santa Fe Taos

Box 96

  • Graduate Faculty
  • Sabbatical Leave
  • President’s Office
  • Curator of History
  • Stovall Museum
  • Stovall Museum Planning Committee
  • General Faculty
  • University Senate
  • Oklahoma Westerness
  • Oklahoma Historical Society-Board of Directors
  • College of Liberal Studies
  • T.S.H.A. 1972
  • Council on Instruction
  • A.A.U.P.
  • Frick Case
  • Phi Alpha Theta

Box 97

  • American Indian; Prehistory to the Present (Illustration Materials)
  • Photos

Box 98

  • Oklahoma File 1800-1940
  • Oklahoma Politics 1889-1964
  • Oklahoma Politics 1966
  • Oklahoma Historical Society 1973
  • Oklahoma Historical Society 1974

Box 99

  • Indians

Box 100

  • Museum Curriculum
  • Personal Correspondence 1974-76

Box 101

  • Museum Curriculum
  • Chinese position Search Committee
  • O.V. Press Director Search Committee 1981
  • All Stars University Speech
  • Personal Correspondence 1981
  • Personal Correspondence 2 1981
  • Blue Cord
  • Book Reviews
  • Personal Correspondence 3 1981
  • Oklahoma Heritage Assn 1981
  • Personal Correspondence 4 1981
  • O.H.S. (Oklahoma Historical Review) 1981
  • Scholar Leadership Seminar N. Scoff Momaday
  • Honolulu Program 1978
  • Council on Faculty Awards and Honors
  • Chickasaw Nation Project

Collection Inventory

Box 102

  • Personal Clippings
  • Southwestern Library Assn Grant Papers 1975
  • Native American Research Center Proposal
  • Distinguished Service Awards Committee Papers
  • Southern Historical Assn Program Committee Papers 1977
  • Organization of American Histories Program Committee Papers 1977
  • University of New Mexico Appointment 1975
  • Arizona State University Appointment 1973
  • A.A.S.L.A. Award Wilderness Bonanza
  • Arizona and the West
  • Editorial Board
  • Oklahoma Board of Geographic Names
  • University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee Evaluation 1977
  • University of Southern Mississippi Evaluation 1975
  • W.H.A. Program Materials 1978
  • Oklahoma Historical Society Proceedings
  • A.S.U. Speech
  • Oklahoma Heritage Association

Box 103

  • Oklahoma and Southwest Materials

Box 104

  • Personal Correspondence 1984
  • Professional Files
  • Personal Correspondence 2
  • Speech Ms.

Box 105

  • American Indian: Prehistory to the Present
  • Final Ms. Copy
  • Personal Correspondence

Box 106

  • Literary Ms.

Box 107

  • Literary Ms.

Box 108

  • Indian Materials
  • Miscellaneous Files

Box 109

  • Personal Correspondence 1978
  • O.H.S. 1979
  • Personal Correspondence 1979-80

Box 110

  • Cherokee Nation Papers
  • Stand Watie
  • Personal Correspondence 1977
  • Faculty Senate
  • Stonal Museum
  • A.A.U.P.

Box 111

  • Literary Ms.

Box 112

  • The Gibson Papers on Santa Fe
  • SF-T Photos (Indians)
  • Gibson Illustrations
  • Various Photos of Indians, Old Timers, and Letters from and to Gibson

Box 113

  • Misc. Class materials and manuscripts

Box 114

  • Taxes, bills, newspaper clippings, class dissertations

Box 115

  • Exams, manuscripts, outlines, copies of class materials

 

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