Some 'Con-Con'-Pre-State Facts, undated

Item — Box: 5, Folder: 29

Identifier: CAC_CC_041_1_5_29_0016

Staff Only

7 typed legal-sized pages on early Oklahoma history that critiques a book, First Administration of Oklahoma. Pages note the formation of the Oklahoma Territory starting in 1889 with the first (of 7) land runs but esp. notes the drafting of the state’s constitution at the “Con-Con” (the state’s Constitutional Convention, as Murray and other delegates called it) leading to official statehood in 1907. Corresponds to the Memoirs, Book V, Ch. P. “Campaign for Governor 1910; The Flag Incident; the Count-Out; Sound Maxims,” in volume II, pp. 153 - 160 (§§ 243 - 248).