Box 5
Container
Contains 457 Collections and/or Records:
List of Oklahoma Territorial Governors from 1890 to 1907.
Item — Box: 5, Folder: 29
Identifier: CAC_CC_041_1_5_29_0011
Scope and Contents
Typed page for the Memoirs, corresponding to Ch. B, "Campaigning in '36; Race "38; Crooked Primary Law; the Need," in Vol. III, p. 18 (§ 26). The published section has a few additional sentences at the end.
Indian Brave 'Tries-On' his Coffin just before Execution by T.B. Williams, undated
Item — Box: 5, Folder: 29
Identifier: CAC_CC_041_1_5_29_0012
Scope and Contents
Re: trial and execution of Timmie Jack. An excerpt of the history of the Creek Indians from Thomas Benton Williams, the author of The Soul of the Red Man (1937), even while the story here is not in this book.
Crazy Snake (Chitto Harjo) by T.B. Williams, undated
Item — Box: 5, Folder: 29
Identifier: CAC_CC_041_1_5_29_0013
Scope and Contents
Re: protest against allotment of Creek lands. A two-page typed account of the Creek Indian leader Crazy Snake (aka Chitto Harjo) by T. B. Williams, from an unidentified source. Crazy Snake does receive a brief mention in The Soul of the Red Man, pp. 97 - 98, but it does not conform to this typescript.
'Honest Harold' Ickes by T.B.Williams, 5/14/1947
Item — Box: 5, Folder: 29
Identifier: CAC_CC_041_1_5_29_0014
Scope and Contents
Two typed pages by T. B. Williams directing barbs toward Harold L. Ickes (1874 - 1952), Franklin Delano Roosevelt's, and very briefly, Harry S. Truman's, Secretary of the Interior (1933 - 1946). The second page includes a handwritten note by Williams to Murray: "Dear Governor[?], It is great sport for me to poke fun at New Dealers--serves no purpose I guess but I get it out of my system. Yours sincerely [?] TB Williams."
The Fix-It Committee by T.B.Williams, undated
Item — Box: 5, Folder: 29
Identifier: CAC_CC_041_1_5_29_0015
Scope and Contents
Two typed pages by T. B. Williams in less-than-veiled criticism of New Deal activism in government and the voters that put it there. Notes that such a "misgoverned country is fertile soil for Communism or any kind of 'ism'".
Some 'Con-Con'-Pre-State Facts, undated
Item — Box: 5, Folder: 29
Identifier: CAC_CC_041_1_5_29_0016
Scope and Contents
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...
Arnold, H.N., 10/28/1944
Item — Box: 5, Folder: 30
Identifier: CAC_CC_041_1_5_30_0001
Scope and Contents
A typed single-page letter from H.N. Arnold to William H. Murray purchasing a copy of the latter's Memoirs, refusing the discounted price (paying the full $21 instead of $15 advanced-order price) and noting Murray's sucessful eye operation.
Barton, T.H., Lion Oil Refining Company, to J.G.Puterbaugh, 9/27/1944
Item — Box: 5, Folder: 30
Identifier: CAC_CC_041_1_5_30_0002
Scope and Contents
A typed single page letter from T.H. Barton to J.C. [sic] Puterbaugh, of the McAlester Fuel Company, ordering William H. Murray's Memoirs asking Puterbaugh if he could get Murray to autograph one of the volumes. Notes enclosing a check for $15. Check stub from Lion Oil included. Barton types Puterbaugh's name incorrectly. it is Jay Garfield (so, "J. G." instead of "J.C.") Puterbaugh. And he misidentifies the location of Puterbaugh's company. It is in McAlester, Oklahoma rather...
Beckett, A.L., 9/21/1944
Item — Box: 5, Folder: 30
Identifier: CAC_CC_041_1_5_30_0003
Scope and Contents
A typed single-page letter from A.L. Beckett to William H. Murray ordering the latter's Memoirs for both himself and F.R. Henson. Beckett expresses hope the books will be published shortly. Notes enclosing two checks for $15 each.
Bellatti, Publisher, Stillwater Daily News Press, 9/27/1944
Item — Box: 5, Folder: 30
Identifier: CAC_CC_041_1_5_30_0004
Scope and Contents
A typed single-page letter from C.R. Bellatti to William H. Murray ordering the latter's Memoirs. Notes enclosing a check for $15.