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Women in Oklahoma History
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Women in Oklahoma History
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May Lillie was a sharpshooter, expert rider, and co-owner of a Wild West Show with her husband, Pawnee Bill. Learn more at the
Pawnee Bill Ranch and Museum in Pawnee.
Amanda (shown here) and Minerva Murrell were both mistresses of Hunter’s Home. Find out about their lives, and the lives of the plantation’s enslaved women at
Hunter’s Home in Park Hill.
The Pioneer Woman Museum and Statue in Ponca City is dedicated to the enduring spirit of women—past, present, and future—who see no boundaries. Learn more at the
Pioneer Woman Museum.
Civic Leaders, Educators, Politicians, and Trailblazers
Read about their incredible contributions in
The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture
Drusilla Dunjee Houston, Kate Biggers, Kate Barnard
Territorial Era and Early Oklahoma
Kate Barnard
Mabel Bassett
Kate H. Biggers
Winnie Branstetter
Judith Carter
Isabel Cobb
Alice Brown Davis
Cora Victoria Diehl
Julia Douglas
Abbie B. Hillerman
Drusilla Dunjee Houston
Annette Ross Hume
Roberta E. Lawson
Lilah Denton Lindsey
Lamar Looney
Blanche Lucas
Bessie McColgin
Jane McCurtain
Myrtle McDougal
Carry Nation
Kate Richards O’Hare
Lola Clark Pearson
Alice Robertson
Sanapia (Mary Poafpybitty)
Winonah Sanger
Lola Scott
Sallie Sturgeon
Frances Threadgill
Clara Wilbanks Waters
LaDonna Harris
The 20th Century and Beyond
Hannah Atkins
Stephanie Bice
Shirley Bellmon
Molly Shi Boren
Ruth Muskrat Bronson
Jeannette Edmondson
Shirley Darrell
Nancy Randolph Davis
Mary Fallin
Lelia Foley-Davis
Edith Kinney Gaylord
Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher
LaDonna Harris
Anita Hill
Kendra Horn
Jeane Kirkpatrick
Patience Latting
Clara Luper
Wilma Mankiller
Perle Mesta
Vicki Miles-LaGrange
Cleta Mitchell
Willie Murray
Mary Golda Ross
Eula Pearl Carter Scott
Juanita Kidd Stout
Elizabeth Warren
Gladys Warren
Alma Wilson
Dora Young
Jerrie Cobb
Exploring the Skies
Jerrie Cobb
Shannon Lucid
Mary Golda Ross
Eula Pearl Carter Scott
Donna Shirley
Ninety-Nines
Civil Rights Leaders
Drusilla Dunjee Houston
Clara Luper
Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher
“The Good Fight,”
Crossroads
online publication
Hear firsthand accounts of Oklahoma’s sit-in movement and its leader—Clara Luper—from two women who were there.
Arts, History, and Culture
Learn more in these articles from
The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture
Joan Hill
Artists
Mary Blair
Louise Fluke
Joan Hill
Vanessa Paukeigope Santos Jennings
Ruthe Blalock Jones
Edith Mahier
Augusta Metcalfe
Adah Robinson
Nannine Sheets
Nellie Ellen Shepherd
Lois Smoky
Shirley Thompson-Smith
Writers and Historians
Rilla Askew
Sanora Babb
Ruth Margaret Muskrat Bronson
Sophia Callahan
Helen Churchill Candee
C. J. Cherryh
Czarina Colbert Conlan
Angie Debo
Rachel Caroline Eaton
Carolyn Foreman
Joy Harjo
Carolyn Hart
S. E. Hinton
Billie Letts
Alice Marriott
Jennie Harris Oliver
Joyce Carol Thomas
Zoe Tilghman
Muriel Wright
Maria Tallchief
Actors and Performers
Louise Allbritton
Ataloa (Mary Stone McLendon)
Margaret Jo Avery
Nellie Bly Baker O'Bryan
Kristin Chenoweth
Yvonne Chouteau
Joan Crawford
Glenda Farrell
Kay Francis
Alice Ghostley
Rosella Hightower
Rochelle Hudson
Jennifer Jones
Darla Jean Hood
Moscelyne Larkin
Barbara Lawrence
Rue McClanahan
Reba McEntire
Vera June Miles
Lucille Mulhall
Cathy O’Donnell
Mary Kay Place
Maria Tallchief
Marjorie Tallchief
Te Ata
Pamela Tiffin
Alfre Woodard
Leona Mitchell, Wanda Jackson, and Tessie Mobley
Musicians
Mae Boren Axton
Anita Bryant
Kristin Chenoweth
Collins Kids
Agnes Cunningham
Dinning Sisters
Wanda Jackson
Reba McEntire
Leona Mitchell
Willie Murray
Tessie Mobley
Patti Page
Gayla Peevey
Mary Kay Place
Jean Shepard
Kay Starr
“Uncle” Wallace and “Aunt” Minerva Willis
“‘Anything You Can Do’:
American Cowgirl Lucille Mulhall,”
Crossroads
online publication
Learn about the evolution of women’s roles in the West and the birth of the American cowgirl.
Women’s Suffrage
Individuals
Kate Barnard
Kate H. Biggers
Winnie Branstetter
Cora Diel
Aloysius Larch-Miller
Blanche Lucas
Alice Robertson
Frances Threadgill
Organizations and Topics
Anti-Suffrage Association
Equal Rights Amendment
League of Women Voters
National Woman’s Party
Oklahoma Woman
Oklahoma Woman’s Suffrage Association
Suffrage Amendment
Women
Manuscript Guides
Use our manuscript guides to discover the collections and materials in the OHS Manuscript Archives.
Women's Suffrage
(PDF)
Online Exhibit
Women’s Suffrage in Oklahoma:
This e-exhibit includes the story of suffrage in Oklahoma, activities for students, a glossary, and bibliography.
Traveling Exhibit from the Oklahoma History Center
Votes for Women: 100 Years of Women’s Suffrage
The Chronicles of Oklahoma
The summer 2020 issue includes “‘An Appeal to Reason’: Women’s Suffrage in Oklahoma and Indian Territories, 1890–1907” by Linda D. Wilson, “‘O. C. Woman Will Picket’: Kate C. Stafford and the National Woman’s Party” by Tally D. Fugate, “Women in Tribal Politics: The Sac and Fox Nation of Oklahoma” by Regina Slaughter Gordon, and Notes and Documents exploring resources about women’s suffrage and women in politics at the OHS Research Center.
“No Job for a Woman,”
Bernice Crockett, Vol. 61, No. 2 (Summer 1983)
Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places
Listing in the National Register of Historic Places is an honorific designation that provides recognition, limited protection, and, in some cases, financial incentives for these important properties. The
State Historic Preservation Office
identifies, evaluates and nominates properties for this special designation.
Use the links below to view the National Register listing for these historic properties, now available on the State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) website, OKSHPO-SHARE.
Bacone College Historic District, Muskogee
Mattie Beal House, Lawton
Blue Hawk Peak Ranch, Pawnee
Break O’Day Farm, Durham
Brockway Community Center, Oklahoma City
Cherokee Female Seminary, Tahlequah
Dobson Family House, Miami
Dwight Mission, Marble City
First Cherokee Female Seminary Site, Tahlequah
John and Mary Fuksa Farm, Bison
Golda’s Mill, Stilwell vicinity
International Temple Supreme Assembly Order of the Rainbow for Girls, McAlester
Oklahoma College for Women Historic District, Chickasha
Oklahoma County Home for Girls, Oklahoma City
Frank and Jane Phillips Home, Bartlesville
Pioneer Woman
statue, Ponca City
Rock Mary, Hinton vicinity
USPS Madill, Madill
USPS Watonga, Watonga
White Cloud Lodge, Perkins vicinity
Y Chapel of Song, Edmond
Zaneis School Teacher’s Dormitory, Healdton vicinity
Historical Markers
Historical markers across the state share the story of impactful people, locations, and events. Visit markers listed below relating to women, and explore more than 700 markers in our
historical marker database
Alice Robertson, Muskogee County
- Alice Robertson, a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, was Oklahoma's first female member of Congress, elected in 1920 from the Second Congressional District for one term. Located in Greenhill Cemetery in Muskogee (DAR).
Black Iron Fountain, Kay County
- The first watering fountain in Ponca City once stood near the Marland Estate stables. Louise Fluke, the designer of the Oklahoma state flag, repainted the reliefs on the fountain. Located at the intersection of Fourth Street and Grand Avenue in Ponca City (DAR).
Bloomfield Academy, Bryan County
- Bloomfield Academy, a seminary for Chickasaw girls, was established in 1853 by authority of the Methodist Missionary Board. Located on OK-299, one and a half miles south of Achille.
Carry A. Nation, Dewey County
- Carry Nation and her husband David lived in a log cabin on this site after the opening of the Cheyenne-Arapaho lands in 1892. After moving to Medicine Lodge, Kansas, in 1899, Nation began her famous crusade against liquor, including using a hatchet to smash saloons. Located on US-183 south of the intersection with US-60.
Emahaka Mission, Seminole County
- A school for Seminole girls was established in 1894. Alice Brown Davis, who later became first female chief of the Seminole, was the superintendent in 1908. The school was abandoned in 1914. Located five miles south of Wewoka at the intersection of US-270 and State-56.
Emet, Johnston County
- One of the first towns established in Johnston County, Emet originated when the Chickasaw Council House was moved from Boggy Depot to this area, two miles east of the Pleasant Grove Mission in the early 1850s. The Pleasant Grove Mission School was established by the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1844 to serve the children of the Chickasaws. Located Chickasaw White House.
Fairfield Mission, Adair County
- The mission building was completed in 1829 by Dr. Marcus Palmer, a missionary to the Cherokees. The mission stood in a grove of large trees a few hundred feet east of the cemetery now known as McLemore Cemetery. Noted missionaries and teachers at the mission included Elizur Butler, Charles C. Torrey, Clarissa Palmer, Lucy Butler, and Esther Smith. A circulation library, possibly the state's first, was established at the mission in 1832. Located at the junction of OK-100 and US-59 on the south edge of Stilwell.
First Library, Logan County
- This is the first Carnegie Library in Oklahoma. The 1907 mock wedding of Miss Indian Territory and Mr. Oklahoma Territory was here, and the first state flag was made here by 90 Oklahoma women on June 16, 1908. Located at North Ash Street and East Oklahoma Avenue in Guthrie.
Garland Cemetery, McCurtain County
- This cemetery was the family burying ground for prominent Choctaws. Chief Samuel Garland established a plantation here after his arrival on the Trail of Tears in the 1830s. Buried here are Chief Garland and his mother-in-law, Sophia Pitchlynn, who was the mother of Choctaw Chief Peter Pitchlynn. Located on OK-3, three miles west of the Oklahoma–Arkansas border.
Kunc Family Homestead/Bradbury Corner Historical Marker, Oklahoma County
- James and Katherine Kunc and son William made the run and homesteaded a quarter section on the southwest corner of Second and Sooner on April 22, 1889. In 1923 Everett Bradbury purchased one acre of land on the northeast corner of the homestead and established a campground and filling station. This intersection was the junction of US Highway 66 and US Highway 77 and became known as Bradbury Corner. Located on Second Street at the entrance to Holiday Inn Express.
Louise Fluke Memorial, Pottawatomie County
- Louise Funk Fluke, designer of the state flag of Oklahoma, was born in Arkansas and raised in Shawnee. She entered the winning flag design in a statewide contest in 1925 through the Wunagisa Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution. Located at 614 East Main, Shawnee.
Millie Durgan, Kiowa County
- Millie Durgan was 18 months old when she was captured by Kiowa people in the Elm Creek Raid in north Texas in 1864. She was adopted by the Kiowa and later married a Kiowa man. Located at the intersection of OK-9 and OK-115, one mile east of Mountain View.
Muriel H. Wright, Atoka County
- Muriel Hazel Wright was born in Lehigh, Choctaw Nation, in 1889. During her 47 years with the Oklahoma Historical Society she held many positions including editor of
The Chronicles of Oklahoma
. Other works include
Oklahoma: A History of the State and Its People
The Story Of Oklahoma
Our Oklahoma
A Guide to the Indian Tribes of Oklahoma
The Oklahoma History
, and
Civil War Sites in Oklahoma
. Located on grounds of Boggy Depot Cemetery in Boggy Depot Park.
Nuyaka Mission, Okmulgee County
- Through the efforts of educator Alice Robertson, who also served as Oklahoma’s first woman member of Congress, the mission was established by the Presbyterian Board and the Muscogee (Creek) Nation in 1882. Robertson also founded Henry Kendall College, which became the University of Tulsa. Located on OK-56, nine miles west of Okmulgee.
Oklahoma City DAR Chapter, Oklahoma County
- The Oklahoma City Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution was organized in 1904 in the home of Mrs. Robert Carpenter. Located at 212 Northwest 15th Street in Oklahoma City (DAR).
Pine Ridge Mission, Choctaw County
- Presbyterian minister Reverend Cyrus Kingsbury established the Pine Ridge Mission in 1836. The Choctaw Council established a school for girls, Chuahla Female Seminary, at the mission in 1842, which Kingsbury supervised. The school was closed during the Civil War. Located on east side of Red Road 1/2 mile north of Doaksville/Fort Towson Cemetery.
Post Office at Loretta, Texas County
- Texhoma was originally called Loretta after Loretta Cain, the first postmaster. The town’s name was changed in 1902. Located on US-54 on the east side of Texhoma.)
Red Wheat Allotment, Custer County
- Prior to the Cheyenne and Arapaho Reservation land run of April 19, 1892, this quarter-section of land was allotted to a Cheyenne woman named Red Wheat. Mennonite emigrants from Russia introduced ‘Turkey red’ winter wheat to northwest Oklahoma. Located on OK-66 at the east edge of Clinton.
Sophia Folsom Pitchlynn, McCurtain County
- In this cemetery is the grave of Sophia Folsom Pitchlynn, wife of Major John Pitchlynn, who served under General George Washington in the Revolutionary War. Located in Garland Cemetery near the town of Tom (DAR).
St. Louis School, Osage County
- This Osage girls school was founded in 1887 by Mother Mary Katharine Drexel, a Philadelphia heiress who entered a convent as a young woman and used her fortune to support educational institutions across the southern US and the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions. The school’s original frame building burned in 1889 and was replaced by a four-story stone building. In 2000 Mother Katharine was named a saint by Pope John Paul II. Located just off US-60 south and west of Clear Creek Bridge in Pawhuska.
Stella Friends Academy, Alfalfa County
- A group of Quakers settled this part of the Cherokee Outlet in 1893. A primary school opened in a sod house and was named for the first teacher, Stella Howard. Within four years a high school was built. The school closed in 1922 after railroad expansion brought new towns and free schools into the area. Located on OK-11, two miles east of the junction with US-64, north of Cherokee.
Tullahassee Mission, Wagoner County
- Tullahassee was established as a Creek mission by Presbyterian Reverend R. M. Loughridge in 1848. Alice Robertson, later Oklahoma's first congresswoman, was born here. Located on US-69, 1/4 mile north of Arkansas River.
Tuskegee Baptist Church
- McIntosh County
- Annie Walker Armstrong was corresponding secretary of the Woman’s Missionary Union of the Southern Baptist Convention which sent missionaries to the area. The church was founded here in 1867. Nearby is another marker that notes the rock that Armstrong used to mount her horse during a visit to the church in 1900. Located at the intersection of OK-9 and NS-411 (OBHC))
Wheelock Academy, McCurtain County
- This boarding school for Choctaw orphan girls was completed in 1884 northeast of the Wheelock Church. Five of the buildings survived and are being restored by the Choctaw Nation. Located on US-70, one and a half miles east of Millerton.
Tvshka Homma Female Institute, Pushmataha County
- The Tvshka Homma Female Institute opened in 1892. A post office, known as “Lyceum,” opened at the school with Nellie Wakefield as postmistress. Later known as Tvshka Homma Academy, the facility continued to operate as a girls’ school until 1926, when it was accidentally destroyed by fire. Located on OK-2, approximately five miles north of Clayton.
Wynona, Osage County
- A post office was established in 1903 in Wynona. The name is a Sioux word meaning “first-born daughter.” Located on OK-99, eight miles south of Pawhuska.
Researching Women in Oklahoma History
The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture
The encyclopedia includes more than 2,600 entries about Oklahoma history and culture.
Anti-Suffrage Association
Business and Professional Women’s Clubs
Equal Rights Amendment
Governor’s Commission on the Status of Women
Harvey Girls
Home Demonstration Clubs
Land Runs, Women in
League of Women Voters
National Woman’s Party
Ninety-Nines
Oklahoma Federation of Women’s Clubs
Oklahoma Woman
Oklahoma Woman’s Suffrage Association
Pioneer Woman
Suffrage Amendment
WAVES
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
Women
Women and Work
Women and the World Wars
Women’s Club Movement
Women’s Emergency Relief
Women’s Legislative Council
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Search and view thousands of photographs, newspapers, documents, books, and records on our online repository.
Visit The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Online Catalog
To find out about books, manuscript collections, records, oral histories, film and video, newspapers, and other materials available in the OHS Research Center,
search the online catalog
Manuscript Guides
Equal Rights Amendment
(PDF)
Women’s Clubs
(PDF)
Women’s Suffrage
(PDF)
Voices of Oklahoma
OHS partner Voices of Oklahoma includes more than 200 interviews with both famous Oklahomans and citizens, covering topics such as business, politics, education, the arts, military, and many more.
Visit voicesofoklahoma.com
Women in Oklahoma: A Century of Change
(1979) Melvena K. Thurman, ed.
Read online
Download epub
Resources for Educators, Parents, and Students
Traveling Exhibits
Bring a traveling exhibit to your school, library, church, or local community center.
Votes for Women: 100 Years of Women’s Suffrage
Women of Oklahoma
E-Exhibit
Women’s Suffrage in Oklahoma
Women of Oklahoma trunk
Learn about the notable women of Oklahoma through activities and items that bring to life not only the stories of Oklahoma women, but how they have shaped the state and the nation.
View trunk contents description (PDF).
History Alive! Outreach
Book a virtual or in-person living history program to your classroom or organization.
Visit the History Alive! page for more information.
Teacher Resource Guides correlating to US History Academic Standards
USH.2.1 Evaluate the transformation of American society, economy and politics during the American Industrial Revolution.
D. Analyze major social reform movements including the Women's Suffrage and Temperance Movement and the leadership of Susan B. Anthony, Alice Paul, and Jane Addams.
USH.3.2 Evaluate the long-term impact of America's entry into World War I on national politics, the economy, and society.
B. Analyze the impact of the war on the home front including the use of propaganda, women's increased role in industry...
USH.5.1 Describe the transformations in American society and government policy as the nation mobilized for entry into World War II.
C. Examine President Franklin Roosevelt's Day Which Will Live in Infamy speech and America's conduct of the war, including the role of women and minorities in the war effort...
Audio and Video
A Very OK Podcast
“A Little Freedom is a Dangerous Thing,” August 2023
“A New State Flag,” April 2025
“The Five Moons,” March 2024
“Our Good Angel, Kate,” August 2022
“Votes for Women!,” February 2023
“Women in Broadcasting,” March 2021
Pawnee Bill Ranch Podcast
“May Lillie,” March 2013
The Clara Luper Show
Listen to select episodes on YouTube
This Land is Herland series
“Contested Notions of Equality”
(2020):
LaDonna Harris, Wanda Jo Peltier, and Mary Fallin
“The Fluidity of Power”
(2020):
Kate Barnard, Mattie Mallory, and Rachel Caroline Eaton
“The Gendered Politics of Civil Rights”
(2020):
Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher, Rosalyn Coleman Gilchrist, Barbara ‘Wahru’ Cleveland
The Chronicles of Oklahoma
Online
Articles from the Oklahoma Historical Society’s scholarly journal are now available on The Gateway to Oklahoma History, our online repository for Oklahoma history.
“Alice’s Restaurant: Expanding a Woman’s Sphere,”
Maitreyi Mazumdar, Vol. 70, No. 3 (Fall 1992)
“Ann Florence Wilson: Matriarch of the Cherokee Female Seminary,”
Devon Abbott, Vol. 67, No. 4 (Winter 1989–90)
“Cherokee National Female Seminary Principal Teacher Etta Jane Rider and Her Assistant Teachers, 1901–04,”
James G. McCullagh and James S. Davis, Vol. 96, No. 4 (Winter 2018–19)
“A Civil War Experience of Some Arkansas Women in Indian Territory,”
edited by LeRoy H. Fischer, Vol. 57, No. 2 (Summer 1979)
“Communists, Poetry, and Oklahoma History: The Life of Zoe Agnes Stratton Tilghman,”
Mallory Newell, Vol. 90, No. 2 (Summer 2012)
“‘Dear Miss Debo’: The Correspondence of E. E. Dale and Angie Debo,”
Richard Lowitt, Vol. 77, No. 4 (Winter 1999–2000)
“Diana, Tiana or Talihina? The Myth and the Mystery of Sam Houston’s Cherokee Wife,”
Stan Hoig, Vol. 64, No. 2 (Summer 1986)
“Edith Force Kassing: Scientist With a Gift for Teaching,”
John S. Tomer, Vol. 63, No. 4 (Winter 1985–1986)
“Emily Blanton Smith: Educator with Vision,”
Glyna Olson with Leo Kelley, Vol. 69, No. 3 (Fall 1991)
“‘Fortunate Enough and Plucky Enough’: The Unattached Women of the Cherokee Outlet,”
Debbie Kindt Michalke, Vol. 75, No. 1 (Spring 1997)
“Girl Scouting in Stillwater, Oklahoma: A Case Study in Local History,”
Lynda M. Sturdevant, Vol. 57, No. 1 (Spring 1979)
“Jerrie Cobb, Aviation Pioneer,”
Debbie Michalke, Vol. 73, No. 3 (Fall 1995)
“Kate Barnard: The Story of a Woman Politician,”
Linda Edmondson and Margaret Larason, Vol. 78, No. 2 (Summer 2000)
“Kate’s Quarter Section: A Woman in the Cherokee Strip,”
Henry Kilian Goetz, Vol. 61, No. 3 (Fall 1983)
“Mary Alice Hearrell Murray: A Chickasaw Girl in Indian Territory,”
Linda Williams Reese, Vol. 92, No. 4, (Winter 2014–15)
“Mary Rice Greenfield,”
Joyce Waggoner, Vol. 75, No. 2 (Summer 1997)
“Miss Edith Johnson: Pioneer Newspaper Woman,”
Naomi Taylor Casey, Vol. 60, No. 1 (Spring 1982)
“Mollie Shepherd, Indian Columnist,”
Carol J. Woitchek, Vol. 73, No. 2 (Summer 1995)
“Mrs. Oliver O. “Mamie” Hammonds: The ‘She-svengali’ of Oklahoma,”
Janel A. Mattingly, Vol. 77, No. 2 (Summer 1999)
“Myrtle Archer McDougal: Leader of Oklahoma’s ‘Timid Sisters,’”
Marilyn Hoder-Salmon, Vol. 60, No. 3 (Fall 1982)
“No Job for a Woman,”
Bernice Crockett, Vol. 61, No. 2 (Summer 1983)
“Planting the ‘Long-Rooted Grass’: The Eufaula Boarding School for Girls, 1910–1962,”
Linda Ford Wendel, Vol. 88, No. 4, (Winter 2010–11)
“Preaching in the ‘Open Air’: The Ministries of Early Pentecostal Women Preachers in Oklahoma,”
Kristen D. Welch, Vol. 88, No. 3 (Fall 2010)
“Preparing Women for the National Crisis: The Role of Oklahoma A&M College,”
Susan L. Allen, Vol. 69, No. 4 (Winter 1991–92)
“Rooted in the Plains: Oklahoma Women, Community, and the Dust Bowl,”
Shelly Lemons and Steven Knoche Kite, Vol. 93, No. 1 (Spring 2015)
“‘She Would Raise Hens to Aid War’: The Contributions of Oklahoma Women during World War I,”
Melanie Rich, Vol. 81, No. 3 (Fall 2003)
Twin Territories: The Indian Magazine
and Its Editor, Ora Eddleman Reed,”
Daryl Morrison, Vol. 60, No. 2 (Summer 1982)
“Unforgotten Trailblazer: Nancy O. Randolph Davis,”
Gloria J. Pollard, Vol. 90, No. 4 (Winter 2012–13)
“Vilona P. Cutler: Humanitarian, Activist, and Educator,”
Gregory N. Pierson, Vol. 90, No. 1 (Spring 2012)
“Wheelock Female Seminary, 1842–1861,”
Justin D. Murphy, Vol. 69, No. 1 (Spring 1991)
“‘Woman with a Hatchet’: Carry Nation Comes to Oklahoma Territory,”
Mary Ann Blochowiak, Vol. 59, No. 2 (Summer 1981)
“The YWCA’s Y-Chapel of Song and the Central Plate,”
Patrick H. Salkeld, Vol. 94, No. 1 (Spring 2016)
Oklahoma’s First Ladies
Lillian Gallup Haskell
Isabelle Butler Robertson
Madeline Orrick Walton
Lula Celia (Lou) Strang Trapp
Ethel Littleton Johnston
Amy Arnold Holloway
Mary Alice Hearrell Murray
Lyde (Lydie) Roberts Marland
Myrtle Ellenberger Phillips
Grayce Breene Kerr Flynn
Jessica Grimm Turner
Willie Emerson Murray
Emma Purser Gary
Jeannette Bartleson Edmondson
Shirley Osborn Bellmon
Ann Smith Bartlett Burke
Jo Evans Hall
Janna Little Boren Robbins
Molly Shi Boren
Donna Skinner Nigh
Rhonda Smith Walters
Catherine (Cathy) Heller Keating
Kimberley (Kim) Blain Henry
Sarah Hazen Stitt
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