Anne Hodges Morgan - Oklahoma: New Views of the Forty-Sixth State
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Oklahoma: new views of the forty-sixth state.
Includes index. 1. OklahomaHistoryAddresses, essays, lectures. I. Morgan, Anne Hodges, 1940-. II. Morgan, H. Wayne (Howard Wayne) F694.5.038 1982976.682-40327 AACR2
Copyright 1982 by the University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Publishing Division of the University of Oklahoma. Manufactured in the U.S.A. First edition.
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To JOE W. HATCHER Whose interest and support made this book possible
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Contents
Preface
ix
I Stages of Development in Oklahoma History
Jerome O. Steffen
3
II The People of Oklahoma: Economics and Social Change
Douglas Hale
31
III Pioneers and Survivors: Oklahoma's Landless Farmers
Sheila Manes
93
IV Oklahoma Politics and the Sooner Electorate
Danney Goble
133
V Oklahoma in Literature
Anne Hodges Morgan
175
VI Oklahoma's Story: Recording the History of the Forty-sixth State
Rennard Strickland
205
Notes
265
Contributors
301
Index
303
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Preface
This collection of original essays is designed to set the history of Oklahoma in regional and national contexts. In many cases the authors also compare developments in the state to those in other countries. Each essay is a discrete entity capable of standing alone in dealing with its subject. But all the authors share the aim of seeing how events and processes in this state both resembled and differed from similar happenings elsewhere. This book is in no sense a history of Oklahoma but is designed to suggest new departures in thinking about the state and about regional history in general.
The history of Oklahoma offers many opportunities to recast traditional categories and approaches. The state has a unique ethnic composition, involving members of over sixty Indian tribes, Europeans, Hispanics, and native-born elements drawn from both northern and southern cultures. Oklahoma has accommodated several kinds of agriculture, including small-scale cotton growing of the sort found in the Deep South, large-scale wheat farming like that of the Plains region, and cattle raising in classic patterns. The development of oil, gas, coal, and other mineral resources has produced special kinds of economic problems and unusual interactions among social groups with differing values. The state's politics should interest students of politics in general. Oklahoma entered the Union as the most "progressive" state to that date, its constitution and the tone of its electorate reflecting nearly every reform proposal that agitated the people of the United States. In due course, it became a conservative one-party system, but at the same time the state produced a Socialist movement. Study of this progression reveals a great deal about changing political aspirations and how they reflect larger social values.
Oklahoma's story is also important in gaining an understanding of regionalism in the United States. Both geography and a varied population have made the state a crossroads of ideas and aspirations. A generation or two ago it figured in a strong concern for
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Plains and Southwestern culture that resembled the pride of place of the South and of historic New England. A focus on national and world developments in recent decades has reduced interest in regional variety and comparisons. But that pattern is changing as more and more people hope to avoid homogenization in a bland national culture and seek personal identity within more intimate traditions. Oklahoma has a good deal to say to students of regionalism.
Oklahoma's story is important both for its intrinsic interests and for purposes of comparison. If these essays spark interest in the best kind of local history, their authors will be satisfied.
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. II. Morgan, H. Wayne (Howard Wayne)