Scope and Contents Collection contains correspondence, essays, speeches, news clippings, and reminiscence of the Battle of Ingalls, relating to Alfred Edwin Jarrell (1876-1959). Much of the material is concerned with Dr. B.B. Chapman’s project to write a history of OKlahoma A&M College/Oklahoma State University. Jarrell’s essays, including “The Founding of Oklahoma A. and M. College: A Memoir” (in OSU Vertical File), are characteristic of an 1890s literary style--meandering, generalized, and slow to get to...

Scope and Contents Collection consists primarily of books, manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, clippings, postcards, notes, newspapers, posters, lobby cards, artifacts and scrapbooks. A small collection of media contains phonograph records, movies on videotape and film, and radio serial programs. The scope of the collection includes numerous topics, or areas of interest. Among them are: the American West; the history of Northeastern Oklahoma, including various outlaws and lawmen; circuses and wild west...