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Department of Special Collections and University Archives
McFarlin Library. University of Tulsa.  2933 E. 6th St.  Tulsa, OK.  74104-3123 (OKT - OkTU)

Chapman-Barnard ranch oral history project

Collection 1994-001

Dates:  1991.

Extent:  (1 box).

Level of Description:  Folder level.

Name of creator(s):  James P. and Jeanne Ronda.

Date of creation:  1991.

Scope and Content:  Transcriptions and videotapes of interviews of a number of individuals connected with the Chapman-Barnard Ranch.

Administrative/Biographical History:  On March 21, 1991, James P. Ronda, Professor of History at the University of Tulsa, interviewed a number of individuals connected with the Chapman-Barnard Ranch near Pawhuska, Oklahoma, during the First Annual Cowboy Reunion at the Ranch. The interviews were videotaped and later transcribed.  Those interviewed were Dallas Poteet; Trig Meeks; Dink Talley; "Puny" Martin; Marvin Griffin; Oscar Wright; Andy Martin; June Finn; Lenora Meeks; Mildred Pearson Brown; "Raisins" Rhoads; Pauline Barham; Adary Hull; Frances Brooks; and Helen Christianson. Typed transcripts of the interviews were prepared by Jeanne Ronda.

Access and Copyright:  Open, with the signing of the Reader's Application form.

Language and Scripts:  English.

Finding aid/Inventory:  Finding aid is available online.

Provenance/Source of Acquisition:  The materials were organized and placed in the Department of Special Collections by James P. and Jeanne Ronda.

Date(s) of description:  Sidney F. Huttner, May 1995; rev. I. Marc Carlson, 2008.

Access Points:

Subject Headings
Oklahoma -- History
Oral history -- Archival resources.
Ranchers -- Oklahoma -- Interviews.
Ranch life.
Ranch life -- Oklahoma.

Personal names
Barham, Pauline
Brooks, Frances
Brown, Mildred Pearson
Christenson, Helen
Finn, June
Griffin, Marvin
Hull, Adary
Martin, Andy
Martin, Léon
Meeks, Lenora
Meeks, Trig
Poteet, Dallas
Rhoads, Cecil
Talley, Dink
Wright, Oscar

Corporate names
Chapman-Barnard Ranch.
Chapman-Barnard Ranch. -- History-Sources

Places

Inventory
1:1 Two video cassettes (1/2 inch format) containing approximately six hours of interviews. These tapes have been edited only to remove subject matter which interviewees asked be deleted.  
1:2 Typed transcript which parallels the interviews as recorded on the above cassettes.  
1:3 “Voices of the Tall Grass.” One VHS cassette containing approximately two hours of material selected as most useful or important from the original recordings.  
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