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Roma Lee Porter Papers
"Minutes of the proceedings of the Board of Directors, The First National Bank of Fort Sill, Okla," written (1901; 1 p.) in Wichita Falls, Tex.; and a five page memoir by W.M. McGregor, entitled "A Remembrance of Things Past." McGregor moved to Oklahoma from a banking career at Wichita Falls, Tex., and helped open the City National Bank of Lawton, eventually became president; he died in 1945.
Banking in Oklahoma, 1907–2000
The story of banking in twentieth-century Oklahoma is also the story of the Sooner State’s first hundred years, as Michael J. Hightower’s new book demonstrates. Oklahoma statehood coincided with the Panic of 1907, and both events signaled seismic shifts in state banking practices. Much as Oklahoma banks shed their frontier persona to become more tightly integrated in the national economy, so too was decentralized banking revealed as an anachronism, utterly unsuited to an increasingly global economy. With creation of the Federal Reserve System in 1913 and subsequent choice of Oklahoma City as the location for a branch bank, frontier banking began yielding to systems commensurate with the ...
Banking in Oklahoma Before Statehood
This lively book takes Oklahoma history into the world of Wild West capitalism. It begins with a useful survey of banking from the early days of the American republic until commercial patterns coalesced in the East. It then follows the course of American expansion westward, tracing the evolution of commerce and banking in Oklahoma from their genesis to the eve of statehood in 1907. Banking in Oklahoma before Statehood is not just a story of men sitting behind desks. Author Michael J. Hightower describes the riverboat trade in the Arkansas and Red River valleys and freighting on the Santa Fe Trail. Shortages of both currency and credit posed major impediments to regional commerce until storek...
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