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University of Oklahoma Libraries Western History Collections Nigel Anthony Sellars Collection Sellars, Nigel Anthony. Papers, 1905–2001. 2 feet. Historian. Manuscripts (1987–2000) by Nigel Anthony Sellars for his book, "Oil, Wheat, & Wobblies: The Industrial Workers of the World in Oklahoma, 1905–1930," and for Sellars's articles and essays on Oklahoma labor issues, labor unions, and the Industrial Workers of the World during the period of 1905–1930; research materials collected by Sellars for his writings; and publications (1980–2001) regarding labor and socialist issues in Oklahoma and the nation. Box 1 Folder: 1. Correspondence to Nigel A. Sellars regarding his research and writings, 1994 and n.d. 2. Typescript, “Wobblies in the Oilfields: The Industrial Workers of the World in the Oklahoma Oilfields,” by Nigel Sellars, n.d. 3. Spiral-bound copy of “Oil, Wheat and Wobblies: A Short History of the Industrial Workers of the World in Oklahoma, 1915-1922,” by Nigel Sellars for History 6400, Fall 1987. 2 copies. 4. Spiral-bound copy of “Wobblies in the Oilfields: The Industrial Workers of the World in the Mid-Continent Oilfield of Tulsa, Oklahoma,” by Nigel Sellars, n.d. 5. Typescript, Oil, Wheat, and Wobblies: The Industrial Workers of the World in Oklahoma, 1905-1930. A dissertation … for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy by Nigel Anthony Sellars, 1994. 6. Printer’s proof of Oil, Wheat, and Wobblies: The Industrial Workers of the World in Oklahoma, 1905-1930. (circa 2000) 7. Typescript draft introduction to Oil, Wheat, and Wobblies: The Industrial Workers of the World in Oklahoma, 1905-1930. 8. Typescript draft of chapter one of Oil, Wheat, and Wobblies: The Industrial Workers of the World in Oklahoma, 1905-1930. 9. Typescript draft of chapter two of Oil, Wheat, and Wobblies: The Industrial Workers of the World in Oklahoma, 1905-1930. 10. Typescript draft of chapter three of Oil, Wheat, and Wobblies: The Industrial Workers of the World in Oklahoma, 1905-1930. 11. Typescript draft of chapter four of Oil, Wheat, and Wobblies: The Industrial Workers of the World in Oklahoma, 1905-1930. 12. Typescript, “Labor’s Desperate Gamble: The Oklahoma State Federation of Labor and the Farmer-Labor Reconstruction League,” by Nigel Sellars, n.d. 13. Typescript and spiral-bound copies of “Arrest and Reprisal: The Zakharov- Daniloff Affair,” by Nigel Sellars, for History 6400, Spring 1988. 14. Typescripts of “ ‘With Folded Arms? Or With Squirrel Guns?’ The IWW and the Green Corn Rebellion,” by Nigel Sellars, n.d. 15. Typescript, “Patrick Nagle and the Socialist Party in Oklahoma,” by Nigel Sellars for History 6400, Spring 1987. 16. Typescript of a review by Sellars of Sally Soelle’s “New Deal Art: The Great Plains Experience,” for History 6400, n.d. Includes spiral bound copy of Soelle’s work. 17. Typescript, “Darkness and Duplicity: The Anti-Federalists and the Conspiratorial Style,” by Nigel Sellars, Feaver-MacMinn Seminar, 1990. 18. Typescript, “Oklahoma’s Ice War,” by Nigel Sellars, ‘draft version as read at Oklahoma Historical Society annual meeting,’ n.d. 19. Typescript and reprint of “ ‘Cold, Hard Facts’: Justice Brandeis and the Oklahoma Ice Case,” by Nigel Anthony Sellars in The Historian, n.d. 20. Photocopied research materials compiled for and typescripts of “Oklahoma’s ‘Ice War’: New State Ice v. Liebmann, Justice Brandeis, and Government Intervention in the Economy,” by Nigel Anthony Sellars, n.d. 21. Bibliography notecards compiled for “Oklahoma’s ‘Ice War’: New State Ice v. Liebmann, Justice Brandeis, and Government Intervention in the Economy,” by Nigel Anthony Sellars, n.d. 22. University of Oklahoma Department of History faculty meeting minutes (1990); reports regarding the history department’s graduate program study (1991-1992); and copies of the history graduate student newsletter, A Blast from the Past, Volume I, Number I, 1989. 23. Photocopied research material. Hall, Covington. “Why One Big Union?” an IWW pamphlet, n.d. 24. A master’s thesis, “The Agricultural Workers’ Organization and the Harvest Stiff in the Midwestern Wheat Belt, 1915-1920,” by Stanley P. Fast, 1974. 25. Photocopied research material. IWW General Office Bulletin, March 1924. 26. Photocopied research material. A Socialist Daily for Oklahoma, circa 1918-1920. 27. Photocopied research material. “Class-Conscious Coal Miners: Nanty-Glo Versus the Open Shop in the Post-World War I Era,” by Alan J. Singer in Labor History, Winter 1988. 28. Photocopied research material from the Indiana Union News, regarding the oil industry and tenant farmers, 1920. 29. Photocopied research material. “An Unpublished Paper on the I.W.W.,” by Thorstein Veblen, n.d. 30. Photocopied research material. “Smackover, and Seekers of Oil,” by Max Bentley in Harper’s Monthly Magazine, Dec. 1923. 31. Photocopied research material. “The One Big Union in International Perspective: Revolutionary Industrial Unionism, 1900-1925,” by Larry Peterson. 32. Photocopied research material. Excerpts from Albert Raymond Parker’s dissertation, Life and Labor in the Mid-Continental Oil Fields, 1951. 33. Research notes by Nigel Sellars on IWW activities reported in 1921 Oklahoma newspapers. 34. Photocopied research material regarding the wobblies in Oklahoma City in 1923. 35. Photocopied research material. “The Case of the Very American Militants: Notes on the IWW as a Product and a Reflection of Mainstream America,” by Joseph R. Conlin. 36. Photocopied research material. “The Agony of the American Left,” by Christopher Lasch, 1969. 37. Photocopied research material. “Post-War Militancy: Coal,” from History of Labor in the United States, 1896-1932. 38. Photocopied research material. “Honk Honk Hobo,” by John J. Hader, 1928. 39. Photocopied research material. “The Decline of the I.W.W.,” by John s. Gambs. 40. Photocopied research material. “Years of Strife and Sin: Booze, Bawdy Houses, and Strikes Spell Trouble for ‘Mayor Nick’,” and “Drumright! The Glory Days of a Boom Town.” 41. Photocopied research material. “The Socialist Party and the IWW.” 42. Photocopied research material. “The Ku Klux Klan in the City, 1915-1930,” by Kenneth T. Jackson, 1967. 43. Photocopied research material. “The Paradox of Dynamic Technological Change and the Labor Aristocracy in the United States, 1880-1914,” by Andrew Dawson, 1979. 44. Photocopied research material. “Historians and the I.W.W.,” by Salvatore Salerno, 1989. 45. Photocopied research material. “The Anti-Syndicalist Laws,” The One Big Union Monthly, April 1919. 46. Photocopied research material. Pamphlet regarding the publication of a socialist newspaper in Oklahoma City, n.d. 47. Photocopied research material. “Harvesting the Harvest Hands,” by George Creel, in Harper’s Weekly, 1914. 48. Photocopied research material. “The Prairie Oil & Gas Company, 1901-1911,” by David C. Boles in The Chronicles of Oklahoma; and “Shall This Be All? U.S. Historians Versus William D. Haywood et al,” by William Preston in Labor History, 1971. 49. Photocopied research material. “Radicalism and Race: The IWW and the Black Worker,” by Leland V. Bell in Journal of Human Relations, n.d. Box 2 Folder: 1. Photocopied research material regarding the Spanish influenza epidemic of 1918. 2. Photocopied research material regarding the Run of 1889 in Oklahoma. 3. Photocopied research material from Industrial Solidarity regarding meat packing plant strikes and other topics, 1921-1926. 4. Photocopied research material. Letter from Lt. J. H. Cary to Commanding Officer, 2 Infantry, Oklahoma National Guard, Nov. 9, 1919. 5. Photocopied research material regarding the I.W.W. from the Tulsa World, 1919; and “The Clowning Called Justice,” by Eugene Lyons. 6. Photocopied research material. “Framed Up by Standard Oil,” in The Rebel Worker, June 15, 1919. 7. Photocopied research material. “Tulsa: A Study in Oil,” by Eugene Lyons, The One Big Union Monthly, Dec. 1919. 8. Photocopied research material from New Solidarity, 1919. 9. Photocopied research material regarding the Charles S. Krieger case, 1919. 10. Photocopied research material. “Slappin’ Collars and Stabbin’ Pipe: Occupational Folklife of Old-Time Pipeliners,” by George Carney. 11. Photocopied research material – excerpts from The Oklahoma Almanac regarding wheat production, 1930. 12. Photocopied research material. “Why Wheat Growers Go Broke: While Wheat Gamblers Wax Fat,” by Benjamin C. Marsh, Labor Age, June 1924. 13. Photocopied research material on the I.W.W. from the Daily Oklahoman, 1921. 14. Photocopied research material. “Union Maids Not Wanted: Organizing Domestic Workers, 1870-1940,” by Donna L. Van Raaphorst, 1988. 15. Photocopied research material. “ ‘We Have Got Results’: A Document on the Organization of Domestics in the Progressive Era,” Labor History, 1976. 16. Photocopied research material. “ ‘Pay’-Triotism,” Labor Age, January 1923. 17. Photocopied research material. “Today’s Students Want First Hand Labor Union Information,” Tulsa Labor News, 1959. 18. Photocopied research material. “The Political Prisoners’ Reply,” The New Republic, August 1923. 19. Photocopied research material. “The Knights of Liberty Mob and the I.W.W. Prisoners in Tulsa,” 1918. 20. Photocopied research material. “The Federal Trials of the IWW,” by Philip Taft. 21. Photocopied research material. “Uncle Sam: Jailer,” by Winthrop D. Lane. 22. Photocopied research material regarding the Knights of Labor, n.d. 23. Typescript, “Pittsburgh Streets: Crystal Eastman’s Path from Reformist to Social Revolutionist,” by Susan M. Lee, 1993. 24. Photocopied research