Oklahoma History Academic Standards
OKH.5.6 Analyze William H. "Alfalfa Bill" Murray's response to the conditions created by the Great Depression.
Oklahoma History Center Education Resources
History Alive! Living History
Dust Bowl Housewife
Traveling Trunk
Dust Bowl and Great Depression
The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture
Keith L. Bryant Jr., "Murray, William Henry David"
William H. Mullins, "Great Depression"
Keith L. Bryant Jr., "New Deal"Donald A. Wilhite, "Dust Bowl"
Research Center Resources
LeRoy Henry Fischer, Oklahoma's Governors, 1929–1955: Depression to Prosperity (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma: Oklahoma Historical Society, 1983)
Audio/Visual
"Alfalfa Bill Murray," The WKY KTVY Archives (F2013.134.2.0028, OHS)
William H. "Alfalfa Bill" Murray https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc230218/
Portrait of William H. "Alfalfa Bill" Murray https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1628937/
Murray's Inauguration Ball https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc366515/
Red River War https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc416082/
Additional Resources
"William H. Murray," Oklahoma Hall of Fame
"Oklahoma Passage Telecourse #115 Great Depression - Unit 3, Lesson 5," 1991-09-04, OETA, American Archive of Public Broadcasting
Keith L. Bryant, Alfalfa Bill Murray (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2016)
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