Collector. Transcripts of interviews (circa 1930–1958) with pioneers who took part in the 1893 land run into the Cherokee Strip. The interviews contain descriptions of the land run, hardships encountered, sod houses and dugouts, agriculture, religion, schools, and other socio-economic aspects of life in the Cherokee Strip. Township maps showing the location of original settlers in the Cherokee Strip accompany the interviews. The collection also includes historical, religious, social, and anecdotal information about the Indian tribes that lived in the eastern portion of the Cherokee Strip, such as the Tonkawa, Kansa (Kaw), and Ponca Indians. Correspondence (1871–1875) and field notebooks (1869–1871) written by Orville Smith and T. H. Barrett during a survey of the Sisseton and Wahpeton Indian reservations in Dakota Territory make up the final part of the Hatfield Collection.