Minister. A typewritten autobiography (1871–1953) of W. Vance Shook regarding his life as a rural circuit-riding minister in Oklahoma Territory and Oklahoma, with descriptions of the communities in which he lived, and of the churches he founded and served as pastor; newspaper clippings (1938–1957) regarding the death of Shook’s wife, Lottie Lee, and the establishment of the Methodist Episcopal churches in Putnam City, Oklahoma, and at Eighth and Lee streets in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; and publications (1918–1935), including the programs of the annual conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Oklahoma, a booklet regarding the history of Methodism in Logan County, Oklahoma, and event programs issued by the Putnam City Methodist Church and the Methodist church at Eighth and Lee streets in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.