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Higher education: A. B., Yale (1910); Oberlin Seminary (1910–11); B. D., Auburn Seminary (1913); A. M., Yale (1912) (in field of anthropology).

Publications: Editor of Indian Outlook, published by American Indian Institute. Has devoted entire life as teacher, minister, writer, and speaker, to Indian cause.

Specialist in General Economic Conditions. Edward Everett Dale, Head of the Department of History of the University of Oklahoma. Specialist in the economic history of the West.

Early history: Born in Texas. Grew up on a homestead near the border of the Kiowa-Comanche Indian Reservation, Finished the common school course and worked for five years as cowboy and ranchman. Hunted and trapped for two winters. Kept post office and worked in a store that sold goods to Indians and whites. Served as deputy sheriff and taught country schools.

Higher education: Central State Normal School, Edmond, Oklahoma (1906–09); A. B., University of Oklahoma (1911) (Thesis: The Removal of the Indian Tribes to Oklahoma); A. M., Harvard (1914) (Subject: The White Settlement of Oklahoma); Ph. D., Harvard (1922) (Thesis: A History of the Range Cattle Industry in Oklahoma).

Positions held: Superintendent of Schools, Roosevelt, Oklahoma (1909–10); Superintendent of Schools, Blair, Oklahoma (1911–13); Special Instructor in Summer School, Central State Normal, Edmond, Oklahoma, summers of 1912 and 1913; Instructor in History, University of Oklahoma (1914–17); Assistant Professor (1917–21); Associate Professor (1922); Professor (1923); Head of Department (1924 to date). Was President of the Oklahoma State Folk Lore Association (1915–19); Research Agent, United States Department of Agriculture (1925); Special Instructor in History, University of Texas, Summer Session (1926); President of Agricultural History Society (1926–27); gives courses in Historical Research and Western History with special reference to the Indians, ranch cattle industry, and pioneer farmers.