From Praha to Prague Czechs in an Oklahoma farm town
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| 520 | |a "<BR /> Around the turn of the twentieth century, thousands of Czechs left their homelands in Bohemia and Moravia and came to the United States. While many settled in major American cities, others headed to rural areas out west where they could claim their own land for farming. In From Praha to Prague, Philip D. Smith examines how the Czechs who founded and settled in Prague, Oklahoma, embraced the economic and cultural activities of their American hometown while maintaining their ethnic identity.<BR /><BR /> According to Smith, the Czechs of Prague began as a clannish group of farmers who participated in the 1891 land run and settled in east-central Oklahoma. After the town's incorporation in 1902, settlers from other ethnic backgrounds swiftly joined the fledgling community, and soon the original Czech immigrants found themselves in the minority. By 1930, the Prague Czechs had reached a unique cultural, social, and economic duality in their community. | ||
| 520 | |a They strove to become reliable, patriotic citizens of their adopted country...joining churches, playing sports, and supporting the Allied effort in World War II...but they also maintained their identity as Czechs through local traditions such as participating in the Bohemian Hall society, burying their dead in the town's Czech National Cemetery, and holding the annual Kolache Festival, a lively celebration that still draws visitors from around the world. | ||
| 520 | |a As a result, Smith notes, succeeding generations of Prague Czechs have proudly considered themselves Czech Americans: firmly assimilated to mainstream American culture but holding to an equally strong sense of belonging to a singular ethnic group.<BR /><BR /> As he analyzes the Czech experience in farm-town Oklahoma, Smith explores several intriguing questions: Was it easier or more difficult for Czechs living in a rural town to sustain their ethnic identity and culture than for Czechs living in large urban areas such as Chicago? How did the tactics used by Prague Czechs to preserve their group identity differ from those used in rural areas where immigrant populations were the majority? In addressing these and other questions, From Praha to Prague reveals the unique path that Prague Czechs took toward Americanization.<BR />"... | ||
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List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 3
1 Czech Immigration to the United States to 1930 10
2 Settlement of Lincoln County and the Formation
of Prague, Oklahoma, 1891—1902 18
3 Religion, Freethought, and the Czech Community 29
4 Czech Fraternal Organizations in Prague 45
5 Economic Life in a Small Town 65
6 Family Ties and Everyday Life of Prague s Czechs 84
7 Education and the Czech Community 105
8 Politics and Community Life in Prague 121
Epilogue 135
Notes 141
Bibliography 171
Index 185
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Index
Adams 8C Sangster Pool Hall, 162n65
African Americans, 4, 25, 73
Alexander, William, 76
Ambrister, Bertha, 128
Americanism, 32, 81
American Legion: civic lodge, 124,
165n24; and Edward Sefcik, 138;
entertainment at, 102; named
after Edward Walla, 62
Amsden Lumber Company, 77. See
also Bartosh, P. J.
Arlington, Okla., 20, 118-19, 167n53
Atlantic Oil Production Company,
157n61
Austria-Hungary, 12-13
Austrian Terrorism in Bohemia (Czech
National Alliance in Great
Britain), 56
Babek, Alice (wife of Cecil Olson),
95
Babek, Anna (wife of Jan), 36
Babek, Charles, 125, 127, 169n33
Babek, Jan, 36
Balaun, A. J.: auctioneer, 76; and
cigar factory, 169n31; early
leader, 122, 124; as justice of the
peace, 99, 123
Balch, Emily, 142nl, 154nl9
Baltimore, Lord, 12
Banghain, George (husband of
Mary), 92-93, 160n28
Banghain, Mary (wife of George), 92
Baptists: revivals, 168n25; Methodist
Church, use of, 41; and Sabbath,
54
Barrett, David, 156n57
Barrymore, John, 133
Barta, Eva (mother of Frank), 3
Barta, Frank, 145n23; airshow on
Barta farmland, 103; burial,
145; 1891 land run, 20; leader
and businessman, 3, 69, 88, 154;
member of Catholic Church,
23, 36, 39; original homesteader,
3, 20, 69, 144n3. See also Barta
Hotel
Barta, Jack (grandson of Frank and
Josephine Barta), 38; obituary,
170
Barta, John (son of Frank and
Josephine Barta): burial, 150;
fishing trip, 9; and ZCBJ, 48-49,
150nl2
Barta, Josephine (wife of Frank
Barta), 3; death of, 134, 145, 170;
and Fort Smith and Western
Railroad, 88
Barta Hotel, 3, 69, 128, 154n22
Barta Post Office, 20, 111
Bartosh, August, 169n30
Bartosh, Camellia (wife of Joe
Bartosh), 162n57
Bartosh, Edward “Eddie,” 110,
169n28
Bartosh, Henryetta, 117
185
Bartosh, Joe (husband of Camellia),
100,113, 144n3, 61n57
Bartosh, P. J., 77
Battle of White Mountain, 7,109
Belgium, 25, 57
Benes, Edvard, 56
Benes, Vojta, 57
Beranek family, 144n3
Beseda Dance Team, 120, 167n57
Bever, H. E., 76
Biggs Drug Store, 72
‘‘birds of passage/ 11, 14
Bison, Okla., 17
Blum, Robert, 33
Blumel, Oswald, 45-46, 150nnl-2,
152n56
Blumenthal, Ernest (son of Morris),
87
Blumenthal, Morris, 87; oil
discovered, 77, owner of The
Leader store, 71, 155n32
Bohemia, Bohemians, 3-4,6-7,
18-19, 21-25, 27, 35-36, 38-41,
44-47, 49-50, 64, 66, 68, 70, 72,
81, 87, 92-94, 97-98, 100, 105-
7, 109-13, 116, 120-24, 126, 130,
133-34, 136-37, 141n6, 142n8,
143nl4, 143nl7, 143nl9, 144n9,
145nl7, 145nl9, 146n24, 146n39,
147nl2, 147nl4, 147nl8, 148n22,
148n25, 148n33, 148nn41-42,
149n46, 149n49, 150n7, 150nl0,
150nl8, 151n35, 151n40-41,
151n43, 152n44-46, 152n48,
152n83, 158nl2, 159nl 5, 159nl7,
159n26, 164nl4-15, 166n55,
167n5—6, 168nl4, 169n36, 141n6;
early immigration, 10-17;
participation in World War I,
55-63; in Texas, 74-75, 131-32;
and Thirty Years War, 12
Bohemia Manor, 12
Bohemian Hall, 3, 23, 36, 41-42,
46, 48, 53-55, 90, 98, 103, 111,
117, 129, 132-33, 145nn20—
22, 150n2, 150n9, 150nll,
150nl3, 153nn65-66, 158n88,
162n61, 165n30, 166n32, 170n3;
activities of, 38, 40, 43, 61,
communication with other
Czech associations, 36-37,
43, 55, 150nl3; and Catholics,
36; charter members, 64; and
Czech National Cemetery
(Prague, Okla.), 101, 140;
Czech plays, 38, 102; dances,
38, 40, 69, 102, 163n75; and
freethought, 37-38, 43, 48, 140,
170n9; funeral of Frank Vlasak,
51; and Kolache Festival, 135-
36; lire insurance and relief
to members, 37, 48, 101, 140;
membership in 1920, 145n21;
permanent building erected, 22;
and public school, 107, 166n40;
purchasing cigars, 153n66;
records written in Czech,
153n65; today s association,
136-37. See also Western Czech
Brotherhood Association
(Zapadni Česko Bratrska
Jednota; ZCBJ)
Bohemian National Alliance: fund֊
raisers for, 59, 61,63; merger
with other groups in 1918,
56-57; refusal of Catholics
to join, 38; World War I
organization, 55,56,58
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Bohemian Political Association, 121-
24, 168nl4
Bohemian Slavonian Benevolent
Society, 22, 47
Bontty, Julius (husband of Bertha
Hall), 160n38, 163n85; as band
leader, 102, 124, 127, 169n28; as
Czech farmer, 76
Bontty s Coronet Band, 102, 163n85
Boston, Mass., 9, 30, 146n2, 161n42;
Boston store in Prague, Okia.,
124
Botts, Clifford, 101
Bouda, Frank, 118
Bouda, Lewis, 118
Bouda, Rose (wife of Ollie
McAdams), 42
Bow, Clara, 133
brambory salat (potato salad), 135
Bratrsky Vestnik (Fraternal Bulletin),
98
Brauer, Max, 95
Bristow Browns, 86
Brno, Moravia, 98
Brown, Albert, 120
Brown, Melva Losch, 111, 152n56
Bruza, Emily, 167n57
Bruza, Josef, 145n20
Bruza, Vaclav, 145n20
Bryan, William Jennings, 122
Budweis, Bohemia, 143Ш4
Burk s Big Show, 103
Busy Bee Café, 62, 70. See also
Kučera, Frank
Butler, Charles (husband of Mildred
Bret), 42
Bykosi, Bohemia, 18
Capek, Thomas, 15, 143n24
Case of Bohemia, The (Czech National
Alliance, pub.), 56
Case, Mose, 84, 86
Casey, Cora, 166n39
Caslau, Bohemia, 143nl4
Catholic Benevolent Union, 40
Catholic Cemetery (Prague, Okla.),
36, 110, 145n23
Catholics, 21, 39, 40, 43; and Battle
of White Mountain, 109; and
Bohemian Hall, 23, 36, 54-55;
and Czech Protestants, 40;
fraternal association of, 40; St.
Wenceslaus Church, 29-30, 40;
and World War I, 38
Catholic Worker (Katolicky Delnik),
40, 54
Cemy, Anton, 145n20
Cemy, Charles, 61
Cemy, Clara, 118
Cemy, Elba
Cemy, Josef: land owned in
Arlington, Okla., 118; member
of Bohemian Hall, 64, 145n20
Cemy, Oliva, 117
Červeny, John, 41, 69; hunting trip,
99; real estate agent, 70
Červeny, May Mee, 117
Chandler, Okla.: baseball game
against, 84; Frisco baseball
league, 85; near Prague, Okla.,
79; road from Prague, Okla., to
Chandler, Okla., 77
Chicago, 111., 9,14,27,31-32, 34-35,
38, 40, 45, 51, 56-58, 60, 72-73, 80,
83, 98, 122, 128, 129, 140, 146n38,
147n9, 147ПІ5, 147n20, 150Ш7,
15ІП39, 15ІП43, 152nn44-^6,
152n48, 152П51, 158n82
Index ** 187
Chicago Tribune, 80
Cincinnati Reds, 85
City Cemetery (Prague, Okla.), 39,
42, 150nl2, 160n34
Cleveland, Ohio, 13, 27, 73, 98, 122,
129, 167n9
Cleveland, Okla., 117, 139, 154n27
Cobb, Ty, 85, 158n5
COD Meat Market, 82
cottager, 12, 30, 142nl3
Council of Constance, 35
Creighton University, 72, 117
Croats, 14
Czech Hall: fraternal associations,
22; in Yukon, Okla., 16
Czech National Cemetery (Prague,
Okla.), 41—43, 51, 95-96, 101,
110, 113, 140, 149n55, 150nl2,
160n34, 161n39, 162n57
Czechoslovak Arts Club, 58
Czechoslovak National Council of
America, 57
Czech School (Prague, Okla.),
106-7, 110, 112, 117, 119, 131,
165n22, 166n40
Davenport, Okla.: bridge collapses,
78; maps of homestead filings
published in newspaper, 144n3,
144n5; Wellston baseball team
moves to, 53
Davis, Ben, 105
Davis, John, 102
deists, 34
Dent, Okla., 20, 22, 47, 133, 145nll,
165n27, 165n30
Dillingham Commission, 97, 111
Dobry Lumber Company, 69, 154n22
Dorcey and Roberts Saloon, 153nl0
Dorcey Shooting Gallery, 162n64
Dostalik, Antonia, 119
1891 land run. See land run, 1891
El Reno, Okla., 16
endogamous marriage, 91—95
English, Violet (née Cerny), 161n39
Eret, George: director of first
bank in Prague, Okla., 70,
102, 127; lessons given to
Prague’s youngsters on
stringed instruments, 119; local
businessman, 64; member of
Bohemian Hall, 42; original
homesteader, 144n3
Eret, Joseph (son of George), 42
Eret, Lillian (wife of Joseph), 42
Eret, Mildred (granddaughter of
George), 42
ethnic communities, 15, 27, 38,
97, 108, 119, 129, 131-32, 134,
146n38
ethnic group, 8—9, 16, 27—28, 31, 38,
63-64, 68, 89-91, 93-94, 96-98,
104, 107, 109
ethnic identity, 4-5, 8-9, 28, 31, 39, 43,
50, 83, 89, 91, 96, 133, 137, 140
ethnicity, 23, 28, 31, 38, 40, 50, 76,
80, 92, 96, 116, 130, 133-34,
141n9, 147nl0, 159nl3, 159n23,
160n33, 161n42; birthright, 8,
89; symbolic, 8, 141nl0
Evans, Billy, 85
exogamous marriage, 91—96, 160n33
Farley, Jim, 124
Fennel, Clarence, 120
Feuerbach, Ludwig, 33
Fiel, Carl, 76
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First Baptist Church, 42, 149n62
First Chance Saloon, 153nl0
Fisher, L. J: president of the
American Alliance during
World War I, 57; writing about
Austrian war atrocities, 59
Folly Theater: plays performed in,
102; motion pictures, 103
Fort Smith and Western Railroad:
abandonment, 157n77; and
Prague, Okla., 79; Prague, Okla.,
as coaling station on, 3, 88
Forth, Kathryn, 120
Fredrich, Cindy, 170n3
Free Congregations (Svobodne
Obce), 34
freethought: associations centered
on, 37, 39, 48-50, 57, 63; and
Catholics, 23; in the Czech
community, 29, 43, 74,122, 140,
170n9; and Czech-language
press, 34-35; origin and
philosophy, 32-33; in Texas, 38
Frisco League (baseball), 53, 85
FS W. See Fort Smith and Western
Railroad
Galveston, Texas, 15, 143n24
Garber, Okla., 144n35
Gehrig, Lou, 85
Germans, 16; compared to Czechs,
15; immigrants, 4, 12, 19, 59, 61,
97, 107, 111, 121, 145n9, 146n31,
156n47; in Prague, Okla., area,
20-21, 60; during World War I,
83
Good Roads Boosters, 78
Gray, Augustus, 73
Griffin, Frank, 75
Habsburg rulers, 6-7, 12, 45, 141n4,
141n6; and Catholic Church, 33
Hajek, J., 127, 169n31
Hall, Bertha (wife of Julius Bontty),
160n38
Hardy Saloon, 153nl0
Harris, Georgie (wife of William), 26
Harris, William (husband of
Georgie), 26
Harshaw, J. W, 20
Hegel, George F. W, 33
Heinzig, Fritz, 60
Hendrix Saloon, 154nl0
Hennessey, Okla., 144n35
Herman, Augustine, 11-12
Hlas, 34
Hlasatel (Herald), 98
Hnát, František, 77
Holman, Anna (née Smicka; wife of
Louis), 161n41
Holman, Louis (husband of Anna),
161n41
Holy Roman Empire, 81,109
Hooter, Lester, 84, 86
Hooter s Billiard Hall, 162n65
Hotel Barta. 3. See Barta Hotel
Hrbek, Sarah: speaks in Prague,
Okla., during World War I, 61;
spelling of name, 153n59
Hrdy, Emma Benes (ex-wife of Josef
and mother of Olinka), 138
Hrdy, Josef (Joseph; ex-husband
of Emma Benes), 82; father
of Olinka Hrdy, 138; original
homesteader, 144n3; saloon
owner, 66
Hrdy, Olinka (daughter), 170n7;
in California, 139, Oklahoma
muralist, 138
Index
189
Hruška, Maximilian, 144n3,145n20
Hudspeth, Kate, 60
Hull House, 32
Hungarians: dominating the Slovaks,
14; among new immigrants/ 14
Hus, Jan: commemoration of, 35,
61; honored by Milligan Czechs
132; medieval martyr, 35, 108;
New York Presbyterian Church,
40—41; and World War I, 56
Illinois, 13-16, 26-27, 60, 100, 139,
156n47
immigration, 7,9, 10-11,14—15,
39-40, 47, 73, 97, 142n3, 142n6,
142nl2, 143nnl5—16, 143n23,
146n35, 147n9,159n24. See also
U.S. Immigration Commission
Independent Order of Odd Fellows,
46, 124
Indian Territory: alcohol smuggled
into, 66-67; as dry territory,
65; and Fort Smith and Western
Railroad, 3; Harris family in,
26-27; and Keokuk Falls, 65
Ingersoll, Robert, 33
Iowa, 13-15, 18-19, 24, 92-93, 98;
Cedar Rapids, 98; Waterloo, 18
Ireland, 25
Irvine, E S., 78
Italians: and Catholicism, 31; overall
numbers in United States, 16;
urban problems, 74, 129
Jepsen, George, 128, 168n20
Jezek, Charles, 169n29, 169n33
Jezek, Frank, 169n33
Jezek Van Dyke, Marjorie, 170n3
Jim Crow laws, 126
Jim Thorpe Boulevard, 135
Johnson, Fr. George V, 135
Jones, Junia Heath, 99
Kahanek, Wesley, 118
Kaiser, Anna (wife of Jan), 113
Kaiser, Annie (daughter of Jan and
Anna), 113
Kaiser, Jan (husband of Anna), 113,
145n20
Kanak, Billie, 169n28
Kanak, Steve, 125, 169n33
Kentucky Liquor House, 66
Keokuk Falls, Okla., 20, 65-66, 153n2
Keystone Oil and Gas Company,
157n61
Kilgo, Ednamae (wife of Herbert),
160n34, 161n39. See also Vlasak,
Ednamae (wife of Herbert
Kilgo)
Kilgo, Herbert (husband of
Ednamae), 94-95, 160n34
Kingfisher, Okla.: Czech influence
in, 16; and settlement of
Czechs, 17,144n35
Kinsey, C. E., 76, 167nl
Klabzuba, Charles Charlie (son
of Joseph), 78,105, 118, 124,
169n33
Klabzuba, Eddie, 102, 117
Klabzuba, Frank, 72, 155n38
Klabzuba, Joseph (Josef): member
of ZCBJ, 64; owner of Kentucky
Liquor House, 66-67; and
second generation, 159n26
Klabzuba, Rose (wife of Harmon
Veatch), 42
Klabzuba, Wes, 73, 76, 156n57
knedliky (dumplings), 135
Index
190
Knights of Pythias, 46, 124
kolache, 135
Kolache Festival, 135-36, 170nl
Kolar, Raymond, 117
Kolar, Stanley, 77
Kolodny, Sam: New York Bargain
Store, 71, 77, 115n32; wins
domino toumament, 101
Koutnik, Fannie (sister of Frank
Vlasak), 18
Koutnik, Frank (husband of Fannie),
19
Kozak, Vencí, 3
Kozak, Frank (son of Vencí):
attended Czech school, 110;
football player, 105, 110, 118;
high school play, 102
Kryche, Eddie, 159n26
Kucera, Emil, 167n57
Kucera, Frank: businessman, 64; and
Busy Bee Café, 70
Kucera, Lada, 169n28
Ku Klux Klan (KKK), 125
Kutak, Robert: historian, 87; on
Milligan, Nebr., 129
Kuttenberg, Bohemia, 143nl4
Ladra, Vaclav, 47, 145n20
La Follette, Robert, 122
LaGrene, Tex, 103
Lambdin, Okla.: as refueling site, 3;
settlement of, 20
land run, 1891, 3, 4, 18-20, 39, 47, 69,
87, 165n27
Lanik, Frank, 70, 103
Lanik, Joseph, 30, 36, 75, 103, 169n28
Leader General Store, 86. See abo
Blumenthal, Morris
Leder, Josef (husband of Mary), 117,
125n20
Leder, Lon, 99
Leder, Mary (wife of Josef):
attending school, 115; leasing
acreage for oil exploration, 77
liberals, liberalism: and anti-
Catholicism, 33; members
of fraternal associations, 37;
members of Sokol, 50; in
Oklahoma, 37; perception of
Jan Hus, 35; as rationalists, 32.
See abo freethought
Lincheid, Adolph L., 107
Lincoln County, Okla., 3, 9, 18-22,
24, 26, 47, 53, 64-65, 70, 74,
77-79, 98, 103, 111, 118-19,
141nnl—2, 144nnl—3, 145n21,
153n2, 154nl 1, 155nn28—29,
157n61, 157n79, 164n5, 167nl0,
169n45
Lincoln County Bank, 64, 70, 77,
155n29
Lone Star Pool Parlor, 162n65
Lone Star State. See Texas
Lynch, Russell, 52
Makovsky Band, 126
Mansur, Beatrice, 164n8
Martinek, Agnes (daughter of
Vincent), 116-17, 166n37
Martinek, Vincent, 20, 116-17,
166n37, 166n41
Maryland, 11, 15
Masaryk, Thomas: during World
War I, 56-57, 63; first president
of Czechoslovakia, 131
Masonic Lodge, 46
Mastena, František, 20, 127
Mastena, John, 72
materialism, 33
Index ^ 191
McAdams, Ollie (husband of Rose
Bouda), 42
McElvany, Rev. William, 125
McKim, Vern: livery business, 72;
takes job at Vlasak s garage, 76
Medford, Okla., 17
Mertes, Jacob, 121, 155n34
Mertes, John, 60
Mertes, Nola, 72
Methodist Church, First United,
149n51, 149n54
Methodist-Episcopal Church, 41,
102, 148n38
Metropolitan Pool Hall, 162n65
Mid-Kansas Oil and Gas Company,
157n61
Miles, Fred, 101
Miller, Julia (wife of George Sala),
160n38
Milligan, Nebr., 13, 27, 38, 80, 88,
129-32; politics, 122, 128, 130;
public school, 119. See also
Nebraska
Minnesota, 13-15, 19, 24
Mishak, Okla., 16
Mitacek, Mike, 59, 70
M. L. Clark and Sons Circus, 103,
163n79
Modem Woodmen of America, 46
Moravia, Moravians, 4, 20-22, 98,
111, 133, 136, 142nl 1, 146n24,
164nl5; animosity toward
Austria, 144n5; and Austro-
Hungarian Empire, 6-7; called
“Czechs, 7; in Central Europe,
6, 12; creation of Sokols, 49-50;
emigration from, 13; and
freethought, 38-39; migration
to Prague, Okla., 16, 20, 24—25;
missionaries, 142nll; number
of families in Prague, Okla., 75,
87; participation in World War I,
55—58, 63; reasons for leaving,
11—13; and religion, 39, 44, 74;
and Texas, 14, 24-25, 75, 80,
131, 143n24, 148n34, 158n84
Moravian Brethren Church, 38, 40,
80
Mountain State Oil Company,
157n61
Mraz, Gerald: and Musical Art
Institute of Oklahoma, 70;
relocates to Oklahoma City, 82
Mraz, John Z.: death of wife, 99; as
physician, 72, 155n37
Muisack family, 144n3
Mullen, Frank, 98, 161n47
Mustang, Okla., 16
Nation, Carry, 65
nativists, nativism: attacking
Catholics, 74; hostility toward
immigrants, 97; and native-born
people in Prague, Okla., 77;
settlement of Prague, Okla., 5
Navrah, Frank, 169n29
Nebraska: Creighton University, 72,
117, 166n44; town of Ord, 82;
town of Saline City, 35; town
of Wilber, 27, 80, 88. See also
Milligan, Nebr.; University of
Nebraska
New Amsterdam, N.Y., 11
Newhouse, Frank N., 69, 98-99,
154n20, 161n48
New York Bargain Store, 71, 77, 99,
101. See also Kolodny, Sam
New York City, 9, 18, 30, 58, 140,
150nl7
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 33
■ Index
192
Nix, Fannie, 100
Noble County, Okla., 17
North America, 7, 12, 14, 68, 142n7
North Creek, Okla.: Czechs in,
19, 159n26, 160n37; German
immigrant community, 146n31
Novotny, Albert, 115
Novotny, Fannie, 115
Odd Fellows. See Independent Order
of Odd Fellows
O Kane, Emmett, 71, 72, 155n33
Oklahoma AScM College, 52
Oklahoma Cigar Manufacturing
Company, 127. See also Hajek, J.
Oklahoma City, Okla.: Czech
immigrants in, 16-17; Czechs
awaiting land run in, 18—19;
distance from Prague, Okla., 40;
Dr. Karl Sladek, from, 42; and
FSdCW Railroad, 3; Gerald Mraz
relocated to, 82; Musical Art
Institute of, 70; and Olinka Hrdy,
139; Prague Czechs traveling to,
99-100; teachers meeting in, 120
Oklahomaske Noviny (Oklahoma
News), 98, 161n45
Oklahoma Territory: Czechs in, 15,
23-24; and FS W Railroad, 3;
Harris family in, 26-27; Lincoln
County and cotton, 78; and
Pechacek family, 112, 165n30;
and Placa family, 112; Sac and
Fox Reservation, 18; as wet
territory, 65-66
Olson, Cecil (husband of Alice
Babek), 95
Omaha, Nebr., 14, 60, 83; and
freethought weekly Pokrok
Zapadu, 34-35; headquarters of
ZCBJ, 22, 47-48
One Price Store, 71. See also O’Kane,
Emmett
Opela, Agnes, 100
Opela: birthday party, 100; early
Czech family, 41, 95, 106
Oplinger, Lloyd Fatty,” 84, 86
Overstreet, W S., 161n47
Paden, Okla.: baseball game against
Prague, 85; discovery of oil,
77; Frisco baseball league, 85;
trouble on road to, 99
Paris, France, 45, 151n28
Parks, Cliff, 75
Pastusek, Anton: in newspaper, 99;
town officeholder, 121—22
Pastusek, Lillian, 117
Pastusek, Mary, 102
Pastusek, Wesley: baseball player,
84, 87; entering army, 84; leaves
Prague, Okla., 159nl2; parents,
158nl2; working as sales clerk,
86
Pechacek, Josef (husband of
Matilda), 112, 165n30, 166n32
Pechacek, Mary (daughter of Josef
and Matilda), 115
Pechacek, Matilda (wife of Josef),
112,166n32
Pennsylvania, 12-14, 77
Pennsylvania Oil Company, 77
People’s Party (Populist Party), 123
Pergler, Charles, 57
Perry, Okla., 17, 144n35
Pershing, John J. (general), 84
Petecka, Elizabeth, 166n34
Phil’s Place, 153nl0
Index 193
Pickford, Mary, 133
Pierson, John, 75
Pilsner (beer), 7, 66, 141n5
Písecky, Ferdinand, 61
Písek, Bohemia, 143nl4
Piter, Joe, 156n47
Piter, Mary, 116
Pittsbuigh, Pa., 31
Placa, Frances (husband of Francis),
112-13
Placa, Francis (wife of Frances), 112
Plzen, 7, 141n5, 143nl4
Pokrok Zapadu (Progress of the
West), 34-35, 122
Poles, Poland: compared to Czechs,
14—16, 74,81, 109, 111;
migrating west, 31; reaction to
American culture, 7
positivism, 33
Pospisil, Jim, 165 n24
Pospisil, Marie, 167n57
Pospisil, Rudolph, 103
Pospisil, Wes: visiting Hensleys, 100;
working in harness shop, 59
Prague, Bohemia: formation of
original Sokol clubs, 49; home
of C. M. Sadlo’s sister, 59
Prague, Okla. 3, 5-6, 8, 9, 16, 20-23,
26, 45-54, 66-79, 81-104, 121-
34, 137—84; beginnings in 1891,
4,181; demographically diverse,
27-28; and Kolache Festival,
135—36; public schooling in,
105—20; religion v. freethought,
29, 31, 36-43; Texas Moravians
migrating to, 24—25; and West,
Texas, 80—81; during World
War 1, 55-64
Prague Baptist Church, 42, 149n62
Prague Conservatory of Music, 70;
Prague, Okla., Sokol competes
at, 45, 151n28
Prague Garage, 78
Prague Historical Museum, 151n24,
151n26
Prague News: advertisements in, 70,
150nl3, 154n24; anti-German
outlook during World War I,
59; arrest of Wellston baseball
team, 53; on baseball team,
158nl; on cotton production
in Lincoln County, 78; on
election of judge, 168nl2;
Emmet O’Kane’s One Price
Store, 71; first issue of, 69,
154n20; Frank Newhouse,
publisher of, 69; Frank Nipper
buys, 98—99, 162n48; and Joe
Eret’s barbershop, 76; listing
saloons in the area, 66; and
location of Vobomik and
Kinsey Meat Market, 167nl;
marriage announcements, 92;
and oil boom, 77; People s Party
holding meetings in town, 123;
physician John Mraz advertises
in, 72; publishes directory of
lodges in 1915, 46, 168nl8;
Republican in coverage, 59;
saloon fights reported in, 67;
social events reported in, 100,
162n53, 163n84; on tennis team,
101; town’s receipts reported in
1907, 66
Prague Patriot, 98, 150nl3, 154n20,
162n53. See also Mullen, Frank
Prague Public School, 117, 119
Prague Record: ads for Czech
194
Index
businesses, 154n24; on
agricultural exports, 59; anti-
German in outlook, 59; articles
from Bohemian National
Alliance, 59; on Bohemian
Hall, 150nl3; calling for better
roads, 78; covering the baseball
team, 84-86,158nl; death
of Joe Rubac, 101; death of
William Woods, 155n39; Frank
Nipper buys Prague Patriot
and changes name, 99; on
Frank Vlasak death, 51; KKK
activity reported, 125; marriage
announcements in, 94,161n41;
Prague residents activities
mentioned, 75, 99-100, 117,
156n47,162n53; on Professor
Ferdinand Pisecky lecture,
61; on Sokol trip to Europe,
150nl; stories on arrests, 67; on
Terrible Turk (wrestler) visit,
103
Prague Sluggers (baseball team),
84-86,118
Praha, 3. See also Prague, Okla.
Prairie Oil and Gas Company, 77
Presbyterians: and Bret family, 42;
using the Methodist Church, 41;
and Sabbath, 54; heritage of and
Jan Hus, 40
Pritchett, Mary Ann, 151n24
progressives, progressivism: and
Frank Vlasak, 51; and Free
Congregations (Svobodne
Obce), 34; and Oklahoma
farmers, 50; periodicals, 14, 98;
U.S. Immigration Commission
on Czechs, 81
Progressives, Progressivism, 123,
147nl9; Czechs on policies
of Robert La Follette and
Theodore Roosevelt, 122
Protestants, 12, 21-23, 36-41,43, 53,
74, 109, 120,142nll, 164nl3
Protestants (Czechs): buried in City
Cemetery (Prague, Okla.), 39;
and Catholics, 40; fleeing Thirty
Years War, 12, 109; joining
Bohemian Hall, 41; in Nebraska,
41; original numbers, 21,40;
social mingling with Catholics
and freethinkers, 41; trace
heritage to Jan Hus, 40
Provaznik, Fannie (wife of Frank),
115
Provaznik, Frank (husband of
Fannie), 115
Provaznik family, 19,144n3
Pruett, Frances (nee Wood), 161n39
Prykrill, Henry, 78
Prykrill Orchestra, 102
Quaker Oil and Gas Company,
157n61
Radne, Wise., 14. See also Wisconsin
Ragsdale 6C Perkins Saloon, 153nl0
Ramsdal Saloon, 153nl0
rationalism, rationalists, 33-34, 36,
43, 98. See freethought
Rawdon, Preston G., 78
Red Sokols, 50
Reel, John, 84, 86
Reliable Chevrolet Company, 78
Rexall Drug Store, 155n35
Roberts, Olene, 120
Ronge, Johannes, 33
Index % 195
Roosevelt, Theodore, 122
Rosewater, Edward, 34
Rosicky, John, 34
Rosicky, Rose, 35, 150n7
Rubac, Anna (wife of Joseph), 101
Rubac, Joseph Joe” (husband of
Anna), 82, 100-101
Ruth, George Babe,” 85, 158n5
Sabbatarian laws, 52
Sac and Fox: choice for county
name, 145nl3; Czechs settling
in former lands of, 20; and
Keokuk Falls, 66; and Jake
Zabloudil, 82« See also Zabloudil,
Jake
Sádlo, C. M.: early immigrant in
Prague, Okla., 36, 59; on fishing
trip with friends, 99; officer of
Samostatnost (Independence)
club, 61; respected citizen,
169n33; as tailor, 70
Sadlo, Emily (wife of George), 119
Sadlo, George: exceptional athlete,
101, 118, 139; father of, 158nl2;
in first graduating class, 117,
164n8, 166n51; moves to
Cleveland, Okla., 154n27;
pitcher for Prague Sluggers, 84,
86-87; violin instructor, 70
Sadlo-Wilson, Kathryn (daughter of
George and Emily), 170n8
Sahm, A. C„ 157n73
Sala, Ernest, 118
Sala, George Grampa” (husband of
Julia Miller), 119, 169n38
Sala, Jim, 105,118
Saline City, Nebr., 35
Samostatnost (Independence) club,
61
Savoy Theater, 103
Scotland, 25
Sefcik, Frank (faťher of Mary Anne
Pritchett), 151n24, 165n24
Sefdk, Jan, 47, 145n20
Sefcik, John, 145n20, 167n57
Sekavec, František, 145n20
Sekera, Frank, 79, 82
Seminole, Okla.: football game
against Prague, 105,163nl
Seminole Indians, 138
Šesták, Eddie, 167n57
Šesták, Ernest, 167n57
Šesták, Frank, 22-23, 115, 144n3
Šesták, George, 77
Šesták, Helen, 167n57
Šesták, Jarrod, 137
Šesták, Mary, 117
Šesták, Ross, 170n3
Šesták, Valdean, 170n3, 170n9
Šesták, Terezie: and oil leases, 77;
school attendance, 115
Sevcik, Ottokar, 70
Seven Deadly Saloons, 65
Shawnee, Okla., 75, 79
Shivers, Elien (née Bruza), 161n39
Shumate, Eva, 77
Simek, Anna Mae (daughter of
Anton), 100
Simek, Anton, 3, 23, 39, 145n23
Simek, Jaké, 169n29
Simek, John (husband of Lillian
Turner), 160n38
Sinclair Pipe Line Company, 77
Sládek, Karl, 42
Slavic, 7, 8, 13-15, 74, 97, 111,
124, 141n7, 142nl, 143nl4,
147nl2, 147n20, 153n6, 154nl9,
167n7, 167n9; Czechs as, 5,
196 Index
7; destinations in the United
States, 13-14, 19, 66, 99-100;
fraternal association, 36;
nation of Czechoslovakia, 35;
provinces, 6; relationship with
Anglo neighbors in Prague,
Okla., 132.
Slavic Benevolent Society, 36
Sleva, Frank, 169n29
Slovak League, 57
Slovaks, 7, 15, 68; as “birds of
passage,” 14, 142n4; Hungarian
domination, 14; migrating west,
31; part of “new immigrants,”
14; and U.S. Immigration
Commission, 81, 111; during
World War I, 63
Slover, A. R, 162n66
Slover, Robert, 120
Smika, Antonin, 145n20
Snajdr, Vaclav, 35
Snook, Texas: demographic and
cultural dominance, 80, 88,
132; Czechs residents of, 131;
location of Moravian Brethren
Church, 38; Robert Skrabanek
home, 131
socialism: hotbed of, 167n9; in
Prague, Okla., 50, 123
Sojka, C. V: officer of Prague lodge,
124; in Prague Boosters, 78;
Presbyterian Church member,
42; visitors to Sojka home, 100
Sojka, Elmer, 169n28
Sojka, Lydia (wife of C. V), 104
Sojka, Van, 78
Sokol Gymnastic Society, 49, 80. See
also Tyrs, Miroslav
Sokol Hall, 41, 124, 149n55; early
Chamber of Commerce
meetings, 124; end of, 165n24;
language classes held at, 107,
109-10, 119; Municipal Band
practice, 127; officers of, 61;
social events, 102
Sosenko, Henrietta, 77
Soukup, Helen, 167n57
South Creek, Okla., 25; African
American residents, 26; Czech
families from Texas, 74, 159n26;
Czech homesteads, 19, 144n3,
144n5; and Czech settlers,
92-93, 111; native-born settlers,
20; population in 1900, 22, 23;
and Pechacek family, 112
Souva, František, 20
Spaniel, Alfred, 169n28
Spaniel, Jan, 77
Sparks, Okla., 85
Speaker, Tris, 85
Spencer, Herbert, 33
Spinoza, Benedict, 32
Stasta, Frank, 145n20
Still, Frank, 103, 163n79
St. Louis, Mo., 14, 31, 83; first
Sokol in the United States, 50;
headquarters of Bohemian
Slavonian Benevolent Society,
22, 47
Stoklasa, Joe: Chamber of
Commerce member, 125,
169n33; Prague, Okla., grocer,
41
Stoklasa, John (brother of Joe), 124
Story of a Bohemian-American Village,
The (Kutak), 87
St. Wenceslaus Catholic Church, 5,
23, 117, 148n40; and the
Index
197
St. Wenceslaus Catholic Church (cont.)
Catholic worker, 40, 54;
Christmas 1919, 30; and
freethinkers, 37; George V
Johnson, priest of, 135; and
tornado, 29—30, 36, 39-40
Sucha, Agnes (daughter of Stanley
and wife of Max Brauer), 94,
160n37
Sucha, Stanley, 118, 160n37
Supler, Marie (née Svoboda), 161n39
Suva, Charles, 144n3, 169n29
Svoboda, Frank: Chamber of
Commerce member, 125,
169n33; Prague, Okla.,
blacksmith, 70
Svoboda, Jan: funeral at Methodist
Church, 42; member of ZCBJ, 41
Svoboda, Raymond, 167n57
Svoboda, Rose, 167n57
Tabor, Bohemia, 143nl4
Tarpey, M. J., 75
Terfler, Frank, 77, 113, 145n20
Terrible Turk, 103
Texas: Czech and Then Some
band, 135; and freethought,
38; Galveston, port of, 15,
143n24; Jake Zabloudil moves
to Abilene, 82, 157n79; as Lone
Star State, 38, 112, 143n24;
Moravian Brethren Church, 38,
80; and Moravians, 14, 24-25,
38, 131; Prague, Okla., Sokol
Club trip to Ft. Worth, 151n28;
Roman Catholic Church
dominates, 38; town of Snook,
38, 80, 88, 131-32; town of
West, 80-81; Wesley Pastusek
born in, 87, 158nl2; William
Harris family in, 26-27. See also
Pastusek, Wesley; Zabloudil,
Jake
Thorpe, Jim, 20, 118
Tinker Air Force Base, 16
Tower, Ray, 60, 152n56
Transcontinental Oil Company,
157n61
Tugwell, Frank, 156n52
Tulsa Race Riot, 125
Tyrs, Miroslav, 49. See also Sokol
Gymnastic Society
Ulrich, Vaclav, 145n20
Union Cotton Oil Company, 128,
168n20
University of Nebraska, 61, 161n45
Urban, Emma (sister of Jake
Zabloudil), 82
Urban, James (husband of Eula
Nash), 42
Urban, John, 162n65
Urban, Mrs. Billy, 41
U.S. Immigration Commission,
143n26, 161n44, 165n23;
agents sent to Bohemia, 12;
created in 1907, 81; examining
Czech farmers, 21. See also
immigration
Vana, Rosie, 104
Vanhooser, Gladys, 160n34
Veatch, Harmon (husband of Rose
Klabzuba), 42
Vienna, Austria: capital of Austrian
Empire, 6, 45; during World
War I, 55; Prague, Okla., Sokol
Club visits, 45, 151n28
198 Index
Vlasak, Ednamae (wife of Herbert
Kilgo), 95. See also Kilgo,
Ednamae
Vlasak, Frank (František), 3, 36, 94,
133, 157n73; chair of Bohemian
Political Association, 121-22;
chair of school board, 107-8;
charter member of Bohemian
Slavonic Benevolent Society,
47; charter member of ZCBJ,
50, 64, 124, 145n20; death of,
51, 79, 134, 144n2, 160n34;
farmer and businessman,
68-69, 134, 154n23, 165n27;
father of William, 41; leader
of new town, 64, 70, 82, 119,
122; mother s Bible, 151n26;
original land run settler, 18-19,
69, 144n3; town council seat,
124; vice-president of Lincoln
County Bank, 70, 77. See also
Progressives, Progressivism;
Vlasak, William (son of Frank)
Vlasak, Marie, 118
Vlasak, William (son of Frank),
41; buried in City Cemetery
(Prague, Okla.), 160n34;
member of ZCBJ, 41; owner of
auto garage, 76
Vlasak Building, 134, 156n52
Vlasak’s Cash Store, 79, 154n23
Vobornik, Agnes, 102
Vobornik, Charles: opens Broadway
Meat Market with C. E. Kinsey,
76, 167nl; nans for political
office, 121
Vobornik, Jan, 47, 145n20
Vobornik, Rose, 167n57
Vobomik s Meat Market, 121
Vojtech, Hynes, 145n20
Volstead Act, 67
Wadlow, Robert, 71
Walenta, J. E, 156n47
Walenta, Leonard, 165n24
Walla, Edward, 62. See also American
Legion
Walla, Franny, 103
Walla, Jiri, 47, 145n20
Watts, Lee, 141nl
Watts Saloon, 154nl0,162n65
Waukomis, Okla., 17
Weleetka, Okla., 85
Wellston, Okla., and baseball team
scandal, 53
West, Texas, 80-81
Western Czech Brotherhood
Association (Zapadni Cesko
Bratrska Jednota; ZCBJ), 22,
46, 98
White, Paul, 105, 166n44
White, Sol, 71, 155n32
Whitmore, Benjamin F. (husband of
Elizabeth): first mayor, 79; listed
in pamphlet promoting town,
128; owner of cotton mill, 75,
156n47; second place in domino
tournament, 101
Whitmore, Elizabeth (wife of
Benjamin), 60, 156n47
Whitmore, Ellen (daughter of
Benjamin and Elizabeth), 117,
166n39
Wild West show, 103. See also Still,
Frank
Williams, George, 96, 161n41
Williams (née Stastny), Effie, 161n41
Wilson, Carl, 86
Index ^ 199
Wilson, Woodrow: on self-
determination, 58; support for
allies, 59; support for creation of
Czechoslovakia, 63, 122
Wisconsin, 13-16, 19, 24, 93, 98, 113;
Racine, 14
Womastek, Henry, 167n57
Wood, A. R, 123, 168nl2
Woodmen of the World, 46, 124
Woods, William, 72, 155n39
World War I: Bohemian Political
Association, 168nl4; changing
political allegiances during,
122; and cotton production
in Prague, Okla., 78, 128;
and Edward Sefcik, 138; and
freethought, 32; and George
Sadlo, 139; and Habsburg
family, 6; KKK re-emerges after,
125; and Prague, Okla., 76, 98;
Prague, Okla., sends 111 men
to join AEF, 62, 158n2; religious
discord among Czechs during,
34, 38; and Sokols, 50, 165n24;
tensions between Czechs and
Germans, 60, 83, 95, 97
Wostichil, Wes, 169n31
Wostrcil, Anna, 36
Yukon, Okla.: as Czech capitar
of Oklahoma, 16-17; Czech
influence in, 16, 144n35; influx
of Moravians, 24
Zabloudil, Jake: bom in Ord, Nebr.,
82; cashier at First State Bank,
70; honorary tribal member, 82;
as politician, 123; subscriber to
Prague Record, 158n79
Zajic, Frank, 169n33
ZCBJ. See Western Czech
Brotherhood Association
(Zapadni Cesko Bratrska
Jednota; ZCBJ)
Zizka, Jan, 109
Index
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| spellingShingle | Smith, Philip D. From Praha to Prague Czechs in an Oklahoma farm town HISTORY / United States / General / bisacsh HISTORY / Europe / General / bisacsh HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX) / bisacsh SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies / bisacsh SOCIAL SCIENCE / Customs & Traditions / bisacsh Czech Americans Oklahoma Prague History HISTORY / United States / General HISTORY / Europe / General HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX) SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies SOCIAL SCIENCE / Customs & Traditions Tschechen (DE-588)4061083-4 gnd |
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| title | From Praha to Prague Czechs in an Oklahoma farm town |
| title_auth | From Praha to Prague Czechs in an Oklahoma farm town |
| title_exact_search | From Praha to Prague Czechs in an Oklahoma farm town |
| title_full | From Praha to Prague Czechs in an Oklahoma farm town Philip D. Smith |
| title_fullStr | From Praha to Prague Czechs in an Oklahoma farm town Philip D. Smith |
| title_full_unstemmed | From Praha to Prague Czechs in an Oklahoma farm town Philip D. Smith |
| title_short | From Praha to Prague |
| title_sort | from praha to prague czechs in an oklahoma farm town |
| title_sub | Czechs in an Oklahoma farm town |
| topic | HISTORY / United States / General / bisacsh HISTORY / Europe / General / bisacsh HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX) / bisacsh SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies / bisacsh SOCIAL SCIENCE / Customs & Traditions / bisacsh Czech Americans Oklahoma Prague History HISTORY / United States / General HISTORY / Europe / General HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX) SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies SOCIAL SCIENCE / Customs & Traditions Tschechen (DE-588)4061083-4 gnd |
| topic_facet | HISTORY / United States / General / bisacsh HISTORY / Europe / General / bisacsh HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX) / bisacsh SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies / bisacsh SOCIAL SCIENCE / Customs & Traditions / bisacsh Czech Americans Oklahoma Prague History HISTORY / United States / General HISTORY / Europe / General HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX) SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies SOCIAL SCIENCE / Customs & Traditions Tschechen Oklahoma |
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