William Thomas Hagan (December 19, 1918 – August 5, 2011) was a history professor at the

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and an author. He was born in

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. He served in World War II. He studied at Marshall College (now Marshall University) and the

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. He taught at the

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in Denton, in the SUNY system, and then joined the University of Oklahoma faculty where he was a professor emeritus. He was married to Charlotte “April” Hagan with whom he had four children.

Work

*''The Sac and Fox Indians'' (1958) *''American Indians'' (1961) *''Indian Police and Judges'' (1966) *''United States-Comanche Relations'' (1976) *''The Indian Rights Association : the Herbert Welsh years, 1882–1904'' (1985) *''Quanah Parker, Comanche Chief'' (1995) *''Theodore Roosevelt and Six Friends of the Indians'' (1997) *''Taking Indian Lands: The Cherokee (Jerome) Commission, 1889–1893'' (2003), *''Charles Goodnight: Father of the Texas Panhandle'' (2007)

References

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