The focus of this study is to examine the early reports and studies concerning the development of two-year colleges in Oklahoma. The basic inquiry is the examination of the reports of the Oklahoma State Superintendent of Instruction and the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education as well as dissertations or theses produced by University of Oklahoma students. The author's goal is to obtain a better understanding of the development of two-year colleges and also to understand the relevance of several contemporary educational issues for Oklahoma's two-year colleges (i.e., retention, transfer, role and purpose, students, faculty, accreditation, curriculum, and articulation). Particular attention is given to the establishment and development of municipal junior colleges. In the conclusion, the author asserts that Oklahoma's public junior colleges developed along two paths. State-supported junior colleges arose from the expansion of the state supported preparatory schools and the six agriculture schools. Local school districts established what was mistakenly referred to as municipal junior colleges. The first schools established for either path were formally recognized as junior colleges in 1920. (Contains 37 references.) (RC)