Author: Bob L. Blackburn
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780865460898
Category : Agricultural exhibitions
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
A History of the State Fair of Oklahoma
Author: Bob L. Blackburn
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780865460898
Category : Agricultural exhibitions
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780865460898
Category : Agricultural exhibitions
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
A Standard History of Oklahoma
Author: Joseph Bradfield Thoburn
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Oklahoma
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Oklahoma
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
Tourists of History
Author: Marita Sturken
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822341222
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
DIVStudy of how the memorials created in Oklahoma City and at the World Trade Center site raise questions about the relationship between cultural memory and consumerism./div
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822341222
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
DIVStudy of how the memorials created in Oklahoma City and at the World Trade Center site raise questions about the relationship between cultural memory and consumerism./div
The Oklahoma Historical Society
Author: Oklahoma Historical Society
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
Boom Town
Author: Sam Anderson
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0804137323
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
A brilliant, kaleidoscopic narrative of Oklahoma City—a great American story of civics, basketball, and destiny, from award-winning journalist Sam Anderson NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • NPR • Chicago Tribune • San Francisco Chronicle • The Economist • Deadspin Oklahoma City was born from chaos. It was founded in a bizarre but momentous “Land Run” in 1889, when thousands of people lined up along the borders of Oklahoma Territory and rushed in at noon to stake their claims. Since then, it has been a city torn between the wild energy that drives its outsized ambitions, and the forces of order that seek sustainable progress. Nowhere was this dynamic better realized than in the drama of the Oklahoma City Thunder basketball team’s 2012-13 season, when the Thunder’s brilliant general manager, Sam Presti, ignited a firestorm by trading future superstar James Harden just days before the first game. Presti’s all-in gamble on “the Process”—the patient, methodical management style that dictated the trade as the team’s best hope for long-term greatness—kicked off a pivotal year in the city’s history, one that would include pitched battles over urban planning, a series of cataclysmic tornadoes, and the frenzied hope that an NBA championship might finally deliver the glory of which the city had always dreamed. Boom Town announces the arrival of an exciting literary voice. Sam Anderson, former book critic for New York magazine and now a staff writer at the New York Times magazine, unfolds an idiosyncratic mix of American history, sports reporting, urban studies, gonzo memoir, and much more to tell the strange but compelling story of an American city whose unique mix of geography and history make it a fascinating microcosm of the democratic experiment. Filled with characters ranging from NBA superstars Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook; to Flaming Lips oddball frontman Wayne Coyne; to legendary Great Plains meteorologist Gary England; to Stanley Draper, Oklahoma City's would-be Robert Moses; to civil rights activist Clara Luper; to the citizens and public servants who survived the notorious 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah federal building, Boom Town offers a remarkable look at the urban tapestry woven from control and chaos, sports and civics.
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0804137323
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
A brilliant, kaleidoscopic narrative of Oklahoma City—a great American story of civics, basketball, and destiny, from award-winning journalist Sam Anderson NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • NPR • Chicago Tribune • San Francisco Chronicle • The Economist • Deadspin Oklahoma City was born from chaos. It was founded in a bizarre but momentous “Land Run” in 1889, when thousands of people lined up along the borders of Oklahoma Territory and rushed in at noon to stake their claims. Since then, it has been a city torn between the wild energy that drives its outsized ambitions, and the forces of order that seek sustainable progress. Nowhere was this dynamic better realized than in the drama of the Oklahoma City Thunder basketball team’s 2012-13 season, when the Thunder’s brilliant general manager, Sam Presti, ignited a firestorm by trading future superstar James Harden just days before the first game. Presti’s all-in gamble on “the Process”—the patient, methodical management style that dictated the trade as the team’s best hope for long-term greatness—kicked off a pivotal year in the city’s history, one that would include pitched battles over urban planning, a series of cataclysmic tornadoes, and the frenzied hope that an NBA championship might finally deliver the glory of which the city had always dreamed. Boom Town announces the arrival of an exciting literary voice. Sam Anderson, former book critic for New York magazine and now a staff writer at the New York Times magazine, unfolds an idiosyncratic mix of American history, sports reporting, urban studies, gonzo memoir, and much more to tell the strange but compelling story of an American city whose unique mix of geography and history make it a fascinating microcosm of the democratic experiment. Filled with characters ranging from NBA superstars Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook; to Flaming Lips oddball frontman Wayne Coyne; to legendary Great Plains meteorologist Gary England; to Stanley Draper, Oklahoma City's would-be Robert Moses; to civil rights activist Clara Luper; to the citizens and public servants who survived the notorious 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah federal building, Boom Town offers a remarkable look at the urban tapestry woven from control and chaos, sports and civics.
Oklahoma City
Author: Terry L. Griffith
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439627053
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Located along the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, at a stop known as Oklahoma Station, Oklahoma City was born on April 22, 1889, at 12 noon. By 6:00 p.m., she had a population of around 10,000 citizens. As with any birth, there were many firsts in the newly opened territory, and many of these landmark events have been captured and preserved in historic photographs. With images culled from the archives of the authors own vast personal collection as well as the Oklahoma Historical Society and other collections, the stories of prosperity and development of the areas first settlers are told through Statehood. In light of this perseverance, it is no wonder that Theodore Roosevelt announced, Men and Women of Oklahoma. I was never in your country until last night, but I feel at home here. I am blood of your blood, and bone of your bone, and I am bound to some of you, and to your sons, by the strongest ties that can bind one man to another.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439627053
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Located along the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, at a stop known as Oklahoma Station, Oklahoma City was born on April 22, 1889, at 12 noon. By 6:00 p.m., she had a population of around 10,000 citizens. As with any birth, there were many firsts in the newly opened territory, and many of these landmark events have been captured and preserved in historic photographs. With images culled from the archives of the authors own vast personal collection as well as the Oklahoma Historical Society and other collections, the stories of prosperity and development of the areas first settlers are told through Statehood. In light of this perseverance, it is no wonder that Theodore Roosevelt announced, Men and Women of Oklahoma. I was never in your country until last night, but I feel at home here. I am blood of your blood, and bone of your bone, and I am bound to some of you, and to your sons, by the strongest ties that can bind one man to another.
Indian Affairs
Author: United States
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 944
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 944
Book Description
Harlow's Weekly
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Oklahoma
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Oklahoma
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
Compiled Statutes of Oklahoma, 1921
Author: Oklahoma
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 2772
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 2772
Book Description
Historia
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Oklahoma
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Oklahoma
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description