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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Oklahoma's Governors, 1890-1907
Author: Oklahoma's Governors, 1890-1907
Author: LeRoy Henry FischerPublisher:
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Category : Governors
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Biographical sketches of Oklahoma's Governors from 1890-1907.
Oklahoma's Governors, 1907-1929
Author: LeRoy Henry FischerPublisher:
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
This volume in a multi-volume series on biographical studies of Oklahoma's governors chronicles the period from statehood to the threshold of the Great Depression.
A Tour on the Prairies
Author: Washington IrvingPublisher:
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Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
In the Fall of 1832 Washington Irving took part in what he called "a month foray beyond the outposts of human habitation, into the wilderness of the Far West." As was his habit, Irving kept a memorandum book, which he later expanded into A Tour on the Prairies, a real-life Western adventure in the third decade of the nineteenth century. His account is fresh and clear. He saw and makes his readers see the frontiersmen, the trappers, the Indians, and the troopers as they actually were in the 1830s.
Congressional Record
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1084
Book Description
They Carried the Torch
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Category : American newspapers
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
And Still the Waters Run
Author: Angie DeboPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691237778
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
The classic book that exposed the scandal of the dispossession of native land by American settlers And Still the Waters Run tells the tragic story of the liquidation of the independent Indian republics of the Choctaws, Chickasaws, Cherokees, Creeks, and Seminoles, known as the Five Civilized Tribes. At the turn of the twentieth century, the tribes owned the eastern half of what is now Oklahoma, a territory immensely wealthy in farmland, forests, coal, and oil. Their political and economic status was guaranteed by the federal government—until American settlers arrived. Congress abrogated treaties that it had promised would last “as long as the waters run,” and within a generation, the tribes were systematically stripped of their holdings, and were rescued from starvation only through public charity. Called a “work of art” by writer Oliver La Farge, And Still the Waters Run was so controversial when it was first published that Angie Debo was banned from teaching in Oklahoma for many years. Now with an incisive foreword by Amanda Cobb-Greetham, here is the acclaimed book that first documented the scandalous founding of Oklahoma on native land.
Oklahoma City Music
Author: Anita G. ArnoldPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738584270
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Oklahoma City's rich music history traces back to Deep Deuce, the heart of the African American community that became an important resource for national jazz and blues bands seeking talented musicians who were often classically trained. Two icons and many legends are among the famous sons and daughters who lived in this cultural Mecca. Oklahoma City's Music: Deep Deuce and Beyond details the birth and growth of music in Oklahoma City's African American community from the 1920s until the late 1990s. Musical influences of families and individuals, venues, dance, and fashion blend with new-era traditions such as parades, jam sessions, and street parties to create a culture that became well known. This book explores how the seeds of music so deeply planted in the early days continue to produce great musicians and how the influences of those icons will vibrate throughout future international generations.
Constitutoin of the State of Oklahoma, January 23, 1908
Author: OklahomaPublisher:
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Category : Constitutions
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
1889
Author: Michael J. HightowerPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806162333
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
After immigrants flooded into central Oklahoma during the land rush of 1889 and the future capital of Oklahoma City sprang up “within a fortnight,” the city’s residents adopted the slogan “born grown” to describe their new home. But the territory’s creation was never so simple or straightforward. The real story, steeped in the politics of the Gilded Age, unfolds in 1889, Michael J. Hightower’s revealing look at a moment in history that, in all its turmoil and complexity, transcends the myth. Hightower frames his story within the larger history of Old Oklahoma, beginning in Indian Territory, where displaced tribes and freedmen, wealthy cattlemen, and prospective homesteaders became embroiled in disputes over public land and federal government policies. Against this fraught background, 1889 travels back and forth between Washington, D.C., and the Oklahoma frontier to describe the politics of settlement, public land use, and the first stirrings of urban development. Drawing on eyewitness accounts, Hightower captures the drama of the Boomer incursions and the Run of ’89, as well as the nascent urbanization of the townsite that would become Oklahoma City. All of these events played out in a political vacuum until Congress officially created Oklahoma Territory in the Organic Act of May 1890. The story of central Oklahoma is profoundly American, showing the region to have been a crucible for melding competing national interests and visions of the future. Boomers, businessmen, cattlemen, soldiers, politicians, pundits, and African and Native Americans squared off—sometimes peacefully, often not—in disagreements over public lands that would resonate in western history long after 1889.
