Author: Esther B. Trantham Rogers
Publisher: Publish America
ISBN: 9781413772050
Category : Oklahoma
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Barefoot in the Cotton Fields of Oklahoma is a compilation of short stories of childhood memories told through the eyes of a unique woman. The main character, Esther, is a child in a family of twelve with numerous uncles, aunts, cousins, and family friends. Follow Esther through the stories, as she and her extended family deal with "going without" during the Depression in Oklahoma and on to California in her later teen years. As you read, you will see that some of the stories depict the children's innocence of knowing right from wrong, but still doing wrong because it is just a whole lot more fun. However, as you get further into some of the stories, they will tug at your heart, as you see Esther come against trying times and moments of indecision about her life. Some stories will make you cry and others result in laughter. However, all of the stories will make you think and appreciate your life and the people in it. What's the fun in walking barefoot in the cotton fields of Oklahoma if you are all alone?
Author: Belinda Jelliffe
Publisher: Kent State University Press
ISBN: 9780873387477
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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I've often read books about people who grew up in the country, and have been amazed to find that they all seemed to have been great philosophers. They saw, and felt, a great deal more than I had time to see or think or feel. They seem to have responded poetically to clouds floating in a blue sky, and rhapsodized on the music of summer rain. I often wonder if they had to go two miles in musical summer rain to milk, and to carry the full pail carefully home without getting rain mixed with it, and then walk three miles through stiff clinging mud, to school. I know that often in the heat of noonday, leaning on a hoe, looking across valleys at the mountains, so blue, so close, my only conscious thought was, 'How can I ever get away from here?' Thus begins Belinda Jelliffe's semi-autobiographical novel For Dear Life, first published in 1936. The republication of this novel reintroduces readers to a strong southern writer, an interesting female voice, and a compelling story. This realistic portrayal of life among the rural poor of the early twentieth century shows the struggle of a tough-minded woman who fought her entire life to overcome the obstacles that confronted women and the work
Author: Micki Nellis
Publisher: Buffalo Creek Press
ISBN: 1885534183
Category : McCurtain County (Okla.)
Languages : en
Pages : 191
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Author: Karl Anderson
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439676763
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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The Oklahoma Music Trail is a pictorial essay that features the music genres, performers, and songwriters of Oklahoma. There are literally hundreds of artists who have made their home in Oklahoma. The cowboy ballads of Gene Autry, Western swing that ori
Author: David Estes
Publisher: Booktango
ISBN: 1468922491
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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Will Savage hits the trail to smoke out Aubrey Roan, the cold-blooded killer of Marshal Joe Freeman--to reward Roan for the killing. Roan's brother, John Castledine,own marshal of Buffalo Flats, Kansas, believes Savage only wants to collect bounty for bringing his brother in for trial. Also, Savage faces the Barefoot clan, accused of "killin' our kin," renews a relationship with Meg McGraff. A tale of two strong men taking different roads to accomplish the same end.
Author: T. Lindsay Baker
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806128597
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 564
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"I never talk to nobody 'bout this" was the response of one aged African American when asked by a Works Project Administration field worker to share memories of his life in slavery and after emancipation. He and other ex-slaves were uncomfortable with the memories of a time when black and white lives were interwoven through human bondage. Yet the WPA field workers overcame the old people's reticence, and American West scholars T. Lindsay Baker and Julie P. Baker have collected all the known WPA Oklahoma "slave narratives" in this volume for the first time - including fourteen never published before. Their careful editorial notes detail what is known about the interviewers and the process of preparing the narratives.
Author: Robert Underhill
Publisher: Algora Publishing
ISBN: 1628941405
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 211
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During the Great Depression, writers of True Crime could take the decade off: life was imitating art so dramatically they had nothing to add. In these pages historian Robert Underhill presents the most notorious criminals of 1930-1934: Wilbur Underhill, Alvin Karpis, the Barker Clan, Pretty Boy Floyd, Baby Face Nelson, the Barrows (Buck, Blanche, Clyde, and Bonnie), and John Dillinger along with supporting material on their henchmen and the rise of the FBI. Often armed better than the police, criminals of the 1930s committed deeds ranging from stealing chickens to kidnappings, bank robberies, and killing innocent victims. Yet such crimes were often taken in stride by avid readers. Cooperation among local, state and federal lawmen was rare as each sought to protect his own turf. Criminals and lawmen made mistakes battling one another, but in most cases the law triumphed and the wanted fugitive died under a hail of bullets. His death would start myths and raise his reputation to national status. The author of 'Against the Grain: Six Men Who Shaped America' and 'The Rise and Fall of Franklin D. Roosevelt' shows us another aspect of the Roosevelt era and portrays a series of figures who contributed to pop culture as well helping to shape the security forces in America. Robbing the banks and driving fast cars, they did what many Americans dreamed of, and gave a depressed populace some excitement to distract from everyday worries. With the Great Depression, some citizens came to regard bank robbers as modern Robin Hoods seeking to avenge depositors whose life earnings had been wiped out by a bank's failure or malfeasance by its owners. No small wonder that criminals were given colorful sobriquets and fact and fiction became intertwined. Underhill shows how such heists, and kidnappings especially, helped create the modern FBI, overcoming the complaints of those who alleged that a federal force was the first step toward an American Gestapo. The belief that federal government had nothing to do with fighting crime was rooted in the U.S. Constitution and its provisions for states' rights. Local police were expected to provide security and to apprehend criminals without Washington getting involved. In the big cities, Prohibition era mobsters still ruled, but in the Midwest especially, smaller bands, "gangsters," began to make headlines. They tended to be blue-collar criminals whose favorite targets were filling stations, grocery stores, and small town banks. Prior to 1930, corruption was rife and cooperation among local, state, and federal police was little to none; criminals often got away. Only in 1935 was the FBI formally anointed and its agents were permitted to carry guns. Now, there was a federal agency that could supply sheriffs all over the country with information on suspected criminals. By 1935, the hardest times of the Depression were beginning to ease and the thrill of watching these cops-and-robber stories play out was combined with a renewed interest in the lives of the rich and famous, previously scorned for their role in ripping off the average man. All in all, the early 1930s were a uniquely dramatic time for crime and crimestoppers in America.
Author: Lydia Reeder
Publisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 1616204664
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 303
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"Published simultaneously in Canada by Thomas Allen & Son Limited."
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Category : Fertilizers
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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Author: Oklahoma. State Election Board
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Category : Oklahoma
Languages : en
Pages : 1094
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