Author: Pottawatomie County History Book Committee
Publisher: Country Lane Press, Incorporated
ISBN: 9780941195003
Category : Pottawatomie County (Okla.)
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma History
Author: Pottawatomie County History Book Committee
Publisher: Country Lane Press, Incorporated
ISBN: 9780941195003
Category : Pottawatomie County (Okla.)
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
Publisher: Country Lane Press, Incorporated
ISBN: 9780941195003
Category : Pottawatomie County (Okla.)
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
A History of the State of Oklahoma
Author: Luther B. Hill
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Oklahoma
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Oklahoma
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description
Oklahoma Place Names
Author: George H. Shirk
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806120287
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Located in the Oklahoma Collection.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806120287
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Located in the Oklahoma Collection.
Haunted Shawnee, Oklahoma
Author: Tanya McCoy and Jeff Provine
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467146862
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Home to numerous tribal reservations that survived the land run that swept around them, Shawnee stands at an intersection of worlds. For travelers of the Wild West, crossing over into Oklahoma Territory meant more than crossing a state line. "Stop for twenty minutes and see a man killed," stagecoach drivers warned visitors to Shawnee's treacherous saloons. The oil boom of the 1920s brought a wave of wealth that only encouraged nefarious activity. Shawnee's quiet present may belie its fevered past, but the spirits of former gunslingers, prostitutes and everyday folk still live on. From strange sounds at the old Sacred Heart Mission to specters roaming the halls of the luxurious Aldridge Hotel, Tanya McCoy and Jeff Provine provide an introduction to Shawnee's haunted past.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467146862
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Home to numerous tribal reservations that survived the land run that swept around them, Shawnee stands at an intersection of worlds. For travelers of the Wild West, crossing over into Oklahoma Territory meant more than crossing a state line. "Stop for twenty minutes and see a man killed," stagecoach drivers warned visitors to Shawnee's treacherous saloons. The oil boom of the 1920s brought a wave of wealth that only encouraged nefarious activity. Shawnee's quiet present may belie its fevered past, but the spirits of former gunslingers, prostitutes and everyday folk still live on. From strange sounds at the old Sacred Heart Mission to specters roaming the halls of the luxurious Aldridge Hotel, Tanya McCoy and Jeff Provine provide an introduction to Shawnee's haunted past.
Women of Oklahoma, 1890-1920
Author: Linda Williams Reese
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806129990
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Linda Williams Reese tells of political activist Kate Barnard, who became Oklahoma's Commissioner of Charities and Corrections but fell from political grace, of Alice Robertson, who in 1920 abandoned the acceptable female endeavors of teaching and charity work to become a representative to the U.S Congress, and of Isabel Crawford, missionary to the Kiowas, who confided to her journal, "There are different kinds of hardships and those of the heart and spirit are harder to bear.".
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806129990
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Linda Williams Reese tells of political activist Kate Barnard, who became Oklahoma's Commissioner of Charities and Corrections but fell from political grace, of Alice Robertson, who in 1920 abandoned the acceptable female endeavors of teaching and charity work to become a representative to the U.S Congress, and of Isabel Crawford, missionary to the Kiowas, who confided to her journal, "There are different kinds of hardships and those of the heart and spirit are harder to bear.".
Belle Starr and Her Times
Author: Glenn Shirley
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806187263
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Who was Belle Starr? What was she that so many myths surround her? Born in Carthage, Missouri, in 1848, the daughter of a well-to-do hotel owner, she died forty-one years later, gunned down near her cabin in the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma. After her death she was called “a bandit queen,” “a female Jesse James,” “the Petticoat Terror of the Plains.” Fantastic legends proliferated about her. In this book Glenn Shirley sifts through those myths and unearths the facts. In a highly readable and informative style Shirley presents a complex and intriguing portrait. Belle Starr loved horses, music, the outdoors-and outlaws. Familiar with some of the worst bad men of her day, she was, however, convicted of no crime worse than horse thievery. Shirley also describes the historical context in which Belles Starr lived. After knowing the violence of the Civil War as a child in the Ozarks, She moves to Dallas in the 1860s and married a former Confederate guerilla who specialized in armed robbery. After he was killed, she found a home among renegade Cherokees in the Indian Territory, on her second husband’s allotment. She traveled as far west as Los Angeles to escape the law and as far north as Detroit to go to jail. She married three times and had two children, whom she idolized and tormented. Ironically she was shot when she had decided to go straight, probably murdered by a neighbor who feared that she would turn him in to the police. This book will find a wide readership among western-history and outlaw buffs, folklorists, sociologists, and regional historians. Shirley’s summary of the literature about Belle Starr is as interesting as the true story of Belle herself, who has become the West’s best-known woman outlaw.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806187263
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Who was Belle Starr? What was she that so many myths surround her? Born in Carthage, Missouri, in 1848, the daughter of a well-to-do hotel owner, she died forty-one years later, gunned down near her cabin in the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma. After her death she was called “a bandit queen,” “a female Jesse James,” “the Petticoat Terror of the Plains.” Fantastic legends proliferated about her. In this book Glenn Shirley sifts through those myths and unearths the facts. In a highly readable and informative style Shirley presents a complex and intriguing portrait. Belle Starr loved horses, music, the outdoors-and outlaws. Familiar with some of the worst bad men of her day, she was, however, convicted of no crime worse than horse thievery. Shirley also describes the historical context in which Belles Starr lived. After knowing the violence of the Civil War as a child in the Ozarks, She moves to Dallas in the 1860s and married a former Confederate guerilla who specialized in armed robbery. After he was killed, she found a home among renegade Cherokees in the Indian Territory, on her second husband’s allotment. She traveled as far west as Los Angeles to escape the law and as far north as Detroit to go to jail. She married three times and had two children, whom she idolized and tormented. Ironically she was shot when she had decided to go straight, probably murdered by a neighbor who feared that she would turn him in to the police. This book will find a wide readership among western-history and outlaw buffs, folklorists, sociologists, and regional historians. Shirley’s summary of the literature about Belle Starr is as interesting as the true story of Belle herself, who has become the West’s best-known woman outlaw.
Muskogee and Northeastern Oklahoma
Author: John Downing Benedict
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cherokee Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 710
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cherokee Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 710
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Black Gun, Silver Star
Author: Art T. Burton
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496234464
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
In The Story of Oklahoma, Deputy U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves appears as the "most feared U.S. marshal in the Indian country." That Reeves was also an African American who had spent his early life enslaved in Arkansas and Texas made his accomplishments all the more remarkable. Black Gun, Silver Star sifts through fact and legend to discover the truth about one of the most outstanding peace officers in late nineteenth-century America--and perhaps the greatest lawman of the Wild West era. Bucking the odds ("I'm sorry, we didn't keep Black people's history," a clerk at one of Oklahoma's local historical societies answered one query), Art T. Burton traces Reeves from his days of slavery to his Civil War soldiering to his career as a deputy U.S. marshal out of Fort Smith, Arkansas, when he worked under "Hanging Judge" Isaac C. Parker. Fluent in Creek and other regional Native languages, physically powerful, skilled with firearms, and a master of disguise, Reeves was exceptionally adept at apprehending fugitives and outlaws and his exploits were legendary in Oklahoma and Arkansas. In this new edition Burton traces Reeves's presence in the national media of his day as well as his growing modern presence in popular media such as television, movies, comics, and video games.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496234464
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
In The Story of Oklahoma, Deputy U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves appears as the "most feared U.S. marshal in the Indian country." That Reeves was also an African American who had spent his early life enslaved in Arkansas and Texas made his accomplishments all the more remarkable. Black Gun, Silver Star sifts through fact and legend to discover the truth about one of the most outstanding peace officers in late nineteenth-century America--and perhaps the greatest lawman of the Wild West era. Bucking the odds ("I'm sorry, we didn't keep Black people's history," a clerk at one of Oklahoma's local historical societies answered one query), Art T. Burton traces Reeves from his days of slavery to his Civil War soldiering to his career as a deputy U.S. marshal out of Fort Smith, Arkansas, when he worked under "Hanging Judge" Isaac C. Parker. Fluent in Creek and other regional Native languages, physically powerful, skilled with firearms, and a master of disguise, Reeves was exceptionally adept at apprehending fugitives and outlaws and his exploits were legendary in Oklahoma and Arkansas. In this new edition Burton traces Reeves's presence in the national media of his day as well as his growing modern presence in popular media such as television, movies, comics, and video games.
History of Harrison County, Missouri
Author: George W. Wanamaker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Harrison County (Mo.)
Languages : en
Pages : 908
Book Description
History of Harrison County, Missouri containing personal sketches of many who have been identified with the development the county.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Harrison County (Mo.)
Languages : en
Pages : 908
Book Description
History of Harrison County, Missouri containing personal sketches of many who have been identified with the development the county.
History of Atchison County, Kansas
Author: Sheffield Ingalls
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atchison County (Kan.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1008
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atchison County (Kan.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1008
Book Description