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The Boley Progress. (Boley, Indian Terr.), Vol. 1, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 6, 1905 - Page 1 of 4 - The Gateway to Oklahoma History

The Boley Progress. (Boley, Indian Terr.), Vol. 1, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 6, 1905 - Page 1 of 4 - The Gateway to Oklahoma History From a front page editorial in a newspaper urging black settlement in and...

Posted by Michael Bates on November 26, 2023 6:48 PM

Television Digest's map of television stations and network routes: 1955 - Oklahoma Maps - Digital Collections - Oklahoma State University

Television Digest's map of television stations and network routes: 1955 - Digital Collections - Oklahoma State University Before satellites, TV networks used coax cables and microwave links to relay programming from station to station across the country. This map shows...

Posted by Michael Bates on June 9, 2022 1:03 AM

Scoping Out The Future Home of Reba McEntire's "Reba's Place" | Saving Country Music

Scoping Out The Future Home of Reba McEntire's "Reba's Place" | Saving Country Music "To be called Reba's Place, it will include a restaurant, bar, music venue, and retail store. It will be the home of all things Reba, including...

Posted by Michael Bates on April 15, 2022 9:23 AM

Shell Highway Map of Oklahoma. - David Rumsey Historical Map Collection

1948 Shell Highway Map of Oklahoma. - David Rumsey Historical Map Collection A remarkable map of Oklahoma that not only shows the official highway system, but also county roads and small towns that were usually omitted by the official state...

Posted by Michael Bates on January 6, 2018 4:58 PM

Historical Hurricane Tracks

Historical Hurricane Tracks This app from NOAA shows the tracks of all tropical depressions, storms, and hurricanes in its record books and allows you to search for storms that have passed within a certain radius of a particular place. The...

Posted by Michael Bates on August 27, 2015 5:36 PM

Tulsa County Fairgrounds (Expo Square) 1964 scans and photos

Tulsa County Fairgrounds (Expo Square) 1964 scans and photos Photos of IPE building near completion (also showing KELi Satellite, Pavilion, and Bell's Amusement Park) and a twelve-page program from the 15th anniversary award dinner of the Tulsa Exposition and Fair...

Posted by Michael Bates on August 15, 2014 2:26 PM

Cherokee Phoenix: Camp Gruber forced 2nd removal for Cherokees

Cherokee Phoenix: Camp Gruber forced 2nd removal for Cherokees "As war broke out in 1939 in Europe, President Franklin D. Roosevelt called for military preparedness, requiring the government to condemn land for military camps, including Camp Gruber in Muskogee County....

Posted by Michael Bates on January 31, 2014 12:36 PM

Tom Coburn Leaves a Lonely Place Lonelier - Bloomberg

Tom Coburn Leaves a Lonely Place Lonelier - Margaret Carlson - Bloomberg "In the Senate, Coburn pushed the sharpened-pencil auditors at the General Accounting Office to find duplication, fraud, waste and abuse in government. This quest wasn't merely a rhetorical...

Posted by Michael Bates on January 30, 2014 4:00 PM

US House Redistricting: Oklahoma

US House Redistricting: Oklahoma Would it have been possible to draw a congressional district in Oklahoma that Barack Obama would have won in 2008? Two different possibilities are presented, both of them long and narrow -- one stretching from north...

Posted by Michael Bates on September 18, 2011 1:07 AM

University of Tulsa 1972 yearbook ads

University of Tulsa 1972 yearbook ads Brown-Dunkin downtown is gone, but they've added stores in Muskogee and Oklahoma City's Shepherd Mall. Sandy's has expanded to 5002 N. Peoria and 38th & Harvard. Fewer ads than the 1968 book, it appears....

Posted by Michael Bates on July 7, 2009 2:09 PM