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Weird history: Heavener Runestone may prove Vikings were in Oklahoma 1000 years ago | KFOR.com Oklahoma City
Weird history: Heavener Runestone may prove Vikings were in Oklahoma 1000 years ago | KFOR.com Oklahoma City "'If the tales told by the old-timers are correct, Oklahoma may once have contained dozens of runestones. Five of these have been found,'...
Fort Gibson: A Brief History, by Grant and Carolyn Thomas Foreman
Fort Gibson: A Brief History, by Grant and Carolyn Thomas Foreman Fort Gibson, Oklahoma, marked its bicentennial last month. "It was on the twenty-first day of April 1824, that two long flatboats were to be seen ascending Grand River, manned...
The Treaty Principles Bill
The Treaty Principles Bill "We can have a democratic form of government or we can have indigenous sovereignty. They can't coexist and we can't have them both." -- former New Zealand Prime Minister David Lange, 2001. The ACT New Zealand...
The Boley Progress. (Boley, Indian Terr.), Vol. 1, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 6, 1905 - Page 2 of 4 - The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Boley Progress. (Boley, Indian Terr.), Vol. 1, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 6, 1905 - Page 2 of 4 - The Gateway to Oklahoma History An early day Rainman, and an interesting look at change in word meanings:...
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...
(339) Haskell State School of Agriculture | lost-colleges
(339) Haskell State School of Agriculture | lost-colleges One of six agricultural junior colleges authorized by the first Oklahoma legislature, but defunded in 1917, the campus sat at the east end of College Ave. in Broken Arrow, and the main...
Football | The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture
Football | The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture Semi-pro football in Tulsa: "In Tulsa the Oilers formed in 1966 and played in the Texas Professional Football League, played the 1967 season as the Thunderbirds, moved to Bartlesville as the...
The Pierce Pennant Tavern - Miami, Oklahoma History
The Pierce Pennant Tavern - Miami, Oklahoma History From the May 11, 1929, issue of Tavern Talk, a description of the main entrance of the soon-to-open Pierce Pennant Tavern in Miami: "Upon alighting from his automobile under a massive white...
The Tulsa Democrat. (Tulsa, Okla.), Vol. 10, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 15, 1909 - Page 5 of 8 - The Gateway to Oklahoma History
"Senator Gore's Opinion of New Election Law," The Tulsa Democrat. (Tulsa, Okla.), Vol. 10, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 15, 1909 - Page 5 of 8 - The Gateway to Oklahoma History Democratic U. S. Senator Thomas Gore expresses...
Talala Gazette (Talala, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 8, 1909 - Page 6 of 8 - The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Talala Gazette (Talala, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 8, 1909 Page: 6 of 8 The controversy over teaching reading by whole-word methods vs. phonics has been around for a very long time. From an item about...
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