The Story Of Oklahoma

Author : W. David Baird
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806126500
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Story of Oklahoma written by W. David Baird and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the people and events that have shaped the state's history

Author : Lon Tinkle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Story of Oklahoma written by Lon Tinkle and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : W. David Baird
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806182938
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oklahoma written by W. David Baird and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2014-08-04 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The product of two of Oklahoma’s foremost authorities on the history of the 46th state, Oklahoma: A History is the first comprehensive narrative to bring the story of the Sooner State to the threshold of its centennial. From the tectonic formation of Oklahoma’s varied landscape to the recovery and renewal following the Oklahoma City bombing, this readable book includes both the well-known and the not-so-familiar of the state’s people, events, and places. W. David Baird and Danney Goble offer fresh perspectives on such widely recognized history makers as Sequoyah, the 1889 Land Run, and the Glenn Pool oil strike. But they also give due attention to Black Seminole John Horse, Tulsa’s Greenwood District, Coach Bertha Frank Teague’s 40-year winning streak with the Byng Lady Pirates, and other lesser-known but equally important milestones. The result is a rousing, often surprising, and ever-fascinating story. Oklahoma history is an intricate tapestry of themes, stories, and perspectives, including those of the state’s diverse population of American Indians, the land’s original human occupants. An appendix provides suggestions for trips to Oklahoma’s historic places and for further reading. Enhanced by more than 40 illustrations, including 11 maps, this definitive history of the state ensures that experiences shared by Oklahomans of the past will be passed on to future generations.

Author : Sam Anderson
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0804137323
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Boom Town written by Sam Anderson and published by Crown. This book was released on 2018-08-21 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant, kaleidoscopic narrative of Oklahoma City—a great American story of civics, basketball, and destiny, from award-winning journalist Sam Anderson NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • NPR • Chicago Tribune • San Francisco Chronicle • The Economist • Deadspin Oklahoma City was born from chaos. It was founded in a bizarre but momentous “Land Run” in 1889, when thousands of people lined up along the borders of Oklahoma Territory and rushed in at noon to stake their claims. Since then, it has been a city torn between the wild energy that drives its outsized ambitions, and the forces of order that seek sustainable progress. Nowhere was this dynamic better realized than in the drama of the Oklahoma City Thunder basketball team’s 2012-13 season, when the Thunder’s brilliant general manager, Sam Presti, ignited a firestorm by trading future superstar James Harden just days before the first game. Presti’s all-in gamble on “the Process”—the patient, methodical management style that dictated the trade as the team’s best hope for long-term greatness—kicked off a pivotal year in the city’s history, one that would include pitched battles over urban planning, a series of cataclysmic tornadoes, and the frenzied hope that an NBA championship might finally deliver the glory of which the city had always dreamed. Boom Town announces the arrival of an exciting literary voice. Sam Anderson, former book critic for New York magazine and now a staff writer at the New York Times magazine, unfolds an idiosyncratic mix of American history, sports reporting, urban studies, gonzo memoir, and much more to tell the strange but compelling story of an American city whose unique mix of geography and history make it a fascinating microcosm of the democratic experiment. Filled with characters ranging from NBA superstars Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook; to Flaming Lips oddball frontman Wayne Coyne; to legendary Great Plains meteorologist Gary England; to Stanley Draper, Oklahoma City's would-be Robert Moses; to civil rights activist Clara Luper; to the citizens and public servants who survived the notorious 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah federal building, Boom Town offers a remarkable look at the urban tapestry woven from control and chaos, sports and civics.

Author : Tim Carter
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190665238
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oklahoma! written by Tim Carter and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-31 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2007, "Oklahoma!": The Making of an American Musical tells the full story of the beloved Rodgers and Hammerstein musical. Author Tim Carter examines archival materials, manuscripts, and journalism, and the lofty aspirations and mythmaking that surrounded the musical from its very inception. The book made for a watershed moment in the study of the American musical: the first well-researched, serious musical analysis of this landmark show by a musicologist, it was also one of the first biographies of a musical, transforming a field that had previously tended to orient itself around creators rather than creations. In this new and fully revised edition, Carter draws further on recently released sources, including the Rouben Mamoulian Papers at the Library of Congress, with additional correspondence, contracts, and even new versions of the working script used - and annotated - throughout the show's rehearsal process. Carter also focuses on the key players and concepts behind the musical, including the original play on which it was based (Lynn Riggs's Green Grow the Lilacs) and the Theatre Guild's Theresa Helburn and Lawrence Langner, who fatefully brought Rodgers and Hammerstein together for their first collaboration. The crucial new perspectives these revisions and additions provide make this edition of Carter's seminal work a compulsory purchase for all teachers, students, and lovers of musical theater.

Author : Boys & Girls Club of Oklahoma County
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
ISBN 13 : 0882409522
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book O is for Oklahoma written by Boys & Girls Club of Oklahoma County and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2013-04-08 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: See-My-State Alphabet Books have a subject related to that specific state for each letter of the alphabet. Children from schools or Boys & Girls Clubs in each state write the rhyming couplet for each subject. The book project is an opportunity for each participating child to learn to express themselves in writing, learn meter and rhyming skills, and become a "published person" in a real book. The back of f the book is a section called "Who Knew" which gives a brief description of the facts and importance of each subject chosen for each letter of the alphabet. It is written by the editors. Each child is acknowledged by name for their contribution.

Author : David W. Levy
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806181931
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The University of Oklahoma written by David W. Levy and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2015-11-13 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, the first in a projected three-volume definitive history, traces the University’s progress from territorial days to 1917. David W. Levy examines the people and events surrounding the school’s formation and development, chronicling the determined ambition of pioneers to transform a seemingly barren landscape into a place where a worthy institution of higher education could thrive. The University of Oklahoma was established by the territorial legislature in 1890. With that act, Norman became the educational center of the future state. Levy captures the many factors—academic, political, financial, religious—that shaped the University. Drawing on a great depth of research in primary documents, he depicts the University’s struggles to meet its goals as it confronted political interference, financial uncertainty, and troubles ranging from disastrous fires to populist witch hunts. Yet he also portrays determined teachers and optimistic students who understood the value of a college education. Written in an engaging style and enhanced by an array of historical photographs, this volume is a testimony to the citizens who overcame formidable obstacles to build a school that satisfied their ambitions and embodied their hopes for the future.

Author : Russell Cobb
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 149623040X
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Oklahoma Swindle written by Russell Cobb and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2022-03 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Russell Cobb’s The Great Oklahoma Swindle is a rousing and incisive examination of the regional culture and history of “Flyover Country” that demystifies the political conditions of the American Heartland.

Author : John J. Dwyer
Publisher : Red River Press
ISBN 13 : 9780985347024
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oklahomans: The Story of Oklahoma and Its People: Volume I: Ancient-Statehood written by John J. Dwyer and published by Red River Press. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The unforgettable saga of America's last frontier-the Oklahoma Country. Never has the story of this great land and people been told like John J. Dwyer does it. Storybook, history book, coffee table book. Featuring the same colorful and readable format that has helped make his "The War Between the States: America's Uncivil War" a success, "The Oklahomans (Volume 1, Ancient-Statehood)," chronicles the saga of the winning-and losing-of a land. Some of the most famous cowboys, Indians, lawmen, outlaws, and explorers in American history stride across the pages of this unforgettable story. So do some of the country's greatest entrepreneurs, statesmen, Christian ministers, social pioneers, and athletes.

Author : Nancy Antle
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101142472
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beautiful Land written by Nancy Antle and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annie Mae's family is looking forward to beginning a new life—on their own land. When the Oklahoma Territory is opened in 1889, they and thousands of other settlers race across the border to claim some land of their own. But there is not enough for everyone, and Annie Mae is afraid of trouble ahead. Even if they find their beautiful land, will they be able to keep it?