Author: Micki NellisPublisher: Buffalo Creek Press
ISBN: 1885534183
Category : McCurtain County (Okla.)
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
Tales of Pollard Oklahoma by Those Who Lived There
Author: Micki NellisPublisher: Buffalo Creek Press
ISBN: 1885534183
Category : McCurtain County (Okla.)
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
Magic Summer of Bluebirds
Author: Lucille NellisPublisher: Buffalo Creek Press
ISBN: 1885534191
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 51
Book Description
During a magic summer of vacation adventures, Gramma reads a little each day from her Bluebird Diary. The great-grandchildren are caught up in the suspense of how the Bluebirds finally came to live on Green Ridge Drive.
Oklahoma Treasures and Treasure Tales
Author: Steve WilsonPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806121741
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Contains stories; some true, some legendary, about caches of lost treasure.
Haunted Guthrie, Oklahoma
Author: Tanya McCoyPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1625855869
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
A Victorian district frozen in time, Guthrie was the first territorial and state capital of Oklahoma, and many of its former residents still wander some of its majestic brick buildings. Outlaws and cultists haunt the infamous Black Jail, the state's first territorial prison. Once a bustling neighborhood, the houses of the overgrown Elbow now stand in ruins. Secrets remain at the famous Masonic Temple shrouded in mystery, and a lonely girl wanders the railroad in search of her beau who never returned home from the Great War. Oklahoma Paranormal Association co-founder Tanya McCoy and Oklahoma historian Jeff Provine invite you to explore these and many more spine-chilling accounts from one of America's most haunted cities.
The Story of Oklahoma
Author: W. David BairdPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806126500
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Describes the people and events that have shaped the state's history
Slavery, Fatherhood, and Paternal Duty in African American Communities over the Long Nineteenth Century
Author: Libra R. HildePublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469660687
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 411
Book Description
Analyzing published and archival oral histories of formerly enslaved African Americans, Libra R. Hilde explores the meanings of manhood and fatherhood during and after the era of slavery, demonstrating that black men and women articulated a surprisingly broad and consistent vision of paternal duty across more than a century. Complicating the tendency among historians to conflate masculinity within slavery with heroic resistance, Hilde emphasizes that, while some enslaved men openly rebelled, many chose subtle forms of resistance in the context of family and local community. She explains how a significant number of enslaved men served as caretakers to their children and shaped their lives and identities. From the standpoint of enslavers, this was particularly threatening--a man who fed his children built up the master's property, but a man who fed them notions of autonomy put cracks in the edifice of slavery. Fatherhood highlighted the agonizing contradictions of the condition of enslavement, and to be an involved father was to face intractable dilemmas, yet many men tried. By telling the story of the often quietly heroic efforts that enslaved men undertook to be fathers, Hilde reveals how formerly enslaved African Americans evaluated their fathers (including white fathers) and envisioned an honorable manhood.
Preacher's Tale: Civil War Journal of Rev. Francis Springs, Chaplain, Us Army(c)
Author: Francis Springer William FurryPublisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 9781610753241
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Lizard Season
Author: Norah PollardPublisher:
ISBN: 9781943826483
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Norah Pollard sings movingly of loss and love punctuated with bursts of wit. She is a beautiful storyteller, eloquent and above all--best of all--she doesn't flinch from the truths of her life. Her poems are compassionate, wise and unflinching. Christie Max Williams writes,"In Lizard Season, as in all her earlier work, Norah Pollard's voice is accessible, generous, and above all, trustworthy. It's a direct, irreverent, muscular voice - a Yankee's voice. The stories contained in these new poems are so consistently and impressively compelling, and so wonderful in their narrative and emotional range, as to achieve a worldly, universal appeal and power. Many are from the poet's own life, but many others give insightful glimpses into the lives of ordinary people who have experienced extraordinary moments. These stories are often funny. And like ancient fables, they deliver epiphanies of authentic emotional wisdom. Pollard also consistently enriches her tales with gem-like turns of phrase, some of them deeply memorable and true -- 'You don't know a man until you see / the compass of his compassion.' Pollard has long been known as one of New England's best poets. With Lizard Season, it may be time to reckon her one of America's best poets."
Geronimo
Author: Angie DeboPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806186798
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
On September 5, 1886, the entire nation rejoiced as the news flashed from the Southwest that the Apache war leader Geronimo had surrendered to Brigadier General Nelson A. Miles. With Geronimo, at the time of his surrender, were Chief Naiche (the son of the great Cochise), sixteen other warriors, fourteen women, and six children. It had taken a force of 5,000 regular army troops and a series of false promises to "capture" the band. Yet the surrender that day was not the end of the story of the Apaches associated with Geronimo. Besides his small band, 394 of his tribesmen, including his wife and children, were rounded up, loaded into railroad cars, and shipped to Florida. For more than twenty years Geronimo’s people were kept in captivity at Fort Pickens, Florida; Mount Vernon Barracks, Alabama; and finally Fort Sill, Oklahoma. They never gave up hope of returning to their mountain home in Arizona and New Mexico, even as their numbers were reduced by starvation and disease and their children were taken from them to be sent to the Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania.
Mrs. Claus Shares Stories from the Heart
Author: Jeanetta Bearden PollardPublisher: Success Ranch Publishers,Inc.
ISBN: 9780972237703
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
A heartwarming collection of holiday stories that will bring families closer together, written by a woman who has played Mrs. Claus for many years to her husband's Santa.