Author: William F. Kerr
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Oklahoma City (Okla.)
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
The Story of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
The Story of Oklahoma
Author: W. David Baird
Publisher: 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
Publisher: 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
1889
Author: Michael J. Hightower
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806162333
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 453
Book Description
After immigrants flooded into central Oklahoma during the land rush of 1889 and the future capital of Oklahoma City sprang up “within a fortnight,” the city’s residents adopted the slogan “born grown” to describe their new home. But the territory’s creation was never so simple or straightforward. The real story, steeped in the politics of the Gilded Age, unfolds in 1889, Michael J. Hightower’s revealing look at a moment in history that, in all its turmoil and complexity, transcends the myth. Hightower frames his story within the larger history of Old Oklahoma, beginning in Indian Territory, where displaced tribes and freedmen, wealthy cattlemen, and prospective homesteaders became embroiled in disputes over public land and federal government policies. Against this fraught background, 1889 travels back and forth between Washington, D.C., and the Oklahoma frontier to describe the politics of settlement, public land use, and the first stirrings of urban development. Drawing on eyewitness accounts, Hightower captures the drama of the Boomer incursions and the Run of ’89, as well as the nascent urbanization of the townsite that would become Oklahoma City. All of these events played out in a political vacuum until Congress officially created Oklahoma Territory in the Organic Act of May 1890. The story of central Oklahoma is profoundly American, showing the region to have been a crucible for melding competing national interests and visions of the future. Boomers, businessmen, cattlemen, soldiers, politicians, pundits, and African and Native Americans squared off—sometimes peacefully, often not—in disagreements over public lands that would resonate in western history long after 1889.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806162333
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 453
Book Description
After immigrants flooded into central Oklahoma during the land rush of 1889 and the future capital of Oklahoma City sprang up “within a fortnight,” the city’s residents adopted the slogan “born grown” to describe their new home. But the territory’s creation was never so simple or straightforward. The real story, steeped in the politics of the Gilded Age, unfolds in 1889, Michael J. Hightower’s revealing look at a moment in history that, in all its turmoil and complexity, transcends the myth. Hightower frames his story within the larger history of Old Oklahoma, beginning in Indian Territory, where displaced tribes and freedmen, wealthy cattlemen, and prospective homesteaders became embroiled in disputes over public land and federal government policies. Against this fraught background, 1889 travels back and forth between Washington, D.C., and the Oklahoma frontier to describe the politics of settlement, public land use, and the first stirrings of urban development. Drawing on eyewitness accounts, Hightower captures the drama of the Boomer incursions and the Run of ’89, as well as the nascent urbanization of the townsite that would become Oklahoma City. All of these events played out in a political vacuum until Congress officially created Oklahoma Territory in the Organic Act of May 1890. The story of central Oklahoma is profoundly American, showing the region to have been a crucible for melding competing national interests and visions of the future. Boomers, businessmen, cattlemen, soldiers, politicians, pundits, and African and Native Americans squared off—sometimes peacefully, often not—in disagreements over public lands that would resonate in western history long after 1889.
Oklahoma, a History of Five Centuries
Author: Arrell Morgan Gibson
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806117584
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Located in the Oklahoma Collection.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806117584
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Located in the Oklahoma Collection.
A Standard History of Oklahoma
Author: Joseph Bradfield Thoburn
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Oklahoma
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Oklahoma
Languages : en
Pages : 642
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
A STANDARD HISTORY OF OKLAHOMA
More Than Petticoats: Remarkable Oklahoma Women
Author: Deborah Bouziden
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0762793864
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 163
Book Description
More Than Petticoats: Remarkable Oklahoma Women celebrates the women who shaped the Sooner State. Short, illuminating biographies and archival photographs and paintings tell the stories of women from across the state who served as teachers, writers, entrepreneurs, and artists.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0762793864
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 163
Book Description
More Than Petticoats: Remarkable Oklahoma Women celebrates the women who shaped the Sooner State. Short, illuminating biographies and archival photographs and paintings tell the stories of women from across the state who served as teachers, writers, entrepreneurs, and artists.
The BIG Oklahoma Reproducible Activity Book-New Version
Author: Carole Marsh
Publisher: Gallopade International
ISBN: 0635088290
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
The Big Oklahoma Activity Book! includes 100+ activities, from Kindergarten-easy to Fourth/Fifth-challenging! This big activity book has a wide range of reproducible activities including coloring, dot-to-dot, mazes, matching, word search, and many other creative activities that will entice any student to learn more about Oklahoma. Activities touch on history, geography, people, places, fictional characters, animals, holidays, festivals, legends, lore, and more.
Publisher: Gallopade International
ISBN: 0635088290
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
The Big Oklahoma Activity Book! includes 100+ activities, from Kindergarten-easy to Fourth/Fifth-challenging! This big activity book has a wide range of reproducible activities including coloring, dot-to-dot, mazes, matching, word search, and many other creative activities that will entice any student to learn more about Oklahoma. Activities touch on history, geography, people, places, fictional characters, animals, holidays, festivals, legends, lore, and more.