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Author: J.R. Roberts Publisher: Speaking Volumes ISBN: 1628159383 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 147
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DELIVERY OF DEATH When Clint Adams agrees to help out an old friend, he ends up purchasing a passel of pain. Hired to deliver a cash payment from the local cattlemen's association to a Cherokee tribe, he knows that there are plenty of people who would be willing to kill to stop him. Some want the money for themselves. Others just don't want the Indians to get it. And one local snake-in-the-grass has something entirely different in mind—which means putting the Gunsmith six feet under...
Author: J.R. Roberts Publisher: Speaking Volumes ISBN: 1628159383 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 147
Book Description
DELIVERY OF DEATH When Clint Adams agrees to help out an old friend, he ends up purchasing a passel of pain. Hired to deliver a cash payment from the local cattlemen's association to a Cherokee tribe, he knows that there are plenty of people who would be willing to kill to stop him. Some want the money for themselves. Others just don't want the Indians to get it. And one local snake-in-the-grass has something entirely different in mind—which means putting the Gunsmith six feet under...
Author: George Rainey Publisher: ISBN: Category : Cherokee Indians Languages : en Pages : 522
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The Cherokee Strip, So-Called, Is A Tract Of Country In The Northwestern Part Of Oklahoma Which Was Set Apart And Guaranteed To The Cherokee Indians As A Perpetual Outlet From Their Home Lands Proper In The Northeastern Part Of Indian Territory To Their Buffalo Hunting Grounds To The West.
Author: Amy M. Ware Publisher: University Press of Kansas ISBN: 0700621008 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 328
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Early in the twentieth century, the political humorist Will Rogers was arguably the most famous cowboy in America. And though most in his vast audience didn't know it, he was also the most famous Indian of his time. Those who know of Rogers's Cherokee heritage and upbringing tend to minimize its importance, or to imagine that Rogers himself did so—notwithstanding his avowal in interviews: "I'm a Cherokee and they're the finest Indians in the World." The truth is, throughout his adult life and his work the Oklahoma cowboy made much of his American Indian background. And in doing so, as Amy Ware suggests in this book, he made Cherokee artistry a fundamental part of American popular culture. Rogers, whose father was a prominent and wealthy Cherokee politician and former Confederate slaveholder, was born into the Paint Clan in the town of Oolagah in 1879 and raised in the Cooweescoowee District of the Cherokee Nation. Ware maps out this milieu, illuminating the familial and social networks, as well as the Cherokee ranching practices, educational institutions, popular publications and heated political debates that so firmly grounded Rogers in the culture of the Cherokee. Through his early career, from Wild West and vaudeville performer to Ziegfeld Follies headliner in the late 1910s, she reveals how Rogers embodied the seemingly conflicting roles of cowboy and Indian, in effect enacting the blending of these identities in his art. Rogers's work in the film industry also reflected complex notions of American Indian identity and history, as Ware demonstrates in her reading of the clearest examples, including Laughing Billy Hyde, in which Rogers, an Indian, portrayed a white prospector married to an Indian woman—who was played by a white actress. In his work as a columnist for the New York Times, and in his radio performances, Ware continues to trace the Cherokee influence on Rogers's material—and in turn its impact on his audiences. It is in these largely uncensored performances that we see another side of Rogers's Cherokee persona—a tribal elitism that elevated the Cherokee above other Indian nations. Ware's exploration of this distinction exposes still-common assumptions regarding Native authenticity in the history of American culture, even as her in-depth look at Will Rogers's heritage and legacy reshapes our perspective on the Native presence in that history, and in the life and work of a true American icon.
Author: Heather D. Ferguson Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 1439619271 Category : Photography Languages : en Pages : 132
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Arkansas City has often been called the gateway to the West. The name lends a lot to describing the towna town that was founded as a border town to Indian Territory, a major trade hub to the Indian agencies in Indian Territory, and a major transportation center for those wishing to travel through the territory and farther west. Arkansas City started off as a small town with false-fronted stores but became a bustling community where the people were forward thinkers and pushed for quality and modernization in everything they brought to the city whether that was business, industry, or entertainment. Arkansas City is known for the Cherokee Strip Land Rush of September 16, 1893, interaction with the Native Americans in Indian Territory, farming, ranching, and aircraft. Although Arkansas City was a civilized community, it was a city on the fringe of a lawless and unsettled territory where outlaws lurked and Native Americans were forced to settle. People loaded their wagons or went by train to cross through Oklahoma to Texas, New Mexico, or Arizona, leaving from Arkansas City. Due to Arkansas Citys location, interaction with major figures and events in history, and its importance to travel farther west, Arkansas City was truly the gateway to the West.
Author: Glen V. McIntyre Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 0738577472 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 130
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Enid is the eighth-largest city in Oklahoma and the largest city in northwest Oklahoma. Its origins can be traced to September 16, 1893, the day of the Cherokee Outlet Land Run, when more than 100,000 people raced for six million acres of land. The town quickly grew as inhabitants came to Enid to register claims at the land office. As the seat of Garfield County, Enid was the hub for numerous railroads, including the Rock Island, Santa Fe, and Frisco lines. It was already a prosperous town when in 1916 the Garber-Covington oil field was discovered east of town, guaranteeing that the area would become a center of petroleum production. The community has nurtured interesting people, such as Marquis James, a writer who won two Pulitzer Prizes, and H.H. Champlin, founder of the Champlin Refining Company. Enid: 1893-1945 features these residents' stories and many others that made the period Enid's first golden age.
Author: Ellsworth Collings Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press ISBN: 9780806110479 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 334
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In the first third of the twentieth century, the 101 Real Wild West Show was known halfway round the world. It featured such headliners as Bill Pickett, the African-American inventor of bulldogging, and the future Hollywood film stars Tom Mix, Buck Jones, and Hoot Gibson. What was not so well known abroad was that the show stemmed from a real, working ranch that rivaled the fabled XIT Ranch in the folklore of the West.
Author: Charles W. Harris Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press ISBN: 9780806113418 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 180
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One of America’s unique contributions to world culture, the cowboy has captured the imagination of people everywhere. In The Cowboy: Six-Shooters, Songs, and Sex, eight renowned western writers report on what the cowboys really were like and what they are like today. Contributors detail how the cowboys lived, loved, and died, how they fared when ranchers switched from running cattle to entertaining dudes, and how the media have depicted the cowboy.
Author: Grace Steele Woodward Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press ISBN: 9780806118154 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 404
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Of the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians the Cherokees were early recognized as the greatest and the most civilized. Indeed, between 1540 and 1906 they reached a higher peak of civilization than any other North American Indian tribe. They invented a syllabary and developed an intricate government, including a system of courts of law. They published their own newspaper in both Cherokee and English and became noted as orators and statesmen. At the beginning the Cherokees’ conquest of civilization was agonizingly slow and uncertain. Warlords of the southern Appalachian Highlands, they were loath to expend their energies elsewhere. In the words of a British officer, "They are like the Devil’s pigg, they will neither lead nor drive." But, led or driven, the warlike and willful Cherokees, lingering in the Stone Age by choice at the turn of the eighteenth century, were forced by circumstances to transfer their concentration on war to problems posed by the white man. To cope with these unwelcome problems, they had to turn from the conquests of war to the conquest of civilization.
Author: Will Rogers Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press ISBN: 9780806127453 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 652
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Horses, friends, ragtime music, and steer roping-those were the interests of the youthful Will Rogers as he came of age in the Indian Territory and traveled to the Southern Hemisphere in this first of six definitive volumes of The Papers of Will Rogers. By separating fact from legend and unveiling new knowledge via extensive archival research, this documentary history represents a unique contribution to Rogers scholarship and to studies of the Cherokee Nation West. Using many previously unpublished letters and photographs-together with introductions, notes, and biographies of his friends and relatives-volume one illuminates Rogers’s complex relationship with his father, his Cherokee heritage, his early education, first encounters with his future wife, Betty Blake, his voyage to Argentina, and his fledging years in Wild West shows and circuses in South Africa, New Zealand, and Australia. Coorespondence, performance reviews, and rare newspaper documents spotlight the singular experiences that shaped the young Rogers within the context of his family, his ethnic background, and historical events. No other book describes so provocatively and authentically the genesis of America’s most beloved and influential humorist.
Author: J.R. Roberts
Author: J.R. Roberts
Author: George Rainey
Author: Amy M. Ware
Author: Heather D. Ferguson
Author: Glen V. McIntyre
Author: Ellsworth Collings
Author: Charles W. Harris
Author: Grace Steele Woodward
Author: Robert J. Conley
Author: Will Rogers