Duchess' Domain

Photo on left is a photo of Duchess the Pug in her earlier years when she lived in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

NW Okie has gone South towards Scottsdale, Arizona again for a few days and will hopefully be back Wednesday evening in the cool mountains of southwest Colorado where the highs rarely get into the 90s and the lows hang around the mid-fifties this time of year. Monsoons should be starting around here this month, also.

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Insight Into Grandma & John C. McClure

Photo on Left is a photo of Constance Warwick, on far right, around 1904 or 1905 on the East coast at Ocean View, Virginia. I believe the elderly lady next to her is her mother, Signora Belle (Guinn) Warwick.

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Pioneer Footprints Across Oklahoma

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Searching For Evelyn Ensor

Tracye Howe asks the following, "I am searching for a lady by the name of Evelyn ENSOR [more]... View/Write Comments (count 1)   |   Receive updates (1 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

Granddaughter of Renfrew & Josie DeGeer Dies

Linda (Lippincott) Kent, daughter of Roger S. and Thelma E. DeGeer Lippincott (d) was born Jan. 19, 1935 in OK. She was the granddaughter of Renfrew DeGeer and Josie James DeGeer, as well as O.B. and Anna Lippincott.

From 1942-1954 Linda attended Benicia Grammar and High School. She loved Rainbow Girls, Ballet and Tap, Cheerleading, beauty contest and had many friends.

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Looking Back ... Great Grandpa J. R. Warwick

Besides being born April 9, 1857, at Frost, Pocahontas County, West Virginia, John Robert Warwick was later a pioneer citizen of Woods (M) county, Oklahoma Territory.

John R. Warwick came from a long line of fighting stock, and he was never known to be afraid. Panics, hard times, sickness, death itself could come along during his life, but he remained calm. John Warwick lived on the theory that the sun set --but that it later arose!

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1929 - No Sunday Movies In Waynoka, OK

Dennis Rittenhouse says, "I was looking for info for my mother's side of the family (COVEY) and coincidently found this link to Waynoka.

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Cimarron River Stampede - August 6-8, 2009

Caption: Wes Matteson, Waynoka, has won saddles, belt buckles and trophies in rodeo roping events over several states, and will be honored at a reception on Saturday.

Sandie says, "Waynoka reception, exhibit to honor Wes Matteson -- Wes Matteson, Waynoka, was 15 when he entered his first roping competition at the Cimarron River Stampede in Waynoka in 1947. Roping and cowboying was a way of life on his family's ranch in the Quinlan area west of Waynoka and the Cimarron River. Roping came natural to him.

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The Peoples Chronology

12,000 B.C. -- The Peoples Chronology, edited by James Trager, mentions that around 12,000 B.C. the dog was domesticated from the Asian wolf and was used for tracking game. Fossil remains were found in a cave near Kirkuk in Iraq in the 1950s and in the 1970s the remains were dated by using the fluorine analysis.

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The Blue Laws

The "Blue Laws" which generally prohibited any commercial activity on Sunday. One of the justifications was that every worker should have at least one day off a week. Another reason was the religious admonition to honor the Sabbath and keep it holy. Blue Laws

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