Duchess Corner

As Sunrise begins, Sunday, January 27, 2008, the clouds begin to gather for another bout of Winter storms & snow in the San Juans.

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Pioneer J. Everett Smith - Woodward, OK

J. Everett Smith was born in 1869, in Tippecanoe County, Indiana. After securing his primary education in the public schools, he entered Purdue University and later took a course at the Iowa State Normal School.

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The First Newspapers of Oklahoma

The first newspaper printed, published in Oklahoma was the Cherokee Advocate, which was established and conducted under the auspices of the tribal government.

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Pioneer Jay H. Reigner - Pushmataha County, OK

Jay Harlin Reigner was born in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, in 1870, the son of William and Elizabeth Reigner, both natives of the old Keystone State, where the original American progenitor of the Reigner family settled upon his immigration from Alsace, France, in 1730.

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No Man's Land

The establishment of the territory of New Mexico (September 9, 1850), with the one hundred and third meridian as its boundary, and of the territory of Kansas (May 30, 1854), with the thirty-seventh parallel as its southern boundary, together with the northern boundary of Texas as established by the cession of 1850, and the western limit of the Cherokee Outlet (i [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

Growin' Up In Oklahoma & Texas Panhandle

"I'm so sorry Mr [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

Do You Remember These?

Can you remember these things?
FOR YOU YOUNGER ONES THESE ARE OUR MEMORIES:
45 rpm spindles, Green Stamps, Metal ice cubes trays with levers, Beanie and Cecil, Roller-skate keys, Cork pop guns, Marlin Perkins, Drive -in Movies, Drive in restaurants, Car Hops, Studebakers, Topo Gigio, Washtub wringers, The Fuller Brush Man, Sky King, Reel-To-Reel tape recorders, Tinkertoys, Erector Sets, Lincoln Logs, 15 cent McDonald hamburgers, 5 cent packs of baseball cards, Penny candy, 25 cent a gallon gasoline, Jiffy Pop popcorn, 5 cent stamps, Gum wrapper chains, Chatty Cathy dolls, 5 cent Cokes, Speedy Alka-Seltzer, Cigarettes for Christmas, Falstaff Beer, Burma Shave signs, Brownie camera, Flash bulbs, TV Test patterns, Old Yeller, Chef Boy-AR-dee, Fire escape tubes, Timmy and Lassie, Ding Dong Avon calling, Brylcreem, Aluminum Christmas Trees [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

OkieLegacy Guestbook

1/23/2008 -- Niece of Kenneth Roach [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

The Press of Indian Territory

The press of the Indian Territory began to develop during the period of the railway, telegraph lines, steamboats on the Arkansas River, and the Indian International Fair Association Exposition at Muskogee in the autumn of each year for a dozen years [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

No Man's Land & Cimarron Territory

We found this interesting bit of information concerning No Man's Land in A Standard History of Oklahoma, pp. 599-602, Vol. 2, by Joseph B. Thobrun.

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Tribal Changes - Indian Territory

In theory the Cherokee people were united under a republican form of government, though the internal dissensions seriously interfered with the perfect working of the political system which had been devised for this purpose [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

It's Saturday In Oklahoma

"There was a heavy fog this morning when I first let the dog out [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

Alva High Class of '66

"I'm a goldbug of 1966 I've been married for 29 years and have two girls and coming a grandmother on sept [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

HURT Family Legacy

"I have come across your Hurt Family Legacy [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

Indian Territory Reduced In Size

By the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act (May 30, 1854) the Indian Territory was reduced in size by taking from it all the vast region extending from the 37th parallel of North Latitude to the Niobrara River [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

Land of My Dreaming

This poem entitled, Land of My Dreaming, by George Riley Hall, was found in Vol [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe