Geographic Orientation/Oklahoma
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Acres of Aspiration: The All-Black Towns of Oklahoma
$22.95 Add to cartBeulah Land. Paradise. Shangri-la. Oklahoma seemed to be all of these in the hostile, racist, post-Civil War South. Seeking both refuge and respect, pioneers such as Edward P. McCabe championed the id… [more below]
- Author: Johnson, Hannibal B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: April 15 2013
- ISBN10: 0978915038
- Language: English
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Osage Life and Legends
$12.95 Add to cartThe Osage who were the principal native inhabitants of the Ozarks were often described as the most handsome of the Native Amerians, tall, proud and humble.They were once one of the most powerful and w… [more below]
- Author: Liebert, Robert M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 142
- Publish Date: January 15 2014
- ISBN10: 0879611693
- Language: English
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Quanah Parker, Comanche Chief: Volume 6
$21.95 Add to cartThe son of white captive Cynthia Ann Parker, Quanah Parker rose from able warrior to tribal leader on the Comanche reservation. Between 1875 and his death in 1911, Quanah dealt with local Indian agent
- Series: Oklahoma Western Biographies #6
- Author: Hagan, William T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 158
- Publish Date: December 18 2020
- ISBN10: 0806127724
- Language: English
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They Called It Prairie Light: The Story of Chilocco Indian School
$20.00 Add to cartEstablished in 1884 and operative for nearly a century, the Chilocco Indian School in Oklahoma was one of a series of off-reservation boarding schools intended to assimilate American Indian children i… [more below]
- Series: North American Indian Prose Award
- Author: Lomawaima, K. Tsianina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 215
- Publish Date: August 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0803279574
- Language: English
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Wildflowers of the Western Plains: A Field Guide
$29.95 Add to cartStretching from western Texas and eastern New Mexico up through Oklahoma, Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Montana, the Dakotas, and into Canada, the vast western plains often appear sparse and dr… [more below]
- Author: Kirkpatrick, Zoe Merriman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0803219059
- Language: English
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Friends of Thunder: Folktales of the Oklahoma Cherokees
$21.95 Add to cartThe Cherokee husband-and-wife team who recorded and translated these folktales in 1961 helped to preserve the lore of seventeen elder Oklahoma Cherokees. This volume includes a wide variety of folklor… [more below]
- Author: Kilpatrick, Jack F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 15 1995
- ISBN10: 0806127228
- Language: English
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My Life and an Era: The Autobiography of Buck Colbert Franklin
$29.95 Add to cart“My father’s life represented many layers of the human experience–freedman and Native American, farmer and rancher, rural educator and urban professional.”–John Hope Franklin
Buck Colbert Franklin (- Author: Franklin, John Hope
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0807125997
- Language: English
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An Oklahoma I Had Never Seen Before: Alternative Views of Oklahoma History
$21.95 Read moreAfter taking Davis D. Joyce’s course in Oklahoma history, a student once said, “I saw an Oklahoma I’d never seen before.”
“This is a splendid collection of writings in the true spirit of a ‘people’s h
- Author: Joyce, Davis D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 15 1998
- ISBN10: 080612945X
- Language: English
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Art Deco Tulsa
$21.99 Add to cartTransformed from a cattle depot into the Oil Capital of the World, Tulsa emerged as an iconic Jazz Age metropolis. The Magic City attracted some of the nation’s most talented architects, including Bru… [more below]
- Series: Landmarks
- Author: Wallis, Suzanne Fitzgerald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 07 2018
- ISBN10: 1625859899
- Language: English
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Requiem for the Massacre: A Black History on the Conflict, Hope, and Fallout of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
$27.00 Read moreLonglisted for the Reading the West Book Awards
With journalistic skill, heart, and hope, Requiem for the Massacre reckons with the
NAACP Image Award Nominee for Outstanding Literary Work – Non-Fiction- Author: Young, Rj
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 01, 2022
- ISBN10: 1640095020
- Language: English
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The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
$35.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – John Grisham’s first work of nonfiction: a true crime story that will terrify anyone who believes in the presumption of innocence. – LOOK FOR THE NETFLIX ORIGINAL DOCUME… [more below]
- Author: Grisham, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 10 2006
- ISBN10: 0385517238
- Language: English
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The Dismissal of Miss Ruth Brown: Civil Rights, Censorship, and the American Library
$21.95 Add to cartIn 1950 Ruth W. Brown, librarian at the Bartlesville, Oklahoma, Public Library, was summarily dismissed from her job after thirty years of exemplary service, ostensibly because she had circulated subv… [more below]
- Author: Robbins, Louise S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: January 15 2001
- ISBN10: 0806133147
- Language: English
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Oklahoma Treasures and Treasure Tales
$29.95 Add to cart“Son, there’s more treasure buried right here In Oklahoma than in the rest of the whole Southwest.” Those words from an old-timer launched Steve Wilson on a years long quest for the stones of Oklahoma
- Author: Wilson, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 342
- Publish Date: May 15 1989
- ISBN10: 0806121742
- Language: English
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The Burning (Young Readers Edition): Black Wall Street and the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921
$16.99 Add to cartOne of the worst acts of racist violence in American history took place in 1921, when a White mob numbering in the thousands decimated the thriving Black community of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
The- Author: Madigan, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1250878640
- Language: English
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Oklahoma Unforgettable
$32.95 Add to cart- Author: Baker, Kim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 119
- Publish Date: October 17 2014
- ISBN10: 1560375930
- Language: English
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Telegraph Days
$16.00 Add to cartFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lonesome Dove comes a big, brilliant, unputdownable saga of the Old West, told in the spunky courageous voice of a young woman named Nellie Courtright.
When t- Author: McMurtry, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 17 2008
- ISBN10: 0743250931
- Language: English
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Mountain Windsong: A Novel of the Trail of Tears
$21.95 Add to cartSet against the tragic events of the Cherokees’ removal from their traditional lands in North Carolina to Indian Territory between 1835-1838, Mountain Windsong is a love story that brings to life the
- Author: Conley, Robert J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 226
- Publish Date: October 21 2019
- ISBN10: 0806127465
- Language: English
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The Hot Kid
$19.99 Add to cartThe undisputed master of the crime novel strikes again with this powerfully entertaining story, set in 1920s Oklahoma, that introduces one of the toughest lawmen ever to come out of the west. . . .
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- Author: Leonard, Elmore
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 13 2013
- ISBN10: 0062267272
- Language: English
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Harpsong: Volume 1
$21.95 Add to cartA love story about Dust Bowl heroes who didn’t leave for California
Harlan Singer, a harmonica-playing troubadour, shows up in the Thompson family’s yard one morning. He steals their hearts with his m
- Series: Oklahoma Stories & Storytellers #1
- Author: Askew, Rilla
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 30 2009
- ISBN10: 806139285
- Language: English
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The Honk and Holler Opening Soon
$16.99 Add to cartCaney Paxton wanted his cafe to have the biggest and brightest sign in Eastern Oklahoma-the “opening soon” part was supposed to be just a removable, painted notice. But a fateful misunderstanding gave… [more below]
- Author: Letts, Billie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0446675059
- Language: English
