Author: LeRoy Henry FischerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Governors
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Biographical sketches of Oklahoma's Governors from 1890-1907.
Oklahoma's Governors, 1890-1907
Author: Oklahoma's Governors, 1890-1907
Author: LeRoy Henry FischerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Governors
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Biographical sketches of Oklahoma's Governors from 1890-1907.
Oklahoma's Governors, 1907-1929
Author: LeRoy Henry FischerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
This volume in a multi-volume series on biographical studies of Oklahoma's governors chronicles the period from statehood to the threshold of the Great Depression.
A Tour on the Prairies
Author: Washington IrvingPublisher: London : J. Murray
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Account of an expedition in Oct. and Nov. 1832 through a part of the unorganized Indian country now the state of Oklahoma.
1889
Author: Michael J. HightowerPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806162333
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 494
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.
Congressional Record
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1078
Book Description
Colonels in Blue--Missouri and the Western States and Territories
Author: Roger D. HuntPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476636850
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
This biographical dictionary catalogs the Union army colonels who commanded regiments from Missouri and the western States and Territories during the Civil War. The seventh volume in a series documenting Union army colonels, this book details the lives of officers who did not advance beyond that rank. Included for each colonel are brief biographical excerpts and any available photographs, many of them published for the first time.
Big Trouble
Author: J. Anthony LukasPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439128103
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 884
Book Description
Hailed as "toweringly important" (Baltimore Sun), "a work of scrupulous and significant reportage" (E. L. Doctorow), and "an unforgettable historical drama" (Chicago Sun-Times), Big Trouble brings to life the astonishing case that ultimately engaged President Theodore Roosevelt, Supreme Court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, and the politics and passions of an entire nation at century's turn. After Idaho's former governor is blown up by a bomb at his garden gate at Christmastime 1905, America's most celebrated detective, Pinkerton James McParland, takes over the investigation. His daringly executed plan to kidnap the radical union leader "Big Bill" Haywood from Colorado to stand trial in Idaho sets the stage for a memorable courtroom confrontation between the flamboyant prosecutor, progressive senator William Borah, and the young defender of the dispossessed, Clarence Darrow. Big Trouble captures the tumultuous first decade of the twentieth century, when capital and labor, particularly in the raw, acquisitive West, were pitted against each other in something close to class war. Lukas paints a vivid portrait of a time and place in which actress Ethel Barrymore, baseball phenom Walter Johnson, and editor William Allen White jostled with railroad magnate E. H. Harriman, socialist Eugene V. Debs, gunslinger Charlie Siringo, and Operative 21, the intrepid Pinkerton agent who infiltrated Darrow's defense team. This is a grand narrative of the United States as it charged, full of hope and trepidation, into the twentieth century.
Oklahoma's Governors, 1955-1979
Author: LeRoy Henry FischerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Governors
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Located in the Oklahoma Collection.
Author: Oklahoma