Oklahoma

Author : W. David Baird,Danney Goble
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806182933

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Oklahoma by W. David Baird,Danney Goble Pdf

The product of two of Oklahoma’s foremost authorities on the history of the 46th state, Oklahoma: A History is the first comprehensive narrative to bring the story of the Sooner State to the threshold of its centennial. From the tectonic formation of Oklahoma’s varied landscape to the recovery and renewal following the Oklahoma City bombing, this readable book includes both the well-known and the not-so-familiar of the state’s people, events, and places. W. David Baird and Danney Goble offer fresh perspectives on such widely recognized history makers as Sequoyah, the 1889 Land Run, and the Glenn Pool oil strike. But they also give due attention to Black Seminole John Horse, Tulsa’s Greenwood District, Coach Bertha Frank Teague’s 40-year winning streak with the Byng Lady Pirates, and other lesser-known but equally important milestones. The result is a rousing, often surprising, and ever-fascinating story. Oklahoma history is an intricate tapestry of themes, stories, and perspectives, including those of the state’s diverse population of American Indians, the land’s original human occupants. An appendix provides suggestions for trips to Oklahoma’s historic places and for further reading. Enhanced by more than 40 illustrations, including 11 maps, this definitive history of the state ensures that experiences shared by Oklahomans of the past will be passed on to future generations.

Author : Sam Anderson
Publisher : Crown
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780804137324

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Boom Town by Sam Anderson Pdf

A brilliant, kaleidoscopic narrative of Oklahoma City—a great American story of civics, basketball, and destiny, from award-winning journalist Sam Anderson NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • NPR • Chicago Tribune • San Francisco Chronicle • The Economist • Deadspin Oklahoma City was born from chaos. It was founded in a bizarre but momentous “Land Run” in 1889, when thousands of people lined up along the borders of Oklahoma Territory and rushed in at noon to stake their claims. Since then, it has been a city torn between the wild energy that drives its outsized ambitions, and the forces of order that seek sustainable progress. Nowhere was this dynamic better realized than in the drama of the Oklahoma City Thunder basketball team’s 2012-13 season, when the Thunder’s brilliant general manager, Sam Presti, ignited a firestorm by trading future superstar James Harden just days before the first game. Presti’s all-in gamble on “the Process”—the patient, methodical management style that dictated the trade as the team’s best hope for long-term greatness—kicked off a pivotal year in the city’s history, one that would include pitched battles over urban planning, a series of cataclysmic tornadoes, and the frenzied hope that an NBA championship might finally deliver the glory of which the city had always dreamed. Boom Town announces the arrival of an exciting literary voice. Sam Anderson, former book critic for New York magazine and now a staff writer at the New York Times magazine, unfolds an idiosyncratic mix of American history, sports reporting, urban studies, gonzo memoir, and much more to tell the strange but compelling story of an American city whose unique mix of geography and history make it a fascinating microcosm of the democratic experiment. Filled with characters ranging from NBA superstars Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook; to Flaming Lips oddball frontman Wayne Coyne; to legendary Great Plains meteorologist Gary England; to Stanley Draper, Oklahoma City's would-be Robert Moses; to civil rights activist Clara Luper; to the citizens and public servants who survived the notorious 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah federal building, Boom Town offers a remarkable look at the urban tapestry woven from control and chaos, sports and civics.

Author : Robert L. Dorman, Ph.D.
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781448808434

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Oklahoma by Robert L. Dorman, Ph.D. Pdf

This book offers readers a comprehensive look at the past and present of the state of Oklahoma, including its peoples, industries, arts, and culture. Colorful maps and informative and fun sidebars support the main narrative. Readers will love this journey To The state with the motto "Labor Omnia Vincit," which means labor conquers all things.

Author : Tim Carter
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780190665234

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Oklahoma! by Tim Carter Pdf

First published in 2007, "Oklahoma!": The Making of an American Musical tells the full story of the beloved Rodgers and Hammerstein musical. Author Tim Carter examines archival materials, manuscripts, and journalism, and the lofty aspirations and mythmaking that surrounded the musical from its very inception. The book made for a watershed moment in the study of the American musical: the first well-researched, serious musical analysis of this landmark show by a musicologist, it was also one of the first biographies of a musical, transforming a field that had previously tended to orient itself around creators rather than creations. In this new and fully revised edition, Carter draws further on recently released sources, including the Rouben Mamoulian Papers at the Library of Congress, with additional correspondence, contracts, and even new versions of the working script used - and annotated - throughout the show's rehearsal process. Carter also focuses on the key players and concepts behind the musical, including the original play on which it was based (Lynn Riggs's Green Grow the Lilacs) and the Theatre Guild's Theresa Helburn and Lawrence Langner, who fatefully brought Rodgers and Hammerstein together for their first collaboration. The crucial new perspectives these revisions and additions provide make this edition of Carter's seminal work a compulsory purchase for all teachers, students, and lovers of musical theater.

Author : Doug Sanders
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780761480082

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Oklahoma by Doug Sanders Pdf

This book explores the geography, climate, history, people, government, and economy of Oklahoma. All books in the It's My State! � series are the definitive research tool for readers looking to know the ins and outs of a specific state, including comprehensive coverage of its history, people, culture, geography, economy and government.

Author : David W. Levy
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780806181936

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The University of Oklahoma by David W. Levy Pdf

This book, the first in a projected three-volume definitive history, traces the University’s progress from territorial days to 1917. David W. Levy examines the people and events surrounding the school’s formation and development, chronicling the determined ambition of pioneers to transform a seemingly barren landscape into a place where a worthy institution of higher education could thrive. The University of Oklahoma was established by the territorial legislature in 1890. With that act, Norman became the educational center of the future state. Levy captures the many factors—academic, political, financial, religious—that shaped the University. Drawing on a great depth of research in primary documents, he depicts the University’s struggles to meet its goals as it confronted political interference, financial uncertainty, and troubles ranging from disastrous fires to populist witch hunts. Yet he also portrays determined teachers and optimistic students who understood the value of a college education. Written in an engaging style and enhanced by an array of historical photographs, this volume is a testimony to the citizens who overcame formidable obstacles to build a school that satisfied their ambitions and embodied their hopes for the future.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556030800924

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US-77, Shields Blvd Extension, Oklahoma City by Anonim Pdf

Author : Danny Mark Adkison,Lisa McNair Palmer
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199778850

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The Oklahoma State Constitution by Danny Mark Adkison,Lisa McNair Palmer Pdf

In 1907, William Jennings Bryan described the proposed constitution for Oklahoma as 'the best constitution in the United States today'. An enduring characteristic of Oklahoma's constitution has been it's faith in direct democracy and its root in Progressive Era politics. This volume traces the historical formation and constitutional development of the state of Oklahoma. It provides article-by-article commentary and analysis on the intent, politics, social and economic pressures, and the legal decisions that shaped and enhanced the Oklahoma constitution since it was adopted in 1907.

Author : United States. Federal Energy Administration
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105216536883

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Siting Energy Facilities at Camp Gruber Oklahoma by United States. Federal Energy Administration Pdf

Author : Carole Marsh
Publisher : Gallopade International
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2004-01-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0793395976

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Oklahoma Jography! by Carole Marsh Pdf

Reproducible geography activites reinforce learning, mapping and research skills, and provide an introduction to the state of Oklahoma.

Author : Scott C. Christenson,John S. Havens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Groundwater
ISBN : 0607900415

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Ground-water-quality Assessment of the Central Oklahoma Aquifer, Oklahoma by Scott C. Christenson,John S. Havens Pdf

Author : Augustus J. Veenendaal
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780806157955

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Smoke Over Oklahoma by Augustus J. Veenendaal Pdf

Oklahoma was in the throes of the Great Depression when Preston George acquired a cheap Kodak folding camera and took his first photographs of steam locomotives. As depression gave way to world war, George kept taking pictures, now with a Graflex camera that could capture moving trains. In this first book devoted solely to George’s work, his black-and-white photographs constitute a striking visual documentary of steam-driven railroading in its brief but glorious heyday in the American Southwest. The pictures also form a remarkable artistic accomplishment in their own right. Prominent among the magnificent action images collected here are the engines that were George’s passion—steam locomotives pulling long freights or strings of gleaming passenger cars through open country. But along with the fireworks of the heavier steam engines slogging through the mountains near the Arkansas border on the Kansas City Southern or climbing Raton Pass in New Mexico on the Santa Fe, George’s photographs also record humbler fare, such as the short trains of the Frisco and Katy piloted by ancient light steamers, and the final years of that state’s interurban lines. Augustus J. Veenendaal Jr.’s brief history of railroads in the Sooner State puts these images into perspective, as does a reminiscence by George’s daughter Burnis on his life and his pursuit of railroad photography. With over 150 images and a wealth of historical and biographical information, this volume makes accessible to an audience beyond the most avid railfans the extent of Preston George's extraordinary achievement.

Author : John Wooley
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806184074

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Shot in Oklahoma by John Wooley Pdf

When inventor and movie studio pioneer Thomas Edison wanted to capture western magic on film in 1904, where did he send his crew? To Oklahoma's 101 Ranch near Ponca City. And when Francis Ford Coppola readied young actors Tom Cruise and Matt Dillon to portray teen class strife in the 1983 movie The Outsiders, he took cast and crew to Tulsa, the setting of S. E. Hinton's acclaimed novel. From Edison to Coppola and beyond, Oklahoma has served as both backdrop and home base for cinematic productions. The only book to chronicle the history of made-in-Oklahoma films, John Wooley's Shot in Oklahoma explores the variety, spunk, and ingenuity of moviemaking in the Sooner State over more than a century. Wooley's trek through cinematic history, buttressed by meticulous research and interviews, hits the big films readers have heard of—but maybe didn't realize were shot in the state—along with lesser-known offerings. We also get the films' intriguing backstories. For instance, President Theodore Roosevelt's fascination with a man purportedly able to catch a wolf in his hands led to The Wolf Hunt, shot in the Wichita Mountains and screened in the White House in 1909. Over time, homegrown movies such as Where the Red Fern Grows (1974, 2003) have given way to feature films including The Outsiders and Rain Man (1988). Throughout this tale, Wooley draws attention to unsung aspects of state and cinematic history, including early all-black movies lensed in Oklahoma's African American towns and films starring American Indian leads. With a nod to more recent Hollywood productions such as Twister (1996) and Elizabethtown (2005), Wooley ultimately explores how a low-budget slasher movie created in Oklahoma in the 1980s transformed the movie business worldwide. Punctuated with photographs and including a filmography of more than one hundred productions filmed in the state, Shot in Oklahoma offers movie lovers and historians alike an engaging ride through untold cinematic history.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Export sales contracts
ISBN : MINN:20000004315517

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Oklahoma Exports by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556030630354

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Oklahoma City, FOB by Anonim Pdf