This Land Press

This machine makes no reservations. WHEN CHILI MET CHEESE: Your table awaits. The Route 66 restaurant that served Tulsa its first platter of Tex-Mex cuisine. By Mark Brown. BEEF AND ELSEWHERE BURGERS: Beef and Elsewhere Burgers with The New Yorker ’s Stillwater-born writer of stories from around here. By Sarah Graalman.

In this issue, we go back in time to race with Maglia Nera to the finish line of the '84 Giro D'Italia, fight in Oklahoma's final duel, and play politics with Will Rogers. THE MAN IN BLACK: A grueling bike race in Italy bestows a curious honor on an Oklahoman. By Ian Dille. A LOSING HAND: The tale of Oklahoma's last duel and the myth of moral progress. By Brian Ted Jones. ALFALFA ROGERS: A series of short political comedies starring Will Rogers has resonance today. By Charles Morrow.

WHAT CHEROKEE CAN BE: How David grapples with Goliath in a battle spanning two national capitals to define the identity of America’s second-largest tribe. By Marcos Barbery. PROMISED LAND: Oklahoma historian Hannibal B. Johnson reveals the roots of Oklahomans' continued struggles with race, place, and identity. FIRE BUILDING: James McGirk offers a portrait of the Cherokee as the tribe took on the strange and complex task of constitution-making. THE SILENCE TEACHES: Yousef Khanfar, an Oklahoma City photographer, takes his camera int...

We're taking a look back at the Tulsa Race Riots and the man allegedly at the center of all the turmoil. RETURN TO THE RIOT: What became of the boot black who found himself at the center of the Tulsa Race Riot? A trail gone cold. By Steve Gerkin. WATER DARLING: How one writer painted a portrait of the events of June 1, 1921, using fiction as the brush. By Evan Ramspott. SMOKE SIGNALS: A snapshot of Tulsa, rendered in snippets pulled from editions of the daily newspaper dated the week of the riot. By Brian Ted Jones. GAME-NIGHT ARMAG...