This Land

The seventeen men were terrified, and with good reason. They stood shivering in the November midnight air, their bare chests lit by the headlights of the parked cars surrounding them. In the dark, they could barely make out their captors, a group of about fifty men dressed in black hoods…

No one took credit for the bomb threat that January night. Though no device was found in the women’s restroom of the Cain’s Ballroom, a bomb of a different sort was about to drop in Tulsa.

The Sex Pistols’ American tour, arguably the most notorious musical roadshow in history, was…

Dr. S.G. Kennedy was furious. He had put his trust and money in a young man, who seemed to be making a name for himself in Tulsa, a former Wichita newspaper reporter who had once served as a private secretary to Congressman Bird McGuire of Oklahoma. Myron Boyle was the…

Big Time Pawn is a family-owned pawn shop located on Route 66 at 11th and Pittsburg in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Over the years the proprietors have amassed the largest collection of local graphic designer Brian Thompson posters on public display.

Thompson made his mark in the poster world creating the great black and white handcut…

The former home of Academy Award winnng nominated director of Badlands and Thin Red Line Terrence Malick is located at Located at 1533 SE Hillcrest Drive, according to the 1959 Polk Directory in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. Born the son of an Assyrian geologist in Illinois, Malick’s work has been described as  “guerrilla filmmaking

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Big Time Pawn is a family-owned pawn shop located on Route 66 at 11th and Pittsburg in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Over the years the proprietors have amassed the largest collection of local graphic designer Brian Thompson posters on public display.

Thompson made his mark in the poster world creating the great black and white handcut…

Located one mile north of the city of Pawnee, Oklahoma on Highway 18, this hand-cut native stone structure was built in 1939 by the Works Progress Administration [WPA] on Pawneee City Lake. Renovated in 2003, the bath house encloses two restrooms and a large deck overlooking the long staircase that…

Located at 319 S. Main, the Drexel Building once housed the local clothiers Renberg’s.

This location has been etched in our collective memory as the place in which a young Dick Rowland assaulted a white elevator operator, Sarah Page. The following day, May 31, 1921 an editorial from the evening paper,…

The Perryman Ranch located in Jenks, Oklahoma has its very own YvnvssvHetke, or white buffalo. Located on Elwood Avenue between 111th and 121st on the west side of Elwood, the ranch sits on the original allotment of Creek Indian Moses Perryman.

The white buffalo is considered sacred by many American Indian tribes. According to…

On the front page of the Tulsa World’s Dec. 22, 1921 issue, a headline ran with the title “Robed Klansman Honor Dead While Hundreds Stand Agape at Funeral of Harry Aurendt.”

By all accounts, fallen Tulsa Police Commissioner Secretary Harry Harrison Aurandt’s burial at Rose Hill Cemetery was quite a spectacle. An…