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Steve Gerkin

17 Posts

Diamond in the Rough

On the Trail of the Man at the Center of the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921

05.08.13

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Diamond Dick Roland disappeared. Secreted out the alley door of the Tulsa County Jail into an awaiting car provided by …

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03.25.13

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Kelly Cox towered over the loader with its arriving bale, wielding a hay hook in each hand like a pirate …

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The Ballad of Bob Kerr

Penning Poems, He Wrote His Way Out of Dark Times and Into the Spotlight

11.21.12

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The story of Robert S. Kerr begins in the sticks and ends in the stars. Born in a tiny, log …

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They Might Be Giants

A Pigskin Bushwhack in the Osage

09.12.12

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Having finished a midday meal on their small kitchen stoves, a group of Native athletes walked from the Southern Hotel …

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08.04.12

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I climbed the remnants of Standpipe Hill on a recent, windy, early morning with a Wal-Mart canvas chair and a …

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Mood Swing

The Murderous Maestro They Called Spade

05.30.12

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On a furlough from a California state prison, convicted wife killer spade Cooley walked off the stage of Oakland’s Paramount …

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The Trouble with Harry

Sinclaire's Scuff with the Senate

03.28.12

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Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana bent over the library table and peered down at witness Harry Ford Sinclair, “I …

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The Ringleader

The Burning of the Coliseum and the End of Tulsa Wrestling's Romantic Era

12.12.11

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The Tulsa Underground Circus fictitiously wrote that it was the work of a deranged Russian immigrant, a circus clown trained …

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09.03.11

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The monstrous, three-story, steel reinforced, stucco building towered along the western edge of Greenwood. It dominated the landscape at the …

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08.20.11

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Sitting at the bar in Doe’s Eat Place, I gazed up Quincy Street daydreaming a nostalgic movie reel of an …

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