The Grapes of Wrath: A Red Dirt Reprise
In 1962, as John Steinbeck accepted the Nobel Prize for Literature in Sweden, George Girouard scoured Oklahoma creek
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Planet of the Mushrooms
When the tree leaves turn, some folks think of foliage tours. But Oklahoma foodies and chefs look earthward for the
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Zeppelin Tours Tulsa
Taken from the top of the Mayo of hotel, this 1929 photo depicts a 600-foot dirigible, the City of Los Angeles, as it
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No Phones, No Fools, No Frets: The J.J. Behind J.J.’s Gourmet Burger Café
J.J. Conley lounges against the cushions of a private room at Lucky’s. He studies his glass of Syrah and takes a sip.
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Cedar Street: Tulsa’s Proudest Thoroughfare
In the early 1970s, a twenty-two year-old Lebanese immigrant trekked down the sidewalks of Sixth Street from his West
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The Man in the Box, Revealed
Editor's note: For years, this photo of a KKK funeral has circulated among several photography collections in Tulsa,
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The Reign of Creepy
Dental records proved the badly decomposed body that washed up on the Crystal Beach shores of Ontario, minus hands and
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Electric to Eco Trolley: Champions of Tulsa Transportation
Sitting at the bar in Doe’s Eat Place, I gazed up Quincy Street daydreaming a nostalgic movie reel of an era gone by.
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Beno Hall: Tulsa’s Den of Terror
The monstrous, three-story, steel reinforced, stucco building towered along the western edge of Greenwood. It dominated
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The Ringleader
The Tulsa Underground Circus fictitiously wrote that it was the work of a deranged Russian immigrant, a circus clown
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The Trouble with Harry
Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana bent over the library table and peered down at witness Harry Ford Sinclair, “I
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Mood Swing
On a furlough from a California state prison, convicted wife killer spade Cooley walked off the stage of Oakland’s
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The Hills Have Eyes
I climbed the remnants of Standpipe Hill on a recent, windy, early morning with a Wal-Mart canvas chair and a cup of
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They Might Be Giants
Having finished a midday meal on their small kitchen stoves, a group of Native athletes walked from the
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The Ballad of Bob Kerr
The story of Robert S. Kerr begins in the sticks and ends in the stars. Born in a tiny, log cabin near the trading post
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Hay is for Hosses
Kelly Cox towered over the loader with its arriving bale, wielding a hay hook in each hand like a pirate of the plains,
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Diamond in the Rough
Diamond Dick Roland disappeared. Secreted out the door of the Tulsa County Jail into an awaiting car provided by
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Watts and Clary
Dressed only in his boxers, Wade Watts, a black civil rights activist, reclined on the sofa. He read the morning paper
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First Charged, Last Freed
John the Baptist moved to Tulsa in 1899. The Stradford family called him J. B. He was a former Kentucky slave who was
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Pushing the Sky
James “Robbie” Risner started life in rural Mammoth Springs, Arkansas, in the 1920s. His destitute family left the
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The Unlikely Baroness
The young black girl poses in a common, patterned dress by an ordinary side chair. Her shadow creates a ghostly
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