Your Grandmother Reads This Land
Your friends read This Land. Your family reads This Land. Next thing you know, your pet will start reading it,
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Your Dog Reads This Land
Our little paper has a much broader appeal than originally imagined. Pictured here: Wally, a golden from Tulsa,
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Woody Guthrie’s Disciples
Jimmy LaFave discovered Woody Guthrie in high school—around the time he picked up his first pair of drumsticks (which
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Woody Guthrie Lethal Pencils
Here's a great gift idea for the Okie in your life: Woody Guthrie pencils, guaranteed to kill fascism if used
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Who’s Reading This Land? Phil Haney!
Tulsa lawyer Phil Haney perusing a copy of This Land in front of the Phoenix Cleaners sign on Brookside 18th &
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Who’s Reading This Land? Lee Anne Ziegler!
Lee Anne Ziegler, executive director at Tulsa Foundation for Architecture, caught reading This Land at Cafe Topeca in
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Who’s Keeping an Eye on Dewey?
Our Mayor Dewey doll is back on the street--and this time someone's looking over his shoulder. He'd better keep that
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Who’s Afraid of Elohim City?
The following is a collaboration by Lee Roy Chapman and Joshua Kline. Bad men are drawn to the City of
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Who Reads This Land? Michael Moore!
Filmmaker and provocateur Michael Moore is pictured here (larger image here) with a copy of This Land at the 2011
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Where Do Tulsans Go When They Leave?
Forbes Magazine has a fascinating migration map of the US. You can click on any county in the country, and instantly
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What’s Dewey Doing? Salting Tulsa!
Our Mayor Dewey doll has been extremely busy lately--but recently we captured him doing the kind of work Tulsa
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What the Fork: Wes Studi
Actor Wes Studi returns to his native Oklahoma to take us on a trip down memory lane to the Downtown Coney Island. He
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What the Fork: The Golden Saddle
In this episode of What The Fork, Iranian-born Jahan Abdoveis takes us to Golden Saddle, an all-you-can-eat buffet that
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What the Fork: Sally’s
In this episode of "What the Fork?" Ryan Red Corn takes us to Sally's, Pawhuska's legendary greasy
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What the Fork: El Rio Verde
In this short documentary, filmmakers Sterlin Harjo and Matt Leach accompany local Ben Collins to his favorite
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What the Fork: Charles Smith at Burn Co. BBQ
Washington-based winemaker Charles Smith and local wine distributor Scott Large take us to Burn Co. BBQ, where they
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We Are Still Here
In this documentary, filmmakers Matt Leach and Sterlin Harjo explore the rare language of the Yuchi and the attempts
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W.T. Brady Court Transcript
In the early 1920s, the Ku Klux Klan had been so active in Tulsa, Oklahoma - doing everything from holding parades to
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Vintage Smith
Walla Walla--The Lost Weekenders were seated on the lawn, awaiting instruction, when their leader emerged from the
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Unusual Analogues: Drugs Used by Gordon Todd Skinner
Below is a list of substances Gordon Todd Skinner claimed to have used. He submitted this list to the court of Kansas
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Unicorns in Oklahoma
From Vol. 88, Iss. 1 of the Southwestern Historical Quarterly: In 1719, French explorer Jean-Baptiste Bénard de la
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Tulsa’s Temple of the Three Jewels
In 563 BCE, on the full moon day of April, a prince was born, named Siddhartha Gautama, who would leave his kingdom
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Tulsa’s Segregation Zoning
Many factors have influenced settlement patterns in Tulsa, but a difficult question persists: Why is Tulsa,
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Tulsa: Portraits of an Oil Town
If you know and love Tulsa, you're familiar with both its beauty and its rough edges. We hope you enjoy this video
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Tulsa Writers Reading This Land
Barry Friedman, John Wooley, and William Bernhardt--some of Tulsa's most well-known writers--are seen here perusing the
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Tulsa Race Riot Survey
Did you attend grade school in Oklahoma? If so, we could use your help. We're conducting an upcoming feature on how
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Tulsa Hospitals in the Dock
Hearing Green Country hospitals describe their legions of satisfied customers, you'd be forgiven for thinking it was a
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True Tulsa: Matt Phipps
Matt Phipps takes us inside the making of a skate video in this episode of True Tulsa. He talks to us about how sudden
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True Tulsa: Jascha Tobias
Street artist Jascha Tobias performs on his home-made drum kit and shares his life story during Free
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True Tulsa: Indian Elvis
Michael Loman is a Choctaw Elvis impersonator, Fancy Dancer, and flute player living in Midtown Tulsa. Here, he teaches
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True Tulsa: Anton Von Ostendorf
Anton Von Ostendorf is a trapeze artist who has toured with renowned circuses all over Europe. Now, he makes his home
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Those Who Know
Somebody has to drive Mike Samara to work every night, and Suell Turner figures it might as well be him. “If you
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This Launch is Your Launch
We've had a big month, and we're hoping you'll celebrate with us! Join us on Thursday evening, May 27th, from 8pm to
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This Land Recommends: Print
The Long Form Lives! As This Land editors, Michael Mason and Mark Brown are (literally) professional readers.
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THIS LAND RECOMMENDS: Film at ’12
Video producers/directors Matt Leach and Sterlin Harjo recommend a few memorable views from the
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This Land Radio: Water Birth by Larina Lavergne
Birthing pools are growing in popularity. But this is the tale of a woman who was born in a kiddie pool on
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This Land Radio: Private Manning Speaks
Private First Class Bradley Manning is currently our nation's most notorious whistleblower--the man many
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This Land Radio: One Banshee and One Sunrise
Caldwell O’Keefe was part-owner of and bartender at Nine of Cups, a restaurant and bar on Tulsa’s Boston
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This Land Radio: My Baby Left Me
We stopped by the Harmonica Summit at the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame and met Brian "Hash Brown" Calloway who
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This Land Radio: La Donna’s World
LaDonna Osborn spent her childhood traveling around the world with her evangelical parents, T.L. and Daisy.
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THIS LAND RADIO: Hook Echo
With tornado season escalating in states from Oklahoma to Arkansas to Mississippi to North Carolina, This Land Radio is
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This Land Radio: Group Fitness by Roxanne Gay
This story was produced in partnership with The Oxford American. More at
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This Land Radio: Episode 9 – This Machine Comes Home
This week, Woody Guthrie visits our studio and gets us on his wavelength. Nora Guthrie asks us to dance. Dance
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This Land Radio: Episode 8 – Radio Potluck
Episode 8 - Radio Potluck This week, our friends each bring a dish. Long Haul Productions sings grace, The
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This Land Radio: Episode 7 – Teenagers
Episode Episode 7: Teenagers This week, we meet a rock star on our paper route. Fareedah Shayeb is ecstatic,
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This Land Radio: Episode 6 – Broken Down Hearted
Episode 6: Broken Down Hearted Show Description: This week, our heart is in a hole. Carol Johnson looks to a
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This Land Radio: Episode 4 – Sugar and Dirt
This week, we dig. Tom Naples combs the archives for Dust Bowl memories. Holly Wall unearths dinosaur bones in
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This Land Radio: Episode 3 – Sports!
This week, we learn the rules of the game just enough to question them. Russell Cobb tells the story of Johnny
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This Land Radio: Episode 2 – Keeping Bees
Holly Wall talks Russian steak and virgin birth. Mark Brown gets lost in a beehive. Iraq and Afghanistan war
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This Land Radio: Episode 10 – A Fork in the Road
This week, we go left or we go right. John Hood stands at the vertex and sells us a Coors. Pantoja buys a one way
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This Land Radio: Episode 1 – Where is Oklahoma?
In our inaugural episode of This Land Radio, we asked the question on every Oklahoman's mind: Where the heck are
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This Land Radio: David Sedaris on Aging
In 2013, writer and humorist David Sedaris released a book of essays called "Let's Explore Diabetes with
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This Land Radio: Cattle Rustling in God’s Country
Jeff Emerson's ranch was robbed a few summers back. He lost hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of cattle.
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This Land Radio: Bobby Wants to Get In Touch
Bobby Berryhill served with the Oklahoma National Guard for 16 months in Iraq and Afghanistan. He’s lived on
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This Land Radio: Bob Wills Is A Hollering Fool
Folklorist Guy Logsdon tells us about Bob Wills, the Texas cotton picker who came to Tulsa and became the
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This Land Presents: The Cave House
A story about a woman who fell in love with an oddly-shaped house -- feces, ghosts, and
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This Land Presents: Mayor Bartlett on TPD Misconduct
On May 21, 2011 This Land released an investigative report showing that Tulsa's police misconduct record was now at 5
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This Land Presents: Jimmy Washington
Unemployed man Jimmy Washington is one of 8,000 remaining Cherokee speakers in the US. He talks to us about life on the
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This Land Now Available at Multiple Locations
Now you can find copies of This Land all over Tulsa. Issues are currently for sale at: Dwelling Spaces - Blue
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This Land at Cafe Cubana
What better way to peruse an issue of This Land than with the aroma of a cafecito on your table? You can now pick up a
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There Will Be No Philosophers: French Reactions to the Oklahoma Land Run of 1889
The following excerpts were originally published on 22 April 1889 by Le Figaro newspaper in Paris, France. “Today,
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The White Albums
Written by Larry White and Michael Canter. After reviewing the following retrospective regarding the top
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The Stringtown Prison Blues
A collaborative blues poem written by the Stringtown Prison Poetry Workshop. This time is so hard to do
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The Story of Tulsa
The following is an anonymous document from the Governor John Walton Papers, on file in the Western History
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The Sounds of Endurance
The Scottish missionaries boarded their ship and crowded its deck, smiling and waving to their loved ones, who stood
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The Road to Woody’s Heart
An excerpt from a speech given at the opening of the Woody Guthrie Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on April 26, 2013. By
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The Riddle of Nowhere
Conservative Oklahomans wear it as a badge of honor. Their state is the “reddest of the red,” a moniker earned
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The Relief Office: Nancy Feldman
Longtime Tulsa "troublemaker" Nancy Feldman tells us about bringing the first black student to Holland
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The Relief Office: G.T. Bynum
District 9 City Councilor G.T. Bynum stops by to share an anecdote about his early days in Tulsa
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The Prisoner of Wilshire Boulevard
A dark-eyed beauty named Anna Lowe stepped off the train in late January 1920 at Henryetta, just south of Tulsa, but
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The pages of the 1921 Booker T. Washington High School Yearbook
In the pages of the 1921 Booker T. Washington High School yearbook, long thought lost, are the first images we've
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The Making of Artificial Cloud
Acclaimed sculptor Bob Haozous, the son of legendary artist Allan Houser, shares the story behind "Artificial Cloud,"
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The Life and Death of a Choctaw Witch Killer
At the turn of the 20th century, in Holdenville, Indian Territory, Solomon Hotema, a local tribal leader, was tried and
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The Intimate Life of Timothy McVeigh
Editor's Note: The 4/15 issue of THIS LAND will offer several remarkable feature articles that shed new light on the
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The Indian of Their Dreams
If they hadn’t been square dancing beneath it, I might have ignored it. But there they were, the squares of the
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The Imaginary Oklahoma Podcast Episode 7: The Violinist
*** Illustration by Jeremy Luther In this episode of Imaginary Oklahoma, Emily St. John Mandel's "The Violinist"
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The Imaginary Oklahoma Podcast Episode 6: Of All Places
Illustration by Derrick Dent In this episode, writer Lori Ostlund presents a tale about what people think about a
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The Imaginary Oklahoma Podcast Episode 5: Drinking Games
– Illustration by William Godwin In this episode of Imaginary Oklahoma, Carolyn Parkhurst's story
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The Imaginary Oklahoma Podcast Episode 4: Rest Stop
- Photo by Shane Brown In this episode of Imaginary Oklahoma, Liz Blood reads Caitlin Horrocks’ story of a
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The Imaginary Oklahoma Podcast Episode 3: Stillwater
– Illustration by Michelle Duckworth In episode 3 of Imaginary Oklahoma, Matt Bondurant's mystical and
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The Imaginary Oklahoma Podcast Episode 2: Tigers of the Oklahoma Pool Halls
– Photograph by Richard Ortega *** Episode 2 of Imaginary Oklahoma features the lovely
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The Imaginary Oklahoma Podcast Episode 1: Tom Mix
– Illustration by Jane Radstrom. ***Episode 1 of Imaginary Oklahoma features the story Tom Mix by John
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The Imaginary Oklahoma Podcast
What do you think about when you think about Oklahoma? Imaginary Oklahoma is a new podcast from This Land Press,
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The House With a Church In It
Senior Pastor Andrew Phillips has been preaching in Tulsa for 63 years. In our short video directed by Matt Leach and
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The Hawk Is Howling
Eighty-one-year-old Chris Rhodes has been eating the same thing in the same restaurant for 71 percent of his eating
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The Chicken that Crossed the Road
Headlines, like alarms, rang out: “Historic Bar Burns in Okarche” and “Famous Eischen’s Called Total Loss.”
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The Cathedral Cruiser
When GM decommissioned the Parade of Progress, 12 Futurliners went up for sale. We know that a couple of them found
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The Artist at Work: Jean-Paul Philippe
Henryetta native Jean-Paul Philippe returns to his Oklahoman roots with a show opening today at Aberson Exhibits. A
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Taste the State
Oklahoma has its fair share of tourist spots: Several roadside attractions line the highways. There are 35 state parks,
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TASM Bids for Shuttle Display
The Tulsa Air and Space Museum is hoping to obtain one of NASA's retired space shuttles for display in Tulsa. While
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Tacos El Rinconcito
Under the overpass at I-44 and Yale, past the construction that slowly but surely progresses, the boulevard widens to
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Stick a Fork in it
The wind came sweeping down the plain and shot me in the face with a load of dust and gravel. It blew pejsebrænde
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Sh*tty Mom
The following is an excerpt from Sh*tty Mom: The Parenting Guide for the Rest of Us, by Laurie Kilmartin, Karen Moline,
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September Events
RUMBLE FISH SCREENING--Public Secrets #13 Francis Ford Coppola's 1983 film Rumble Fish, based on the novel by SE
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Scott Raffe (1964-2011)
The day Raffe died, rockets exploded in the skies over Tulsa and beyond— festive bursts of red, white, and blue,
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Sally Kern is Far From Straight
Gay, Oklahoma is pretty far from Straight, Oklahoma--a 487-mile drive, to be precise. Interestingly, Oklahoma state
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Rogers & Hammerstein and the Two Sids
The following is written by Barry Friedman and Ken Rogerson. On October 14, 1941, Richard
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Resolution on the Irish Situation
In 1919, at the end of the First World War and two years before the devastation of the race riot at home, Tulsa city
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Rebroadcast: This Machine Comes Home
Woody Guthrie visits our studio and gets us on his wavelength. Nora Guthrie asks us to dance. Tiffany Colannino reveals
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Q & A with Bryant Oden
Oklahoma native and Rocky Mountain transplant Bryant Oden has made a career of writing goofy songs for
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