Northside House from Larry Clark’s “Tulsa”
A similar exterior shot of this house is featured in Larry Clark's 1971 photobook Tulsa. Located in the Cherokee
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Bartholic’s Boat
Tulsa artist Bob Bartholic was a visionary. One of his visions involved a boat made of concrete that he planned to sail
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Dreamland Theater Marker
David Crosby and Graham Nash have been scheduled to open the Woody Guthrie Festival at the Cain's Ballroom July 13 of
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Pretty Boy Floyd’s Tulsa Home
On February 11, 1932, a Tulsa Police Department armored truck pulled up to the house at 513 East Young Street in Tulsa.
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S.E. Hinton’s Staircase Cameo
Located on the northwest southwest corner of Greenwood and (then) Brady Street, this staircase is the spot where an
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Tulsey Town’s Oldest Cemetery?
Once located at 2nd Street and Frisco Avenue, this cemetery was established in 1882 and contained the graves of some of
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Tulsa’s First Klan Burial
On the front page of the Tulsa World's Dec. 22, 1921, issue, a headline ran with the title "Robed Klansman Honor Dead
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Big Time Pawn
Big Time Pawn is a family-owned pawn shop located on Route 66 at 11th and Pittsburg in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Over the years
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The Perryman Ranch Buffalo
The Perryman Ranch located in Jenks, Oklahoma has its very own YvnvssvHetke, or white buffalo. Located on Elwood
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Pawnee’s WPA Bath House
Located one mile north of the city of Pawnee, Oklahoma on Highway 18, this hand-cut native stone structure was built in
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The Drexel Building
Located at 319 S. Main, the Drexel Building once housed the local clothiers Renberg's. This location has been etched
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Terrence Malick’s Bartlesville Home
The former home of Academy Award winnng nominated director of Badlands and Thin Red Line Terrence Malick is located
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Big Time Pawn
Big Time Pawn is a family-owned pawn shop located on Route 66 at 11th and Pittsburg in
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The Nightmare of Dreamland
The seventeen men were terrified, and with good reason. They stood shivering in the November midnight air, their bare
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Flim-Flammery and the Devil: An Early History of the Tulsa World
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
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Anarchy in the OK
No one took credit for the bomb threat that January night. Though no device was found in the women’s restroom of the
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Meet the Clarks
In the late 1990s “progress” once again reared its ugly head in Tulsa, consuming a house which had been converted
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The Strange Love of Dr. Billy James Hargis
Little Rock was shell-shocked. It was July of 1960, and in the past year, five bombings had terrorized the city’s
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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 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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Made by You and Me
Writer Josh Kline (foreground) and graphic designer Carlos Knight (background) are just two of the people who helped
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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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Jaimie Gua Checks Out This Land
An old Indian chief peeks over Jaimie Gua's shoulder as she browses the pages of This
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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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Gingers Like This Land
Pictured here, Mark Kuykendall, local musician and visionary, reading the first print edition of This
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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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Jared Toay Lifts This Land
Reading This Land is Jared Toay, who will be competing for the 2010 Natural Body Building Contest at Thoreau on June
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Blue Jackalope Runs This Land Special
The customers gather for singalongs on Sunday mornings. Musicians straggle in and strum along. Kids swarm in and out of
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Phil Borden Digs This Land
Pictured here is Phil Borden, president of Bason Real Estate Company, reading This Land at The Amish
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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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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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Nice River. How Much?
Ecological signs point to a water crisis on the horizon that will make "peak oil" look like a bad case of
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Depression-Era Color Photos of Oklahoma
During the Great Depression, photographers of the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information began
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Admiral Twin Drive-In
Since 1951, the Admiral Twin Drive-In has been one of Tulsa's most beloved gathering spots. Nearly every long-time
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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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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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October Issue Out Soon!
It's punchy this time around! Issue two of This Land will be available for purchase on Monday evening at the Joshua
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Give the Gift of This Land!
No, your mother doesn't need another bottle of perfume. Your son doesn't want any more electronics clogging up his
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Issue Five Arrives Friday!
It's a TV-themed keeper! This Land, Vol 2, Issue 1 (aka Issue 5), arrives in Tulsa this Friday--and the only way to
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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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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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Issue 6 Arrives This Weekend
UPDATE: Due to the weather (see this post), our pub date has been pushed back until after the 7th. Reader, you are
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It Snowed in Oklahoma and We Have Photos
We're not sure if you've been watching the weather reports, but a few inches of snow recently dusted Tulsa and the
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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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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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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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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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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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Of Spice and Men: A Century of Ike’s
Like a newspaper, a bowl of chili is a stew of unsavory, raw, ragged elements that boil down into a somewhat
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May Issue Packed with Mystery, Heroes and the Unnerving
Just when you thought This Land couldn't pack any more surprises, along comes our May 2011 issue, which is destined to
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Pwned! HBGary vs. Anonymous
For those of you who don't subscribe to This Land, you're missing out on one of the most intriguing stories buzzing
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June Issue Pulsing with Dissent and Hysterics
The June 2011 issue of This Land is indeed a machine that demands accountability. But it also delivers some of the most
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Misconduct City
Tulsa’s court records are unpoliced and up for grabs. The DA’s office doesn’t feel obligated to report police
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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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I Have Seen Things
“I have seen dust rise until it would look like a rain cloud but would be nothing but the dust from wild horses
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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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Done That Coming Soon!
This Land's associate editor Natasha Ball will be bringing you regular writings that take you behind the scenes of some
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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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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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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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7-Eleven Remembered
As fitting a name as it is for a pub, “Ryan’s” looks out of place over the word “Mercadito.” Ryan’s looks
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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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Vintage Smith
Walla Walla--The Lost Weekenders were seated on the lawn, awaiting instruction, when their leader emerged from the
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Plagiarism Plagues the Urban Tulsa Weekly
The cartoonist David Simpson, formerly of the alternative publication Urban Tulsa Weekly, has admitted to copying the
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Countdown to Christmas Giveaway
Congratulations to Warren Vieth from Oklahoma City! You've won our Christmas Giveaway that includes: From now until
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In the Company of Gin
Barnaby Conrad III pointed out the home of the Mai Tai, its entrance obscured by palm fronds and banana
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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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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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Our Own Private Afghanistan
Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from the chapter “Interview with John Millar, Head of the Christian
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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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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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Life as a Lip
The following is an interview with the Flaming Lips conducted by Kory Jay Willis and Steve Kite originally published in
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100 Years and Counting
Scenes from the Woody Guthrie Centennial Concert last March at the Brady Theater in Tulsa. Photos by Matt Leach and
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Lewis Meyer
Lewis Meyer ran the Lewis Meyer Bookstore on Brookside from 1935 to 1994. He hosted “Lewis Meyer’s Bookshelf” on
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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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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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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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My Mother is a Chicken
My mother’s brothers married odd birds. Frances was a wild-eyed zany with a voice like a trapped cat and a way of
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A Symphony of Bees
Out off Aspen Avenue, deep in the tree streets of Broken Arrow, a very typical three-bedroom, single-family unit is
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Happy Trails
Co-written by Ron Honn & Heather Lindsey. Then the LORD God called to Adam and said to him: “Where are
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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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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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The White Albums
Written by Larry White and Michael Canter. After reviewing the following retrospective regarding the top
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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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Listen to the Radio a Lot
This Land Radio's top 5 of 2012. Photo by Hans J E. “Happy Moment? What You Mean?” Out of The
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Original Okie: Lauren Lunsford
The occupations of Lauren Lunsford, a.k.a. Rainbow Girl, are nearly as numerous as the colors in her hair. An
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Dinosaur Illustration Submissions
We asked artists of all ages to send us their best Oklahoma dinosaur drawings for consideration for the cover of our
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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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Is This the Face of the Man at the Center of the Tulsa Race Riot?
In 1921, a young black man rode in an elevator with a young white woman. When the elevator doors opened, she screamed
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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 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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Nora and Woody Guthrie
Woody and Nora Guthrie in Brooklyn, New York. Summer 1950. Courtesy of Nora
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Barry Bilder
Barry Bilder is the founder of Peace of Mind Bookstore, the oldest business on Tulsa's historic Cherry
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Guide to Gordon Todd Skinner
Who is Gordon Todd Skinner? Learn the story behind one of Oklahoma's most mesmerizing, notorious figures. Read:
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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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The Essential Guide to Tate Brady
When This Land published Lee Roy Chapman's "The Nightmare of Dreamland: Tate Brady and the Battle for Greenwood" in
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ORIGINAL OKIE: Erin O’Dowd
Erin O'Dowd is a singer-songwriter from Tulsa who takes her inspiration from nature, history and everyday life. She
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Original Okie: Harold Stevenson
If the pop world had a Walk of Fame, Harold Stevenson would hang a four-story painting over his star. He is known as
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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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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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