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This Is My Beloved Son
The fall of the first family of televangelism came swiftly. Two Oral Roberts Ministries employees crouched on a desk
Kiera Feldman
Thirty Minutes of Terror
The afternoon opens with a birthday party. Your neighborhood friends are ramping BMX bicycles in the driveway.
Aaron Toney
Thinking Big and Dreaming Large
For a moment, try to imagine our city without the Cain’s Ballroom. Now also consider downtown Tulsa without the
Walt Kosty
They Might Be Giants
Having finished a midday meal on their small kitchen stoves, a group of Native athletes walked from the
Steve Gerkin
They Died For Their Sins
On August 10, 1966, just after 10 p.m., James French walked to the electric chair. Escorted in by two guards, French
Bob Gregory
They Call Me Assassin
Some places are lonelier than others, and the place he’d found himself on this particular night was the most solitary
Chris Sandel
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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There Goes Another Year
What is it about music fans and lists? Music fans that have a need, or perhaps a preoccupation, to let you know about
Scott Booker
Theatre of the Absurd
I’m a fiction writer, but I’m not a very good creative writer. Like a lot of writers, I steal shamelessly from
Larry Baker
The World is Yours: a Portrait of Joe Brainard
Joe Brainard made art the way some might obsess over a lover: in an all-consuming frenzy and for hours on
Holly Wall
The World is Yours: A Portrait of Joe Brainard
Joe Brainard made art the way some might obsess over a lover: in an all-consuming frenzy and for hours on
Holly Wall
The Wills Connection
My mother, Ruth Elaine McMaster, was born into music. Her grandfather Rufus was the deacon at John Brown University in
Jim Downing
The White Dove Review
“You can leave your contraband at the door,” the woman tells me. I’ve filled out and signed several forms and
Joshua Kline
The White Albums
Written by Larry White and Michael Canter. After reviewing the following retrospective regarding the top
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The Weather
Editor's note: From 2002 to 2006, Brian Byrne delivered the daily weather report on KWGS, the University of Tulsa's
Brian Byrne
The Ways We Remember
His four-day road trip traced I-40 from Durham to L.A. By the end he’d seen the Smoky Mountains, Meteor Crater in
Natasha Ball
The Watchman on the Wall
As an orphan, Billy James Hargis was an outsider from birth. Imagining the first time his adoptive mother saw him in
Stanton Doyle
The Unlikely Baroness
The young black girl poses in a common, patterned dress by an ordinary side chair. Her shadow creates a ghostly
Steve Gerkin
The Tulsa State Fair: A Photo Essay
It isn't Fall in Oklahoma until the Tulsa State Fair comes to town. Ranked #21 on Carnival Warehouse's "Top 50 Fairs"
Michael Cooper
The Tulsa Race Riot from a Writer’s Perspective
Originally published on the blog The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 on March 18, 2013. It is normal that we look upon
Evan Ramspott
The Tulsa Irish
My freshman year roommate was a five-foot-one Korean-American via Seoul, Los Angeles, and New York. She had never
Claire Spears
The True Blues and the Tiger Eyes vs. the Ku Klux Klan
Tom Bouggous was a man who stood out in a crowd. He was an outspoken and powerfully built Indian who had lived in the
David A. Farris
The Trouble with Henry
Mary Popkess marched into the Sand Springs football stadium under a full head of steam. She made straight for the
Anne Barajas Harp
The Trouble with Harry
Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana bent over the library table and peered down at witness Harry Ford Sinclair, “I
Steve Gerkin
The Train Singer’s Song
I had been watching freight trains from the window of my 10:00 Tuesday-Thursday class all semester. The classroom
George McCormick
The Time I Shot Donald Trump
There was a year—I don’t remember the exact one but definitely around the height of his new-found celebrité in
Juan Reinoso
The Tiger King Untamed
“Hang on, I’m gonna go out there and throw up.” Near the end of our first hour-long interview, Joe Exotic, a.k.a.
Holly Wall
The Third Man?
A lot of eyewitnesses believe they spotted a suspect the government never found in the Oklahoma Bombing. Is he out
Gerald Posner
The Tender of the Flames
I bartend at a pub constructed predominantly of wood. We don’t do flaming Dr Peppers, Spanish coffees, or any other
Laura Carrera
The Stuff of Dreams
I want you to pay a lot more attention to all my words longer and deeper and quieter and louder than I ever could.
Thomas Conner
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 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
Lee Roy Chapman
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 Spirit of Totem Pole Park
arti ficer n. 1. a skilled craftsman 2. a clever or inventive designer 3. (Military) a serviceman trained in
Tim Brown
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 Sound of Poetry
I don’t remember her name. I do remember that I interrupted her quiet. She was a plump, youngish woman, sitting in
Abby Wendle
The Soul of the Game
All this man wants to do right now is find the damn game. It’s a Saturday in the middle of the European football
RJ Young
The Society Gang Killing
One of Tulsa’s most notorious crimes occurred on Thanksgiving night, 1934. Twenty-one-year-old John Gorrell’s body
Kent F. Frates
The Snake and the Diamond are One
Most people dread the thought of prison. Claustrophobia, confinement, artificial and controlled light sources,
Erin Turner
The Skunk Paint Years
It’s customary to begin with introductions amongst the Sioux. Even though this is a one-sided introduction—and
Marcus Bush
The Silence Teaches
Sitting down to speak with Oklahoma City photographer Yousef Khanfar about his art leads almost inevitably to one
Greg Horton
The Selman Bat Watch
With a month and a half left until the official kickoff of football season, the NBA finals and the World Cup over and
Nathan Gunter
The Seeds of Corruption
The Tulsa Police Department is arguably the most embattled police force in the country. Rocked by a recent corruption
Michael Mason
The Secret Wheat Deal
In 1968, Richard Nixon began calling for an end to the Vietnam War. As a candidate for the presidency in 1968, he gave
James C. Thomas
The Sawblade Painter
In the morning, he examines her. Though she is nineteen to his thirty-two, Don finds her garish in the clean light.
Whitney Ray
The Rusty Brotherhood (La Hermandad Rusty)
Alberto Fuguet is a writer, a Guggenheim fellow, and, according to Newsweek, one of the “50 most important Latin
Alberto Fuguet
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
This Land
The Ritual of Mimosas
A mimosa is a simple drink. Combine three parts champagne to one part orange juice in a champagne flute and brunch
Jennie Lloyd
The Rise of Owassoisms
When I discovered Owassoisms–an Owasso-based community blog with a presence on Facebook, and Twitter--I couldn’t
Lindsey Neal
The Ringleader
The Tulsa Underground Circus fictitiously wrote that it was the work of a deranged Russian immigrant, a circus clown
Steve Gerkin
The Riddle of Nowhere
Conservative Oklahomans wear it as a badge of honor. Their state is the “reddest of the red,” a moniker earned
This Land
The Reign of Creepy
Dental records proved the badly decomposed body that washed up on the Crystal Beach shores of Ontario, minus hands and
Steve Gerkin
The Red Shift
North of the Red River, in the “Land of the Red Man,” on the iron-rich red soil and matching dust, with red
Larry Guthrie
The Purpose Is to Direct
“Even though the suspicion is probably not justified, it is hoped that the persevering reader will lay down the book
Larry Guthrie
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
This Land
The Prick of the Pick
Look. I’m not going to sit here and pretend like I was the only gay dude watching the NFL draft; I’m just the only
Nathan Gunter
The Poster Boy of Rock
It all started at the Dale Clark Lumber Supply store at Utica Square in the fall of 1972. “I saw him when I was
Tamara Logsdon Hawkinson
The Politics of Clout
Even though final votes are still months away from being cast and counted in the 2012 elections, Oklahoma is about to
Jim Myers
The Piano Player
For a divorced woman getting by as a music teacher in 1921, Patti Adams Shriner achieved an incredibly bold ambition
Scott Pendleton
The Perryman Ranch Buffalo
The Perryman Ranch located in Jenks, Oklahoma has its very own YvnvssvHetke, or white buffalo. Located on Elwood
Lee Roy Chapman
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
This Land
The Pacifist Preacher & Quanah Parker
The Fourth Cavalry mustered at the gates of Fort Concho in San Angelo, Texas. Led by Colonel Ranald Mackenzie, the
Jay Cyril Mastrud
The Other Mother Road
Pour yourself a sipping drink and get comfortable. I am going to tell you a story. It’s about a postal worker named
Michael Wallis
The Opening of Oklahoma from the European Perspective
The following accounts from European newspapers give an idea of what the Europeans read about the opening of Oklahoma.
H.C. Peterson
The Old Ways
In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were
Annie Heartfield Hartzog
The Oktahutchee Claims One of its Own
“Tell all the people that Alex Posey is out here and about to be drowned and to come out and bring about three or
Richard Higgs
The Oklahoma City King (and Queen) of Pride
I met Floyd recently at Oklahoma City’s Habana Inn on a Saturday afternoon, just minutes after 30 gay men paraded
Randy R Potts
The Oddities of Evangelism
After he slew his enemy—a warrior in another tribe who killed his brother and was, according to ritual, justly
Holly Wall
The Number of Heaven and Earth
They stole chickens and slaughtered cows they castrated pigs they cut the tails off piglets they followed deer
John Colburn
The Nightmare of Dreamland
The seventeen men were terrified, and with good reason. They stood shivering in the November midnight air, their bare
Lee Roy Chapman
The New Joads
Part of the work put in by John Steinbeck in preparation for writing The Grapes of Wrath was a series of articles
Brian Ted Jones
The Net Effect
It was hot as hell. And it was July in Tulsa and I was on the wrong side of town. At least that’s what my friends
Renzi Stone
The Native Hue of Resolution
The Riverside Indian School is perched on a hill along the Washita River in the wind-whipped town of Anadarko,
Marcos Barbery
The Myth of Saint Woody
It’s easy to want to idolize Woody Guthrie. The guy was an adventurer, a wandering bard with a soft spot for
Matthew Carney
The Murder on Turkey Creek
In November 1876, two men met in Medicine Lodge, Kansas, and discussed their desires to cross the Indian Territory into
Martha Buntin
The Mummy of John Wilkes Booth
"My ashes, as the phoenix, may bring forth A bird that will revenge upon you all." — William
Gordon Grice
The Miracle of ‘Mass’
My wife and I drove the handful of miles from our beloved 92-year-old bungalow in Mesta Park to the Oklahoma City Civic
Jake Johnson
The Migration
Men had taken back up the much-sung practice of stepping out for smokes and never returning home, and it seemed all
John Brandon
The Man, the Myth
I waited too long. I’d known for weeks, if not months, that Bob Dylan was coming to play the historic Cain’s
Jeff Martin
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,
Steve Gerkin
The Man in the Black Jersey
Thirty years ago, a petite woman with curly blonde hair approached Greg Saunders at a bike race just west of Austin,
Ian Dille
The Making of Miss Hornet
I’ve been teaching high school social studies for 18 years, so it’s hard for me to be shocked by the behavior of
John Waldron
The Making of Longhair Music
One of the benefits—or curses, depending on your viewpoint—of archiving is that, over the years, you accumulate a
Steve Todoroff
The Making of Longhair Music
During the many decades of research for Longhair Music: The Songs & Sessions of Leon Russell, one of my more
Steve Todoroff
The Making of Leon Russell Road
Before Leon Russell got ahold of it, the building was called the First Evangelical United Brethren Church. Russell and
Lindsey Neal Kuykendall
The Lost “Gypsy Society”
Badger sipped coffee in the audience at The Gypsy Coffee House open-mic night for an entire year before he wrote his
Natasha Ball
The Limits of the Law: Justice Thurgood Marshall in Oklahoma
The words “law” and “justice” fit together like handmaidens. Historically and strategically,
Hannibal B. Johnson
The Life of a Con
The searing epic A Prophet presents French prison life as a series of opportunities to either kill or be killed. In the
Joshua Kline
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
This Land
The Last of Kenton
I have been trying to tell the story of Kenton, the westernmost town in Oklahoma, since last November, when I
Sheilah Bright
The Last Lynching in Cimarron
At the little weather-beaten station one hot Sunday morning a single passenger alighted from the dirty car pulled by
Cyrus Townsend Brady
The King in Okemah
Debbie Keef sat on the sidewalk in her black sweat suit, Elvis Presley’s signature in nail heads on her right hip.
Natasha Ball
The Japanese Garden
In 1958 or ’59 when I was sixteen I came up with the idea of replacing my parents’ back yard with a Japanese
Ron Padgett
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 Influence of Two Tulsas
In preparation for my first visit to Tulsa, my potential boss reassured me over the phone, “I know what you’re
Lauren Ross
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
This Land
The Incredible Career of a Full-Time Indian
At this year’s Tribeca Film Festival, awards were given out for the seventh annual Tribeca All Access Creative
Jeff Martin
The Horror in the Ouachita Mountains
This story was made possible in part by our friends at City of Guthrie. Thank you, City of Guthrie, for supporting
James McGirk