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Gordon Todd Skinner claimed to be one with the universe. He also engaged in kidnapping, manipulation, and ...
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Gordon Todd Skinner claimed to be one with the universe. He also engaged in kidnapping, manipulation, and ...
Abby Wendle
In our inaugural episode of This Land Radio, we asked the question on every Oklahoman's mind: Where the heck are ...
This Land
Imaginary Oklahoma is an ongoing project in which some of today’s most important and influential writers combine ...
Nancy Mauro
Imaginary Oklahoma is an ongoing project in which some of today’s most important and influential writers combine ...
Christine Schutt
Imaginary Oklahoma is an ongoing project in which some of today’s most important and influential writers combine ...
Padgett Powell
Imaginary Oklahoma is an ongoing project in which some of today’s most important and influential writers combine ...
Edith Pearlman
Imaginary Oklahoma is an ongoing project in which some of today’s most important and influential writers combine ...
Jennifer DuBois
Imaginary Oklahoma is an ongoing project in which some of today’s most important and influential writers combine ...
Nic Brown
Imaginary Oklahoma is an ongoing project in which some of today’s most important and influential writers combine ...
Joshua Cohen
Imaginary Oklahoma is an ongoing project in which some of today’s most important and influential writers ...
Chandler Burr
Imaginary Oklahoma is an ongoing project in which some of today’s most important and influential writers combine ...
Anna Solomon
Imaginary Oklahoma is an ongoing project in which some of today’s most important and influential writers ...
William Lychack
Imaginary Oklahoma is an ongoing project in which some of today’s most important and influential writers ...
Justin Taylor
Imaginary Oklahoma is an ongoing project in which some of today’s most important and influential writers ...
Joe Meno
Imaginary Oklahoma is an ongoing project in which some of today’s most important and influential writers ...
Lauren Groff
Imaginary Oklahoma is an ongoing project in which some of today’s most important and influential writers ...
Emily St. John Mandel
Imaginary Oklahoma is an ongoing project in which some of today’s most important and influential writers ...
Rachel Kushner
Imaginary Oklahoma is an ongoing project in which some of today’s most important and influential writers ...
Jess Row
Imaginary Oklahoma is an ongoing project in which some of today’s most important and influential writers ...
Stephen Dau
A meditation on life in a gated community in Naples, Florida. This story was produced in partnership ...
This Land
Folklorist Guy Logsdon tells us about Bob Wills, the Texas cotton picker who came to Tulsa and became the ...
This Land
LaDonna Osborn spent her childhood traveling around the world with her evangelical parents, T.L. and Daisy. ...
This Land
We stopped by the Harmonica Summit at the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame and met Brian "Hash Brown" Calloway who ...
This Land
In 2013, writer and humorist David Sedaris released a book of essays called "Let's Explore Diabetes with ...
This Land
Private First Class Bradley Manning is currently our nation's most notorious whistleblower--the man many ...
This Land
Bobby Berryhill served with the Oklahoma National Guard for 16 months in Iraq and Afghanistan. He’s lived on ...
This Land
It’s one of those steam baths of a late August night. Cicadas are revving up their engines in the post oaks and ...
Russell Cobb
On first glance, much about Bobby BlueJacket: The Tribe, The Joint, The Tulsa Underworld is suspect: the absurd length ...
Joshua Kline
Part 4, Section 1 — Bobby BlueJacket and Bobby Wilson strolled across the Stone Brothers Buick car lot under lines ...
Michael P. Daley
Dead Sea Choir performs " Nemesis" at Church Studios in Tulsa, ...
Stuart Hetherwood
Wink Burcham performs " Town in Oklahoma " at Church Studios in Tulsa, ...
Stuart Hetherwood
Amid the ashes of post-WWII Japan, the bittersweet sounds of American traditional country music drifted through the ...
Stuart Hetherwood
Public Secrets delves into the infamous Sex Pistols show at the Cain's ...
Stuart Hetherwood
Dear readers, At This Land Press, we’ve decided to take a timeout from our magazine as the ...
Vincent LoVoi
In late May 1940, Woody Guthrie was riding high in New York City. Although Guthrie had already made a name for himself ...
Richard Higgs
Agnes Taylor’s family album is full of hardscrabble farmers, war heroes, and football champions—she’s a ...
Jeremy Charles
In the woods, in the deep hole I dug, beneath the power cable and the roots of box elder trees, down among the ...
Gordon Grice
Republican Clarence Tylee, from Okmulgee County, spoke loudly so everyone on the House floor and the gallery above ...
Tim Berry
As darkness descends, this time in-between, when stars are not yet lit, the moon lingering far away, I ...
Ken Hada
Every so often, perhaps once a week, the Oklahoma State Senate closes its doors, posts aging sentries outside in the ...
David Fritze
Like most of our peers, my brother and I were big fans of the TV sitcom The Odd Couple when we were growing up in ...
Charles Morrow
By mechanics, lanes of yellow vanish into the bailer’s munching mouth, while out the other end, like some ...
Sandy Hiortdahl
To fans of classic films the name Jennifer Jones evokes images of a brunette beauty with distinctive high cheekbones, ...
Les Howell
Sometimes the gore tumbles from the cottonwood trees on the South Canadian River. Those were squirrels, shot by dad ...
Dale Ingram
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
There is a television channel that only shows the live radar, and my parents watch it the way other people watch ...
Meg Thompson
“And where are you from?” The inevitable vacation question. And I want to say Not that Oklahoma, The one you ...
Xandra Kaste
By 1794, the Cherokees were settling in the West in growing numbers, and conflict with the Osage over hunting rights ...
James Murray
The Fourth Cavalry mustered at the gates of Fort Concho in San Angelo, Texas. Led by Colonel Ranald Mackenzie, the ...
Jay Cyril Mastrud
In the public discourse, the desperate people pouring over the border in search of work were described as an “influx ...
Thomas Conner
There was a year—I don’t remember the exact one but definitely around the height of his new-found celebrité in ...
Juan Reinoso
In December 1950, Woody Guthrie and his family rented an apartment in the Beach Haven apartment complex in Brooklyn, ...
Barry Friedman
I used to think the funniest thing I’d ever heard Donald Trump say was when, one day in his office, he handed me a ...
Mark Singer
At the 2016 Republican National Convention, which I covered for Flavorwire, I said (perhaps too optimistically) to ...
Tatiana Ryckman
American Indians generally have had a pragmatic orientation to the use and study of mathematics. In most Indian ...
Chris Landon
The 27th of May, 1949, was a momentous day for Louis “Speedy” Wiley, my grandfather. In the span of 24 hours, he ...
Apollonia Piña
In late March 1963, field minister Arthur 7-X held a press conference in Oklahoma City. Nation of Islam travelers had ...
James Murray
Guymon, Oklahoma, 1935 I stepped off the westbound Santa Fe passenger train and entered Barsoom. Four ...
William Bernhardt
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
Passing Oaklawn Cemetery, on our way to Mazzio’s, Michelle made her request: “Mitch, can you take off your hat?” ...
Mitch Gilliam
Flames rushed skyward from a structure less than a mile away across the sagebrush. At the height of another dry desert ...
Michael Canyon Meyer
Was Nede Wade “Ned” Christie a bloody outlaw or a wrongfully accused Cherokee patriot? That was the question in ...
Kent F. Frates
The Riverside Indian School is perched on a hill along the Washita River in the wind-whipped town of Anadarko, ...
Marcos Barbery
It’s customary to begin with introductions amongst the Sioux. Even though this is a one-sided introduction—and ...
Marcus Bush
Last September in the town of Bartlesville, 15-year-old Blue Haase got a ride to his local school board meeting. During ...
Molly Bullock
A childhood summer afternoon is thrown into relief. I’m 10 years old. My big sister Kat and I are spending the day ...
Jezy J. Gray
The initial idea of the compilation of this work was to give the reading public an authentic record of the private life ...
Geronimo and S.M. Barrett
We headed south from McAlester to the Texas border in early morning. The day was blazing hot, humid, no wind. Typical ...
Rilla Askew
Indians on horseback have been stampeding across the television screen all afternoon. It’s the mid-1960s, so maybe ...
LeAnne Howe
"My ashes, as the phoenix, may bring forth A bird that will revenge upon you all." — William ...
Gordon Grice
Added a padlock to the fence, I am safe, nine different passwords, I am secure. New model with ...
Landry Harlan
Old Carlos squinted into the sun and grinned. “Come in,” he said and swung the door open and stepped aside, tilting ...
Richard Higgs
Some morning in late September he’d stumble in the diner ragged as a dandelion in a dust storm: ripped ...
Nick Norwood
One night in 1997, a concerned neighbor called John and Kris (Ratzlaff) Gosney of Cheyenne Valley, Oklahoma, with a ...
R.E. Graalman Jr.
The man in a yellow shirt behind me His head too close to mine above worn navy-blue faux-leather, above the ...
Shandhini Raidoo
Their two-ton Jimmy staggers now, rolls and wobbles on creaky springs, creeping over berms on a ...
Nick Norwood
For a divorced woman getting by as a music teacher in 1921, Patti Adams Shriner achieved an incredibly bold ambition ...
Scott Pendleton
Katie Rain Hill is a commitment-phobe. She’s recently finished a degree in anthropology and sociology with a minor ...
This Land
My alarm was set for 7:00 am, and when I woke up, it felt like Christmas morning. My boyfriend’s mom, Denise, ...
Katie Rain Hill
It was Sunday afternoon, April 3, 1892, still and sultry, with a black cloud lying ominously back in the west and ...
Francis Moore Milburn
A colorful sign reads, “MOTEL Reno.” The sky is dark with clouds in an array of white and black. Rain patters the ...
Mason Powell
I took a moment to see all my friends and Brothers one last time, then I was off to the laundry. My closest Brothers ...
Jimmy Maxwell
It must be conceded that we are in a peculiar condition in this nation today—in such a condition that, in my ...
Liam Carey
While driving to a visit in Adair County on an early afternoon in the rolling hills of a northeastern Oklahoma winter, ...
Christopher Murphy
I come to David L. Moss every week to teach poetry to incarcerated women. It’s become so routine that all of the ...
Beth Niestemski
On a warm day in December, Woolaroc ranch hands are rounding up the bison for the annual inspection and culling. A ...
Ginger Strand
Every day an imposing shadow strides across our nation’s capital from the largest library in the world. While the ...
Larry Guthrie
May 2013, Oklahoma County Highway’s littered – Broken wasp mid upturned beetles, kindling ...
Allison Adelle Hedge Coke
Black Blizzard—hundreds of thousands of years to create the topsoil. Red from Oklahoma, Texas grey, brown Nebraska. ...
Allison Adelle Hedge Coke
My uncle was an astro zombie. I know you don’t believe me. No one does. When I whisper it to my neighbors, their ...
Dale Ingram
My earliest recollections are of being pinched. Not in the figurative sense, but actually. I was an awkward, ...
Jim Thompson
The neighborhood dogs are barking again: a chain letter cha-cha-cha that begins blocks away and rolls through the ...
Markham Johnson
I arrived at Ada Junior High School 15 minutes early. I walked past the football team, heard the whistle shrilling, the ...
Ken Hada
For the houseboat in Amsterdam. The snake of blue through the city will wind without me turn to ice ...
Britton Gildersleeve
Rideshare services like Uber or Lyft are most often seen as a substitute for a taxicab—a safe ride home after a night ...
Michael D. Bates
I saw that the name you put to a thing depended on where you stood and where it stood. And… and here’s the ...
Kyle Walker
Lisa Regan taught herself metalwork with welding tools borrowed from a mechanic friend with an auto body ...
This Land
Sometimes during the unending nothingness of prison days, I imagine what our lives would have been like if Jens ...
Keija Parssinen
Last week I got the phone call. You know the call I’m talking about: the one that concludes your favorite book and ...
Chris Sandel
One: After work one day, I lay on the couch beneath the picture window. Outside, the Siberian elms tossed their ...
Gordon Grice
When Vidal Sassoon realized in the 1950s that he wanted to “change hairdressing to a different form of art,” he ...
Marcia Beauchamp
Oil filters into fingertips and under my nails, stains my callouses, clothes, driveway. Now it’s five ...
Randall Weiss